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NewsBrown announces £9bn investment in Gateway
Prime minister Gordon Brown has announced a £9 billion investment in the Thames Gateway
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NewsHemingway calls for respect in housebuilding
Speaking at this week’s launch of Cabe and the Home Builders’ Federation’s 2008 Building for Life awards, designer Wayne Hemingway slammed architects and home builders for failing to respect each other’s roles.
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NewsBack in the swim
The revamped Clissold Leisure Centre in Hackney, east London, by Stephen Hodder Associates, reopens next week after four years.
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NewsGillette regen cuts a dash
HOK has won planning approval for the regeneration of Gillette Corner, a grade II listed former razor blade factory.
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Holyrood plays Trump card
The Scottish government has called in Donald Trump’s £1 billion golf complex after an unprecedented backlash against Aberdeenshire Council’s decision to reject the scheme.
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RMJM locks horns with Unesco over St Petersburg tower
NEWS: Defiant RMJM tells Unesco to back off COMMENT: Gazprom battle symbolises Russian politics, argues Elaine Knutt from St Petersburg IN PICTURES: More images of the Gazprom tower
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NewsConsumers will drive demand for renewables, Conservatives promise
Tory Leader David Cameron unveils plans for a decentralised energy revolution at Greenpeace offices
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NewsTate extension nets 50m
The government has announced a £50 million contribution to Herzog & de Meuron’s extension at Tate Modern, which it claimed will boost Britain’s cultural offering in the run-up to the Olympics. Speaking at Tate Modern on Wednesday morning, culture secretary James Purnell said the capital funds — part of the ...
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NewsSchool keeps ‘fabulous design’ by dumping BSF
The £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme is incapable of delivering “fabulous design”, Kensington & Chelsea council has claimed
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NewsNews Junkie: 08 and 09 December
This week: sad policemen, thick consultants, Facebook mortgage buddies, cocoa architectural models and a ravishing Marcus Binney.
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NewsSutherland Hussey wins Chinese Museum in international competition - images
Sutherland Hussey has won an international competition to design the £240m Chengdu City Museum.
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NewsMurray Dunlop's massive tower block scheme for River Clyde approved - images
A massive mixed use development of six buildings - including four 22-storey towers - was approved today by Glasgow City Council in a move that the architect calls "fundamental" to the city’s regeneration.The £180m scheme by Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop Architects, which contains 853 apartments, will also feature retail ...
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NewsO'Donnell & Tuomey's Photographers Gallery wins planning - images
Celebrated Dublin architect O’Donnell & Tuomey has received planning permission for its new £16 million building for the Photographers Gallery in London.The six storey building, to be located in the heart of Soho off Oxford Street, will provide exhibition space, an online resource centre, education areas, a bookshop and a ...
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NewsHodder's Clissold Leisure Centre reopens - images
The first images of the completed Clissold Leisure Centre, designed by Stephen Hodder Associates, have been revealed.The long-awaited building, in Hackney, east London, is due to reopen on December 15, after being shut for four years to rectify a series of major problems client Hackney Council blames on design errors.The ...
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NewsNew school designs fail to make the grade, says Cabe
All but one of the first batch of secondary schools reviewed by Cabe have been deemed “unfit for purpose” by the design watchdog.
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NewsTerry Farrell enters the age of aquariums
The Biota! aquarium will form the centrepiece of the Silvertown Quays regeneration in east London.
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NewsFarrell to be Gateway design champion
£35 million scheme to improve area’s natural and urban environment