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Monthly Archives: January 2015
Windows 10 Spartan browser will get extensions
Microsoft's Internet Explorer development team has confirmed there will be a browser extension system for Project Spartan, meaning developers will be able to extend its functionality with software that can be built directly into the browser."Yes. We're working on a plan for extensions to a future update to 'Project Spartan,' the developer relations team for IE said during a QA chat on Twitter Tuesday.The news is significant since it indicates some type of Read more [...]
postwar office blocks make the grade
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Birmingham Central Library architect receives listed status for post war …
Central Library architect John Madin has had his legacy in Birmingham protected – thanks to an office block he created after World War II.Just weeks before bulldozers tear down his brutalist designs in Paradise Circus, the Secretary Madin’s St James’ House, on Frederick Road, in Edgbaston, has achieved Grade II listed status.It is among 14 post-war office buildings to achieve Grade II listed status across the country.The city’s iconic Alpha Tower, designed by Birmingham-born architect George Read more [...]
Concrete office blocks given Grade 2 listing by English Heritage
The 14 new additions which were built between 1964 to 1984 are located in
major cities across England and recognise the work of modern architects like
Norman Foster, Richard Seifert and Peter Foggo.
Roger Bowdler, Director of Designation at English Heritage, said: “These
offices show how architecture has adapted to recent radical changes in how
we work: they show how the open-plan working space for computer-led work
came about, and how architects responded to the need for lettable, Read more [...]
Post-war offices listed across the country
28 January 2015
| By Elizabeth Hopkirk
More than a dozen buildings added to register after 18-month project
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Milwaukee County proposes to sell O’Donnell Park, or fix it; parks committee …
The O'Donnell Park parking structure's northern half has restrictions preserving it for parks use.
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Neighbours threatened with gipsy camp on their doorsteps after objecting to …
Leaving the site open prompted fears among neighbours that travellers will be
free to move onto the large car park and set up an unlicensed camp.
Jeremy Mellins, a local GP who lives next-door-but-one to the site, said: “I
think this is straightforward blackmail.
“They are trying to exact revenge on people who opposed their plans and trying
to force them to drop their objections.
“They are using it as a threat.”
Dr Mellins, 36, said the proposal for a travellers’ camp Read more [...]
Demolition squad move in tostart work on listed building
A ‘protected’ former school is finally being demolished - despite efforts by a Mossend charity and former pupils to save it.
The old New Stevenston Primary School building dates back to Victorian times, but closed nine years ago when a new school opened in Coronation Road.Two years ago North Lanarkshire Council announced it intended to demolish the listed building. The education authority said then it had spent nearly £120,000 securing and repairing the old school Read more [...]
Fewer Seattle homes for sale in January
According to Seattle online real estate company Redfin, there are only 5,900 Seattle homes listed for sale, which is more than 19 percent fewer than a month earlier. There was also a 25 percent drop in new homes listed for sale in Seattle in the past month, Redfin added.
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