All UK articles – Page 964
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NewsYaya longlist unveiled
There are 25 architects on the long list for BD’s 2008 Young Architect of the Year Award, sponsored by Autodesk.
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NewsGovernment fails on pledge for good design
BD and British Council survey reveals depth of architects’ despair over UK housing policy
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NewsBirmingham gives green light to 35-storey tower
Birmingham City Council’s planning committee has ignored the advice of Cabe’s design review panel and granted planning permission to a 35-storey office tower at 103 Colmore Row.
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Government has ‘degraded’ eco-town idea, says Shapps
Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps has condemned the government’s handling of its eco-town plans, claiming it had “taken a reasonably good idea and completely screwed it up”.
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NewsCabe blasts Rogers’ Wood Wharf 'ghetto'
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Wood Wharf masterplan for the Isle of the Dogs in east London should not receive planning in its current form due to concerns it could create a “ghetto”, Cabe has said.
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NewsControversy as multi-faith centre set to fail planning
Plans for a dramatic £20 million community centre in the north London suburbs by former YAYA-nominee Mangera Yvars Architects faced planning permission refusal this week.
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NewsBlears faces challenge to Doon decision
English Heritage and Westminster City Council have launched a joint legal challenge against communities secretary Hazel Blears’ decision to grant planning permission to London’s Doon Street tower.
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Four firms shortlisted for Elisabeth House project
Glenn Howells Architects, Flacq, Stanton Williams and Austin Smith Lord have been shortlisted in a competition to design a major new scheme which tasks them with developing the “best commercial building in Manchester”.
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NewsPrasad sets sail for the Arctic with message on global warming
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has set sail for the Arctic, joining an eclectic bunch of artists and scientists including Jarvis Cocker and Martha Wainwright on the seventh Cape Farewell expedition.
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City academy framework doubles to £4 billion
Architects are set to benefit from the doubling in size of the government’s framework to build city academies.
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NewsTower absent from new Edinburgh galleria plan
Allan Murray Architects and BDP have submitted their masterplan for the redevelopment of the 1970s St James Shopping Centre to Edinburgh City Council.
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NewsOxford bookshop set to live again
Lee Fitzgerald Architects has won a limited competition to refurbish and adapt Gillespie Kidd & Coia’s grade II listed bookshop at Oxford University’s Wadham College.
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NewsAnshen & Allen’s healthy win
Anshen & Allen has seen off competition from BDP and Swanke Hayden Connell to land one of the biggest healthcare contracts in Northern Ireland in recent years.
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Curtain call for Alsop’s Mermaid Theatre plan
City strips away theatre status, clearing way to revive development
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Call to ‘get angry’ on space standards
Speakers at an RIBA housing conference this week called for new legislation on space standards for all new-build homes.
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Eric Parry Architects, PRP headline BD seminar
Eric Parry Architects, PRP Architects and English Heritage are to take part in a refurbishment conference hosted by BD next month.
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Teachers join architects to demand Smart PFI
Architects and teachers joined forces at this week’s Labour Party Conference to demand that the government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme allows for better interaction between the two professions in a bid to boost design.
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NewsHere’s the design Boris binned
This is how Parliament Square would have looked under radical designs by Hawkins Brown, Swiss firm Vogt and DSDHA — which have been controversially dropped by mayor of London, Boris Johnson.
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Music box is clad in rubber quilt
Carey Jones Architects’ music studio and practice facility for the University of Sheffield has been completed.