All UK articles – Page 949
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NewsBD columnist Paul Morrell awarded OBE
BD columnist Paul Morrell has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s honours list for services to architecture and the built environment.
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NewsMiddle East focus for Zaha Hadid's stint as Today editor
The Middle East, parametrics and Karl Lagerfeld were the centrepieces of Zaha Hadid's guest editor spot on BBC Radio Four's Today programme this morning.
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V&A flirts with Blackpool
The V&A is considering a tie-up with Blackpool which could result in a new seafront arts building at the resort.
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NewsHolmes for Aberdeen
Scottish architect Holmes has won planning permission for a mixed-use scheme to transform the historic Esslemont & Macintosh department store on Aberdeen’s Union Street.
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Adam and PTE are latest to shed staff
Robert Adam Architects and Pollard Thomas Edwards are the latest practices to announce redundancies amid worsening employment prospects across the country.
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NewsCouncil rejects Allies & Morrison Brighton plan
Allies & Morrison has been sent back to the drawing board over its designs for a huge mixed-use project in Brighton after local councillors threw out the scheme, calling it a “mini Dubai”.
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Green Park Station works win approval
London’s Westminster City Council has given the green light to a comprehensive redevelopment of Green Park tube station despite objections from English Heritage about the impact it will have on the neighbouring grade II* listed Ritz Hotel and the grade II listed park.
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NewsGrimshaw lands in court over Bath Spa
Council sues architect and contractor after receiving Carillion claim
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NewsTroubled centre on Mies prize shortlist
David Adjaye’s troubled Stephen Lawrence Centre has been nominated for one the biggest prizes in architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009.
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NewsGo-ahead for DCM’s latest court
Denton Corker Marshall’s new magistrates court in Birmingham has been granted planning approval.
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Optimism for delayed RHG review
The DCMS is unlikely to meet its self-imposed five-month deadline for reviewing its decision on the listing ofRobin Hood Gardens due to the "complexity" of the case, it admitted this week.
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Ex-PfS design head Ibikunle dies
Jonathan Ibikunle, former head of design at Partnership for Schools (PfS), has died.
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Dow Jones redevelops Hawksmoor
Dow Jones Architects has won a competition to redevelop the crypt of the Nicholas Hawksmoor-designed Christ Church in London’s Spitalfields, beating Carmody Groarke, Molyneux Kerr, Meadowcroft Griffin and Witherford Watson Mann.
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Four vie to refurbish RIBA roof terraces
The RIBA has announced a shortlist of four designers in its competition to refurbish three public roof terraces at its Portland Place headquarters in central London.
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News‘Only roof is safe’ in OMA revamp
Commonwealth Institute plans not acceptable to conservation groups
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DCLG consults on zero carbon homes
The government is consulting on how to define zero carbon homes as part of its drive to make all new-build housing zero carbon by 2016.
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NewsFinal push for Seaton Delaval Hall
The National Trust has just days to raise the last £500,000 it needs to buy Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumberland and save it for the nation.
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Haworth Tompkins scoops prestigious National Theatre competition
Haworth Tompkins has beaten four other shortlisted architects including David Chipperfield to develop a design strategy for the National Theatre.
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NewsSpurs unveils proposed new stadium by KSS
North London football club Tottenham Hotspur has revealed the first images of its proposed new stadium.
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Power says refurb cuts more CO2
Refurbishing old houses rather than building new eco-homes is a better way to reduce carbon emissions in the built environment, Anne Power, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics, has claimed