All Civic articles – Page 30
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NewsAHMM wins 12 projects in Oklahoma City
AHMM's 30,000-square-foot retail center on a prominent triangular plot in Oklahoma City.AHMM's 30,000-square-foot retail center on a prominent triangular plot in Oklahoma City. AHMM has won 12 new jobs in Oklahoma City, USA, working in some of the city’s most dilapidated neighbourhoods.Among the schemes are a ...
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NewsFoster's City Hall criticised in row over £145,000 window-cleaning bill
The cost of cleaning the windows at Foster & Partners’ City Hall in London has spiralled to £13,600 a month, new figures reveal.
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NewsPenoyre & Prasad and council architects' department honoured in Solent Design Awards
Winners of the first Solent Design Awards announced
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NewsHastings Pier competition relaunched after fire
The RIBA competition to find an architect to redevelop Hastings Pier has been relaunched three weeks after fire ripped through the Eugenius Birch-designed structure.
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NewsPlymouth Civic Centre up for sale
Council says it cannot afford to restore grade II listed 1962 building
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NewsMcAslan completes Olympic energy centre
John McAslan & Partners’ energy centre on the Olympic site in east London has been officially opened by the mayor of London, Boris Johnson.
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NewsCapita, HLM and Scott Brownrigg £13bn defence project scrapped
The Ministry of Defence has cancelled plans for a £13 billion armed forces training academy in south Wales, by Capita, HLM and Scott Brownrigg.
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NewsNew ideas for Tower Hamlets
Architect Bisset Adams has submitted a planning application for a library and community services centre in Tower Hamlets, east London
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NewsProposals for controversial 'Ground Zero' Muslim centre revealed
The first images of the controversial Park 51 Muslim community centre, planned for a site near New York’s Ground Zero, have been revealed.
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InspirationsTim Ronalds’ inspiration: Gothenburg Law Courts Extension
Tim Ronalds explains why he rates Asplund’s building not only for its beauty but also for the way it marked the evolution of modernism and its reflection of a more democratic society
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NewsSteven Holl and MVVA win St Louis arch competition
A team led by New York architect MVVA and Steven Holl Architects has beaten rival entries including Foster’s to revamp the area surrounding Eero Saarinen’s St Louis Gateway Arch in Missouri, USA.
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NewsCamillin Denny starts renovation of Brighton homeless centre
Work has begun on Camillin Denny Architects’ £600,000 renovation of Brighton’s largest day centre for homeless people.
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NewsCivic Trust Awards deadline nears
The deadline for architects to enter the 2011 Civic Trust Awards is just two weeks away.
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NewsThorp retires from Leeds as last of city architects
As the seventh holder of the post steps down, the architect’s civic role is over. The man thought to be Britain’s last city architect is to step down after 40 years with the council, and will not be replaced.
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Doors open at lighthouse
A Shetland lighthouse and Glasgow allotments are among the places people will be able to visit this month as part of the Scottish Civic Trust’s Doors Open Days
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NewsGovernment funding row erupts in Birmingham
A row has erupted over the government’s decision to slash funding for a £5 million youth centre by Associated Architects after Birmingham Council spent some £500,000 getting it to the planning stage.
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NewsResidents call on Prince Charles to intervene over Iranian Embassy proposal
Daneshgar Architects’ futuristic scheme for a new Iranian Embassy building in London has outraged conservationists and neighbours who are calling on the Prince of Wales to intervene.
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NewsNWDA cuts hit capital projects in the North West
The North West Development Agency has announced that it will withdraw all non-contracted funding for regional projects, hitting schemes including Haworth Tompkins’ Everyman Theatre and Proctor and Matthews’ Chester Zoo project.
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NewsImpressive volumes
Next week sees the official opening of the second phase of Haworth Tompkins’ redevelopment of the London Library.
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Building StudyABK’s Library, Local Area Offices and Courthouse, in Kilmallock, County Limerick
A single-storey civic complex in Kilmallock has saved the Irish town from a grim architectural legacy of 19th century workhouses