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NewsBDP submits campus plans
BDP has submitted plans for a £120 million campus for Worcester University to include a university town square, an 800-seat open-air amphitheatre and a conference and performance centre.
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ODA masterplan ‘robust’ — Cabe
Cabe has given broad support to the Olympic Delivery Authority’s planning application for its Olympic Games masterplan.
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NewsMoneo’s Prado extension opens
Pritzker prizewinner Rafael Moneo’s modernist extension to the 19th century Prado Museum in Madrid has been completed after a five-year build.
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NewsPublic buildings get energy rating
Public buildings from the House of Commons to local libraries are to get energy ratings similar to those used on fridges.
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Welsh architects’ green proposals
The Royal Society of Architects in Wales this week launched its first architecture manifesto, 21 Actions for a Better Wales, to influence candidates for the Welsh Assembly election on May 3.
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Architect fined over Legionnaires
An investigation into the UK’s worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, which killed seven people in the summer of 2002, has found a catalogue of mistakes by officials at Barrow Borough Council in Cumbria.
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NewsHouse takes the rough with the smooth to bridge buildings gap
This residential property by Alan Camp Architects is shortly due to go on site in south-east London.
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NewsVinoly to masterplan Battersea Power Station
Rafael Viñoly has been appointed to masterplan the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station under a secret competition exclusively revealed in BD.
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NewsPolicy upturn hands streets to designers
Architects called to help revolutionise public space as priority shifts from cars to people
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New CDM regulations launched
New construction safety regulations came into force this week, despite Tory pressure for a delay. Two campaigners give BD the arguments for and against while the RIBAs Richard Brindley assesses the impact on your projects.
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NewsNews Junkie: 31 March and 1 April
This week: the world's first hydroelectric house is restored, posh and scuzzy casinos are compared, and another of Prescott's Pathfinder schemes gets a spanking...
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The architecture market in China
Architects face the same dilemma that many other industries confront in China: the demand for their services is enormous, but it is devilishly hard to actually make money.
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NewsRichard Rogers clinches the Pritzker Prize for 2007
Richard Rogers has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2007, becoming only the fourth British architect to take the award. Judges praised the RRP founder as "a champion of urban life".
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NewsCabe blasts ‘dumbed down’ BBC HQ design
The BBC has been accused of “dumbing down” the final phase of its flagship headquarters designed by Sheppard Robson.
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NewsBig hitters join Bishop’s team
London design director Peter Bishop signalled the beginning of a new era for design in London this week by unveiling a high-powered and diverse set of architect advisers.
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NewsBad hair day comes good
This tangle of timber is the winner of the AA’s second summer pavilion, inspired by a student’s experience of drying a mass of wet hair.
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NewsSt Botolph’s strong links
Work has begun on this mixed-use scheme in Bishops Square in London by Matthew Lloyd Architects. It includes the conversion of the nearby grade II-listed St Botolph’s Hall.
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NewsSalisbury takes on Arb over proof of insurance
Arb critic and former board member Ian Salisbury has revealed legal advice that he hopes will stop the Arb board disciplining architects who fail to provide evidence of their professional insurance.