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NewsGehry wins in Hove, but protesters vow to fight on
Council approves scheme by one vote as residents say they’ve been ignored
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Wake up call for seaside regeneration
Architects were hailed as the potential saviours of ailing seaside towns but urged to avoid “quick fix iconography” at a conference on coastal regeneration held on Monday, writes Heidi Ancell
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NewsCorporation decision "ruthless and dictotorial" says Stirling
James Stirling, writing in BD in 1989, defends his Southgate estate in Runcorn after residents voted to have it knocked down
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NewsJim's Runcorn housing in shock demolition vote
How BD reported the news in 1989 that Stirlings Runcorn housing was to be demolished
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Cabe blasts
The BBC is accused of "dumbing down" Sheppard Robson's designs for Broadcasting House. Read our news report and Amanda Baillieu's leader comment
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Gehry wins in Hove, but protesters vow to fight on
As the council approves the controversial scheme by one vote, BD's Marguerite Lazell was there to witness the pantomime, while Heidi Ancell reports on a conference to tackle the UK's ailing seaside towns.
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Can Dubai revamp its image?
Dubai is gearing up to go green. David Littlefield discovers how the city-state is embracing energy efficiency, while Richard Hywel Evans and Nic Jacobs debate whether Dubai is a folly or the future?
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Tate extension gains planning - images
Herzog & de Meuron’s daring extension to the Tate Modern gallery on London’s south bank has been approved by Southwark Council’s planning committee.The pyramid-like development, which Tate hopes to complete in time for the 2012 Olympics at a cost of around £215 million, will extend to the south of the ...
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NewsNews Junkie: 24 and 25 March
Olympic knotweed. Self-build pensioners. The government's new traffic signals. Amphibious buses in Manchester. Fat budgerigars. And more. All in this week's despatch...
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NewsLend Lease goes talent spotting
Olympic village developers looking for 40 ‘world class’ architects
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NewsSerota promises regular architecture shows at Tate
Gallery cites public demand for architecture at launch of Global Cities show based on Venice Biennale
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Surface sing a rainbow...
These otherworldly designs by Surface Architects are part of a newly completed film and visual media research centre for London’s Birkbeck College.
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UK academic comes third in China eco-city competition
British practice Studio 8, headed by Bartlett school of architecture academic CJ Lim, has narrowly missed out on the top spot in a competition to masterplan China’s second major eco-city.
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NewsConsumer group defends Arb’s role
Plans by the Conservative Party to abolish Arb have been slammed by the National Consumer Council as a “backward step”.
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NewsOMA’s ‘Tetris’ tower for Singapore
Rem Koolhaas’s practice OMA has been commissioned to design this 36-storey Tetris-style residential tower in Singapore, its first building in the city.
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NewsHigh-density development ‘blights’ our suburbs – EH
The suburbs are being “blighted” by high-density development, English Heritage has warned.
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News‘In London, the issues raised have vital local resonance’
It is a measure of the extraordinary scale of Ricky Burdett’s Venice show that fitting it into the largest exhibition venue in London has required some radical pruning.
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Heritage fund will lose out
The government has said the Heritage Lottery Fund will lose more than £160 million of funding between 2009 and 2012 because of the spiralling cost of the 2012 Olympics — now £9.3 billion.
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NewsHOK Sport scheme sets example
Housing minister Yvette Cooper has described HOK Sport’s Ashburton Triangle regeneration scheme (pictured) as an example for the Olympics.