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SPIE consolidates northern presence
The independent service provider has opened a new hub for its northern operations in the Venus Building at Manchester’s Trafford Quays.
London to get first bikers club
Willmott Dixon Interiors has been appointed to create the first ever H2 Club, a new site specially designed for the growing number of people in London who cycle or run to work.
Room for improvement in BBC projects, NAO says
The BBC has learned some lessons from progress so far on its three major estates projects but there is still plenty of scope for improvements in its management strategy, according to the National Audit Office.
Maintenance gap catches Olympic bodies off guard
Conflict is brewing in London as the body charged with building the 2012 venues and the body charged with running the Games disagree over who looks after the facilities between handover and the opening ceremony.
IBM cleanroom gets extreme makeover
What do you do when the largest manufacturing cleanroom in the world proves to be obsolete? If you are property and FM adviser Fasset, you knock it down and build something different.
Library's £25m storage facility moves ahead
The British Library has appointed Capita Symonds project and cost manage its new £25m book storage facility in Boston Spa.
Skanska to build Pfizer's new Swedish office
Skanska has been contracted to build a new office in Sweden for pharmaceuticals company Pfizer. Valued at SEK 500m (£37m) it will be one of the largest office projects started in the Stockholm region in recent years.
Designs for WTC site unveiled
Designs for the principal building on the former World Trade Center site in New York have been revealed today. The new Freedom Tower will have rooftop restaurants and a public observation deck.
Paternoster Square to open with fireworks
A new 65,000 sq m office 'quarter' is created tomorrow (Wednesday) with the official opening of Paternoster Square next to St Paul's Cathedral.
Strong design team named for Olympics bid
A joint EDAW/HOK team has been selected from a field of six contenders to draw up the master plan for London's 2012 Olympics bid.
Masterplanners shortlisted for London Olympics bid site
Six consortia have been shortlisted to masterplan the Lower Lea Valley, which includes the main venue for the proposed 2012 London Olympics.
Libeskind wins WTC competition
The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the agency created to oversee redevelopment of the 16-acre World Trade Center site, has named Daniel Libeskind as the winner of its design competition.
WTC site designs down to two
Concepts by Studio Daniel Libeskind and the team of architects called THINK have been chosen to go forward to the next stage of the process to rebuild the devastated World Trade Center site in New York.
CABE to give evidence at London Bridge Tower inquiry
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) plans to appear as a witness at the forthcoming public inquiry into the proposed London Bridge Tower development by Sellar Property Group.
Regional agency seeks developer for science park
The Northwest Development Agency is looking for a management company to oversee the development of a new Liverpool Science Park as well as operate the facility.
Dome alone - but not for much longer
Ambitious plans for Greenwich Peninsula, which includes the Millennium Dome, have been announced by the three-way partnership responsible for the area. The timing satisfies the agreement made with the government when contracts were exchanged last May.
World Trade Center visions unveiled
Seven teams of architects revealed their designs for the devastated World Trade Center site yesterday after the six preliminary designs were widely condemned as both unimaginative and too commercial.
SOM paves the way with World Trade Center tower
The redevelopment of the World Trade Center site has taken a step forward with the release of plans for a new SOM-designed building for 7 World Trade Centre.
£400m expansion plans for Milton Keynes centre
Hermes and Prudential, the joint owners of the major retail development in Milton Keynes, thecentre:mk, have submitted an outline planning application for its enhancement and extension.
Spitalfields Market redevelopment plans get go-ahead
Proposals for a mixed-use development at London's Spitalfields Market have been approved by Tower Hamlets Council. Office at Bishops Square will be the new headquarters of law firm Allen and Overy.
Quintain buys Wembley businesses for £48m
The company which owns the Wembley complex has sold its Wembley (London) Ltd subsidiary to Quintain Estates and Development plc for £48m in cash.
BBC presents its new architectural vision
The BBC has placed architecture high on its agenda for the next decade as the corporation has unveiled details of a range of major new building schemes around the country.
