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Shedkm unveils office scheme for ACME Swansea masterplan
Shedkm has unveiled proposals for one of several new buildings in ACME’s wider £500 million regeneration of the former St David’s shopping centre site in Swansea city centre
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BakerBrown to create farm classroom using local materials
East Sussex practice BakerBrown is to transform a local barn into a classroom to be used by farm visitors including children with complex neurodisabilities
Tom Parsons completes Berkshire home office with saddle-shaped roof
Architect Tom Parsons has completed Bat Wing Studio, a hillside studio in the North Wessex Downs with office and gym and a swooping roof
Studio Egret West to redesign approved 45-storey Manchester tower scheme
Studio Egret West is revising plans for a 45-storey stepped residential tower and 19-storey office block on the site of a former Manchester tax office
Government inaction on warnings and regulation exposed in Grenfell report
The Grenfell Tower fire was the result of ‘decades of failure’ by central government to ensure building regulations and construction materials were up to the job, the inquiry’s second report has said
Glass falls from RSHP’s NEO Bankside ‘narrowly missing passers-by’
Councillors have demanded action after glass reportedly fell from Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ (RSHP) NEO Bankside development on London’s South Bank
Three Modernist buildings listed on Welsh university campus
A trio of Dale Owen buildings constructed in West Wales in the 1960s and ’70s has been granted listed status following a long drive by heritage campaigners
Grenfell report: what could it mean for architects?
Among the many ways the industry may be impacted by the Grenfell Inquiry report, could tighter regulation for architects be one of them?
Grenfell Tower inquiry second report: Studio E’s many ‘significant’ failings
Studio E Architects committed 'significant' failings in multiple ways during the now fatal refurbishment of Grenfell Tower, the second report from the inquiry into the disaster has found
Grenfell Tower inquiry second report: Key recommendations
Architectural education and government responsibility area among key recommendations made in the second and final report from the years-long inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire