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Graeme Massie pavilion Graeme Massie Architects is to design the pavilion for next year’s Edinburgh Art Festival. The structure is made from 245 stacked timber joists supplied by a sawmill, which will provide ‘enough joists to make a pavilion’. The information centre and exhibition space will be removed after the month-long festival in August 2011.

AJ 29.07.10

Architecture returns to HullEducAtion

Hull now has a new architecture school, seven years after the original Hull School of Architecture was shipped out to Lincoln.

The Hull School of Art and design (HSAd) has set up its own architecture degree course, accredited by Leeds Metropolitan university.

The programme is ‘effectively a resurrection of the Hull School of Architecture degree’, said Gary Hornsby, joint course leader and former head of Hull’s postgraduate studies.

The course has ARB prescription and backing from the RiBA’s regional branch and Arc, the architecture centre for Hull and the Humber region.

Hornsby, who runs the course

with Leeds Met tutor Bridget Hansford, said the school was tapping into a local need.

‘directors of local architecture practices claimed a shortfall in qualified staff had hindered their ability to expand and tender for larger contracts,’ said Hornsby.

‘The expected prolonged regeneration of the city means the work placements will enable students to work in practices at an exciting time,’ he added.

Since September 2009, £175,000 has been spent on improving facilities at HSAd for students.

Richard Scott, director of Surface Architects and design champion for Hull’s Building Schools for the Future

programme, believes the new architecture school will help Hull realise its cultural side.

‘When the school closed it left a void. The new school is a great opportunity for Hull to coalesce this new level of energy around design and great architecture – an architecture that expresses “Hullness”,’ said Scott.

An architecture programme was first established in Hull back in 1930, but it was renamed and transferred to the university of Lincoln’s Brayford campus in 2003.

The first students have already started on the course, which had an ‘low-key’ launch last year and is awaiting RiBA validation. Demian Smith

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Candy apologises to CharlesChristian Candy has ‘unreservedly apologised’ to Prince Charles for dragging him into the High Court battle over the Chelsea Barracks scheme. Candy sued Qatari Diar after it dropped Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ £3 billion design.