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Highbury Corner set for revamp
The multidisciplinary design practice Gillespies is developing an urban design framework for Highbury Corner, in north London, on behalf of Transport for London.
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Green homes crisis
Two thirds of local authorities admit they are ‘not ready’ to deliver zero-carbon targets
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RRP finally reveals new name
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners is the new name for Richard Rogers Partnership, it has been announced this week.
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Mediacity: UK goes to planning
The first phase of Wilkinson Eyre’s mediacity:uk development for the BBC at Salford Quays has been submitted for detailed planning permission.
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Cabe launches Europan 9
Cabe has launched Europan 9 UK, announcing the three sites for this year’s contest: Stoke-on-Trent, Sheffield and Milton Keynes.
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NewsNext Generation Award shortlists Fobert, Featherstone and DSDHA
DSDHA, Featherstone Associates and Jamie Fobert Architects have been announced as the three shortlisted contenders for the prestigious Next Generation Award.
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RIBA backs Barker’s planning vision
The RIBA has called for design to be entrenched further in the planning system and warned against a planning “free-for-all” in its response to economist Kate Barker’s Treasury-commissioned review of land-use planning.
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UK cities bow to Unesco heritage site pressure
Unesco’s bid to influence development in historic British cities has borne fruit after both Lon-don and Liverpool announced changes to planning guidance to safeguard their world heritage status.
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Cabe to star-grade homes
Profession welcomes Michelin-style system for housing as Simmons calls on architects to lead the change
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Community hospital programme ditched
Plans for the next generation of healthcare buildings were in tatters this week after the government appeared to abandon a promise to build 50 community hospitals.
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DCMS to write rules for supercasino competition
The DCMS has revealed it will draw up the rules for Manchester’s supercasino competition after the city won the country’s only licence last week.
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Save goes to court over Guildhall conversion
Save Britain’s Heritage has followed up its threat to fight conversion plans for Middlesex Guildhall “all the way” by instigating a legal challenge.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.