All articles by Will Hurst – Page 14
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Hopkins' Bill Taylor leaves the practice
Hopkins managing director Bill Taylor has left the practice, it has been announced.
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Hamiltons changes name to BFLS
Hamiltons has changed its name to BFLS, it announced at Mipim this week.
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Architects encouraged to take up adviser role
Architects and other design professionals are being encouraged to become accredited ‘Client Design Advisers’ to help ensure good design and sustainability on forthcoming Building Schools for the Future projects.
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Homes agency appoints new head of design
The Homes & Communities Agency has appointed Jane Briginshaw as its new head of design and sustainability.
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Vertical forest adorns RHE’s east London tower
Studio RHE has unveiled designs for a radical new tower in east London.
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Dundee architects to host Question Time-styled debate
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has lent its support to a forthcoming Question Time-style hustings organised by the by Dundee Institute of Architects
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Rare fossilised floor recovered from Heathrow’s Terminal Two
Architectural salvage firm Retrouvius has reclaimed a polished limestone floor from Heathrow’s Terminal Two, which is currently being demolished.
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Architects urged to enter The Wood Awards 2010
Architects and designers are being invited to enter The Wood Awards 2010.
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Parliament to grill HCA boss over Kickstart
BD’s Come Clean on Kickstart campaign scored a political coup this week as the communities & local government select committee announced it would grill the government and the Homes & Communities Agency on the matter, while the shadow housing minister tabled 10 new parliamentary questions
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HCA and Cabe close ranks over Kickstart – but chairman admits shock over standards
Cabe and the Homes & Communities Agency have insisted they still have a well functioning relationship amid the row over Kickstart design standards.
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Persimmon the big winner in first tranche of Kickstart 2
The Homes & Communities Agency has announced details of the first schemes it will fund under round two of its controversial Kickstart programme, with Persimmon Homes winning public money for the most number of schemes.
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Prince's letter that helped sink Chelsea Barracks plan revealed
Prince Charles described Richard Rogers’ designs for Chelsea Barracks as “brutalist” in a letter which helped thwart the landmark development.
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Competition launched to design new River Severn crossing
Architects, engineers and students of both disciplines are being given the chance to design a potential new crossing of the River Severn under a new ideas competition.
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Cabe told assessors to destroy scores
Kickstart ‘enablers’ reveal more evidence of secrecy culture at architecture watchdog
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What a difference a year makes…
Cabe chief executive Richard Simmons on why “nothing poor” must be built with public money – one year ago
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NAO releases damming report on BBC's building programme
The BBC has failed to get good value for money in its redevelopment of key new buildings including Broadcasting House, the National Audit Office claimed today.
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Finch calls on government to maintain BSF spending
Cabe chairman Paul Finch has called on the government to maintain spending on the £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme.
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Cabe backs Viñoly’s Battersea Power Station scheme
Rafael Viñoly’s design for the £5.5 billion redevelopment of Battersea Power Station has been backed by Cabe’s design review panel.
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Nouvel's Abu Dhabi Louvre foundations laid
Piling work has started on Jean Nouvel’s Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi.
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Studio Egret West’s Stratford Shoal gets mayor’s approval
Studio Egret West’s £3 million sculpture designed to hide an “eyesore” in Stratford, east London, has been granted approval by the local mayor.