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Winner of University of Leeds campus masterplan job revealed
The University of Leeds has named the winner of its procurement competition to find a masterplanner to rethink its 40ha main campus
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RIBA to move to temporary home at Royal College of Physicians
The RIBA is to move into Royal College of Physicians offices near Regent’s Park while work is carried out on the overhaul of Portland Place
RSHP’s long-awaited £1.1bn British Library expansion to start next year
RSHP’s long-awaited plans to extend the Grade I-listed British Library in London are back on track after a Japanese investor agreed to finance the scheme
BGY appointed to retrofit Arup-designed Lloyds Bank building in Bristol
Buckley Gray Yeoman (BGY) has been appointed to retrofit a late 1980s Arup-designed, Grade II-listed former Lloyds Bank building in Bristol
Squire & Partners transforms Seifert’s Brutalist icon Space House
Squire & Partners has performed an ambitious retrofit of Seifert’s Grade II-listed tower near Covent Garden, including the addition of a 2,000m2 rooftop extension
AJ office set for hotel retrofit by tp bennett with rooftop extension
Southwark-based practice tp bennett has put forward proposals for retrofitting and extending Harmsworth House — the Art Deco home of the AJ off Fleet Street in the City of London
Mr Doodle: Dungeness holiday bungalow by Hollaway Studio OK’d
Hollaway Studio’s proposals to convert a seaside cottage in Dungeness into a holiday home for cartoonist Mr Doodle (real name Sam Cox) have been granted planning consent
Yasmeen Lari turns down $100,000 Wolf Prize over ‘continuing genocide in Gaza’
Royal Gold Medal winner Yasmeen Lari has turned down a $100,000 arts prize from Israeli non-profit organisation the Wolf Foundation, citing ‘continuing genocide in Gaza’
Bell Phillips’ Southwark infill housing approval quashed after legal challenge
Planning permission for a controversial council estate infill scheme in Southwark designed by Bell Phillips has been overturned in the High Court
Universities fear apprenticeship reforms will ‘stifle’ demand
More than two thirds of UK universities fear government reforms will ‘stifle’ demand for architecture apprenticeships