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NewsThree on Ebbsfleet Landmark list
Three artists — Daniel Buren, Richard Deacon and Mark Wallinger — have been shortlisted to create the £2 million Ebbsfleet Landmark, the largest public art commission since Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North.
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NewsFindlay returns with eco-houses scheme
Kathryn Findlay has returned to practice after three years’ sabbatical, with this residential project in Preston, Lancashire.
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Move to get rid of student ghettos
The government has called for new planning mechanisms to tackle the overconcentration of student housing in neighbourhoods.
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NewsLuxury homes go underground
Thomas de Cruz Architects has won planning permission for two 500sq m houses in west London.
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NewsThe Modern House moves into lettings
Estate agent the Modern House, which specialises in the sale of 20th century homes, has launched a new rental service in the face of the country’s dramatic housing slowdown.
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NewsNew look at the Temple
Proposals for a mixed-use development near London’s Temple Station by Wilkinson Eyre and Horden Cherry Lee have been submitted for planning.
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Ministers review Scots watchdog
The Scottish government is to review the work of its design watchdog, Architecture & Design Scotland, looking at policy, financial management and remit.
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NewsRelax... up on the roof
A contemporary rooftop pavilion and garden for staff at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital has been completed by Spacelab in collaboration with award-winning gardener Andy Sturgeon.
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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.
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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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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.