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NewsTop architects on longlist to design Manchester's Whitworth gallery extension
Zaha Hadid and Edward Cullinan Architects are among 11 big names on the RIBA’s longlist to design an extension of the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester.
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News270 housing projects vie for £1bn in Kickstart money
The full list of the schemes shortlisted to be bailed out by the government’s £1 billion Kickstart programme has been revealed.
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NewsStride Treglown’s Gwent Record Office gets green light
A plan to turn a 1913 grade II listed building in south Wales into a new headquarters for Gwent Record Office has been given the all-clear by local planners.
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Make wins £250m Brighton Conference Centre redevelopment
Make is due to be confirmed today as the architect for the £250 million redevelopment of the Brighton Conference Centre.
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NewsRogers’ British Museum extension refused planning
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners £135 million British Museum extension project was dramatically refused planning permission last night.
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NewsShared space altered to meet safety fears
Dixon Jones’ plan for Europe’s largest “shared space” scheme has been reworked amid safety fears
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NewsDesign competition for eco-towns mothballed
It will happen, says government; Cabe to beef up review panel in meantime
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NewsAYA shortlist announced
The shortlist for BD’s Architect of the Year Awards 2009 has been announced. Five practices have been shortlisted in each of 12 categories
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NewsBritish Museum plan set to win approval
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ proposal to expand the British Museum was set to be approved this week. Camden Council’s planning committee was expected to grant planning permission at a meeting yesterday (Thursday)
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NewsEnglish Heritage set to veto OMA institute plan
English Heritage is set to veto OMA’s plans for a comprehensive revamp of London’s former Commonwealth Institute
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Brown's £1.5bn social housing programme to siphon funds from existing projects
A £1.5 billion social housing programme announced by the government is being funded by money earmarked for hundreds of other public building projects.
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NewsLondon museum projects at risk due to DCMS budget shortfall
A budget shortfall of £100 million at the Department of Culture Media & Sport could threaten publicly funded projects including Rogers Stirk Harbour’s British Museum extension and Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern extension.
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Welcoming City theme for 2010 London Festival of Architecture
Next year’s London Festival of Architecture is to take place around the theme of “The Welcoming City”.
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NewsAdjaye brought to brink of insolvency
Shelved projects around the world the cause of Adjaye's financial woes
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Middle-aged good, middle-class bad
Builders and other tradespeople should be encouraged to retrain as architects in mid-career, in an attempt to make architecture less exclusive, RIBA president Sunand Prasad said this week.
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Crisis talks over future of Glasgow's Lighthouse
A crucial board meeting to decide the future of the cash-strapped Lighthouse in Glasgow will be held at the start of next month.
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News2009 Stirling Prize shortlist unveiled
The Stirling Prize shortlist includes some unexpected choices, and at least two extremely strong ones, says Ellis Woodman
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NewsHodder’s Oxford art studio gives Mather’s masterplan a nudge
Hodder & Partners has won planning permission for a £3.75 million residential scheme and art studio in Oxford that will see the renovation of a grade II listed building by Edwardian architect Henry Hare
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Regenerate London suburbs’ town centres, says report for mayor
A report for the mayor of London says the capital’s suburbs should be regenerated through investment in existing town centres and the transport links between them.
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NewsPurcell Miller Tritton’s Martime Museum extension has go-ahead
Purcell Miller Tritton has secured planning permission and listed building consent for a new £35 million wing at London’s National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.