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    Knight backs new process for BSF

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    A new procurement process for Building Schools for the Future will be rolled out before the end of the year after being approved this week by schools minister Jim Knight (pictured).

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    Passport for Pimlico

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Haworth Tompkins has won planning permission from Westminster City Council for a new 55-unit mixed residential scheme at a conservation site in Pimlico, south-west London, for the Peabody Trust.

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    Make sustainable drainage compulsory, says RTPI

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    The government urgently needs to make sustainable urban drainage systems (Suds) compulsory in all new developments, the Royal Town Planning Institute said this week.

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    Living amid the trees

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Multi-disciplinary practice Zebrano has revealed designs for a contemporary villa as part of its redevelopment of the Edwardian Broomfield Estate in Perthshire.

  • Paul Davis
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    Davis pulls out of race for president

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    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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    Piano still working on Shard’s design

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Renzo Piano is still finalising designs for Europe’s tallest skyscraper nearly five years after it was approved, it emerged this week.

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    Foster prizewinner to study transport links

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has awarded a £6,000 travelling scholarship to a student of Rizvi College of Architecture in Mumbai.

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    Urmston’s new Eden

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Broadway Malyan has unveiled this apartment scheme, designed as the centrepiece of a major urban regeneration project in Manchester.

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    Digital images library to expand

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    The Chicago-based Society of Architectural Historians has received a $2.7 million grant to develop its online library of architectural images.

  • William Smith acted as foreman of works on the Rotunda in 1829.
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    Rotunda reopens after restoration

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Scarborough’s grade II* listed Rotunda museum reopens today following a two-year, £4.4 million restoration programme.

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    Powell Dobson opens London HQ

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Welsh practice Powell Dobson has opened an office in London, relocating four staff from its base in Cardiff.

  • Angel: most recognised.
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    Gormley’s Angel tops lottery poll

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North has topped a national poll as the UK’s most recognised National Lottery-funded landmark.

  • The frameless windows of the granite-clad house emphasise its cubic volumes and permit views out over the sea to the south.
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    Burd Haward’s ‘overscaled barn’ dances along Guernsey cliffs

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    Burd Haward Architects has designed a £1 million four-bedroom, granite-clad house for a family in Guernsey.

  • The proposed “common”
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    Vertical ‘common’ plan for Smithfield Market

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    A 30m-high “vertical common” has been proposed for central London’s Smithfield market site.

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    This week

    2008-05-09T00:00:00Z

    This week’s ups and downs

  • 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 Gardens

    2008-05-08T12:34:00Z

    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.

  • Brian Waters, ACA president
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    RIBA and ACA split over forms of client contract

    2008-05-08T12:40:00Z

    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.In a move destined to create a major schism between the two organisations, ACA president Brian ...

  • The original Snohetta and Spence design
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    Kent takes legal action over original Turner Contemporary scheme

    2008-05-08T15:33:00Z

    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.The landmark design, which was commissioned in 2001, was to be situated in the sea next to Margate pier. But the project was cancelled in February 2006 ...

  • Bishopsfield courtyard houses designed by Neylan & Ungless.
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    Save Bishopsfield estate, say Beigel and Fretton

    2008-05-08T12:48:00Z

    Architects including Florian Beigel and Tony Fretton have rallied to support a threatened 1960s experimental housing estate designed by Michael Neylan and Bill Ungless.Bishopsfield estate in Harlow could now be demolished after the local council found the cost of bringing it up to the government’s Decent Homes standard would be ...

  • Rowan Moore, departing director of the Architecture Foundation.
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    Moore resigns as Architecture Foundation director

    2008-05-06T12:19:00Z

    Director of the Architecture Foundation Rowan Moore has resigned, it was announced this morning.The move, which has sparked an immediate search for a new director, comes just two-and-a-half months after the foundation ditched its plans for a Zaha Hadid-designed headquarters building - a move it blamed on the credit crunch.Moore, ...