All UK articles – Page 957
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NewsNew look in Princes Street planned
A mixed-use scheme on Edinburgh’s famous Princes Street by SMC Hugh Martin has been submitted for planning.
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New minimum design threshold for BSF
Minister for schools Jim Knight today hailed the new minimum design threshold for the £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme and revealed teachers are to sit on Cabe’s dedicated design review panel.
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NewsForeign Office's design for Birmingham New Street unveiled (images)
The first images of Foreign Office Architects’ competition-winning designs for Birmingham’s New Street Station have been unveiled.
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RIBA calls for simplification of planning rules
The RIBA has called for simpler planning rules for smaller developments and for more to be done to encourage the establishment of local design review panels.
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Cabe scheme would boost quality of Thames Gateway homes
Cabe has launched a new initiative to strengthen the design standards for the Thames Gateway Delivery plan.
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Staff face the axe at Urban Splash
Urban Splash is set to cut jobs due to the ongoing effects of the credit crunch.
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NewsBDP shines for Little Britain
BDP scooped the prize for the highest placed architect in the Little Britain Challenge Cup sailing regatta last week (pictured), trouncing the other 27 architects who took part.
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NewsLondon mayor: South Bank towers are inappropriate
London mayor Boris Johnson has dealt a massive blow to Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre’s neighbouring tower projects on the South Bank, labelling them “unacceptable”.
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Prasad hits out at RIBA ‘old boy’s club’ attack
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has hit out at the head of one of the UK’s biggest architecture practices after hearing him describe the profession an “old boy’s club”.
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NewsFeng shui makeover for Chinatown
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has proposed “healing” parts of London’s Chinatown using ancient Chinese traditions of feng shui.
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Go ahead for Norwich campus
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has won planning consent for its £120 million masterplan to redevelop City College in Norwich.
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NewsCroydon Council backs Foster Gateway
Croydon Council now supports Foster & Partners’ £600 million Croydon Gateway scheme after cutting ties with the developer behind the rival Michael Aukett Architects-designed scheme.
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Blackfriars towers pair offer their view at inquiry
Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre’s Jim Eyre have offered a robust defence of their neighbouring tower projects on London’s South Bank, in the first week of a joint public inquiry into the schemes.
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Canterbury gets £500,000 repair
The Save Canterbury Cathedral Appeal has announced a 20-week, £500,000 project to repair the lead roof on the historic building’s south-east transept.
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NewsArt takes an ad break
Plans for a new piece of public art funded through advertising revenue have been unveiled in the West Midlands.
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NewsAnger as visitor centre list chosen in six hours
RIBA and RIAS join architects calling on National Trust to explain Hadrian’s Wall decision
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Hiring foreign architects set to become harder
...as RIBA survey reveals growing globalisation of large practices
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NewsCoventry job for Arup
Arup Associates’ design for a £30 million engineering and computing building has beaten designs by Foster & Partners, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Wilkinson Eyre in a contest by client Coventry University.
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Design Share award for UK school
Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects’ Hazelwood School in Glasgow for pupils with sensory impairment has become the first UK school to win the top honour at the Design Share awards.