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10 May 2008

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Robin Hood Gardens estate seems destined for demolition after English Heritage failed to recommend it for listing.

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English Heritage fails to back Robin Hood GardensFree

8 May, 2008

English Heritage commissioners have overruled the advice of the organisation’s own advisory committee over the future of Robin Hood Gardens and recommended it is not listed.

The original Snohetta and Spence design

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Kent takes legal action over original Turner Contemporary schemeFree

8 May, 2008

Kent County Council is to sue Norwegian architect Snøhetta and British collaborator Stephen Spence over the duo's aborted Turner Contemporary gallery scheme in Margate.

Brian Waters, ACA president

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RIBA and ACA split over forms of client contractFree

8 May, 2008

Architects will be forced to choose between two rival forms of client contract after the collapse of more than two years of negotiation on the issue between the RIBA and the Association of Consultant Architects.

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News

Paul Davis

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Davis pulls out of race for presidentFree

9 May 2008

The battle for the RIBA presidency took a dramatic twist this week as Paul Davis pulled out, leaving Ruth Reed and Andrew Hanson in a two-horse race.

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Hodder's mills and thrillsFree

9 May 2008

Stirling prizewinner Stephen Hodder has released images of his practice’s largest-ever scheme — a £170 million mixed-use regeneration project at Eckersley Mills in Wigan.

Boris Johnson

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New mayor plans to cut skyscrapersFree

9 May 2008

London’s newly elected Tory mayor, Boris Johnson, took a step toward halting the spread of skyscrapers in London this week with the appointment of a key adviser opposed to Ken Livingstone’s planning policies.

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In Pictures

Wilkinson Eyre's Oxford Maggie's Centre

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New Maggie's by Wilkinson EyreFree

9 May, 2008

A sneak preview of Wilkinson Eyre's new Maggie's cancer care centre in Oxford

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Buildings

Landscape architect Dan Pearson has conceived of the main approach as a grove of magnolia trees.

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Rogers Stirk Harbour’s Maggie’s Centre at Charing Cross Hospital is a place like homeFree

9 May 2008

A sense of abstract domesticity pervades the first Maggie’s Centre to be built in England — at challenging site at Charing Cross Hospital

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Comment

Amanda Baillieu

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Erased from our memoriesFree

9 May 2008

The government wants to forget the optimism of sixites and seventies social housing ever existed

Rogers’ Welsh Assembly building — biomass-powered and Breeam-rated “excellent” — reached the 2006 Stirling shortlist.

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Is the drive for sustainability killing architects’ creativity?Free

9 May 2008

Austin Williams, author of new book The Enemies of Progress, is convinced it is, but Pooran Desai of BioRegional Quintain has plenty of examples to back his counter-argument .

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What's On

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Tickets for London festival on saleFree

2 May 2008

Tickets for the London Festival of Architecture go on sale this Monday May 5. This year’s festival — formerly known as the biennale — is set to be the biggest to date, with more than 500 events between June 20 and July 20.

Right angles were abandoned for a fascination with soft curves: Haus-Rucker Co, Yellow Heart, 1968.

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How radical sixties architecture let it all hang outFree

25 April 2008

Forty years after the unrest of May 1968, Shumon Basar reviews Spaced Out, a study of some of the avant-garde structures of the psychedelic sixties

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Technical

3d cross-section

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Monks adopt an earthy approach to insulation at Berkshire’s Douai AbbeySubscribers only

9 May 2008

Architect David Richmond & Partners and structural engineer Price & Myers are creating a rammed earth wall using local soil for a new library and archive at Douai Abbey

The front elevation is designed mainly of Danpatherm panels.

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Thomas Fairchild Children’s Centre, east LondonSubscribers only

9 May 2008

Haverstock Architects’ Claire Barton on designing a mixed-use children’s play and health centre with an insulating green roof

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Heterotopia

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Dot to Dot: May 9Free

9 May 2008

Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday for a chance to win Jørn Utzon Logbook Vol. IV, Prefab: Kuwait National Assembly

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Dot to Dot: May 2Free

2 May 2008

Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday May 7 for a chance to win Herbert Wright’s new book Skyscrapers: fabulous buildings that reach for the sky.

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