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NewsStudio Egret West’s tower ‘comb’
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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DSDHA tops out Guildford school
A new-build school at Guildford in Surrey by DSDHA has been topped out.
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Page & Park wins Scottish portrait gallery refurb
Glasgow-based Page & Park has won the contract for the £18 million refurbishment of Edinburgh’s Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
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Kids’ hospital gets trials unit
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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Koolhaas heads Hermitage plan
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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Council relaunches Birmingham library project
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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NewsMile End brewery site to house flats
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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Edaw nets Coney Island redesign
Edaw has triumphed in a competition to redesign Steeplechase Plaza at Coney Island, New York.
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NewsMurray and Dunlop scoop Glasgow hotel
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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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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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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Atkins fights St James’s overhaul
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”.
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NewsChetwoods revises Hull scheme
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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NewsLeicester Square gets a makeover
Westminster council has unveiled its £18.5 million redesign for central London’s Leicester Square.
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NewsNew-look Paddington
Fletcher Priest has finally won planning approval for this £150 million mixed-use scheme on North Wharf Road in Paddington, west London.
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NewsWorld of water
Work has begun on this £9 million HQ by Faulkner Brown Architects for Essex & Suffolk Water in Chelmsford, Essex.
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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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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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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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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.