All Online news articles – Page 544
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NewsPlanning applications rise 7.6% year on year
Barbour ABI data show increase of 4,097 applications
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NewsEH grant saves Yarmouth's historic theatre building
The grade I listed St George’s Theatre in the heart of the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth is to undergo urgent repairs thanks to a grant of £250,000 from English Heritage.
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NewsTory Conference: Funding pledge for Knight's Mersey Gateway
Government gives go-ahead for £600 million bridge between Runcorn and Widnes
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NewsCartwright Pickard receives permission for Sheffield student scheme
Cartwright Pickard Architects and Elmsdale Estates have been awarded planning permission for a student residence-led scheme in the city
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BlogsDesign for design’s sake
It’s time architects took the business of property development out of the hands of greedy money-makers
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NewsFirst homes completed at Scottish Poundbury
Development profits of Prince’s Foundation’s Knockroon project will repay loan taken out to buy historic Dumfries House
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NewsHadid's Stirling Prize win 'is a nasty irony'
The decision to award this year’s Stirling Prize to Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy has been called “a nasty irony” by one of the UK’s leading schools architects.Jonathan Ellis Miller, founder of east-London practice Ellis Miller, said the £37.5 million school in Brixton “should have been extraordinary” and that the ...
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OpinionA considerably better school than Maxxi is an art gallery
I can’t say that I shared the widespread incredulity at the choice of Evelyn Grace Academy as winner of this year’s Stirling. The prize has surely long since lost its credibility as a reward for architectural merit.
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MultimediaVideo: OMA's Maggie's Centre completes
OMA partner Ellen van Loon talks exclusively to BD about the practices’ cancer care centre at Gartnavel in Glasgow
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Will the NPPF improve design quality? Vote now
The government’s proposal to dramatically reform the planning system has dividied opinion, but will it affect design quality?
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ReviewCultural Guide: October 3- 9
This week’s cultural guide opens with a lecture from Zaha Hadid, fresh from Stirling prize victory, before catching up with OMA at the Barbican
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FeaturesTop 10 unbuilt towers: Bangkok Hyperbuilding, by OMA
As plans for the kilometre-high Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia are unveiled, London’s Shard is nearly sheathed, and the Walkie-Talkie, Cheesegrater and Pinnacle all begin to emerge from the ground, we look back at 10 projects that weren’t quite so fortunate in their bids to make it off the drawing ...
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NewsFive on Doha campus list
Penoyre & Prasad, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Jestico & Whiles have all been shortlisted in a design competition for a new college campus in Doha, the capital of Qatar.
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NewsIllinois university hires Fat director
Director of London practice Fat, Sam Jacob, has been appointed as a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC).
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Nanoscience centre for Jestico & Whiles
Jestico & Whiles has been appointed to design the new Australian Institute of Nanoscience at the University of Sydney.
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NewsMake's InfoCube debuts at Beijing Design Week
Make Architects has unveiled the InfoCube, a specially designed information centre that can be packed up and reassembled at various exhibits and exhibition venues around the city during this year’s Beijing Design Week (29 Sep-3 Oct).
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NewsZaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy wins 2011 Stirling Prize
Zaha Hadid’s Evelyn Grace Academy in London has won the 2011 Stirling Prize.
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NewsFoster & Partners' Kowloon masterplan revised to include ideas from vanquished rivals
Design competition for individual buildings announced
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NewsNational Museums Liverpool launches legal action against AEW
National Museums Liverpool (NML) is taking renewed legal action against one of the architects involved in the design of the new £72 million Museum of Liverpool