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NewsBroad-minded approach
Aedas has designed one of the first large buildings to be presented at Mipim, a £125 million mixed-use tower for Birmingham
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RIBA angry over tax-cut response
A row has erupted between the RIBA and the Treasury over whether it should slash VAT on refurbishment projects in an attempt to stimulate the struggling construction industry
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NewsCurtain up on AHMM’s revamp
AHMM has been selected as the winner of a design competition to refurbish Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre
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NewsMansions and mozzarella: It's not all doom and gloom for architects
While the industry struggles, some surprising areas of work are defying the downturn
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Arb takes three years to strike off rogue architect
The Arb has been slammed for taking almost three years to strike an architect from the register after a High Court judge found he had lied repeatedly, and ordered him to pay a former client over a million pounds.
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NewsRIBA dismay at planning reforms
Plans to streamline the planning process to help small firms weather the recession have been attacked for being “too little, too late”
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Offices achieve excellent Breeam
Scott Brownrigg’s flagship office development on the Cardiff waterfront, 3 Assembly Square, has achieved a Breeam “excellent” rating six months before completion
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Pozzoni designs centre for elderly
Architectural practice Pozzoni has won planning permission for a £20 million centre to provide housing and services for elderly people in Ormskirk
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NewsPitt favoured as new body’s chair
Housing minster Margaret Beckett has named Michael Pitt the preferred choice for chairman of the newly created Infrastructure Planning Commission, which will be based in Bristol
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NewsHepworth Gallery topped out
David Chipperfield Architects’ Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, has been topped out
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NewsLibrary is first chapter in city PFI
Developer Kajima has handed over the keys of the Ryder Architecture-designed £24 million Newcastle City Library to Newcastle Libraries in a ceremony attended by poet laureate Andrew Motion
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NewsCome on Eileen
Allies & Morrison’s 43-storey residential tower Eileen House, in Elephant & Castle, south London, has been submitted for planning
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LDA unveils new urban agenda
The London Development Agency announced its new citywide urban agenda at Mipim on Wednesday
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NewsDeveloper blasts EH’s move to list barracks chapel
The developer behind Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Chelsea Barracks scheme in west London has launched an all-out attack on English Heritage’s attempt to list a Victorian chapel at the centre of the site
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NewsFollett won't list Lloyd's building
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has refused to list Richard Rogers’ seminal Lloyd’s of London building.
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NewsBoris bashed over ‘pocket money’ for Great Spaces
London mayor Boris Johnson faced ridicule this week after unveiling a public realm strategy for the capital funded with what critics described as “pocket money”.
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Mayne and Meier in final four for London US Embassy
Four practices have been selected for the final stage of the competition to design the new US Embassy in south London.
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Plowman takes up chair at LSDC
London mayor Boris Johnson has appointed John Plowman to chair the London Sustainable Development Commission.