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Pozzoni designs centre for elderly
Architectural practice Pozzoni has won planning permission for a £20 million centre to provide housing and services for elderly people in Ormskirk
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NewsPitt favoured as new body’s chair
Housing minster Margaret Beckett has named Michael Pitt the preferred choice for chairman of the newly created Infrastructure Planning Commission, which will be based in Bristol
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NewsHepworth Gallery topped out
David Chipperfield Architects’ Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, has been topped out
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NewsLibrary is first chapter in city PFI
Developer Kajima has handed over the keys of the Ryder Architecture-designed £24 million Newcastle City Library to Newcastle Libraries in a ceremony attended by poet laureate Andrew Motion
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NewsCome on Eileen
Allies & Morrison’s 43-storey residential tower Eileen House, in Elephant & Castle, south London, has been submitted for planning
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LDA unveils new urban agenda
The London Development Agency announced its new citywide urban agenda at Mipim on Wednesday
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NewsDeveloper blasts EH’s move to list barracks chapel
The developer behind Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Chelsea Barracks scheme in west London has launched an all-out attack on English Heritage’s attempt to list a Victorian chapel at the centre of the site
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NewsFollett won't list Lloyd's building
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has refused to list Richard Rogers’ seminal Lloyd’s of London building.
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NewsBoris bashed over ‘pocket money’ for Great Spaces
London mayor Boris Johnson faced ridicule this week after unveiling a public realm strategy for the capital funded with what critics described as “pocket money”.
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Mayne and Meier in final four for London US Embassy
Four practices have been selected for the final stage of the competition to design the new US Embassy in south London.
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Plowman takes up chair at LSDC
London mayor Boris Johnson has appointed John Plowman to chair the London Sustainable Development Commission.
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DCMS seeks successor to Sorrell
The DCMS is looking for a new Cabe chair to succeed John Sorrell. The successful applicant will serve an initial four-year term, working eight days a month for £42,000 .The job specification asks for someone who can act as ambassador for Cabe, monitor its performance, and lead the board of ...
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Nine shortlisted for BBC phase II
BDP, HOK and Woods Bagot are among nine practices to be shortlisted to design the interiors for the second phase of the BBC’s development of Broadcasting House in London.
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NewsMill Hill goes for the treble
Three schemes in Mill Hill, north London, have been granted planning permission by Barnet Council.
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NewsGovernment should scrap PFI, says Rogers
Spend taxpayers money directly, says architect, as Labour puts £2bn into struggling projects
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NewsCall to consolidate green building codes
A code for sustainable buildings which applies to all new and existing non-domestic buildings was called for in a report launched at the Ecobuild conference this week.
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NewsShining example makes photo awards shortlist
Japanese photographer Daichi Ano is one of 10 entrants to have made it onto the professional shortlist for architecture photographers in this year’s Sony World Photography Awards.
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Rogers and Hadid to cut jobs
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects and Gehry Partners have all revealed redundancies this week.