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NewsNews Junkie: 19 and 20 May
In this week's patriotic issue: Britannia harvests the waves, the planning White Paper dismays Lady Caroline Cranbrook, anaerobic digestion in our homes and an 'in-your-face scrotum' at the Chelsea Flower Show.
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Foster faces the critics
NEWS: Foster denies "similarity" between new Abu Dhabi city and Koolhaas scheme...NEWS:...as financial watchdog questions winding up of employee share scheme. DEBATE: Will Foster's deal with 3i be good for the practice?
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RIBA local awards announced
The local chapters of the RIBA have named the winners of their annual awards. Winners include Sandy Wilson's Pallant House extension in Chichester and John McAslan's refurbishment of The Roundhouse in north London.
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NewsCabe blasts design for 2012 venue
Cabe has slammed designs by Atkins for a 2012 Olympic sailing venue as “overcomplicated” and “lacking conviction”.
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NewsGateway housing failures exposed
Landmark report issues call for action to improve design quality in the Thames Gateway
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Gordon Brown's eco-towns
Brown sets out to prove his "green" credentials with sustainable housebuilding boom
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NewsNews Junkie: 12 and 13 May
In this week's bumper despatch: a boom in married singletons, David Dimbleby thinks Modernism didn't quite work, why 15 newts cost £315,000, and how an art gallery's credibility disappeared up its own Banksy.
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NewsEH brain drain risks reputation
Number of in-house architects at English Heritage falls by 40% in three years
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NewsJustice centre work draws to a close
Denton Corker Marshall’s landmark £113 million Manchester Civil Justice Centre will finally be completed this month, just as client Department of Constitutional Affairs (DCA) is swallowed up by the newly created Department of Justice.
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NewsWe will not repeat 60s, architects tell Lammy
Pringle dismisses Lammy criticism as ‘playing to the gallery’
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NewsRIBA brings in register of political interests
Senior figures at the RIBA will have to declare membership of political parties and other groups such as the Freemasons after strict new rules were introduced in the wake of BNP member Peter Phillips’ bid for the presidency last year (News June 16, 2006).
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NewsArmitt is new ODA chair
John Armitt, former chief executive of Network Rail, has become chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority and will join two new high-profile members of the organisation’s expanding design team.
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News3i poised to take a stake in Foster’s
Private equity group 3i is expected to sign a contract to take a minority stake in Foster & Partners by the end of next week.
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NewsCanada Water shapes up with landmark library
Southwark Council has granted planning for this library at Canada Water in south-east London.
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NewsNew life for Spitalfields
Jestico & Whiles’ refurbishment of the Victorian Spitalfields market has received planning permission and is now on site.
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NewsBradford tower plan submitted
Plans for a £150 million mixed-use development in Bradford by Glenn Howells Architects, including this 38-storey glass tower, have been submitted to Bradford council.
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Mann Island project kicks off
Demolition work has begun on the site of Broadway Malyan’s controversial £120 million Mann Island scheme at Liverpool’s Pier Head.
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NewsBath gets green design professor
Bill Gething, a partner at Feilden Clegg Bradley, has been appointed visiting professor of sustainability design at the University of Bath.