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Government fails on green targets
An influential select committee has slammed the government for failing to meet its own sustainability targets for new and refurbished buildings sited on public land.
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PfS to link pupils to school design
Partnerships for Schools is to recommend that authorities entering the Building Schools for the Future programme involve pupils in the design process through initiatives such as the Sorrell Foundation’s Joined Up Design For Schools project.
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NewsHadid's Oxford union
Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed designs for an extension to the Middle East Centre at St Anthony’s College, Oxford.
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NewsLet the games begin at King’s College School’s new sports hall
Arup Associates has won a limited design competition for a new sports and music development at King’s College School in Cambridge.
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NewsNetwork Rail supports Smithfield
The battle over London’s Smithfield Market took a new twist this week after Network Rail failed to back the City of London’s assertion that the General Market building needs to be demolished in order to replace unsafe railway tunnels below.
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NewsTwo of three Europan 9 winners announced
Only two winners for Europan 9’s three UK sites were announced on Wednesday.
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Unesco still worried about Gazprom tower
Unesco has strongly denied reports it no longer has concerns about the impact of RMJM’s Gazprom tower on St Petersburg, saying it has been misrepresented.
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NewsNew-look Paddington
Fletcher Priest has finally won planning approval for this £150 million mixed-use scheme on North Wharf Road in Paddington, west London.
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NewsWorld of water
Work has begun on this £9 million HQ by Faulkner Brown Architects for Essex & Suffolk Water in Chelmsford, Essex.
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Bauhaus launches social housing prize
The Bauhaus has launched a social housing award for young architects based on the projects that made the design school’s name in its 1920s heyday.
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Eco-towns role for new agency
The Homes & Communities Agency will take a key role in the creation of Gordon Brown’s 10 eco-towns, the government has revealed.
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NewsDevelopment body goes to Gill
Liverpool Vision chief executive Jim Gill is to head up Liverpool’s new economic development company.
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Welsh aqueduct’s world status bid
Culture secretary James Purnell has nominated Wales’ Pontcysyllte aqueduct and canal for Unesco world heritage site status.
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NewsLeicester Square gets a makeover
Westminster council has unveiled its £18.5 million redesign for central London’s Leicester Square.
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Stirling and Gowan's Leicester University faces demolition
NEWS: Stirling and Gowan's seminal modernist building could be partially demolished OPINION: Can passion save our iconic 20th century buildings?
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NewsGehry to design 2008 Serpentine Summer Pavilion
Frank Gehry is to design this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, the gallery has revealed. The temporary structure, which will be on site for three months this summer, will be Gehry’s first built structure in England, in accordance with the Serpentine’s rules on selecting architects for the annual pavilions.Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones ...
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NewsAaron Betsky to curate Venice Biennale
Aaron Betsky has been appointed director of the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. Betsky, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum in the United States and former director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute of Rotterdam, will curate the festival on the theme “Architecture Beyond Building”. The eleventh international architecture exhibition will include ...
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NewsZaha Hadid's double win in Michigan and Warsaw
Zaha Hadid Architects wins competitions for Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan and Lilium Tower in Warsaw