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NewsLiam O’Connor’s structure at the National Memorial Arboretum is 43m in diameter.
A major armed forces memorial at Alrewas, near Lichfield in Staffordshire, has been voted the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded heritage project.
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NewsPiersland adds bedroom pavilion
Lawrence McPherson Associates has received planning permission for a garden pavilion at Scottish country hotel Piersland House Hotel near Troon, Ayrshire.
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Architects vulnerable to claims as economy slows
Architects have become a “natural target” for litigation by cash-strapped clients due to the worsening economic climate and rising professional indemnity insurance premiums, experts have claimed.
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Faint praise damns Architecture Week
Future of Architecture Week is questioned again in light of review
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NewsFunding blow could cancel Castleford Forum plans
Niall McLaughlin Architects’ ambitious scheme for a new museum, library and community building in the West Yorkshire town of Castleford has been turned down for lottery funding for a second time.
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Board restructuring defended
Arb chairman Mike Starling has defended proposed changes to the structure of Arb’s board (News September 28).
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Parliament Square paving bugged Boris
Plans to pedestrianise Parliament Square had already cost £2 million when London mayor Boris Johnson scrapped the scheme.
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M&S wins highest Breeam rating
3D Reid’s design for a Glasgow branch of Marks & Spencer has achieved the highest-ever Breeam retail fit-out rating.
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NewsCorb season takes off in Liverpool
The RIBA’s Le Corbusier season kicked off this week with the opening in Liverpool of Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture exhibition in Edwin Lutyens’ crypt at the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral.
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NewsTop names rally to save Seaton Delaval
A roll call of some of Britain’s leading modern architects — from Terry Farrell and Peter Cook to Will Alsop — have backed a National Trust campaign to buy one of John Vanbrugh’s most renowned buildings for public use.
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NewsThree on Ebbsfleet Landmark list
Three artists — Daniel Buren, Richard Deacon and Mark Wallinger — have been shortlisted to create the £2 million Ebbsfleet Landmark, the largest public art commission since Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North.
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NewsFindlay returns with eco-houses scheme
Kathryn Findlay has returned to practice after three years’ sabbatical, with this residential project in Preston, Lancashire.
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Move to get rid of student ghettos
The government has called for new planning mechanisms to tackle the overconcentration of student housing in neighbourhoods.
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NewsLuxury homes go underground
Thomas de Cruz Architects has won planning permission for two 500sq m houses in west London.
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NewsThe Modern House moves into lettings
Estate agent the Modern House, which specialises in the sale of 20th century homes, has launched a new rental service in the face of the country’s dramatic housing slowdown.
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NewsNew look at the Temple
Proposals for a mixed-use development near London’s Temple Station by Wilkinson Eyre and Horden Cherry Lee have been submitted for planning.
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Ministers review Scots watchdog
The Scottish government is to review the work of its design watchdog, Architecture & Design Scotland, looking at policy, financial management and remit.
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NewsRelax... up on the roof
A contemporary rooftop pavilion and garden for staff at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital has been completed by Spacelab in collaboration with award-winning gardener Andy Sturgeon.
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NewsLiverpool’s £1 billion city centre scheme opens
Phase two of Liverpool’s largest-ever retail and regeneration development has launched, with the opening of buildings by an array of architects including Allies & Morrison, Dixon Jones, CZWG and Glenn Howells.