The practice beat a six-strong shortlist that included British practice Foreign Office Architects as well as Rem Koolhass’ OMA, Herzog & de Meuron, Christian de Portzamparc and Sanaa, after being named as a front runner for the commission in May.  Broad, along with his wife Edythe, is one of the highest profile arts figures in America and will populate the museum from his private collection which is thought to contain more than 2,000 pieces from a diverse range of artists.

The new museum will cover 120,000 sq ft and have a budget of between $80 million and $100 million on top of the $7.7 million the Broads will pay to lease the land. The entire cost of the project will be covered privately, and the Broads are also endowing the museum with $200 million to cover its annual operating expenses.  Rumours around the site of the future museum were also settled on Monday when plans were approved by city officials to release 2.5 acres of publicly owned land on Grand Avenue close to Frank Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall and the Museum of Contemporary Art by Arata Isozaki.

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The proposals will create 39 affordable flats and is one of the first tall buildings in the area.  The L-shaped scheme features a terrace of ground floor flats with maisonettes above, which resemble town houses and was inspired by the Victorian terraces adjacent to the site. The properties have pitched, sedum roofs.

There is also a seven-storey block with dark brickwork and painted render on the north east corner of the site, near the suburb of Kemptown.  The final part of the scheme is a four-storey block with an “industrial” aesthetic.  The first planning application was submitted by developer The Hyde Group for the site in 2006 – but withdrawn on the advice of the Brighton & Hove Council’s planning department.

A revamped scheme was rejected in July 2007 and, after a public inquiry in May 2008, an appeal against that decision was thrown out in 2009.  Another revised scheme for the site was rejected by the council last summer but, after a public inquiry, has finally been upheld.

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The scheme, in Lewisham, replaces existing almshouses with 62 one and two bedroom houses aimed at elderly people. Nearly 30 maisonettes will also be built and put up for private sale.

PRP has designed the houses for the Merchants Taylor Company. The complex will include a working garden for those residents wanting to grow their own produce.

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London Thames Gateway Development Corporation gave the green light to Countryside Properties’ development for Fresh Wharf, Barking, which is also being masterminded by Fresh Wharf Developments.  Proposals for the 4.4ha site include 950 homes along with nearly 2,000sq m of retail and leisure space and 1,600sq m of community space. This includes the option to build a nursery school.

Meanwhile, work has started on a £20 million scheme in Barking by Van Heyningen & Haward.  Called the Rivergate Centre, it includes a school, church and health centre in the first phase, with nearly 100 flats and retail units following in the second phase.

The centre, which is being built for the local council and a team consisting of Bellway Homes and the Homes & Communities Agency, is due to be completed in autumn 2011.

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The building, located on a site adjacent to the existing St Ethelbert’s Church, is part of the £450 million heart of Slough regeneration project and includes a 180 seat performance space, a new cafe and council meeting rooms.  Once built, the scheme will provide a pedestrian link between Slough’s new bus station and Mackenzie Square, a popular public space.  It is now due to start on site in early 2012. The existing public library will remain open until the new building opens in 2013.

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The scheme at Falun will feature a 3,000sq m library along with an adjoining plaza which features a mix of recreational functions and furniture.  One of the features of the building is a sloping ramp through the building which is designed to act as a ‘spiral of knowledge’.

Wooden facades are designed to integrate the building into its surrounds.  “It’s an exciting building rich on variety and with may possible meeting points integrated into a coherent environment,” said the competition jury.

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The application for outline planning permission for the 1.7 million sq m scheme was submitted by developer Peel Holdings in December 2009 and includes large projects by SOM, Glenn Howells, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and HKR.

Each architect will design a quarter within the city-sized project as part of an overall strategy being led by engineering firm Martin Stockley Associates.  Peel says that the project will create more than 20,000 new jobs and 14,000 new homes in the area around Wirral’s derelict Birkenhead docks and will be delivered over a 30-year period.

It will also build 400,000sq m of office space, 60,000sq m of retail space, 38,000sq m of hotel and conference facilities and 100,000sq m of culture, education, community and leisure space.  Prior to winning outline planning permission, the scheme had been through four years of masterplanning and public consultation.

It won unanimous backing from Wirral Council’s planning committee, after all four local MPs wrote in support of the scheme and Liverpool Council pledged its support.  Peel is also developing the £5.5 billion 150-acre Liverpool Waters scheme on the other side of the Mersey River, which encompasses areas of the city’s World Heritage Site and is still in planning.

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The city council has rubber-stamped the scheme, called New Domino, which will see 660 units of affordable housing put up along with 1.6ha of parkland along the East River in the city’s Brooklyn borough.

It will be built on the former Domino Sugar Refinery complex close to the Williamsburg Bridge.

Viñoly was commissioned to draw up a masterplan for the site back in 2005. The scheme will feature 2,200 apartments spread across four towers — two of 30 storeys and two of  34 storeys. Work is expected to start next year.  As part of the work, the refinery complex will remain as well as local landmark, a 12m-high Domino Sugar sign.

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The practice has submitted a planning application to the city council which would preserve many of the 1906 building’s original features. It is expected to be considered by the planning committee next month.  It once housed a police station and a coroner’s court, as well as around 40 flats where the firemen lived with their families.

“We are delighted that such a sensitive approach has been taken with the conversion of one of Manchester’s finest historic buildings,” said Alex Baldwin, conservation adviser for the Victorian Society, which has written to the council supporting the plans.

The building, now empty, has been on English Heritage’s Buildings at Risk register since 2001. Under Purcell Miller Tritton’s plans, drawn up for owner Britannia Hotels, the firemen’s flats would become 27 bedrooms featuring the original poles used by the firemen to get to work.

The engine sheds would become function rooms, the coroner’s court would be a wedding venue and the old police station would be converted into a bar and café, with the cells turned into dining booths. A former gas meter testing station would become the hotel’s main restaurant.

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The scheme, in the Lindholm area of the city’s old industrial ports, proposes for 10 buildings with a total area of more than 70,000sq m and a 22-storey tower.  Buildings and sites in the district have been predominantly turned into business parks, but CF Møller said its project would introduce a “humane scale and a different architecture focusing on the small-scale urban spaces within the scheme by refining the positioning, geometry and transparency of the buildings”.

The blocks of flats will feature in of recycled aluminium facades in a reference to the area’s ship-building history. They will vary in height from four to 10 storeys and house 400 new flats.  The practice beat three others – Helen & Hard from Norway, along with Swedish firms Kjellander & Sjöberg and KOD arkitekter – to win the competition.

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