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Livingstone's London climate change plan
Ken Livingstone has announced a raft of measures to curb the capital’s carbon emissions over the next 20 years. But what do the sustainability experts make of it?
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Read David Heath's resignation letter
In his leaked letter explaining his resignation, the former chief architect at English Heritage cites the recent job cuts and slashed budgets as his reasons for leaving
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Why Cabe is backing Vinoly
Cabe's chief executive Richard Simmons defends the controversial Walkie Talkie
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NewsEnglish Heritage slams Viñoly icon as ‘oppressive’
The battle lines have been drawn for a fight over the future of the London’s skyline, with English Heritage ranged against Rafael Viñoly, Land Securities and the City in a landmark public inquiry.
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NewsContest for Thames bridge to be reopened
Judging panel will include Sydney Opera House engineer Jack Zunz
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NewsConsent for Alsop canal scheme
Planning consent has been granted for a mixed-use scheme by SMC Alsop and ShedKM Architects for a site on the waterside of the Walsall Canal.
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Competition for UK’s 2010 Shanghai Expo pavilion
Small talented practices are being encrougaged to enter a competition to design the UK’s pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.
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EH's chief architect quits over low morale
English Heritage’s chief architect has launched a blistering attack on the beleaguered organisation in a letter of resignation leaked to the press this week.David Heath, who has worked for the heritage body for 20 years, condemned the management of recent job cuts and slashed budgets and complained that he had ...
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Velopark entrants ready for the off
Make, David Morley Architects, Faulkner Browns Architects, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Ryder HKS are all in the running to design the Olympic Velopark. SMC Alsop, S&P Architects and Atherden Fuller Leng are also considering entering the contest, while Foster &Partners refused to rule itself out.
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NewsSwiss win for Warsaw art gallery
The controversial competition to design a new museum of modern art for the Polish capital Warsaw has been won by Swiss architect Christian Kerez. None of the British entrants —which included Gareth Hoskins and Zaha Hadid — made the top three, or even merited a place in the honourable mentions ...
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NewsYoung Brits up for Bloc house job
A rising star of British architecture is the only UK firm shortlisted to design a house in the modernist hot spot of Meudon, near Paris.
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NewsArchitects welcome new Firth of Forth £1bn crossing
Leading architects in Scotland have hailed the announcement of the country’s biggest construction project since devolution — a new road crossing of the Firth of Forth.
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CO2 target requires ‘revolution’
The British Property Federation says it has serious questions about the construction industry’s ability to meet the government’s target for all new homes to be zero carbon by 2016.
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News‘Peter Pan village’ under threat
The Twentieth Century Society has launched a campaign to stop the redevelopment of Thorpeness in Suffolk, dubbed the Peter Pan village because of its association with author JM Barrie.
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Quality not quantity for schools
Tim Byles, chief executive of Partnerships for Schools, this week insisted that the Building Schools for the Future scheme focus on quality rather than speed and quantity.
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Security of tenure set to end
Social housing is set for an overhaul that could spell the end of a council home for life.
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NewsHerzog urges contest reform
Swiss duo Herzog & de Meuron were awarded the RIBA Gold Medal this week.