London's City Hall opens for debate
Away from his battle with the Government over the Tube PPP, Ken Livingstone and Trevor Phillips, Chair of the London Assembly were joined yesterday by the Mayors of Berlin and Paris as well as the First Deputy of Moscow, for the opening of City Hall.
Major business park takes step forward
Developers have signed an agreement for the construction of what could become Europe's largest business park.
Preferred bidder for Dome announced
A joint venture between English Partnerships and the Meridian Delta has been named preferred bidder for the transformation of the Millennium Dome into an entertainment venue.
Aukett completes second phase of business park
International architecture, design and engineering group Aukett Europe has completed phase two of Akeler's business park development at Junction 11 of the M4 to the south of Reading.
BBC plans for Broadcasting House
The BBC has submitted plans to Westminster City Council for its redevelopment of Broadcasting House to create the largest live broadcast centre in the world by 2007.
T5 will put pressure on greenbelt
Increased passenger and cargo capacity created by the new terminal at Heathrow will put severe pressure on greenbelt land in the area, according to property advisers Rogers Chapman.
Aukett to design South Cambridgeshire HQ
The new headquarters building for South Cambridgeshire District Council will provide a comfortable, efficient workplace as well as use less energy say the designers.
Terror fears delay £125m Sainsbury development
Sainsbury's has delayed lodging a planning application for its £125 million south London Nine Elms scheme following the September 11th attacks because the scheme has two 40 storey towers in it.
Rogers launches £300m Paddington scheme
The Richard Rogers Partnership has today unveiled its revised designs for a £300 million mixed use Grand Union Building development at London's emerging Paddington Basin area after failing on the same site with a 42 storey tower.
Three in the running for £22 million Bexley academy
Skanska, Jarvis and Gleeson will battle it out against two other contractors to build a £22 million city academy for 1,350 pupils specialising in business in Bexley, Kent.
Workplace verdicts
Birmingham's Brindleyplace office complex has won plaudits from the British Council for Offices, the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment and the British Urban Regeneration Association.
Lambeth approves Hopkins' £50m childrens' hospital
Guys and St Thomas' Hospital has had some healthy news, with Lambeth council signalling it is minded to grant planning permission for a new £50 million children's hospital by Michael Hopkins and Partners.
First UK private therapeutic prison opens
Premier Custodial Group has successfully opened HM Prison & Therapeutic Community Dovegate, an 800-bed adult male prison and therapeutic community facility in Marchington, Staffordshire.
Agenda 21 wins planning consent for new culture centre in Brent
Agenda 21 Architects has won planning permission for a 3,500 sq m community and cultural centre in Wembley.
Westminster plans new Victoria Station
Westminster City Council has unveiled a new vision for Victoria Station, as part of the council's plans to regenerate central London.
Aukett Europe to masterplan £220 million Daresbury Park development
Aukett Europe has scooped the contract to masterplan an ambitious £220 million extension to Daresbury Park, the north west business development.
Work starts on Aukett designed offices in Barcelona
Following a prestigious opening ceremony by the King of Spain at the end of last month, work has now begun on a new business park building in Barcelona, to be built to a design by Aukett.
50m Liverpool scheme gets the go-ahead
Liverpool developer Beetham has struck a deal to kick start the delayed £50 million former St Paul's Eye Hospital site redevelopment programme which will include a 480ft hotel.
Digital images for BBC Scotland's new centre
BBC Scotland has unveiled plans for its new digital broadcasting headquarters, to be located at Glasgow's Pacific Quay on the south bank of the Clyde.
TXU Europe to build £35m HQ in Ipswich
Utilities giant TXU Europe is to build a new UK business centre in Ipswich, consolidating five offices into one.
500m Battersea Power Station redevelopment gets go-ahead
Wandsworth council has given the go-ahead for the delayed £500 million redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station, despite strong opposition from local pressure groups.
Pfizer receives £5m grant for new sciences facility
Pfizer, the research-based pharmaceutical company, has been awarded a £5m grant to build a new sciences facility at its UK research base in Sandwich, Kent.
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