All articles by David Rogers – Page 120
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NewsDesign for London poised to survive spending cuts
Mayor’s advisory body set to continue in a reduced form as Design Council outlines Cabe’s future
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NewsBelfast Expo Centre shortlist unveiled
Architects including Hawkins Brown, Carmody Groarke and Hacket Hall McKnight have been shortlisted to turn a former police station in Belfast into a new Expo Centre.The competition jury is being chaired by Daniel Libeskind. The scheme involves transforming the now demolished Andersonstown police into an centre to showcase the wider ...
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NewsGensler draws up ski slope for Olympic media site
Gensler has drawn up plans for a radical indoor snow resort which could be built on the site of the Olympic media centre in Stratford.The 28,500sq m snow sports and leisure complex - called Snow in the City - is being built by artificial ski slope creator Acer Snowmec.The company, ...
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NewsCrab lands Aussie architecture school job
Peter Cook’s practice to work with Australian Royal Gold Medal winner
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NewsBritish Land spells out £1.9bn work programme
Rogers, Make, Farrells and JRA schemes move forward
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NewsNational Trust launches £1.5 million appeal for Lutyens castle
Money needed to fix leaking roof at Castle Drogo in Devon.
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NewsLeeds-based director fined for falsely claiming to be architect
Leeds-based firm SDE Architecture has been fined £600 after one its directors falsely claimed he was an architect.The city’s magistrates court heard that the unnamed director told one of Arb’s staff he was an architect, and added that he would be able to carry out architectural work on behalf of ...
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NewsBattersea Power Station architects appointed
Ian Simpson and DRMM are first to be selected as Viñoly’s Battersea masterplan wins final approval.
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NewsRed tape set to foil Marks Barfield’s school plans
A controversial scheme by Marks Barfield to extend Britain’s first state-funded Muslim primary school could be scuppered by Treasury red tape
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NewsPlanning thumbs-up for UK's largest zero-carbon homes site
Peterborough city planners have approved a proposal for the country’s biggest development of zero carbon homes.Architect Browne Smith Baker and landscape architect Barnes Walker are working on the 295-home scheme, which will be built by Morris Homes.All the homes will be built to level 6 of the Code for Sustainable ...
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NewsDavid Kohn wins Room for London competition
David Kohn Architects has won the Room for London competition, organised by Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture.The practice, which won BD’s Young Architect of the Year award in 2009, has teamed up with artist Fiona Banner to design a temporary installation that will sit on top of the Queen Elizabeth ...
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NewsRogers hits back at Gove over school design
Richard Rogers has attacked education secretary Michael Gove for singling out his practice in his criticism of the recent school building programme. Last week Gove told a conference on free schools that “we won’t be getting Richard Rogers to design your school, we won’t be getting any ’award-winning’ architects to ...
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NewsRIBA to help architects at Mipim
Marks Barfield, Mae and Formation Architects are among the practices who will be showcasing their talents on the RIBA stand at next month’s Mipim property show.The RIBA has teamed up with UK Trade & Investment to allow 20 small and medium firms to exhibit at the week-long event at Cannes ...
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NewsCabe looks locally to ensure survival
Cabe has begun holding meetings with design review panels around the country as part of its new localism brief ordered by the government to ensure its survival.
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NewsAukett Fitzroy Robinson cuts losses in half
But listed firm warns recovery not until 2012 at the earliest
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NewsCabe merger with Design Council due for sign off next week
Cabe was today waiting for final confirmation that plans for it to merge with the Design Council have been approved, allowing around 20 staff at the architecture quango to keep their jobs.The proposals still have to be rubber-stamped by the Cabinet Office, having already been approved by Cabe’s previous funding ...
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Work begins on Heneghan Peng's Giant's Causeway visitors centre
Scheme will be completed next summer
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NewsLondon architects set to benefit from retrofit fund
Small and medium-size firms in London including architects are set to benefit from a £10 million scheme promoting best practice in the capital’s retrofit market.Small builders, plumbers and electricians will also be able to receive learning and business support via a network of professional bodies including the RIBA. The scheme, ...