All UK articles – Page 978

  • News

    Silvertown go-ahead

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    The London Borough of Newham has granted planning permission for the £1.5 billion regeneration of Silvertown Quays.

  • The tower will help regenerate the Old Town Dock area.
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    Newport project goes to planning

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    A project involving a £20 million landmark tower and 230 apartments by Stride Treglown Davies has been submitted to Newport City Council for planning.

  • News

    SMC Gower keeps on growing

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Leeds firm SMC Gower will become the biggest architectural practice in Yorkshire after merging with another SMC Group practice.

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    Grimshaw wins Miami museum

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Grimshaw Architects has beaten Zaha Hadid Architects by one vote in the contest for the £138 million Museum of Science in Miami, Florida.

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    Henry Moore Square opens

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    A public square by Hudson Architects has opened at the heart of the world’s first televised regeneration project.

  • News

    Mann Island project kicks off

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Demolition work has begun on the site of Broadway Malyan’s controversial £120 million Mann Island scheme at Liverpool’s Pier Head.

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    New life for Spitalfields

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Jestico & Whiles’ refurbishment of the Victorian Spitalfields market has received planning permission and is now on site.

  • News

    This week

    2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

    Hot and not

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    Foster signs deal with 3i

    2007-05-10T22:00:00Z

    Mouzhan Majidi is new chief executive as practice prepares to expand worldwide

  • Prince Charles: “Use your power to do good.”
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    Charles: act now on climate change

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Prince Charles has issued a call to arms to business professionals to take action on climate change, declaring the situation a state of “emergency.”

  • News

    Georgian Group is now estate agent too

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Heritage organisation hopes selling to the ‘right hands’ will pre-empt questionable planning applications

  • Ellis Woodman
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    Zumthor chapel is in a field of its own

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    This month sees the long-awaited completion of the Peter Zumthor-designed Bruder Klaus field chapel.

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    Clapham keeps context

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Planning has been granted for ESA Architecture’s new office development in Clapham, south London. The £4 million building will be used as the head-quarters of a housing trust.

  • Alan Cherry “The way some of these competitions are conducted at the moment concerns me”
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    Experts slam wasteful housing competitions

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Thousands of days worth of work by British architects is being squandered under the government’s massive housebuilding drive, Britain’s largest housing practice claims.

  • Twin towers: technology could give more warning of collapse.
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    New warning system for tower fires

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    A revolutionary warning system for skyscrapers which could help avert another 9/11-type disaster has been hailed by leading architects.

  • On the market: The US is looking for a modern secure facility to replace its famed UK embassy.
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    ‘Stand-off’ drives new embassy design

    2007-05-03T00:00:00Z

    HOK chosen for Jakarta as US terrorist fear prompts Grosvenor Square sale

  • News

    Eight shortlisted for 2012 Velopark

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Eight teams of architects have been shortlisted to design the Velopark for the 2012 London Olympics.

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    Arts boost at the Winter Gardens

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Grimshaw has won planning permission for its Winter Gardens project, a new centre for the performing arts in Bournemouth.

  • Reading piazza: “no case made”.
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    Cabe blasts Reading towers

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    High-rise plan gets thumbs down, but Southwark scheme is welcomed

  • “Retirements loom and there aren’t remotely enough people coming in” - Bob Kindred
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    Retirement ‘time bomb’ threatens conservation

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    The UK’s historic built environment could be damaged because of a retirement “time-bomb” among local authority conservation officers, experts have warned.