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NewsHousing Corp beats its target
The Housing Corporation has delivered more than 40,000 affordable homes in the first year of its National Affordable Housing Programme — 10% more than its stated target.
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NewsCandys’ sweet deal for Rogers
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners gets off to a flying start with £600m Chelsea Barracks win
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Inspire East and CIC East join up
The Construction Industry Council East and sustainable communities body Inspire East have signed an agreement to work together.
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NewsSkanska to develop City offices
KPF will work with contractor-developer Skanska to design this eight-floor office development at 20 Gresham Street in the City of London.
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NewsKelly refuses to rein in councils on green homes
Communities secretary Ruth Kelly has refused to rein in those local authorities demanding faster adoption of the Code for Sustainable Homes, despite intense lobbying from house builders.
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NewsEdinburgh critics will fight on
£300m Caltongate project in for planning, but campaigners fear it could jeopardise city’s world heritage status
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Six in running for Eltham mixed-use development
Six firms have been shortlisted in an RIBA competition for a mixed-use scheme at the Eltham Baths site in south-east London.
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NewsRevamp for Euston station
American architect Leo A Daly has beaten competition from Make and Arup for a £1 billion redesign of one of London’s most notorious 1960s eyesores, Euston station.
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NewsMarylebone project go-ahead
Westminster council has granted planning for Make Architects’ luxury apartment development on Weymouth Street in Marylebone.
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Liverpool win for Haworth Tomkins
Haworth Tompkins is celebrating its biggest project win to date after it was appointed to design a £35 million revamp of the Everyman and Playhouse theatres in Liverpool.
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NewsShore thing
As Britain basks in the first sustained period of sunshine this year, Lionel T Dean of design firm Future Factories has unveiled his vision of a contemporary beach hut.
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£3 million helps colliery refurb
English Heritage has given £3 million to help refurbish and secure the future of buildings at Stoke-On-Trent’s historic Chatterley Whitfield Colliery.
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NewsEdinburgh scheme approved
Controversial plans by Gareth Hoskins and Comprehensive Design Architects for this redevelopment in the Edinburgh world heritage site have been approved.
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Architect fined over Legionnaires
An investigation into the UK’s worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, which killed seven people in the summer of 2002, has found a catalogue of mistakes by officials at Barrow Borough Council in Cumbria.
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Welsh architects’ green proposals
The Royal Society of Architects in Wales this week launched its first architecture manifesto, 21 Actions for a Better Wales, to influence candidates for the Welsh Assembly election on May 3.
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Blackpool’s regeneration hopes look up
Regeneration task force launched as Lords reject casino decision
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Booming hotel sector set to rocket
Architects working in the hotel sector have been boosted by a new report predicting rapid growth in the UK market.
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NewsManta ray bridge glides into Dublin
This slender structure spanning Dublin’s Royal Canal is Future Systems’ Luas Bridge in the city’s docklands.
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NewsPublic buildings get energy rating
Public buildings from the House of Commons to local libraries are to get energy ratings similar to those used on fridges.