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Reform group aims for clean sweep in Arb elections
The Arb Reform Group is aiming for a clean sweep in the board elections next month, with seven candidates hoping to fill the seven seats open to registered architects.
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Birmingham picks winners for £2.4bn BSF scheme
Will Alsop, DSDHA and Associated Architects are among the winners of the government’s biggest Buildings Schools for the Future (BSF) contract, a £2.4 billion project to overhaul 89 secondary schools for Birmingham council.
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NewsChipperfield's Seal House resubmitted for planning
David Chipperfield Architects has submitted new plans for its Seal House office and retail scheme in the City of London, after an earlier application was refused last April.
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NewsFoster set to be expelled from House of Lords
Norman Foster is set to be expelled from the House of Lords under new reforms drawn up by justice secretary Jack Straw.
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Foster, Adjaye lead top names in race to design Washington’s new museum of black history
Norman Foster, David Adjaye, Antoine Predock, Moshe Safdie and IM Pei are among a stellar crop of architects competing to design America’s new museum of black history in Washington DC.
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NewsStewart McColl Bounces Back
Former boss of SMC group sets up new practice, vowing once again to buy up other firms
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NewsLubetkin’s grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre to be sold off to private sector
Berthold Lubetkin’s grade I listed Finsbury Health Centre in Clerkenwell, north London, is set to be sold into private hands after NHS officials this morning rejected a last-ditch effort by Architects for Health to preserve the building’s 70-year association with public healthcare.
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Docklands designer Price dies
David Price, architect, urban designer and former partner of Gordon Cullen, has died at the age of 54.
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New look News Junkie and competitions directory launched
Bdonline has launched two new web services this week — an online directory of architecture competitions and a new-look News Junkie blog bringing you a selection of the best architecture stories elsewhere on the web.
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NewsChris Smith joins Lubetkin centre fight
Former culture secretary Chris Smith this week backed architects and local activists in a last-ditch effort to save Berthold Lubetkin’s pioneering Finsbury Health Centre from being sold to the private sector.
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NewsBSF funding hit as private sector cash dries up
Architects have reacted with alarm after the agency delivering the £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme admitted worries over its dependence on private finance.
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Studio Egret West bid wins science park
Studio Egret West has beaten Make, BDP and Associated Architects to oversee the redevelopment of Pebble Mill, the historic former Midlands base of the BBC.
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Judicial review backs government
Objectors to one of the proposed eco-towns have failed in their bid to get the government’s consultation declared unlawful.
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NewsDLA Architecture’s mixed-use Eltham scheme is far from plain
DLA Architecture has won planning permission on appeal for The Grove, this seven-storey, mixed-use scheme in Eltham, south-east London, following a 20-month wrangle with Greenwich Council.
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Allies & Morrison offices approved
Allies & Morrison’s £100 million office scheme in King’s Cross has been approved for planning by the London Borough of Camden.
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NewsSecurity minister Adam West urges architects to ‘design out’ terrorism
Security minister Alan West has called on architects and planners to join the government in its fight against terrorism.
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NewsFree work devalues profession, says RIBA
The RIBA has issued a warning against architects offering work for free during the recession, an approach it claims will devalue the entire profession.
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NewsThree shortlisted for Waterloo Road development
Three practices are competing to design a square on London’s South Bank. Proposals by DSDHA, Edaw and Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands were revealed this week ahead of a public consultation.
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Give Cabe power to call in schemes, says review
Housebuilders fear another hurdle as design watchdog receives glowing performance review
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NewsThe Public: Arts Council rejects calls for additional funding
The Public arts gallery in West Bromwich, designed by Will Alsop, is in serious jeopardy after Arts Council England rejected a request for additional funding.