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NewsTop names rally to save Seaton Delaval
A roll call of some of Britain’s leading modern architects — from Terry Farrell and Peter Cook to Will Alsop — have backed a National Trust campaign to buy one of John Vanbrugh’s most renowned buildings for public use.
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NewsCorb season takes off in Liverpool
The RIBA’s Le Corbusier season kicked off this week with the opening in Liverpool of Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture exhibition in Edwin Lutyens’ crypt at the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral.
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M&S wins highest Breeam rating
3D Reid’s design for a Glasgow branch of Marks & Spencer has achieved the highest-ever Breeam retail fit-out rating.
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Parliament Square paving bugged Boris
Plans to pedestrianise Parliament Square had already cost £2 million when London mayor Boris Johnson scrapped the scheme.
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Board restructuring defended
Arb chairman Mike Starling has defended proposed changes to the structure of Arb’s board (News September 28).
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NewsFunding blow could cancel Castleford Forum plans
Niall McLaughlin Architects’ ambitious scheme for a new museum, library and community building in the West Yorkshire town of Castleford has been turned down for lottery funding for a second time.
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Faint praise damns Architecture Week
Future of Architecture Week is questioned again in light of review
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Architects vulnerable to claims as economy slows
Architects have become a “natural target” for litigation by cash-strapped clients due to the worsening economic climate and rising professional indemnity insurance premiums, experts have claimed.
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NewsPiersland adds bedroom pavilion
Lawrence McPherson Associates has received planning permission for a garden pavilion at Scottish country hotel Piersland House Hotel near Troon, Ayrshire.
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NewsLiam O’Connor’s structure at the National Memorial Arboretum is 43m in diameter.
A major armed forces memorial at Alrewas, near Lichfield in Staffordshire, has been voted the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded heritage project.
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Homes expo has 12 on shortlist
DRMM, Fat and Sarah Wigglesworth Architects are among 12 practices shortlisted for the RIBA’s Scotswood Expo architectural competition.
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NewsLiverpool’s £1 billion city centre scheme opens
Phase two of Liverpool’s largest-ever retail and regeneration development has launched, with the opening of buildings by an array of architects including Allies & Morrison, Dixon Jones, CZWG and Glenn Howells.
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NewsYaya longlist unveiled
There are 25 architects on the long list for BD’s 2008 Young Architect of the Year Award, sponsored by Autodesk.
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NewsGovernment fails on pledge for good design
BD and British Council survey reveals depth of architects’ despair over UK housing policy
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NewsBirmingham gives green light to 35-storey tower
Birmingham City Council’s planning committee has ignored the advice of Cabe’s design review panel and granted planning permission to a 35-storey office tower at 103 Colmore Row.
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Government has ‘degraded’ eco-town idea, says Shapps
Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps has condemned the government’s handling of its eco-town plans, claiming it had “taken a reasonably good idea and completely screwed it up”.
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NewsCabe blasts Rogers’ Wood Wharf 'ghetto'
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Wood Wharf masterplan for the Isle of the Dogs in east London should not receive planning in its current form due to concerns it could create a “ghetto”, Cabe has said.
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NewsControversy as multi-faith centre set to fail planning
Plans for a dramatic £20 million community centre in the north London suburbs by former YAYA-nominee Mangera Yvars Architects faced planning permission refusal this week.
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NewsBlears faces challenge to Doon decision
English Heritage and Westminster City Council have launched a joint legal challenge against communities secretary Hazel Blears’ decision to grant planning permission to London’s Doon Street tower.