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Scape launches new £350m consultancy framework
Procurement giant Scape Group has launched a £350million wide-ranging consultancy framework for its 568 public sector clients across the UK.
Duggan Morris wins approval for another PegasusLife retirement scheme
Duggan Morris Architects has won the go-ahead for another major scheme backed by elderly housing provider PegasusLife - this time in north London
Consultant sought for £60m Crossrail 2 role
Network Rail is on the hunt for an outfit to deliver design and consultancy services for London’s proposed £27 billion Crossrail 2 line
First images emerge of ‘swimming pool in sky’ at Nine Elms
The first visuals have emerged of long-awaited plans to build an ‘entirely transparent’ swimming pool between the roofs of two housing blocks in London’s Nine Elms
House Plan: Alan Dunlop on Murcutt’s Kempsey House
In the latest instalment of the AJ’s series looking at influential housing plans, Alan Dunlop chooses Glenn Murcutt’s Kempsey House in Australia
Obama poised to begin search for presidential library architect
The Barack Obama Foundation is to begin the hunt for an architect to design its presidential library in Chicago’s Southside later this month
Voigt wins Ninewells Hospital ‘garden room’ contest
Voigt Partnership has won a competition to design a new ‘garden room’ for the community garden at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee
House Plan: John Tuomey on Coderch’s Casa de la Marina
In the tenth of a series looking at influential housing plans, John Tuomey chooses José Antonio Coderch’s Casa de la Marina in Barcelona
Competitions: editor’s pick 21.08.15
Restoring Glasgow’s Burrell Collection, regenerating Tipner and Horsea Islands in Portsmouth and redeveloping Preston’s markets. The editor’s pick of this week’s top competitions