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Candy buys Noho Square development from Icelandic bank
Christian Candy has stepped in to save Make’s £200 million Noho Square scheme from potential collapse after its major backer, Icelandic bank Kaupthing, was nationalised and its UK arm put into administration this week.
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NewsWork under way on retail park
Work has begun on a “green” retail park on the outskirts of Peterborough.
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Study to overhaul regional network
A comprehensive study of all design review bodies in England is to provide the basis for a new network of panels and advisers as Cabe, the RIBA, the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Landscape Institute join forces to boost the quality of design across the country.
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Unsafe practices halt site work
Unsafe working practices halted work on nearly half of all domestic sites inspected by the Health & Safety Executive in three London boroughs last weekend, the organisation has revealed.
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NewsWildlife park goes in for planning
Proposals for a £70 million wildlife and conservation park in Bristol by White Design, Kay Elliott Architects and Quattro Design have been submitted for planning.
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Gedling Mission Hall starts on site
Weston Williamson Architects’ £5 million Gedling Mission Hall development in Southwark, central London, has started on site.
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Flour mill scheme wins green light
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ designs for the redevelopment of William King Flour Mill in Uxbridge have been given planning approval.
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NewsTower inquiry dubious over mayor’s opposition
Planning inspector gives hope to South Bank schemes’ prospects
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Eyre and Wilkinson devolve control
Wilkinson Eyre founders Jim Eyre and Chris Wilkinson have transferred company control and substantial shareholdings to the firm’s board of directors as part of a “succession strategy” for the future.
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Foster, Rogers join NT campaign
A campaign to save John Vanbrugh’s grade I listed masterpiece, Seaton Delaval Hall, has been boosted by support from Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.
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NewsSt Patrick’s bold plans
RMJM, in collaboration with Irish practice Taylor Architects, has submitted plans for a £40 million redevelopment of St Patrick’s College, the education department at Dublin City University.
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NewsLords call for design to be at heart of planning bill
Design quality must be placed at the heart of the new planning bill, peers in the House of Lords demanded this week.
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Book a table for BD awards
BD will celebrate the crème de la crème of UK architecture at the annual Architect of the Year Awards on 30 October at Park Lane’s London Hilton.
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Hopkins’ exemplary aim for WWF
Hopkins Architects is to design a UK headquarters for conservation body WWF-UK in Surrey that aims to be an exemplar of sustainable design.
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NewsAHMM’s Saatchi gallery opens
The new AHMM-designed Saatchi Gallery in the listed Duke of York’s Headquarters building in Chelsea opened to the public on Thursday.
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NewsBath adds a black splash
Bath & North East Somerset Council has granted planning for Mitchell Taylor Workshop’s complementary health clinic and martial arts centre in Bath city centre.
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NewsEH lists its top 20 heritage projects
Liverpool’s Bluecoat arts centre, King’s Cross Central in London and Sheffield’s Park Hill have been named in an English Heritage list of England’s 20 best conservation-led developments.
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Welsh Assembly should use architects to cut CO2
The Design Commission for Wales has called on the Welsh Assembly to use architects to help address the country’s carbon reduction and house-building agenda.
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NewsSoho hotel to get 1930s refurb
Celebrity haunt and art deco masterpiece, the Regent Palace Hotel in London’s Soho, is being converted into a mixed-use development, with its bars and restaurants refurbished to their original state by Donald Insall Associates.
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NewsViñoly hits back at Battersea criticism
Rafael Viñoly has hit back at criticism of his controversial £4 billion scheme for the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station in London.