All UK articles – Page 32
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Skanska reveals detailed housing designs
Swedish contractor starts work on its first housing scheme in the UK, an estate of Scandinavian-style homes in Cambridge,
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The notorious work of Richard Seifert
Ten years after Richard Seifert’s death, Ike Ijeh asks how some of his most well-known works have shaped the architecture of modern Britain - and how controversial they really were
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Bournville College opens £65m campus in Longbridge
Upto 15,000 students will study at £66m college designed by Broadway Malyan
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Lend Lease wins £35m National Theatre contract
Lend Lease has beaten Mace to win a prestigious £35m contract to redevelop the National Theatre on London’s South Bank
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Kier Sheffield to make 50 redundant
Contractor has sent letters to all 985 of the division’s employees
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Skyscraper plan puts Liverpool’s world heritage status on the line
Unesco will demand “radical” changes to Chapman Taylor-designed scheme
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McLaren factory: Driving force
White, pristine and streamlined – McLaren’s sports car production centre is like no factory you’ve ever seen. Ike Ijeh goes for a spin at the Foster-designed facility
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Willmott Dixon to build £33m Redcar leisure and business centre
Architects S&P and +3 and engineer Buro Happold are also lined-up to work on the project, which is due to start in the New Year.
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Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands win UCL campus job
Architect Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands is already engaged in masterplanning a £500m redevelopment of University College London’s existing site
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Life for BioRegional after Quintain
Co-founder of BioRegional disappointed by end of Quintain joint venture but says valuable lessons can be learnt
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Thames Estuary airport gains Treasury support
Senior Tory figures are understood to be in favour of a island airport in the Thames Estuary, which would cost up to £50bn
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Skanska chooses six architects for UK housing push
PRP Architects, Proctor & Matthews and Formation Architects triumph in competition
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Glazing over
Thanks to Martin Szajnar for sending in this snap - although he might want to give it to the local neighbourhood watch. As he points out: “Any more pressure and he’ll be done for breaking and entering.”
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Grass is greener: Hab Oakus' housing project complete
The Triangle, a £4.2m social housing project by Hab Oakus, the development company spearheaded by Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud, is complete and fully inhabited. The Swindon scheme comprises 42 eco-homes built around a “village green”. The project was designed by Glenn Howells Architects and built by Willmott Dixon.
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Arts-led regeneration projects: Join the culture club
These days museums, art galleries and concert halls are built not for their own sake but in the hope they can transform deprived urban wastelands into vibrant communities. Ike Ijeh looks at the resounding successes - and some abject failures
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New University of Salford student village
Hawkins Brown and Urban Initiatives have won planning permission for a new student village at the University of Salford.
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Shard spire appears in Yorkshire field
Mace and Severfield Rowen erect Shard’s steel spire on airfield to test construction processes
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X marks the spot: Bam's Molecular Biology lab nears completion
RMJM-designed building resembles an X-chromosome from the air
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St Mary's University's new wave of sports facilities
Morgan Sindall has completed a £6m sports centre for St Mary’s University College in Twickenham, south-west London.
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Morgan Sindall picked for £200m Basingstoke regeneration
Urban regeneration division Muse appointed by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council