All UK articles – Page 914
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NewsHCA sets up developer panel to help spend £17bn
A new “super panel” of developers is being set up by the Homes & Communities Agency to help it spend hundreds of millions of pounds on building residential and mixed-use schemes in the next three years
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NewsWarning over 2012 press centre legacy
A host of media companies may abandon plans to move into Allies & Morrison’s £355 million Olympic press and international broadcast centre after the 2012 Games because of “serious concerns” over its design
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Homes adapted for army injured
Housing minister Iain Wright has announced an initiative to provide seriously injured former servicemen and women better access to specially adapted social homes
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V&A seeks architect-in-residence
The Victoria & Albert Museum has teamed up with the RIBA to offer a UK chartered architect a six-month residency
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NewsArchitects: give us protection of function
An overwhelming majority of architects are in favour of a change in the law to protect architects’ function as well as title, new research by BD suggests
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Cabe wants Ardley plant rethink
Cabe has called on Kent-based Architecture & Planning Solutions to rethink its approach to a new waste and recycling facility in Ardley, Oxfordshire
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NewsCommonwealth arena off the starting blocks
3DReid and Sports Concepts have won planning permission from Glasgow City Council for the main stadium and velodrome for the 2014 Commonwealth Games
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Work begins on Weston Grand Pier
Work has begun on Angus Meek Architects’ redevelopment of Weston-super-Mare’s fire-ravaged Grand Pier
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Feilden Clegg Bradley cuts its staff
Stirling Prize winner Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has become the latest big-name architect to shed jobs, confirming this week that it had laid off 17 staff
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NewsBurnham urged to review Wilson house delisting
Twentieth Century Society claims English Heritage is under-resourced
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NewsEarly cinema given second showing
Pollock Hammond Partnership has completed a £2 million restoration project on Scotland’s first purpose-built cinema, in Bo’ness
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Edgbaston design hits sticky wicket
Broadway Malyan’s plans for a stadium development at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham suffered a major blow last week, when councillors rejected planning officers’ recommendations and deferred their decision on the scheme
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Futures Fair to focus on society
The RIBA think-tank Building Futures has announced details of this year’s Futures Fair
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NewsFarrell sees profits rocket
Pre-tax profits at Terry Farrell & Partners soared fivefold last year, to £2.5 million, according to annual accounts filed at Companies House last week
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NewsMoxon's hedgehog gets go-ahead
Moxon Architects has been given the green light by city planners in Preston, Lancashire, to press ahead with plans for a £8 million spiky office building, dubbed the “hedgehog”
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NewsWapping in for planning
Amanda Levete Architects’ designs for remodelling Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation headquarters have been submitted for planning
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NewsPeter Zumthor’s Devon holiday house will be his first UK project
This year’s Pritzker prize winner Peter Zumthor is designing his first project in the UK, a residential building in Devon which will be part of the forthcoming Living Architecture project.
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NewsGo-ahead for controversial Bristol maths department
Bristol University has won planning permission for a controversial £80 million maths and biological sciences development by Sheppard Robson, despite opposition from local groups and English Heritage.
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NewsMake's Nine Elms towers put on hold by recession
Make’s plans for a 30-storey complex of curving towers close to London’s Battersea Power Station have stalled just weeks after they were first unveiled.