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NewsCabe to act as enforcer for Gateway ‘design pact’
Cabe has been appointed to perform an audit of the design quality of all new housing built in the Thames Gateway between now and 2010, it was announced at last week’s Thames Gateway Forum.
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NewsHolland Park city academy by Aedas
Aedas has revealed designs for a city academy in Holland Park, controversially replacing the existing school, London’s first ever purpose-built comprehensive, and building on playing fields.
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NewsLincoln museum takes top honours
Panter Hudspith Architects’ museum in Lincoln, the Collection: Art & Archaeology, has been named as the overall winner in the Concrete Society’s 2006 Awards for Excellence in Concrete Construction in the buildings category.
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Carillion’s PFI campus wins sustainability award
Carillion’s £50 million Queen Margaret University College, PFI campus development in Musselburgh, Scotland, has been chosen as the winner of The Concrete Centre’s Sustainability Award for 2006.
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Tees Valley says yes to Marge Simpson’s hair
A flagship development near Middlesbrough by architects including Will Alsop, Grimshaw, Feilden Clegg Bradley and Studio Egret West will go ahead after terms were agreed with developer BioRegional Quintain.
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NewsBD sweeps the board with four awards
Building Design has swept the boards at the prestigious International Building Press awards, beating publications across the construction industry to the coveted title of Magazine of the Year.
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McCloud blasts changes to Castleford bridge
Kevin McCloud, presenter of Channel 4’s forthcoming series on the Castleford regeneration project, has raised fears over the design quality of the scheme’s “jewel in the crown” development with an extraordinary attack on lead client Wakefield Metropolitan District Council.
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Carbon neutral homes for Prince’s Poundbury
Prince Charles has handpicked an architectural practice to design a carbon-neutral extension to his flagship Poundbury development in Dorchester.
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NewsBetter late than never
More than 30 years after his death, Le Corbusier’s l’Eglise Saint Pierre in Firminy-Vert, France, has been inaugurated.
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LDY to masterplan Buncefield fire site
A year on from the devastating fire at the Buncefield oil refinery in Hertfordshire, Llewelyn Davis Yeang has been appointed to masterplan a new 324ha business park for the site.
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NewsBrixton beacon
The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has praised a Brixton housing estate by Bill Dunster Architects and PRP as the model for all new housing in the Thames Gateway.
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Ken fumes at climate change underestimate
All the climate change predictions for London to date have been wrong, mayor Ken Livingstone revealed at last week’s Thames Gateway Forum.
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Arb bid to protect consumers
Following a BD investigation, the Arb pledges to address consumer complaints and compensation claims
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Gateway hosts school of urban renaissance
A world-leading school of urban rennaissance is to be set up in the Thames Gateway, communities secretary Ruth Kelly announced on Wednesday.
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NewsA slammer with glamour
Nightingale’s works with ex-prisoner to produce scheme where construction training rehabilitates inmates
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Cambridge launches earn-and-learn part II
Cambridge’s School of Architecture has come back fighting, with plans to introduce a radical new part II that would see students spending half of a two-year course with practices such as Foster & Partners, Allies & Morrison and BDP.
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Back rent added to RRP claim
Marco Goldschmied has sued Richard Rogers and John Young for rent that has not been paid on the Richard Rogers Partnership’s landmark offices and the next-door River Cafe.