Archive for May, 2009

RMJM’s Suzhou higher education campus

RMJM has won an international competition to design a new campus in Suzhou in China.

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Approval for library extension

Shepheard Epstein Hunter has won planning permission for a £6 million extension to a library in Enfield, north London.

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Pelli Clarke Pelli’s Wood Wharf tower in for planning

Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects is returning to Canary Wharf with a 194 metre tower.

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Major Chelsea Barracks setback as Kensington and Chelsea raise objections

The controversial redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks has received a significant setback after a key player raised serious objections to the scheme.

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Foster’s to help transform Stockholm waterfront

Foster & Partners and Berg Arkitektkontor, part of CF Møller Architects, have been appointed to design a masterplan for the heart of Stockholm.

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£150m Birmingham development by Trevor Horne wins planning

Birmingham’s regeneration has been boosted after Trevor Horne Architects won planning approval for a £150 million mixed-use development in the heart of the city centre.

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Coates’s Glyndebourne restaurant aims for a theatrical experience

The new Glyndebourne restaurant, designed by Nigel Coates, opened last week to mark the first night of Glyndebourne opera festival.

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Hopkins, Holl and McAslan make Mackintosh shortlist

Seven practices have been shortlisted to design a new building for Glasgow School of Art, it was announced today.

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Big Ben was created out of chaos and controversy

In The Spectator, Stephen Bayley:

For government officials squeamish about committing to quality, it is worth recording that Big Ben came about not through any very rational procurement process with targets and dignified fallback positions. Instead, it was conceived and executed in an atmosphere of controversy, backbiting and muddle at least as toxic as the witches' brew of colliding egos and conflicting interests that filled the Millennium Dome.

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Charles invited to Chelsea Barracks summit

Prince Charles has been invited to a peace summit with the Chelsea Barracks developer in an attempt to resolve the row over the controversial site.

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