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Arb reprimand for misconduct
Arb’s professional conduct committee of has reprimanded Haris Subasinghe for serious professional incompetence, acting contrary to the interests of his client.
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Architecture Week axed
Next year’s Architecture Week has been cancelled after the Arts Council scrapped funding for the annual event amid fears that it could become irrelevant and out of date
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MacCormac’s suburban task force unveiled
Architects re-engage with housing as RIBA launches new policy
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Hospital robots spark design row
Safety fears challenge Keppie Design’s ‘future for medical architecture’
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Young firms celebrate Olympic shortlisting
Up-and-coming practices including Softroom, Tonkin Liu and McDowell & Benedetti are celebrating after being shortlisted this week in the design competition for a major Olympic footbridge.
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Allies & Morrison director to head Cabe design review
Allies & Morrison director Diane Haigh has been appointed director of architecture and design review at Cabe.Haigh, who spent 11 years at the practice, has recently worked as project director on the Royal Observatory’s planetarium in Greenwich and was project associate on the Royal Festival Hall refurbishment, both unveiled last ...
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Derwent to expand its portfolio
Developer promises opportunities as it takes on 10 new London sites
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RIBA's new housing space standards
Controversial new standards to eliminate "Noddy boxes" are outdated say critics
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Will Margaret Hodge make a good architecture minister?
Architects have bid a less than fond farewell to MP David Lammy, who has been replaced as architecture minister in the government reshuffle by Margaret Hodge.Lammy, who was widely seen to have displayed little interest in the built environment and was repeatedly criticised by figures including RIBA president Jack Pringle ...
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Six on shortlist for Sheffield Festival Centre
The six designs shortlisted in the competition for a new festival centre in Sheffield include proposals from Carmody Groarke, HLM and Prue Chiles
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Call for riders for Cycle to Cannes 2008
Registration for next year’s charity bike ride from London to Cannes for the Mipim Property Fair opens next week. Cycle master Peter Murray explains why you should sign up
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Prescott was advised to refuse Vauxhall Tower
Former deputy prime minister John Prescott gave planning permission for Broadway Malyan’s 50-storey Vauxhall Tower even though his own advisers recommended he refuse it, saying it would damage a world heritage site. A newly released planning document sourced by former Tory environment secretary Kenneth Baker after a prolonged battle (News, ...
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Erick van Egeraat wins Tatarstan library competition - images
Erick van Egeraat has won an international competition to design a national library in Kazan, capital of the Republic of Tatarstan
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News Junkie: 30 June and 1 July
What may 'surprise on the upside' later this year? How might a 'new-new paradigm' protect the British property market from US recession? Who 'relaxed in embroidered slippers in his winged armchair'? Answers below...
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Poor city centre letting down capital’s image
Design for London says millions needed for public realm to match other European cities
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Art of restoration on display in the Orkneys
Saturday sees the reopening of the Pier Arts Centre in the Orkney town of Stromness, following the completion of a £4.5 million expansion by Reiach & Hall.
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Unesco danger list reprieve for London
Capital gets a year’s grace but critics blast heritage decision as a ‘fudge’
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Creative services boost UK economy
Lack of diversity, a low level of educational funding and poor public perception are stalling the progress of the architectural profession, according to a study likely to shape government policy on the creative industries.
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Go-ahead for 2012 sailing venues...
A sailing venue slated by the Cabe design review panel is one of two Olympic sailing projects in Dorset to be granted planning permission.