All UK articles – Page 947

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    Koolhaas heads Hermitage plan

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas is to work with the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, on a cultural masterplan to mark the Hermitage’s 250th anniversary in 2014.

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    Kids’ hospital gets trials unit

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Health secretary Alan Johnson has officially opened a medical research unit at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, designed by local practice Race Cottam Associates.

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    Page & Park wins Scottish portrait gallery refurb

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow-based Page & Park has won the contract for the £18 million refurbishment of Edinburgh’s Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

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    DSDHA tops out Guildford school

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    A new-build school at Guildford in Surrey by DSDHA has been topped out.

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    Studio Egret West’s tower ‘comb’

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    The first images of Studio Egret West’s design (below) to remodel the base of Richard Seifert’s iconic Tower 42, also known as the Nat West tower, in the City of London have been unveiled.

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    Chester tower in landmark refurb

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    McCormick Architecture has won full planning for a mixed-use scheme in Chester which includes refurbishing the city’s tallest building — the grade II listed, 51m-high Lead Shot Tower, empty since 1986.

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    Rosy future for Syrian kids’ centre

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Henning Larsen Architects and landscape architect Martha Schwartz Partners have won an international competition for a children’s “discovery centre” and public park in Damascus, Syria, a country where 40% of the population is under the age of 16.

  • Heneghan Peng’s scheme
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    Minister U-turns on Giant’s Causeway

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    A dramatic U-turn by Northern Ireland environment minister Arlene Foster this week cleared the way for Heneghan Peng’s Giant’s Causeway visitor centre.

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    Children’s building blocks

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    Sarah Wigglesworth Architects has revealed images of its £925,000 Heathfield Children’s Centre & Nursery School in Richmond upon Thames.

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    Cambridge gets little bit of Malmö

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    A residential scheme for Cambridge (above) by HTA Architects has won planning permission after an appeal.

  • BDP’s building will be transparent, and the public will be encouraged to view exhibitions there
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    Clearance to start on BDP’s university campus site

    2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

    BDP has revealed the first images of its Newport city centre campus for the University of Wales, which will sit on the banks of the River Usk.

  • Dunlop (left) and Murray.
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    Murray and Dunlop scoop Glasgow hotel

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects has beaten Make and RMJM to land a high-rise, five-star hotel commission for a riverside site in central Glasgow’s new financial services district.

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    Edaw nets Coney Island redesign

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Edaw has triumphed in a competition to redesign Steeplechase Plaza at Coney Island, New York.

  • Chris Dyson Architects’ distinctive cedar-clad development
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    Mile End brewery site to house flats

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Chris Dyson Architects has won planning permission for this four- storey residential development in a conservation area in Mile End, east London.

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    Council relaunches Birmingham library project

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    The race to design the troubled £193 million Birmingham Library has begun after the city council published an advertisement in the Ojeu.

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    World of water

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Work has begun on this £9 million HQ by Faulkner Brown Architects for Essex & Suffolk Water in Chelmsford, Essex.

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    New-look Paddington

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Fletcher Priest has finally won planning approval for this £150 million mixed-use scheme on North Wharf Road in Paddington, west London.

  • Burns & Nice’s redesigned Leicester Square.
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    Leicester Square gets a makeover

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Westminster council has unveiled its £18.5 million redesign for central London’s Leicester Square.

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    Chetwoods revises Hull scheme

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    The first phase of a mixed-use development in Hull by Chetwoods has been granted planning after the architect submitted revised proposals.

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    Atkins fights St James’s overhaul

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    Atkins has attacked development plans for the St James’s area of central London as inappropriate, claiming the area is “in danger of losing its identity”.