Archive for March, 2010

Anger as RIBA Council fails to debate low pay

Council meeting did not discuss exploitation of students

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Trust agrees to Finsbury review

The board of NHS Islington, which wants to shut down the Lubetkin-designed Finsbury Health Centre in north London, has agreed to review a council report into the centre ahead of a crucial board meeting in May

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Housing designers urged to tackle TB

Architects could become part of the solution to tackling the spread of tuberculosis in Britain, a charity has claimed

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Friend raises roof at architect’s former north London house

Friend & Company has won planning permission to build an artist’s studio and rooftop garden on top of a modern London house

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Cube to go on despite developer’s collapse

Make expects its major mixed-use tower in Birmingham, the Cube, to be finished despite the developer going into administration last week

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Wilkinson Eyre’s Kew centre set for green light

Wilkinson Eyre has designed a “vital” quarantine house to protect the collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from disease and destruction

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Tory shadow minister heaps praise on Cabe

Cabe has been given a huge vote of confidence by shadow architecture minister Ed Vaizey, who has promised it will retain direct state funding in the event of a Conservative government

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Super lab brings in new architect after HOK fails to impress

The client behind a £600 million “super laboratory” has drafted in PLP — the practice formed by former partners of KPF’s London office — to overhaul the design because it is worried the original by HOK is not good enough.

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Office Campus given go-ahead

Richards Partington Architects has secured planning for its Office Campus scheme, an £11 million project in Kent

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Pelan appointed to Civic Trust role

The Scottish Civic Trust has named communications specialist John Pelan as its new director

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