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NewsWilkinson Eyre and FOA compete for Exeter campus
Wilkinson Eyre and Foreign Office Architects are battling it out in the final stage of a competition to design a £40 million “statement building” for Exeter University’s main campus.
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Sustainable Chinese takeaway
An office designed by Martha Schwartz made from reused shipping containers from China has opened in Leeds as part of the £450 million Wellington Place development.
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NewsIndustry taskforce to develop green code
RIBA president Sunand Prasad and Alistair Guthrie, director of Ove Arup, have joined a taskforce of construction industry leaders to develop a new Code for Sustainable Buildings.
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Mobile pavilion competition
RIBA Yorkshire, in partnership with the RIBA competitions office and regional development agency, Yorkshire Forward, has launched a national competition to design a new £650,000 mobile pavilion.
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NewsOpposition condemns Design for London cuts
Mayor told to rethink design staff layoffs to protect future of architecture
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NewsCunliffe steps in to take the lead
Barry Cunliffe (pictured) has been appointed as the interim chair of English Heritage following the death of Sandy Bruce-Lockhart in August this year.
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Deadline extended for Zumtobel
Zumtobel has extended the deadline for its 2008 photographic competition to October 24 owing to unprecedented demand and problems with cameras previously issued.
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Less red tape for home extensions
The Department for Communities & Local Government introduced new planning regulations last week intended to cut red tape for home improvements.
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Kinetic sheds light on upgrade
Kinetic AIU is to redevelop RIBA West Midlands regional offices and bookshop in Birmingham.
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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.