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Heritage fund will lose out
The government has said the Heritage Lottery Fund will lose more than £160 million of funding between 2009 and 2012 because of the spiralling cost of the 2012 Olympics — now £9.3 billion.
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NewsLend Lease goes talent spotting
Olympic village developers looking for 40 ‘world class’ architects
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News‘In London, the issues raised have vital local resonance’
It is a measure of the extraordinary scale of Ricky Burdett’s Venice show that fitting it into the largest exhibition venue in London has required some radical pruning.
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NewsSwansea scheme moves on site
Holder Mathias Architects’ £11 mil- lion apartment scheme for Swansea Housing Association is now on site.
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NewsOMA’s ‘Tetris’ tower for Singapore
Rem Koolhaas’s practice OMA has been commissioned to design this 36-storey Tetris-style residential tower in Singapore, its first building in the city.
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Surface sing a rainbow...
These otherworldly designs by Surface Architects are part of a newly completed film and visual media research centre for London’s Birkbeck College.
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EH ‘cobbled together’ its case against Viñoly
English Heritage was accused this week of presenting a “cobbled-together” case as the public inquiry on Rafael Viñoly’s landmark City of London tower drew to its close.
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Laing O’Rourke agrees five years
The SMC Group has hailed a new five-year new framework agreement with contractor Laing O’Rourke.
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NewsLambeth agrees PRU design
The London Borough of Lambeth has granted planning permission for a new Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) designed by Ellis Williams Architects.
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Green theme aims to save Architecture Week
This year’s make-or-break Architecture Week will have the theme How Green is Our Space, focusing on sustainability and inspiring the public to think creatively about the spaces around them.
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NewsAlsop fears for The Public’s future
West Bromwich arts centre is in danger of being a ‘big nothing’, says architect
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NewsGateshead approves Ikea flat-pack homes
Ikea’s first foray into the UK housing market, a development of affordable flat-pack homes in Gateshead, has been granted planning permission.
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Tories vow to axe Arb
RIBA welcomes pledge, but regulator’s chief executive warns that consumers would suffer
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Architects to join race probe
The Commission for Racial Equality is calling on architects and urban designers to give evidence as part of a new investigation into regeneration and race equality.
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UK’s biggest housing scheme
The first phase of a £1.2 billion development in Leeds by Edaw has been submitted for planning permission.
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NewsCanterbury theatre goes to Williams
Keith Williams Architects has beaten John McAslan, Levitt Bernstein, RHWL and Burrell Foley Fischer to redesign Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre.
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NewsCelebrating timber construction
This year’s Wood Awards have opened for the submission of entries.
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Chipperfield wins Norway museum
This £25 million competition-winning scheme by David Chipperfield Architects will be the practice’s first building in Scandinavia.
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Stratford City recruitment drive
Developer Westfield has launched a major recruitment drive for Stratford City, its huge regeneration project next to the London 2012 Olympic Games site.
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NewsTower developments for Croydon
Rolfe Judd Architecture and Berkeley Homes have submitted plans for a residential-led development with a 43-storey tower.