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Planners express key concerns
Trying to manage the impact of development and increase planning capacity are the two main challenges that face planning systems around the world, a survey has revealed.
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NewsStephen Lawrence Centre in fresh crisis
Management ‘inertia’ and lack of funding blamed as vandalised building left unrepaired
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NewsCarmody Groarke gets green light
A memorial (pictured) to those who died in the July 7 bombings in London in 2005, by Carmody Groarke with sculptor Anthony Gormley, has been given the go-ahead by Westminster City Council.
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Lords design bill victory
The cross-party campaign in the House of Lords to put design quality at the heart of the planning bill scored a significant victory this week as the government put in two key amendments.
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NewsMandelson praises ‘perfect’ Benoy
Government minister Peter Mandelson has heaped praise on Benoy Architects as the practice joined a British business delegation to the Gulf this week.
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BD campaign highly commended
BD’s Rescue Robin Hood Gardens campaign was narrowly beaten into second place in the British Society of Magazine Editors’ award for campaign of the year.
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Competitions
Learning quarter seeks architects
A competition has been launched to find an architect for Glasgow’s new 80,000sq m city centre learning quarter — part of BDP’s masterplan to merge its four city centre colleges.
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NewsCardiff training centre approved
A £3 million vocational training centre for people with learning difficulties, by Design Research Unit Wales, has won planning permission.
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NewsBarnet aims high
Work has started on the £28 million redevelopment of Barnet College, north London, by education specialist Perkins Ogden Architects.
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Renewed Shaw House lives again
Purcell Miller Tritton has completed its £6 million restoration of Shaw House, a 16th century manor in Newbury which was once the scene of an assassination attempt on Charles I.
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NewsRow grows as RIBA shops ban ACA’s rival contract
The row between the RIBA and the Association of Consultant Architects over client contracts has escalated after it emerged that the institute is refusing to stock the ACA’s rival contract in its bookshops.
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DCLG says one bid in 12 merits ‘A’
Just one of the 12 sites shortlisted for the government’s eco-towns programme has fully met the required standard, it emerged this week.
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RIBA launches facility to predict buildings' energy use
The RIBA has launched Carbon Buzz, an online facility that lets practices monitor their projects’ energy-use.
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RIBA launches research project into opportunities for disabled architects
RIBA, in collaboration with the University of the West of England, has launched a year-long study of the opportunities available to disabled architects, and how they are treated at work.
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NewsConran replaces Foster on Weston hotel scheme
Foster & Partners has been dropped from a plan to redevelop the Royal Pier Hotel site in Weston-super-Mare and replaced by Conran & Partners.
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Five shortlisted for flood-proof house
Five practices have been shortlisted in the RIBA competition to design a flood-proof house.
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Nightingale closes its Bristol and Exeter offices
Nightingale Associates is to shut offices in Bristol and Exeter in a move that could see up to 17 staff members leave the company.
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Government may drop heritage bill to tackle credit crunch
The heritage protection bill may be axed from next year’s parliamentary programme to make way for legislation to help beat the credit crunch, culture minister Andy Burnham has signalled.
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NewsCash shortfall could close Lighthouse architecture centre
The Lighthouse, Scotland’s architecture and design centre, could face imminent closure unless Glasgow City Council agrees a financial rescue package later this month.