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News2012 Velodrome set to ditch timber roof
Hopes that the London 2012 Olympics might be a beacon for the use of sustainable wood could be dashed after it emerged that the Hopkins-designed Velodrome is set to boast a steel roof rather than a timber one as originally planned.
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NewsIOC gives London 2012 preparation “clean bill of health”
Preparations for London 2012 were given a clean bill of health yesterday at the end of a three-day visit by an international team of Olympic inspectors.
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NewsWait pays off for new-build scheme
After four years of trying, David Nossiter Architects has won planning consent for a new-build timber and glass house on a prominent corner of Honor Oak conservation area in south-east London.
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NewsCaruso St John and dRMM among seven architects picked to join 2012 Athletes Village team
Seven leading architects have been appointed to join the team designing the £2 billion London Athletes Village amid a renewed focus on design quality.As the International Olympic Committee visited the capital to check on 2012 progress this week, Athletes Village developer Lend Lease announced it had appointed de Rijke Marsh ...
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NewsLipton warns that London's planning sector is over-reliant on Australians
Developer and former Cabe chairman Stuart Lipton has warned MPs that London’s planning sector is over reliant on short-term agency staff from Australia — a situation he claimed is creating a “stop-go” development culture.Speaking at a Parliamentary debate on Monday hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Built Environment Group, Lipton ...
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NewsClearance to start on BDP’s university campus site
BDP has revealed the first images of its Newport city centre campus for the University of Wales, which will sit on the banks of the River Usk.
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NewsCambridge gets little bit of Malmö
A residential scheme for Cambridge (above) by HTA Architects has won planning permission after an appeal.
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NewsChildren’s building blocks
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects has revealed images of its £925,000 Heathfield Children’s Centre & Nursery School in Richmond upon Thames.
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NewsMinister U-turns on Giant’s Causeway
A dramatic U-turn by Northern Ireland environment minister Arlene Foster this week cleared the way for Heneghan Peng’s Giant’s Causeway visitor centre.
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NewsRosy future for Syrian kids’ centre
Henning Larsen Architects and landscape architect Martha Schwartz Partners have won an international competition for a children’s “discovery centre” and public park in Damascus, Syria, a country where 40% of the population is under the age of 16.
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NewsChester tower in landmark refurb
McCormick Architecture has won full planning for a mixed-use scheme in Chester which includes refurbishing the city’s tallest building — the grade II listed, 51m-high Lead Shot Tower, empty since 1986.
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NewsStudio Egret West’s tower ‘comb’
The first images of Studio Egret West’s design (below) to remodel the base of Richard Seifert’s iconic Tower 42, also known as the Nat West tower, in the City of London have been unveiled.
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DSDHA tops out Guildford school
A new-build school at Guildford in Surrey by DSDHA has been topped out.
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Page & Park wins Scottish portrait gallery refurb
Glasgow-based Page & Park has won the contract for the £18 million refurbishment of Edinburgh’s Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
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Kids’ hospital gets trials unit
Health secretary Alan Johnson has officially opened a medical research unit at Sheffield Children’s Hospital, designed by local practice Race Cottam Associates.
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Koolhaas heads Hermitage plan
Rem Koolhaas is to work with the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia, on a cultural masterplan to mark the Hermitage’s 250th anniversary in 2014.
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Council relaunches Birmingham library project
The race to design the troubled £193 million Birmingham Library has begun after the city council published an advertisement in the Ojeu.
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NewsMile End brewery site to house flats
Chris Dyson Architects has won planning permission for this four- storey residential development in a conservation area in Mile End, east London.
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Edaw nets Coney Island redesign
Edaw has triumphed in a competition to redesign Steeplechase Plaza at Coney Island, New York.
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NewsMurray and Dunlop scoop Glasgow hotel
Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects has beaten Make and RMJM to land a high-rise, five-star hotel commission for a riverside site in central Glasgow’s new financial services district.