All Online news articles – Page 602
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Watchdog announces review panels funding
Design Council Cabe has announced grants for eight local design review panels
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Austin-Smith Lord scoops top prize at Manchester awards
Firm’s Stockport College is named Building of the Year
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Edinburgh firms win Berlin airport job
Gross Max and Sutherland Hussey have won an international competition to transform Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport.
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England's first Passivhaus office fully let
England’s first Passivhaus office, designed by Dudley Marsh Architects has been fully let to Viking Recruitment on a 10-year lease
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ID:SR - preview of BBC North, Salford
ID:SR, Sheppard Robson’s interior design group and winner of BD’s interior architect of the year award, has unveiled the first few images of its fit-out of the BBC’s new northern headquarters in Salford.
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Hague announces new embassies
The UK is to open or reopen up to five new embassies as part of a major reassessment of its diplomatic priorities.
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Less political clichés and more independent thought
Politicians will have to do more if they are going to break the crippling crisis within the architectural profession in Scotland
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Chipperfield and MVRDV on New Holland Island shortlist
Winner for prestigious St Petersburg competition will be announced after public exhibition this summer
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Rogers Stirk Harbour offsets slump with overseas work
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has made up for a major drop in British work by expanding overseas, its latest accounts reveal
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James Soane of Project Orange on bedroom design for the Hoxton Hotel
Most hotel rooms are no less than 24sq m, but the Hoxton Hotel wanted to test the market to see how it would respond to a 16sq m room, which is about as small as it can get without being a cabin or capsule room.
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Planning decisions within a year, promises Shapps
Housing minister Grant Shapps has announced a 12-month time limit for decisions on planning applications.
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Peter Bishop joins Allies & Morrison Urban Practitioners
Former London Development Agency design director Peter Bishop has been made a director of Allies & Morrison Urban Practitioners, the new firm formed this month by the long-time collaborators.Bishop has worked with both firms in the past.As head of planning at Hammersmith & Fulham Council and then Camden, Bishop worked ...
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RIBA Regent Street Windows Project 2011
Now in its second year, the RIBA-run initiative features 10 architect-designed shop windows with practices including Hut, Glowacka Rennie, DSDHA, Duggan Morris, Marks Barfield and Ian McChesney
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Robin Partington plans for Swindon submitted
Robin Partington Architects’ plans for the redevelopment of Swindon town centre have been submitted to the council for approval
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Zogolovitch launches mews housing scheme in south-east London
Developer Roger Zogolovitch has announced his latest project, a private mews of three detached, contemporary houses designed by local practice MW Architects in south-east London.It is the third project by Solidspace, the developer led by Zogolovitch and his son Gus.Its first, One Centaur Street, designed by dRMM, won the RIBA ...
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3XN's skyline-changing Copenhagen hotel opens
Scandinavia’s largest hotel, designed by Danish practice 3XN, has opened in Copenhagen.The 814-room Bella Sky Hotel was designed to create a distinctive new profile on the city’s skyline.To maximise views from the hotel, its two 76.5m towers lean out 15 degrees in each direction - 11 degrees more than the ...
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Ingenhoven Architects to design Google's new California HQ
Google has appointed German practice Ingenhoven Architects to design new sustainable offices next to its existing “Googleplex” in Mountain View, California.It is the first time the web giant has commissioned a building, having previously moved into existing reconditioned offices.Google, which has a rapidly expanding workforce, won outline planning from Mountain ...
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City agrees air-rights deal to secure future of Viñoly's Walkie Talkie
Extraordinary planning powers will be used to protect Rafael Viñoly’s Walkie Talkie tower from possible objections