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Cabe promotes sustainability day
More than 100,000 young people are expected to take part in Green Day, a Cabe initiative to raise awareness of sustainability in schools as part of World Environment Day being held on Friday.
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NewsTombs to quit Scottish watchdog
Sebastian Tombs, the chief executive of Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS), the Scottish equivalent of Cabe, is to step down.
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Olympic codes miss green target
Strict design codes have meant the aggregates supplier for the 2012 Olympic Games is not able to use as much recycled material as promised.
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Westminster offers five-year planning
Planning officers in central London have responded to the recession by offering developers the opportunity to apply for planning permissions lasting for five years.
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NewsCompetition for £165m Manchester civic revamp opens
Manchester City Council has begun searching for architects to lead the £165 million redevelopment of its historic town hall complex.
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NewsAllies & Morrison designs cliff-top housing for Felixstowe
Allies & Morrison has unveiled images of a new cliff-top residential scheme, with two new blocks of flats and a converted hotel in Felixstowe, Suffolk.
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Dublin competition rules excluded Irish practices, claims institute
A row has erupted after small firms were effectively ruled out of the running for a competition to redevelop a major Dublin site.
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NewsCampaign saves Lancashire workhouse building
An historic workhouse building has been saved after a campaign by the Victorian Society.
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NewsMalvern Sports Dome listed at grade II
Michael Godwin's 1977 Edinburgh Sports Dome in Malvern has been grade II listed.
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NewsArchitects oppose Rogers Stirk Harbour’s British Museum extension
A group of architects has dealt a new blow to Rogers Stirk Harbour’s plans for a £135 million addition to the British Museum
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NewsWhich architects are rubbish at designing for rubbish?
A new award for design that has failed to provide adequate provisions for waste disposal is to be presented at the Futuresource event at London’s Excel Centre next week.
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Opposition to Brent Cross development mounts
Opposition is mounting against BDP and Allies & Morrison’s new £4 billion redevelopment of Brent Cross, north London.
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Fake architect prosecuted – for the second time
A man who falsely called himself an architect has been fined £1,500 and ordered to pay £4,500 in costs after being pleading guilty to misusing the title architect.
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More delays on LSC college rebuilding programme
Architects hoping for work on the troubled Learning & Skills Council college rebuilding programme now face weeks more of delays to find out if stalled jobs they are working on have been saved from the axe.
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Arup and Atkins to lead team for Tottenham Court Road Crossrail station
Arup and Atkins will lead the design of one of the key Crossrail stations in a team that also includes Hawkins Brown.
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NewsStatement bus station gets planning in Slough
Bblur Architecture has been granted planning permission for a statement bus station for Slough.
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NewsGlasgow School of Art wins Stirling of Stirlings vote
Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art has been named the RIBA Journal's Stirling of Stirlings in a vote to find the best building of the RIBA’s 175 year existence.
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NewsReboot for ageing new town
Harlow Council and developer Stockland have launched a 120,000sq m revamp of the new town, first masterplanned 62 years ago
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Pizzazz for cathedral piazza
A major £2.5 million public realm programme to regenerate the “tired and unattractive” space around the grade I-listed Westminster Cathedral is being developed by Westminster Council
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Stirling has jury —but no cash prize
The country’s top architecture award has still not found a major sponsor, making it increasingly likely this year’s Stirling Prize winner will go without the usual £20,000 cash prize