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Jul 31, 2024 · Having scooped the UK’s highest accolade in architecture in 2019 with its Goldsmith Street council housing, Norwich, the practice is back in the running for the prestigious prize – this time for its work on the second phase of the ongoing revamp of the Brutalist Park Hill estate in Sheffield.

Reeves: Third runway for Heathrow, Old Trafford support and 18 new towns. The chancellor has pledged support for a third runway at Heathrow, vowed to create Europe’s Silicon Valley between Oxford and Cambridge along with up to 18 new towns, backed Old Trafford's redevelopment, and set out changes to infrastructure planning rules

Announced today (19 September), the shortlist for this year’s RIAS Doolan Award includes two schemes by Reiach and Hall Architects; the rescue of a historic rural farmstead by Moxon Architects; Neave Brown Award for affordable housing contender North Gate Social Housing, Glasgow by Page\Park Architects; and John McAslan + Partners’ £68 million renovation of Glasgow’s Burrell Collection.

Nov 11, 2024 · In 2018, plans were unveiled to convert the building into a primary school under wider proposals by 5plus Architects for the university’s existing campus and surrounding area, which included the delivery of a significant amount of new housing.. But the school scheme has now been ditched and the development team, having ‘explored multiple options’ for the long-vacant four-storey block ...

Oct 24, 2024 · The ECDC puts a high value on water. It is pioneering a comprehensive ‘water-neutral’ management strategy to maximise water capture and reuse, and minimising site runoff from heavier, stronger, shorter downpours to stop sewer and surface water flooding neighbouring residents’ basements (again).

William Sutton Prize 2025 launches with larger £125,000 prize pot. Clarion Housing Group has relaunched its ideas contest for radical concepts to transform the lives of social housing residents with a prize fund enlarged to £125,000 to celebrate its 125th anniversary [Deadline: 8 April 2025]

Sep 20, 2024 · But rumours about the company struggling to pay its subcontractors have circulated for months. In November last year, ISG was forced to deny what it called ‘wholly inaccurate’ rumours about its financial health, following delays to two of its most high-profile jobs: Britishvolt’s £3 billion gigafactory and the £700 million Sunset Waltham Cross film studio complex.

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