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NewsManchester’s Simpson is reaching for the heights
Ian Simpson has been asked by developer Albany Crown to add an extra 10 storeys to his approved 44-storey design for its Albany tower in Manchester. The extra height would make it the city’s tallest building.
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NewsPlanning red tape set to be slashed
Work for small practices likely under new proposals, say experts
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NewsFoster's plans for Faustino revealed
Foster & Partners' latest Spanish project embodies the wine-making process
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NewsPlanning white paper to fast-track big infrastructure projects and domestic applications
Proposals to speed up and simplify the creaking UK planning system have won a cautious welcome from architects
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NewsSpending on streets pays back
Well-designed public space raises property prices, says Cabe report
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NewsNews Junkie: 26 and 27 May
This week's harvested zeitguff includes spidery organograms, taste validation, jitter-scrubbing architecture...and how one practice landed a massive job with 'a geography lecture'.
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NewsCutty Sark could be "salvageable", says architect involved in restoration
Simon Beames of youmeheshe has been working on temporary and permanent structures at the south-east London berth of the famous tea clipper. He spoke to Elaine Knutt earlier today to update BD from alongside the ship
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NewsKoolhaas, Foster clash over ‘similar’ designs
No plagiarism but we were first, says Rem, as Foster’s deny any real likeness between schemes
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...as Foster’s faces share plan probe
Foster’s faced a further headache this week as financial watchdog the Employee Share Ownership Centre raised detailed questions over the winding-up of the firm’s employees’ trust before private equity group 3i’s investment in the practice.
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NewsHelp for architects under the hammer
As the Architects’ Benevolent Society’s Big Auction approaches, James Rose finds out what the charity does and why it needs the profession to sit up and take notice
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NewsBrown under fire on building policies
Leadership challenger attacks eco-towns, housing failures and PFI
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NewsMoscow replicas mock Russia’s past, says Save
Moscow’s architectural heritage is under an “immediate, extensive and overwhelming” threat, a report published this week warns.
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Four on Olympic media centre list
BDP, Hopkins, Allies & Morrison and Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson Architects have been short-listed by the Olympic Delivery Authority to design the International Broadcast Centre and Main Press Centre for the 2012 games.
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HIPs face final hurdle
Legal action by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors will be the last hurdle for the government’s controversial Home Information Pack proposals after the failure of a Parliamentary challenge by the Tories.
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NewsV&A picks Findlay for Dundee site
The Victoria & Albert Museum is planning its first outpost in Scotland under a collaboration with the University of Dundee and architect Kathryn Findlay.
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NewsYet another system in safety scare
Widespread problems with Reema system-built flats prompted urgent investigations by several local authorities in 1985
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NewsToo many mediocre schemes in Gateway, says report
The Williams report on the design of affordable housing says the Housing Corporation must change its method of procurement to improve the quality of design
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Make’s Birmingham revamp
Planning has been granted for Make’s City Park Gate masterplan, which will link Birmingham’s city centre with the Eastside area.