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    Arb reprimand for misconduct

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

    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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    This week

    2007-07-06T00:00:00Z

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    Architecture Week axed

    2007-07-05T13:52:00Z

    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cancelled after the Arts Council scrapped funding for the annual event amid fears that it could become irrelevant and out of date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

    2007-07-05T00:00:00Z

    Architects re-engage with housing as RIBA launches new policy

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    Hospital robots spark design row

    2007-07-05T00:00:00Z

    Safety fears challenge Keppie Design’s ‘future for medical architecture’

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    Young firms celebrate Olympic shortlisting

    2007-07-05T00:00:00Z

    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

    2007-07-05T16:03:00Z

    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 ...

  • Stanton Williams will redevelop Riverwalk House.
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    Derwent to expand its portfolio

    2007-07-05T00:00:00Z

    Developer promises opportunities as it takes on 10 new London sites

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    RIBA's new housing space standards

    2007-07-04T17:29:00Z

    Controversial new standards to eliminate "Noddy boxes" are outdated say critics

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    Will Margaret Hodge make a good architecture minister?

    2007-07-04T13:29:00Z

    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

    2007-07-04T12:44:00Z

    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

    2007-07-04T12:19:00Z

    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

    2007-07-03T19:14:00Z

    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

    2007-07-03T15:31:00Z

    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

    2007-07-03T14:59:00Z

    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

    2007-06-29T00:00:00Z

    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

    2007-06-29T00:00:00Z

    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

    2007-06-29T00:00:00Z

    Capital gets a year’s grace but critics blast heritage decision as a ‘fudge’

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    Creative services boost UK economy

    2007-06-29T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Osprey Quay Marina has been approved despite Cabe’s views.
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    Go-ahead for 2012 sailing venues...

    2007-06-29T00:00:00Z

    A sailing venue slated by the Cabe design review panel is one of two Olympic sailing projects in Dorset to be granted planning permission.