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NewsDelays mean Alsop pavilion at Headingley misses Ashes
A proposed £17 million cricket pavilion designed by Will Alsop for Headingley Carnegie cricket stadium in Leeds will not be ready for next year’s Ashes series following a series of delays and design changes.
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Burns museum delayed to 2010
The Robert Burns International Museum, by Edinburgh firm Simpson & Brown, will not be ready by 2009, the 250th anniversary of the poet’s birth, because of funding delays.
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NewsHolt Town Waterfront set to go
Manchester City Council said this week that it was “minded to approve” plans for Edaw and Studio Egret West’s Holt Town Waterfront — the city’s largest-ever scheme.
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NewsFoster’s fails to win round Ealing tower opponents
Foster & Partners has failed to convince English Heritage and local residents to back plans for a controversial suburban skyscraper after altering its designs.
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NewsDesign goes to the Dogs
Hamiltons Architects has submitted its design for the £140 million Indescon Court scheme in east London’s Isle of Dogs for planning.
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NewsWren conversion gets go-ahead
The Hutchinson Studio has won planning permission to renovate and convert the grade I listed St Nicholas Cole Abbey in central London, designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
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McAslan relaxed on New Street contest
John McAslan & Partners’ beleaguered New Street station project in Birmingham is set to be substantially revised after the client launched a new design competition for the £550 million scheme.
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Herzog & de Meuron closes its UK office
Herzog & de Meuron has closed its only British office, the practice admitted this week.
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Crystal Island clears planning
Foster & Partners has won preliminary planning permission for the largest single building in the world.
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NewsSHL scoops Sheffield scheme
Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won an international invited competition to design a mixed-use scheme in north Sheffield featuring a new public square, library, homes and shops.
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NewsHotel hangout
This Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners-designed proposal for the Berkeley Hotel site in Knightsbridge, central London, has won the backing of Westminster City Council’s planning committee.
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NewsHTA scoops design of first eco-village
HTA Architects has beaten competition from Feilden Clegg Bradley, Acanthus Ferguson Mann, Proctor & Matthews, PRP and Broadway Malyan to design England’s first eco-village, it was announced this week.
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NewsTbilisi tower design revealed
GMW Architects has unveiled its competition-winning design (right) for a £20 million mixed-use building in Tbilisi, Georgia.
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Sustrans scoops Big Lottery prize
The Sustrans’ Connect 2 project has scooped the £50 million Big Lottery Fund prize after securing the most votes in a massive public telephone and internet poll, televised on ITV.
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Niemeyer unveils major arts plan
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, 100 years old tomorrow, has unveiled plans for a huge new arts building that will place the small Spanish city of Avilés, a former steel hub, at the heart of a international cultural network.
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NewsLeeds keyworker homes use MMC
Design Group 3 Architects is designing 22 keyworker apartments in Headingley, Leeds, for Park Lane Properties
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LDS wins Ferrier Estate masterplan
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has scooped its biggest-ever residential masterplanning brief — to redevelop one of London’s most deprived council estates
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Shepherd’s Bush Common facelift
A team led by landscape architect Whitelaw Turkington has won a £3.3 million competition to transform Shepherd’s Bush Common in west London.
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NewsMJP brings cascading terraces to Harrow College
MacCormac Jamieson Pritchard has unveiled designs for One Harrow, a new building at Harrow College in north-west London.
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Make gets its hands on Olympic arena
Make has beaten firms including DRMM, Grimshaw and David Morley Architects to design the London 2012 Olympic handball arena.