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LDA Design's revamp of Burgess Park gets go-ahead
Planners have approved LDA Design’s £6 million scheme to give a major south London park a new identity.The firm won a competition in November 2009 with its “ambitious but achievable” plans to inject new life into Burgess Park in Southwark.These included removing unnecessary roads, improving the entrances and the boundary ...
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Tom Dixon's Royal Academy restaurant opens
Tom Dixon and his Design Research Studio have created a new interior for the restaurant at the Royal Academy, in London’s Piccadilly.
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Government claims to support architects under localism
The government has spoken out in support for architecture and the role of architects under localism.
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Cultural Guide: February 7- 13
This week’s cultural guide is a tale of two Davids- Chipperfield and Bowie.
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Planning success for Austin-Smith Lord's Scottish housing
South Ayrshire Council has approved plans for a mixed-use development in Greenan designed by Austin-Smith Lord for Mactaggart & Mickel Homes.
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OMA recruits as portfolio expands
OMA has advertised for senior architects to join its expanding Hong Kong office.Rem Koolhaas’s practice was recently commissioned to produce the new design strategy and branding for Hong Kong’s public transport operator.The practice is also working on the new campus for Chu Hai College and is one of three architects ...
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Ehrlich beats Foster and Hadid to win UAE parliament job
Ehrlich Architects has beaten Foster & Partners and Zaha Hadid to win the job of designing a parliament building for the United Arab Emirates
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JTP engages locals to draw up Indonesian resort masterplan
John Thompson & Partners is developing a sustainable masterplan for a 250ha eco-tourism resort on the Indonesian island of Lombok
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Murphy’s octagonal plans for Edinburgh site
Richard Murphy Architects has unveiled images of its £24 million housing-led scheme on the site of the former Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
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Norr reveals Jenan City masterplan
Archial’s sister practice Norr has unveiled its design concept for Jenan City, the largest privately owned project under development in Saudi Arabia
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Cabe 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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Arb’s ‘double standard’ challenged
The campaigner trying to get architectural assistants recognised as architects has fired his first legal shot across the Arb’s bows
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Zaha Hadid cashes in as firm's profits treble
Zaha Hadid received a personal dividend of £1.5 million in the last financial year on the back of a near trebling of profits at her practice.Accounts filed for the world-renowned signature firm show announced a year of “significant success” with pre-tax profits at the company leaping to £4.1 million in ...
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Architects start work on prefab school templates
Government looks to slash time and construction costs through standardised designs
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Prince Charles driven 'insane' by classicist label
Work with the Foundation for the Built Environment not about style, HRH insists
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Ikea appoints architects for Stratford masterplan
Ikea has appointed a team of architects to draw up a 1,500-home masterplan for the Swedish superstore’s first regeneration scheme in the UK.
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Goods yard to host first pop-up shopping mall
Waugh Thistleton has unveiled images of Boxpark, the world’s first pop-up shopping mall, in Shoreditch, east London
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V&A U-turn over Cast Court architect
The Victoria & Albert Museum is facing questions after apparently replacing Griffiths with Harrap
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RIAI chases Ireland’s 300 illicit architects
More than 300 people are trading illegally as architects in Ireland, according to a recent audit