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NewsBrighton street scheme makes blind people "confused and fearful"
Jan Gehl criticised by his own client for Brighton shared surfaces scheme
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Superdense housing must avoid mistakes of the past, warns architects’ report
A new wave of “superdense” urban housing estates must be developed with great care to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, warns a report by four of Britain’s largest housing practices.The study, Recommendations for Living at Superdensity, claims that schemes of between 150 and 500 homes per ha are ...
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NewsNews Junkie: 14 and 15 July
The world goes mad, again. China's caused a shortage of British wind turbines, London's on the isostatic rebound, and now we're all living in Billy Joel's uptown world. On a 'raft of flaws...'
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NewsTate Modern keeps land set for Design Museum
Director’s ambitions to expand museum thwarted as gallery trustees keep its options open
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NewsVelodrome win for Hopkins
This concept design by Hopkins Architects with Expedition Engineering is the winning proposal for the Olympic velodrome.
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NewsGough quits urban group over awards
Architect says academy favours places ‘conceived in the distant past’
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Architecture Week’s done its job, says Livingstone
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has backed the Arts Council’s shock decision to axe next year’s Architecture Week, claiming the national event has fulfilled its purpose, and instead promising to focus on the London Festival of Architecture.
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NewsGovernment backs Viñoly walkie talkie
The government has approved Rafael Viñoly’s highly controversial “walkie talkie” tower, concluding that it would “make a significant architectural contribution to London”.
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NewsBrown plans 40,000 extra homes a year
Prime minister Gordon Brown has outlined his plans to increase the delivery of new homes by an additional 40,000 per year in England and Wales by 2016.
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NewsHadid’s pavilion is third time lucky for Serpentine
Zaha Hadid’s stand-in installation for the Serpentine Gallery was unveiled this week, marking the third design for this year’s ill fated pavilion project.
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NewsFury erupts as Islington rejects tower as ‘too tall’
Cabe has weighed in to defend a planned 39-storey skyscraper by Squire & Partners that has been rejected by Islington Council against the advice of planning officers.
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RTKL purchase swells Arcadis
Dutch engineering firm Arcadis has acquired RTKL Associates, one of the world’s largest architecture, engineering and design firms.
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NewsRenaissance call seeks new policy
The Town & Country Planning Association has called for a “suburban renaissance”, telling delegates at its Garden Cities conference this week that the suburbs need a major policy reappraisal.
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Private funds for EP top £1 billion
Private sector investment in English Partnerships’ regeneration schemes has topped £1 billion for the first time.
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NewsBarking Riverside’s first shortlist
AHMM, Broadway Malyan, Hawkins Brown, KCAPML, Schmidt Hammer Lassen and Sheppard Robson have been shortlisted to design the first two phases of Barking Riverside (pictured above), the largest single development in the Thames Gateway.
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Cabe educational work celebrated
Two exhibitions celebrating Cabe’s national educational programme, How Places Work, opened in Manchester and Liverpool this week.
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NewsAllies defends firm’s role in mosque job
Allies & Morrison has strongly defended its actions in taking over from young practice Mangera Yvars as architect on the UK’s largest mosque building project.
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NewsSheppard Robson £17m biotech centre opened
Sheppard Robson’s £17 million Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London, a refurbishment of the sixties’ Bessemer building, was opened by the Queen this week. The institute houses a nanotechnology centre and suites for around 15 biotechnology start-ups.
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NewsRyder HKS comes calling for Avon’s global headquarters
Ryder HKS has unveiled its design for the headquarters of cosmetics company Avon at Northampton.