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Four firms shortlisted for Elisabeth House project
Glenn Howells Architects, Flacq, Stanton Williams and Austin Smith Lord have been shortlisted in a competition to design a major new scheme which tasks them with developing the “best commercial building in Manchester”.
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NewsPrasad sets sail for the Arctic with message on global warming
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has set sail for the Arctic, joining an eclectic bunch of artists and scientists including Jarvis Cocker and Martha Wainwright on the seventh Cape Farewell expedition.
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City academy framework doubles to £4 billion
Architects are set to benefit from the doubling in size of the government’s framework to build city academies.
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ODA promises inclusive games
The Olympic Delivery Authority has promised that the venues and infrastructure for the London 2012 games will make it the most accessible Olympics to date.
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U-turn on Hadrian’s Wall feedback
The National Trust has performed a U-turn and agreed to give feedback to architects who took part unsuccesfully in its controversial competition for a new visitor centre at Hadrian’s Wall.
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NewsUrban Splash and Muse launch homes competition
Urban Splash today joins forces with Muse Developments to launch a competition.
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NewsGo-ahead for Stoke college
Broadway Malyan has won outline planning permission for this £24 million sixth-form college in Stoke-on-Trent.
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NewsPublic sector must wake up to crisis, says housing chief
The government’s new housing and regeneration agency leader has warned public sector clients to wake up to the credit crunch, saying it could be “significantly worse than the early 1990s”.
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NewsLancashire CC designs revealed
BDP has unveiled its design to redevelop Lancashire County Cricket Club’s 150-year-old home at Old Trafford, Manchester.
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Music box is clad in rubber quilt
Carey Jones Architects’ music studio and practice facility for the University of Sheffield has been completed.
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NewsHere’s the design Boris binned
This is how Parliament Square would have looked under radical designs by Hawkins Brown, Swiss firm Vogt and DSDHA — which have been controversially dropped by mayor of London, Boris Johnson.
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Eric Parry Architects, PRP headline BD seminar
Eric Parry Architects, PRP Architects and English Heritage are to take part in a refurbishment conference hosted by BD next month.
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Teachers join architects to demand Smart PFI
Architects and teachers joined forces at this week’s Labour Party Conference to demand that the government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme allows for better interaction between the two professions in a bid to boost design.
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Call to ‘get angry’ on space standards
Speakers at an RIBA housing conference this week called for new legislation on space standards for all new-build homes.
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Curtain call for Alsop’s Mermaid Theatre plan
City strips away theatre status, clearing way to revive development
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NewsAnshen & Allen’s healthy win
Anshen & Allen has seen off competition from BDP and Swanke Hayden Connell to land one of the biggest healthcare contracts in Northern Ireland in recent years.
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NewsOxford bookshop set to live again
Lee Fitzgerald Architects has won a limited competition to refurbish and adapt Gillespie Kidd & Coia’s grade II listed bookshop at Oxford University’s Wadham College.
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NewsTower absent from new Edinburgh galleria plan
Allan Murray Architects and BDP have submitted their masterplan for the redevelopment of the 1970s St James Shopping Centre to Edinburgh City Council.
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Arb imposes 10% fee hike to help fund spending spree
Regulator to consider scrapping profession’s right to elect architect board members