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NewsMake’s luxury redevelopment of Westminster City Hospital goes to planning
Make has submitted a planning application to Westminster City Council for this luxury redevelopment by Candy & Candy of the derelict 1.2ha Middlesex Hospital site, which it bought last year for £175 million.
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SMC founder McColl is demoted to deputy chair
Stewart McColl has been forced by investors to step down as chief executive of the country’s largest architectural firm, SMC Group.
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NewsCathedrals win Wolfson funds
English Heritage has turned to the Wolfson Foundation, a major grant-making charity, to bolster its cathedral repairs fund.
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NewsFoster brings Heathrow up to date
BAA has unveiled Foster & Partners’ designs for Heathrow Terminal 3.
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NewsFeilden Clegg Bradley wins Gallions Park zero-carbon housing scheme
Feilden Clegg Bradley has beaten stiff competition from architects including Bill Dunster, Glenn Howells and Llewelyn Davies Yeang to design a flagship zero-carbon housing scheme for the mayor of London.
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NewsBold new welcome to Sidcup
Studio Egret West has launched a bold attempt to bring distinctive contemporary design to Sidcup in Kent with this housing-led mixed use building for Cathedral Group, just entered for planning permission.
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NewsBlackpool competes for Libeskind’s Eden forest...
Blackpool plans to bounce back from losing in its bid to host the UK’s only supercasino by installing a Daniel Libeskind-designed indoor rainforest on the same site.
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NewsHotel is Bennetts’ Dutch debut
Bennetts Associates has won planning permission for its first project outside the UK — the largest hotel in the Netherlands for City Inn (pictured).
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Bennett steps up to City surveyor
The City of London Corporation has appointed Peter Bennett to the ancient role of city surveyor.
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Cabe backs Simpson rethink
Cabe has backed Ian Simpson’s redesigned skyscraper for Blackfriars Road in Southwark, London.
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NewsLivingstone proposes landmarks to denote arrival in London
Mayor wants new landmarks to signal visitors’ arrival in the capital
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NewsNew members join Arb board
The Privy Council has appointed Philip Cunliffe and Alex Galloway to replace chair Humphrey Lloyd and Alan Crane as lay members of the Arb board (News February 9).
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Skanska announces team to design Kent schools
A host of young, design-led practices has been brought in to Kent’s Building Schools for the Future programme by Skanska UK.
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News‘Far bigger’ 2008 London Architecture Biennale
The next London Architecture Biennale will run for an entire month and will expand to cover new areas of the capital such as Bloomsbury and Canary Wharf.
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NewsReading regeneration
This substantial apartment scheme by Cartwright Pickard Architects, part of a £250 million regeneration project undertaken by developer Amec, starts on site at Chatham Place in Reading, Berkshire, this month.
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NewsGehry takes Manhattan
This £50 million Manhattan development by Frank Gehry for the media corporation InterActiveCorp is nearing completion. The headquarters building takes the form of a 10-storey glass tower with eight sweeps of glass inspired by the sails of boats passing on the nearby Hudson River.
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NewsMaking an entrance
A £1 million upgrade by Gareth Hoskins Architects for the Glasgow Science Centre, including this bold new entrance and media wall, will soon be completed.
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Olympic ‘year of design’ starts here
This is “the year of Olympic design,” 2012 organisers promised on Wednesday, as they submitted what is thought to be the largest planning application in British history.
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NewsKensington tower pleases council
Kensington & Chelsea council is set to approve this £200 million residential tower by Woods Bagot, despite stinging criticism from Cabe’s design review panel.