All UK articles – Page 925
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NewsEH’s Heritage Counts report calls for ‘recycling’ of older buildings to cut CO2 emissions
English Heritage today called on the government to recycle and adapt older buildings to help meet carbon reduction targets.
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Competitions
RIBA launches Leicester footbridge competition
The RIBA has announced a design competition for a foot and cycle bridge over the River Soar in Leicester.
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NewsDesign Museum targets Commonwealth Institute building for new home
The Design Museum’s epic search for a larger new home is finally set to end with a new base at Kensington’s former Commonwealth Institute building.
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Blears defies Islington council to approve Squires’ City Road Estate
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has overruled a planning inspector to grant permission for a 39-storey triangular residential tower, designed by Squire & Partners, at the junction of City Road and Old Street in London.
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NewsKPF Victoria scheme is unpleasant, says Cabe
Cabe has warned that Kohn Pederson Fox’s (KPF) masterplan for Victoria in central London will result in “spaces that are unpleasant to live and work in”.
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Brent civic centre shortlist announced
Make, Sheppard Robson, EPR Architects, Hopkins Architects, John McAslan & Partners, BDP and TP Bennett have all been shortlisted for a landmark civic centre for Brent Council in north-west London, opposite Wembley Stadium.
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Welsh construction giant David McLean goes into administration
One of Wales’s biggest developers, David McLean Holdings, plus its subsidiaries, has gone into administration. Administrator Deloitte said that while the firm’s contracting division would close, its house-building division would be put up for sale.
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NewsMorrison anger over Waterloo towers call in
Allies & Morrison partner Graham Morrison has hit out at English Heritage after the government called-in the practice’s £1 billion Three Sisters project on London’s South Bank.
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NewsWilkinson Eyre to design Exeter University landmark building
Wilkinson Eyre has beaten Foreign Office Architects to design a £45 million landmark building for Exeter University.
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NewsAllies & Morrison Lambeth scheme called in by Blears
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has called in Allies & Morrison’s Three Sisters project in Lambeth.
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Sustainability wins prizes
Entrants are sought for the 2009 Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, with prizes of up to £30,000.
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Low grants are little help to seaside towns
Almost half of the seaside towns given funding in the latest round of Cabe’s programme to regenerate coastal resorts have received £30,000 or less to spend on cultural projects.
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Sleeperz hotel gets go-ahead
Clash Architects’ design for a £7.5 million hotel at Newcastle Central railway station has been awarded detailed planning permission.
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NewsHeatherwick’s Shanghai Expo ‘jewel’ hit by row
Curator’s departure from 2010 pavilion comes amid uncertainty over UK’s message
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Derby infirmary plans unveiled
Leeds-based DLG Architects has unveiled plans to redevelop the site of the former Derbyshire Royal Infirmary.
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NewsCouncil claims lack of refurb cash
Tower Hamlets Council has reiterated its opposition to the listing of Robin Hood Gardens, describing the Smithsons’ iconic estate as an “outdated and unpopular design” which has “deteriorated badly”.
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NewsCabe calls in Sparks for Crossrail panel
Veteran to chair station review panel with Shuttleworth as deputy
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NewsUniversity’s latest building complete
Work has been completed on a £12 million building at Liverpool University by Shepherd Epstein Hunter.
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NewsDream design for leisure brings luxury to Italy’s Umbrian hills
Flacq has created a concept design for a new leisure and residential development in Umbria, north of Rome, which it hopes could do for the area what Peter Zumthor’s thermal baths did for Vals in Switzerland.
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NewsPFI’s biggest school scheme opened
England’s largest education PFI project, a £130 million school scheme in Nottinghamshire by Aedas AHR architects, officially opened this week.