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Smithfield report excludes Farrell plan
A proposal by Terry Farrell to turn part of London’s Smithfield Market into a conference and exhibition complex was excluded from his report on the area at the request of English Heritage.
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NewsDTI invites Pringle to join sustainable energy group
The RIBA’s bid to influence government policy on climate change has received a huge boost as part of a new initiative involving president Jack Pringle and the government’s chief scientist David King.
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Tenders take too long, says report
PFI contracts take too long to tender for and are attracting bids from too few consortia, according to a new report from the National Audit Office.
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Laing O’Rourke agrees five years
The SMC Group has hailed a new five-year new framework agreement with contractor Laing O’Rourke.
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NewsTrust helps to house refugees
A project to house refugees on the Burma/Thailand border has won more than £7,000 funding from the RIBA and Institution of Civil Engineers’ McAslan bursary.
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NewsLambeth agrees PRU design
The London Borough of Lambeth has granted planning permission for a new Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) designed by Ellis Williams Architects.
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What's been hot at this year's Mipim
A new City office scheme by FOA, super-rich Russians on a shopping spree and Manchester's miniature marvels - some of the highlights of this year's property fair
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NewsHiggs Young’s entry to the Stockholm library competition
Higgs Young Architects was not shortlisted for its submission to the city library design competition in Stockholm.
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NewsMFA’s entry to the Stockholm library competition
MFA's design for the new library extension uses the landscape of Observatory Hill in three significant ways
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NewsMipim blog: Home from home
Sean Griffiths will be blogging from the Mipim property fair. Yesterday he travelled the 1,500 km to Cannes to hear some hollow platitudes about his home town.
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NewsCharity cyclists arrive in Cannes
After a four day 1,500 km ride across France the team have arrived at the Mipim property fair.
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NewsThe new Wembley stadium: images
Foster's £800 million 90,000 seater stadium is finally complete. Bdonline takes a peak
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The loss of England’s greenbelt
As much as 10,000 acres of greenbelt is under threat from development, the Campaign to Protect Rural England has warned today. Research, conducted jointly with the Guardian newspaper, suggests the most ambitious building programme for more than 30 years is set to have a detrimental effect on protected rural land.The ...
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NewsProviding homes in the hard times ahead
How Bd reported on the challenge to Islington's architects department in 1981
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NewsFuture System's winning Prague library: Full set of images
Last week Future Systems won the competition to design a £48 million extension to the National Library in Prague. View a full set of computer generated images and drawings of the winning schemeMasterplanSectionSectionEast elevationSouth elevationAxonometricExploded viewBook distribution
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NewsNews Junkie: 10 and 11 March
Prince Charles in a pub, seaside towns in decline and a demolition broadcast live on the web in Ian Martin's latest round-up of the weekend papers
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...as Viñoly defends his ‘walkie talkie’
Rafael Viñoly was quizzed over the sustainability of his proposed “walkie talkie” tower this week as a landmark public inquiry on the scheme got under way.
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News‘This seems about safety rather than innovation’
A war of words has broken out over the first open competition for a 2012 Olympic venue after high-level advisers to ODA bosses raised fears over design quality.