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Prince's Foundation probed over lobbying accusation
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment is being investigated by the Charity Commission after an allegation it is being used as the Prince of Wales’s “private lobbying firm”.
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NewsRoyal support for campaign to buy Seaton Delaval
Prince Charles has thrown his weight behind the National Trust’s campaign to buy one of John Vanbrugh’s most renowned buildings, Seaton Delaval in Northumberland.
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NewsPlan to build Britain's tallest bridge move a step closer
Sunderland City Council has agreed to progress Spence Associate’s landmark road bridge scheme over the River Wear, and hopes to submit a planning application by the end of the year.
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CompetitionsAtkins wins competition to design £300m Glasgow campus
Atkins and Scottish firm Michael Laird Partnership have won a competition for one of the largest college redevelopments in Europe.
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NewsTye’s woodland centre aims to make the most of its setting
Nicolas Tye Architects has won planning permission for its £700,000 Working Woodlands Centre in Bedfordshire
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Watchdog brands Arb Reform ad ‘misleading’
An advertisement calling on architects to vote for the Arb Reform Group and signed by the profession’s leading lights was misleading, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled
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NewsHeneghan Peng to design new Greenwich architecture school
Young practice Heneghan Peng has triumphed again in a major competition, beating the likes of David Chipperfield and Rafael Vinoly to design a £60 million new school of architecture for the University of Greenwich.
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NewsStonehenge visitor centre looks 'cheap and nasty'
Denton Corker Marshall’s designs for a £25 million Stonehenge visitor centre have been compared to an “immigration detention centre”, just weeks before the planning application is due to be submitted
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Holl to be hands-on after Glasgow win
Leading American architect Steven Holl will take a hands-on role in his firm’s winning designs for a new £50 million building for the Glasgow School of Art
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NewsCrossrail design disappoints Cabe
Design panel says Atkins’ Farringdon building is ‘pedestrian’
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HCA hands £127m to nine
The Homes & Communities Agency has given the go-ahead for 47 councils to build more than 2,000 affordable homes in England
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Sheffield steelworks get revamp
Sheffield practice Race Cottam Associates has been given the green light for the first phase of its masterplan to revamp a 26ha steelworks site in the city
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RIBA raises alarm over designing out terrorism
Security chief voices dismay at institute’s criticism of Home Office guidance
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NewsStephen Lawrence Prize shortlist includes Simon Conder and Niall McLaughlin
Five firms are competing to win this year’s Stephen Lawrence Prize which honours exceptional projects with a budget of less than £1 million.
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NewsUS Embassy set to win planning
Wandsworth Council is set to approve the controversial American Embassy development at Battersea.
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NewsKing’s Cross schemes are a gas
Feix & Merlin’s helter-skelter slide and Hakes Associates’ giant reflective events space are among five designs shortlisted for the £2.5 million refurbishment of a grade II listed gasholder in London’s King’s Cross.
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NewsFollett may reverse Coventry listing
Architecture minister Barbara Follett is to review English Heritage’s decision to list Coventry’s 1950s market building amid claims the listing threatens US firm Jerde Partnership’s £1 billion city centre masterplan.
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News‘Quietest building in the world’ opens in Bristol
Capita Architecture’s £11 million Bristol University facility, hailed the quietest building in the world, has opened.
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NewsUK’s first carbon-neutral theatre planned for Hackney
An east London theatre is planning to appoint architects to design the UK’s first carbon-neutral theatre building.