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Design a home to withstand -49°C
Architects have been challenged to design a single-family, energy-efficient, affordable, detached home for a site in Cherepovets in Russia, where temperatures can reach -49°C in winter, in the third Living Steel international competition.
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NewsBlears lets Riverside scheme go
The Government Office of the South West has confirmed that communities secretary Hazel Blears will not call in Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ controversial Bath Western Riverside scheme.
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Industry needs better technology
Research by the BRE and National House Building Council has highlighted the need to develop better carbon-saving technology within the housing industry.
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Southwark sues over Potters Fields
Southwark Council is taking developer Berkeley Homes to court over its planned Potters Fields scheme by Ian Ritchie.
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NewsWalton leaves Candys for Sabre
Former operations manager at Candy & Candy, Nick Walton, has been appointed general manager of construction at Sabre Developments.
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NewsBSF reforms too modest, say critics
Proposals to reform the design process behind the £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme do not go far enough, critics have warned.
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NewsSheppard Robson nets Hammersmith regen
Sheppard Robson has beaten Wilkinson Eyre and Barton Wilmore in a competition to design a major regeneration scheme in Hammersmith, west London.
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NewsIt’s a building of two halves at Upton Park’s Green Street
Ingliss Badrashi Loddo Architects has received planning permission for this bold residential and restaurant scheme in Upton Park, east London.
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NewsThis weeks ups and downs
Going up AirshipsFrench firm the Massaud Studio is designing a 210m-long luxury airship. The “manned cloud” will carry 40 passengers and be equipped with a restaurant, library, gym and panoramic terraces. It should be ready by 2020. BanksyThe infamous street artist will have 22 pieces of work on show this ...
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How Rogers got Ken to revamp the Parliament Square team
The team responsible for designing Parliament Square was substantially overhauled following an intervention by Richard Rogers, correspondence released under Freedom of Information laws shows.
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News‘Dynamic’ design adds to Canada Water development
A £12 million, mixed-use block by PKS Architects, which will form a key part of a south London regeneration scheme, has won planning permission.
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NewsGreenwich homes go in for planning
The next element of the £5 billion regeneration of the Greenwich peninsula — more than 500 homes by Flacq Architects and Jestico & Whiles — has been submitted for planning.
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EP division to lead on homes
English Partnerships has launched a business division to lead the delivery of 200,000 homes on publicly owned sites by 2016.
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Tompkins takes up teaching too
Celebrated theatre architect Steve Tompkins has become a visiting professor at Greenwich University’s school of architecture and construction.
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NewsRefurb raises the roof
ZM Architecture has won planning consent to extend and refurbish the Templeton carpet factory complex at Glasgow Green.
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Prototype wins RTPI silver cup
A prototype eco-town has won the Royal Town Planning Institute’s Silver Jubilee Cup.
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NewsOffice as powerhouse
SOM claims this will be the first large-scale office building in the world to produce more energy than it uses.
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Eco-town protesters march on Stratford
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Stratford-upon-Avon last week to object to proposals for one of Gordon Brown’s controversial eco-towns.
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Prince Charles to build pilot eco-home
NEWS: Prince Charles plans to construct traditionally built eco-home OPINION: The Prince has reignited debate but defining zero-carbon is the key DEBATE: Is Prince Charles' latest blast welcome?
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Edward Cullinan collects the Royal Gold Medal
NEWS: Cullinan collects the award for life-time achievement COMMENT: Ted Cullinan: humanist for our time, says Julyan Wickham + AUDIO: "He should have won this years ago"