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NewsWatford’s glass act
Nightingale Associates has won planning permission for this £63 million college in Watford. The 20,000sq m building will provide improved facilities for teaching courses, as well as a nursery and a learning resource centre.
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Design competition will be held for eco-towns
The government has revealed plans for an international competition to find architects and designers for its 10 proposed eco-towns of up to 20,000 homes.
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The 20-strong longlist for YAYA 2007
PROFILES: Twenty practices have made the next round of this year's Young Architect of the Year Award
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Battersea Power Station upgraded to grade II*
NEWS: Architecture minister revises Battersea's listing status OPINION: A star comes to power station's aid
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Stirling victory for Chipperfield
NEWS: Chipperfield edges it over Young Vic for Stirling victory NEWS: Six winners for the RIBA's Special Awards BD POLL RESULTS: Who won our online Stirling Poll?
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NewsScars, blots and eyesores
On the eve of the Stirling Prize for best building of the year, we asked you to nominate the UK’s worst buildings for BD’s Carbuncle Cup. Nearly 400 of you took part in our poll to pick the winner, reports Zoë Blackler
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NewsBoris blasts Ken’s high rise housing
Tory hopeful Boris Johnson has kicked off his mayoral campaign by accusing Ken Livingstone of “wrecking London’s skyline”.
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NewsRead this week's BD as a digital edition
Because of the postal strike we have created a digital edition of BD
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NewsA star comes to power station’s aid
Battersea Power Station, or rather what’s left of it, has joined that elite band of buildings known as grade II*. English Heritage, which receives £129 million of public funds to protect historic buildings — and has Battersea on its Buildings at Risk register — has failed to issue repair notices ...
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NewsBattersea Power Station upgraded to Grade II*
Revised listing status will open the door to English Heritage repair
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NewsNews Junkie: 06 and 07 October
This week’s objects of desire: synthetic trees, banana leaf and water-hyacinth coffins, and ’something barny oast housey but with quite a cool vibe’.
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NewsZaha Hadid designs Madrid law courts - images
Zaha Hadid has won a competition to design a new civil courts of justice in Madrid.
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NewsBoris accuses Ken of "wrecking London's skyline"
Tory hopeful Boris Johnson has kicked off his mayoral campaign by accusing Ken Livingstone of “wrecking London’s skyline”.Johnson, who was confirmed as official Conservative London mayoral candidate last week, has pushed housing to the top of his campaign agenda, promising to drop the Mayor’s target that 50% of new homes ...
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Sunken Olympic stadium will be "engineering first"
The designers of the 2012 Olympic stadium are proposing sinking parts of the structure up to 20ft into the ground, as the Olympic Delivery Authority promises an “engineering first”. The ODA says it is in the process of finalising designs for the flagship structure and claims that “work is going ...
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NewsZaha Hadid shortlisted for £25,000 Scottish prize
Zaha Hadid will go head to head with Scotland’s top architects in a bid to land this year’s RIAS Andrew Doolan Award.
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NewsArchitecture minister: new housing is ‘awful’
Margaret Hodge says Thames Gateway housing could repeat the mistakes of the seventies
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NewsAdjaye’s arts centre lives out Bernie Grant’s dream
David Adjaye’s £15 million Bernie Grant Arts Centre opened today in Tottenham, north London. The centre was proposed by the late Bernie Grant, who represented Tottenham in parliament before he died in 2000.
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News‘Unsettled’ Cabe considers its future
Chief executive defends performance despite regional panel concerns