All First Look articles – Page 8

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First look: Sustainability underpins this ‘exceptional’ Hexham scheme

2011-03-18T00:00:00Z

Newton Architects has secured planning permission for a new country house at The Paise near Hexham.

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First look: Muf scheme for Whitechapel park traces both religious and secular

2011-03-11T00:00:00Z

Muf has revealed designs for Altab Ali Park in Whitechapel, as part of the High Street 2012 public realm improvement programme along the A11 in London, from the City at Aldgate to the Olympic Park at Stratford.

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First look: MSMR homes drive new vision for former Southwark car park

2011-02-25T07:23:00Z

MSMR Architects has won planning permission for a scheme of nine affordable houses on Alice Street in Southwark, south London.

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First look: Green issues and flexibility hold the key to CTA's Brixton house

2011-02-18T00:00:00Z

Work has started on Slip House, a project by Carl Turner Architects, in Brixton, south London. Its site is the central one of five adjacent plots that currently form a gap in a terrace.

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First look: Communality underpins Cottrell & Vermeulen’s Cambridge plans

2011-02-04T00:00:00Z

Cottrell & Vermeulen has won planning consent for a scheme for new postgraduate student accommodation for Clare College, Cambridge.

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First look: Michael Gold’s Clapham block pays its respects to neighbours

2011-01-28T00:00:00Z

Michael Gold has revealed plans of an apartment building for a site in Clapham, south London, privately developed with contractor Padraic Sullivan

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First look: Union North’s Lancaster student block

2011-01-21T00:00:00Z

The architect’s design for a 96-bedroom housing block that reveals the building’s original “fossilised” history has been given the green light.

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First look: Caruso St John’s Swiss chancel meditates on baroque geometry

2011-01-14T00:00:00Z

Caruso St John has won the competition to redesign the chancel of the Cathedral of St Gallen in Switzerland, beating entries from an invited international group of architects and artists, including Aires Mateus and Pipilotti Rist.

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First look: Jamie Fobert plans gentle growth for Cambridge’s modest gallery

2011-01-07T00:00:00Z

Jamie Fobert Architects has won planning permission for its extension to Kettle’s Yard Gallery in Cambridge, a project originally won in competition in 2004.

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First look: IBLA wins green light for homes

2010-12-17T00:00:00Z

Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects (IBLA), working with Churchman Landscape, has won planning permission for a £4.4 million affordable housing scheme in Brixton, south London, for the Kitewood Group

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First look: Connectivity underpins 5th Studio’s Lea Valley vision

2010-11-26T00:00:00Z

5th Studio has unveiled plans for a “Fatwalk” to connect the Olympic Park with the Thames, the primary project in realising the Lea River Park

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First look: DRDH Architects raises the roof for Baptist church in Oklahoma

2010-11-19T00:00:00Z

DRDH Architects has unveiled plans for a Baptist church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The £1.2 million project, which will house a congregation of around 300, sits in a rolling 40ha site on the edge of the city

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First look: River Styx inspires Western Design’s Dorset burial chapel

2010-11-12T00:00:00Z

Western Design Architects has won planning approval for a woodland burial chapel in the heart of the green belt of Lytchett Minster, near Poole in Dorset

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First look: Stable yards provide inspiration for ARU’s Lambourn housing

2010-10-29T00:00:00Z

The Architectural Research Unit (ARU) has unveiled plans for 43 houses on the edge of Lambourn, west Berkshire, for Crispin Kelly’s Baylight Properties, with associate Matt Barton

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First look: McDowell & Benedetti brings new wooden heart to Shoreditch

2010-10-22T00:00:00Z

McDowell & Benedetti has secured planning permission for its largest project to date, a £17.2 million mixed-use development in Shoreditch, east London

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First look: History underpins Sergison Bates’s Swiss piazza plan for Mendrisio

2010-10-15T00:00:00Z

Sergison Bates has won the competition to redesign Piazza del Ponte in Mendrisio, Switzerland, where Jonathan Sergison also holds a professorship at the Accademia della Architettura

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First look: Indian history flows through Allies & Morrison’s luxury resort

2010-10-08T00:00:00Z

Allies & Morrison has started on site with its luxury holiday resort on the banks of the Chaliyar River in Kerala, South India, for hotel operator Alila

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First look: Hawkins Brown’s school revamp learns from the local community

2010-09-24T00:00:00Z

Hawkins Brown has won planning permission for a school refurbishment and 1,400sq m new-build masterplan in West Hampstead, London

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First look: Mae Architects rethinks the semi for Urban Splash’s New Islington

2010-09-10T00:00:00Z

The next stage of Urban Splash’s New Islington project in Manchester is set to start on site in November following a grant of £936,000 from the Homes & Communities Agency.