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Quality prize for Seacole building
Associated Architects’ Seacole building at the University of Central England has received a Built in Quality award from Birmingham City Council.
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NewsCCA’s monkey business
Work has begun on this £4.5 million chimpanzee enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo by Cooper Cromar Architects.
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NewsCapita Symonds’ new MD is Goring
Multidisciplinary giant Capita Symonds has appointed Jonathan Goring as its new managing director, replacing Bill Dye, who returns to Capita Group PLC.
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Jewish Community Centre designer chosen
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has won the competition to design London’s Jewish Community Centre, ahead of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Foreign Office Architects and Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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NewsChapman Taylor sets sail in Portsmouth
Chapman Taylor’s designs for the £350 million Northern Quarter development in Portsmouth’s city centre have been unveiled as part of a major public consultation.
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NewsLighthouse debut at Offsite show
Lighthouse, a Sheppard Robson-designed scheme billed as the “first net zero carbon house”, will be unveiled at the Building Research Establishment’s Offsite 2007 exhibition in June.
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NewsMilton Keynes drops flagship marina plans
Major clients reject award winning architects for key site because designs are too ‘up in the sky’
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History hard to live with, say emergency services
The listings system is preventing emergency services from delivering their services effectively, it was claimed this week.
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Stansted expansion goes on site
Construction of the £40 million Stansted Airport extension began this week.
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Future schools go green
Up to 200 carbon-neutral eco-schools will be built following last week’s announcement of £110 million in funding by the education secretary.
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NewsA hill of an idea
Kathryn Findlay has returned to the centre stage with early designs for a new public building focusing on sensory experiences next door to Tower Bridge.
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NewsZaha wins planning in Lambeth
Zaha Hadid Architects has won outline planning approval for its debut city academy project in Lambeth.
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MP was sustainability trailblazer
Robert Jones, the former Tory minister who championed sustainability before it became a buzzword, died of liver cancer on Monday at the age of 57.
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NewsGasworks threaten CZWG housing
A massive residential development designed by CZWG for the Peabody Trust could be refused planning because of safety concerns over nearby gasholders.
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NewsGrosvenor defends Paradise St
Developer blames tight timescales for Liverpool scheme’s £140m loss
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NewsUrban golf enthusiast dies at 34
Friends have paid tribute to Jeremy “Jez” Feakes, a director of architecture practice Unit 20, remembering his “drive, intelligence, zest and sense of fun”. Feakes died earlier this week aged 34 after a fall at his studio.
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£4 million for seafront revamp
The Northwest Regional Development Agency has approved £4 million of funding for phase two of Blackpool’s Central Seafront redevelopment, masterplanned by Edaw.
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ACA attacks chartered scheme
The Association of Consultant Architects has attacked the RIBA’s plan to launch its controversial Chartered Practice scheme, to be launched in the summer.
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NewsAdjaye is chairman of the boards
Work on this prefabricated house in east London, designed by David Adjaye, is almost complete.