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    Darling cash boosts green housing

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that he will pour £26 million into the government’s Green Homes Service from next year in a bid to improve the sustainability credentials of the UK’s housing stock.

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    Artists oppose Foster’s scheme

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Artists Tracy Emin, Dinos Chapman and Rachel Whiteread have joined the campaign opposing the redevelopment of Bishop’s Place, between Shoreditch and Brick Lane in east London, masterplanned by Foster & Partners for Hammerson.

  • The Architectural Association's pavilion at Bedford Square in London
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    Concrete creates elegant pavilion

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    The Architectural Association’s pavilion at Bedford Square in London opened on Thursday 13 March.

  • Martin Pawley
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    Martin Pawley dies

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Martin Pawley, architect, critic, teacher, and a former editor of BD, died on Sunday aged 69, after a long illness.

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    Bid to stop Jewish charity dinner

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Charles Jencks, Eva Jiricna and recent RIBA gold medal winner Ted Cullinan are among 45 architects who have signed a letter calling for the cancellation of a dinner at Windsor Castle in aid of a Jewish charity, claiming the organisations is oppressing Palestinians through construction work.

  • Terry Farrell
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    ‘Delighted’ Edinburgh champions Farrell

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Terry Farrell will remain as Edinburgh City Council’s design champion, despite earlier rumours that the local authority was poised to scrap the position.

  • Architects drawing of new Mersey Observatory in Crosby
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    Duggan Morris victory at Mersey Observatory

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Duggan Morris Architects is to design the new Mersey Observatory in Crosby after seeing off competition from Studio 8, Phos Architects, Farrell & Clark, and Ellis Williams Architects.

  • Reid Architects' proposed office building
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    Manchester is banking on Reid to fuse new design with the old

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Reid Architects is about to go on site with this competition-winning £8 million design which will fuse a five-storey grade II listed former bank and a new 10-storey building in Manchester, near the city’s Piccadilly station.

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    BPF chief calls for green incentives

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    The British Property Federation has called on ministers to offer financial incentives in return for better environmental performance in buildings.

  • Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre design
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    Fosters Abu Dhabi WTC

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners’ latest Middle East project, the Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre, has been unveiled at the Mipim property fair in Cannes.

  • Fat's design for the Bentley area of Walsall
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    Fat wins in Walsall

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Fat has triumphed in an RIBA competition to design a community library facility in Walsall, the first time it has won a competition to design a public building.

  • Design for James Dyson's School of Design Innovation in Bath
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    Bath Council set to reject Wilkinson Eyre design school

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre’s troubled scheme for James Dyson’s School of Design Innovation in Bath looks set to be rejected next week after planning officers recommended that the scheme be denied planning permission.

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    EH joins in criticism of Luton retail scheme

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    English Heritage has joined the Victorian Society in condemning a £150 million Broadway Malyan retail scheme which involves demolishing two grade II listed buildings in Luton’s historic hat-making district.

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    Wifi to boost new city development

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Southampton’s architecture centre is to use wireless technology to transmit site-specific stories to the public in a bid to increase architectural awareness in the city.

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    Mixed response on Hips – survey

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Six out of ten homebuyers in home information pack (Hip) trial areas did not see a Hip last year, according to government research.

  • Ted Cullinan wins RIBA Royal Gold Medal 2007
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    RIBA calls for medal nominees

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA is calling for nominations for next year’s RIBA Royal Gold Medal.

  • New main entrance to the Museum of Somerset
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    FCB Studios wins castle consent

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

    Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ visitor centre for the Museum of Somerset at grade I listed Taunton Castle has won planning.

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    Mipim blog 2008

    2008-03-14T00:00:00Z

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    Enter our contest to revive Robin Hood Gardens

    2008-03-13T17:39:00Z

    BD and the Architecture Foundation have teamed up to organise a contest for architects to bring a new lease of life to Robin Hood Gardens. A group of architects and buildings experts including Simon Smithson and Peter Cook, Rowan Moore of the Architecture Foundation and engineer Matthew Wells, will produce ...