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    EH delays Robin Hood Gardens decision following BD campaign

    2008-03-12T16:59:00Z

    English Heritage will delay making its recommendation on the future of Robin Hood Gardens thanks to the phenomenal response to BD's two-week-long campaign to have the Smithsons-designed estate listed.BD editor Amanda Baillieu handed the petition, containing more than 1,000 signatures, to English Heritage director of planning and development Steve Bee ...

  • Martin Pawley.
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    Former BD editor Martin Pawley dies

    2008-03-11T10:42:00Z

    Former BD editor Martin Pawley has died after a long illness. The author, journalist and architectural critic, who edited Building Design from 1981 to 1983, died on Sunday less than two weeks before his 70th birthday.Peter Murray, who first worked as a journalist with Pawley in 1971 on Architectural Design, ...

  • Foster & Partners' Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre.
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    Foster's unveils Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre

    2008-03-11T17:16:00Z

    Foster & Partners' latest Middle East project, the Abu Dhabi World Trade Centre, has been unveiled at the Mipim property fair in Cannes.Part of a new waterfront city, the scheme will be the main building at Al Raha Beach, creating a peninsula at the eastern end of the semi-circular marina.The ...

  • Fat's winning design for a library in the Bentley area of Walsall.
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    Fat wins competition to design Walsall library

    2008-03-10T17:48:00Z

    Fat has triumphed in an RIBA competition to design a new community library facility in Walsall. The firm beat 72 international practices including Aaron Evans, Featherstone Associates, McMorran & Gatehouse Architects, Panter Hudspith and Sjolander da Cruz Architects to win the commission for the Bentley area of the town. Sean ...

  • Giles Brook: major defects
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    MK architects’ department scandal could see it axed

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    One of the last in-house council architects’ departments in the country is facing closure amid allegations of overspending and incompetence.

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    Rogers’ ship comes in at Ching Fu

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners has completed a building for the Ching Fu ship-building company in Taiwan.

  • Margaret Hodge argues that criteria other than architectural merit should also inform listing
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    Pressure on Hodge to rethink listing stance

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Architecture minister faces near-unanimous opposition to proposals

  • Reused: Oxford Prison has been converted into a boutique hotel.
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    Tories want architects to design jails

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Architects could be asked to design new jails worth hundreds of millions of pounds under Conservative Party proposals for a radical restructuring of the prison estate.

  • Artist’s impression of new developments proposed for the site.
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    Robin Hood report kept from public

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    A crucial report on the future of Robin Hood Gardens paid for by taxpayers was withheld from BD by Tower Hamlets Council this week.

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    Demolition of Pimlico School begins

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Demolition has begun at Pimlico School, the brutalist landmark in Westminster which has been the centre of a long-running listing battle.

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    Herzog & de Meuron in running for Lord’s plan

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron and HOK Sport are among the practices bidding to draw up a £200 million masterplan for Lord’s cricket ground.

  • Prominent elevations are clad in resin-bonded paper with slot windows and horizontal banding; others are finished in dark brick.
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    DLA Architecture sets the stage for Leeds University school

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    DLA Architecture has completed work on its £3.3 million Stage@Leeds building for Leeds University School of Performance & Cultural Industries.

  • The new city at Saemangeum, South Korea, will shelter behind an existing 34km sea wall.
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    London Met unit makes shortlist for Korean city

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    A British-based architectural team has been shortlisted in a contest to design a new city one quarter of the size of Greater London.

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    Lessons in timber

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Meadowcroft Griffin Architects has submitted this design, for the £8 million Lauriston Primary School in Hackney, east London, for planning.

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    Massive regeneration for Big City Brum

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Urban Initiatives has launched its vision to transform Birmingham city centre in a £10 billion, 800ha regeneration programme.

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    Pear trees for Harley Street

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Trees are to be planted on London’s Harley Street for the first time in its 300-year history.

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    Hopkins returns to Bryanston

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Hopkins Architects has been commissioned to design a music building for Bryanston School, Dorset.

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    Cabe and RIBA invite entries

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Cabe is inviting entries for the 2008 prime minister’s better public building award.

  • DSP Architects created a ladder-frame bridge with a 34m span.
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    DSP puts art at school’s heart

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    DSP Architects has completed an extension to King James’s School at Knaresborough, Yorkshire, which builds over a non-load-bearing flat roof.

  • Brian Paddick
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    Design for London needs reform, says Paddick

    2008-03-07T00:00:00Z

    Mayoral candidate dismisses organisation as a ‘talking shop’