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- River Soar Footbridge - RIBA
Shortlist announced – River Soar Footbridge Competition
The RIBA is delighted to announce the shortlist in the competition to design a new foot and cycle bridge crossing the River Soar in Leicester.
151 expressions of interest were received from all over the world including India, Australia, Iceland, Brazil and the USA. Six teams have now been [...]
- Lighthouse Must Wait To Learn If Funding Available - The Herald
“SCOTLAND’S centre of architecture and design, The Lighthouse in Glasgow, will have to wait another month to see if it can receive a boost in funding from Glasgow City Council to help it avoid the prospect of closure.”
SOURCE: The Herald – Lighthouse Must Wait To Learn If Funding Available
- CABE calls for end to ‘KFC’ play spaces - CABE
Bland playgrounds are restricting children’s creativity, with too many local authorities relying on an identical KFC (kit, fence and carpet) approach to design.
CABE has published Designing and planning for play to provoke a different approach to playground design. Over the next three years, the government is making an unprecedented investment in children’s play: £235m to [...]
- CABE Space launches 2009 design skills scholarships
CABE Space has announced that applications are now open its annual design skills scholarship programme offering up to six people who work in the public realm the opportunity to travel abroad to learn from fellow professionals how a well-designed space can benefit the community it serves.
read more information @ the SOURCE: CABE Space launches 2009 [...]
- Toolkit to revitalise Park Royal - Building Design
Cambridge-based architect 5th Studio has put forward proposals to revitalise west London’s Park Royal, Europe’s largest industrial estate.
SOURCE: Building Design – Toolkit to revitalise Park Royal
- Shared high streets ‘not safer’ - BBC News
“New street schemes which merge traffic and pedestrian areas could put blind people at risk, a charity has warned.”
SOURCE: BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Tayside and Central | Shared high streets ‘not safer’.
- Lathams Architects appointed for £8m ’sea change’ regeneration project in Great Yarmouth
Architectural and urban design practice Lathams has beaten national competition to design an eight million pound regeneration project in Great Yarmouth.
The practice has been appointed by Great Yarmouth Borough Council to develop plans for the regeneration of the historic King Street area of Great Yarmouth, centring around St George’s Chapel, a Grade I listed building [...]
- New design guidance launched to transform the future of play
Play England, the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have launched, for the first time in the England, detailed guidance for the design of children’s play spaces.
Free copies of the guide can be ordered by calling (+44) 0845 60 222 60 or click hereSOURCE: Landscape [...]
- International design competition to create ‘inspirational’ public spaces in Lancashire » Local Government » 24dash.com
The brief for an international design competition to create inspirational public spaces in six town centres in Lancashire will be launched next week.
more details @ www.penninelancashire.com/landscapeRead more @ the SOURCE: 24dash.com – International design competition to create ‘inspirational’ public spaces in Lancashire
- Makeover For Town Squares (from News Shopper)
A DESIGN team has been chosen to transform two town squares as part of a council’s regeneration programme.
General Gordon Square and Beresford Square in Woolwich town centre will undergo a revamp in 2011 following Greenwich Council’s decision to award the contract to landscape architect Gustafson Porter.
SOURCE: Makeover For Town Squares (from News Shopper).
