All articles by Elizabeth Hopkirk – Page 236
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Empty offices could be turned into homes, minister proposes
Government launches consultation on relaxation of planning rules
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NewsOnly one eco-town will keep original standards
Just one of Labour’s 10 eco-towns will now be built to the original, much-vaunted environmental standards, it has emerged.
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NewsFoster & Partners breaks ground on landmark scheme in DC
Mixed-use scheme replaces bulk of convention centre with smaller blocks
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NewsPart II campaigner drops his appeal
Architectural assistant fears crippling cost of pursuing legal action
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NewsCartwright Pickard wins planning for Barking scheme slated by Cabe
Design review raised concerns about residents’ quality of life
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NewsCalifornians get cold feet over Zaha Hadid civic centre
Contract re-written after boom town goes bust
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NewsUS Architecture Billings Index slows
The American Institute of Architects’ Architecture Billings Index (ABI) slowed in the early part of this year, after making steady progress for three months in a row.The ABI showed a tiny increase between January and February. The score in February was 50.6, up slightly from a reading of 50.0 the ...
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NewsArchitects must win bim race, warns Reed
Architects are in a race with contractors to harness the enormous potential of building information modelling (bim).
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NewsNicholas Hare wins planning for Kettering academy
Nicholas Hare Architects has won planning for its Kettering Buccleuch Academy for 1,770 children aged from 4 to 19.The 12,500sq m school, in Northamptonshire, will allow the whole academy to be located together on the same site for the first time, giving all students access to a wider range of ...
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NewsArchitecture centres lose Arts Council funding
Four losers and three winners as funding cuts announced
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NewsRecord number of entries for Save's Buildings at Risk register
Conservationists and volunteers have uncovered a record number of buildings around the country that are seriously threatened by neglect.More than 130 buildings were submitted to Save Britain’s Heritage this year, making this year’s Buildings at Risk catalogue its biggest yet, with new sections on Scotland and Northern Ireland.“We had a ...
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NewsUN Studio's Korean shopping centre opens
Facade is wrapped in world’s largest illuminated surface
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NewsEarth Centre to become children's activity centre
The failed Earth Centre near Doncaster, with buildings by Feilden Clegg Bradley and Will Alsop, has been sold for an undisclosed sum seven years after it closed.New owner, outdoor education expert Kingswood, will turn it into a school activity centre. It beat a rival bid by a consortium including Arup ...
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NewsSpurs' lawyers raise concerns over West Ham's Olympic victory
But Olympic chiefs insist they have done nothing wrong
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NewsEduardo Souto de Moura wins the 2011 Pritzker Prize
Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura has been named winner of the 2011 Pritzker Prize, one of architecture’s most prestigious honours.He will receive a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion at a ceremony in Washington DC this June.The 58-year-old architect, who worked in the office of 1992’s Pritzker winner, Alvaro ...
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NewsPopulous's Olympic hockey pitches get the blues
The pitches in Populous’s Olympic Hockey Centre will be blue, making 2012 the first time Olympic field hockey is played on any colour other than green.
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NewsCash crisis ends Dublin hall contest
Cancellation leaves finalists 3XN and Henning Larsen out in the cold
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NewsLottery Fund awards for Fobert, Harrap and Purcell Miller Tritton
Jamie Fobert, Julian Harrap and Purcell Miller Tritton were celebrating today after the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded £10 million to projects of theirs.Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge – which will receive £2.32 million - and Charleston Barn, near Lewes – awarded £2.4 million - are both Fobert projects. He and Julian ...