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Carbon emissions in UK housing faces scrutiny
The UK Green Building Council has launched a major study to find ways to reduce carbon emissions from the country’s existing housing stock.
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NewsKevin McCloud’s own ‘grand design’ in chaos
TV presenter replaces Wright & Wright with practice ready to work weekends for no money
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NewsStarting gun sounds for Athletes’ Village
Planning has been granted for the first element of the 2012 Athletes’ Village in the Olympic Park in east London
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Brits shortlisted in under-50 awards
David Adjaye and Thomas Heatherwick have been shortlisted for a new international award celebrating the work of architects aged under 50.
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NewsSaga of Barbican office block stalls
Kohn Pedersen Fox’s design for a 90,000sq m office block beside the Barbican Centre has been shelved after the intended occupier, investment bank JP Morgan, pulled out.
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NewsScott Brown to top Biennale speakers
Denise Scott Brown will be the keynote speaker at a British Council debate on housing design next month.
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NewsClear run for Foster scheme in Croydon
A 150,000sq m scheme by Foster & Partners now looks likely to be built at south London’s Croydon Gateway site after communities secretary Hazel Blears effectively ruled out rival plans by Michael Aukett Architects.
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NewsKen attacks Boris over design policy
Former London mayor Ken Livingstone has accused his successor Boris Johnson of cost-cutting and “hypocrisy” over his changes to the capital’s design policy.
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£350m Blackfriars revamp begins
Network Rail has announced that work has begun on a £350 million project to regenerate Blackfriars Station in London
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Arb strikes off bankrupt architect
John Dowland of Godstone in Surrey has been struck off the Arb register for failing to pay a series of debts, and for failing to report his bankruptcy to the board.
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NewsConran set to convert hall to flats
Conran & Partners has received planning permission to convert and extend a grade II listed building by Royal Festival Hall architect Leslie Martin
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NewsRobinson attacks EH claims on liveability
Housing expert hits out at argument that estate ‘fails as a place to live’
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NewsHadid’s big in Singapore
Zaha Hadid Architects has designed the largest residential development in Singapore, the practice announced this week.
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Flint on the defence over eco-town plans
Housing minister Caroline Flint has insisted the government is making “significant progress” with its eco-towns plan, despite a report from an advisory panel which pointed out serious flaws in many of the shortlisted proposals.
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Watkins Gray to refit Barnardo’s
Architect Watkins Gray International has won a competition to refurbish the new 187sq m office space for children’s charity Barnardo’s in the London Borough of Southwark.
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RIBA looking for floodproof home
RIBA and insurer Norwich Union have launched a joint competition to design a floodproof home.
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NZ masterplan goes to Farrells
Farrells has beaten competition from Foster & Partners, Frank Gehry, SOM and Gensler to masterplan a mixed-use redevelopment scheme in Auckland, New Zealand.
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NewsCornish keeps energy low in brownfield office plan
Cornish Architects is set to transform a brownfield site in Denham, South Buckinghamshire, into low-energy office space.
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Tom Russell in eco-village coup
Tom Russell Architects has won a RIBA competition to turn Lawrenny in Pembrokeshire into an eco-village
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NewsTheatre foyer given the go-ahead
CZWG’s East Terrace Foyer, part of its Bournemouth pavilion and gardens project, has been granted planning permission