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    Top names join education drive

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    Architectural superstars will teach the ipod generation an appreciation of the built environment under a Cabe initiative launched by Norman Foster this week.

  • The Victoria and Albert Museum in Kensington, London
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    This Week

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    The week in brief …

  • London Bridge
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    Bridge of sighs

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    The notoriously crowded and disorientating London Bridge station this week took one step closer to its future with the announcement that the Thameslink 2000 scheme has won planning permission after nine years of legal wrangling.

  • Lemley: “keen to return” to his US firm.
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    Lemley resigns as ODA chair

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    The chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, Jack Lemley, announced his shock resignation on Wednesday just days after appointing HOK with Buro Happold and Robert McAlpine to design the main Olympic stadium, as tipped in last week’s BD.

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    Experts to review ‘radical’ heritage plans

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Government-appointed experts are to meet in the next two weeks to review the “radical” Heritage White Paper, set to be published before Christmas.

  • 140 Boomerangs project, in which modular boomerang forms can easily be assembled to make varying configurations
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    Boomerangs a high flier

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    This is the third year in which the Architecture Foundation has made a travel award for UK students of architecture, sponsored by KPF.

  • MacCormac: practice “in freefall”.
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    ...while MacCormac suffers fallout following BBC loss

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Award-winning practice MacCormac Jamieson Prichard is continuing to suffer the aftershocks of losing its flagship Broadcasting House project, with the departure of two of its remaining six directors, it emerged this week.

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    A place in the City

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    This design by Rem Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolitan Architecture for a new HQ for banker Rothschild next to Christopher Wren’s St Stephen Walbrook church in London has been submitted for planning permission. If successful, it will be the practice’s first building in the City.

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    Five go for gold as Maze makes

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Five international practices have been shortlisted to design Northern Ireland’s new multi-sport stadium on the site of the former Maze prison.

  • The four-storey apartment building will contain seven units.
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    Where parapets conceal solar secret

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Architect Richard Pain has submitted designs for these apartments in Hampton Wick, Surrey, for planning approval.

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    Foster and Farrell stand to attention for barracks

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Norman Foster and Terry Farrell are among the architects competing to design a residential scheme for Chelsea Barracks, the biggest site to be sold in London for a decade.

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    Grimshaw expands Excel

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Grimshaw has released the first images of its proposals for the next phase of the much-maligned Excel conference centre in London’s Docklands.

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    Sealed with a Bow

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    Glazed look

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Stephenson Bell has won a competition to design an office for Fountain Street in Manchester city centre.

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    Salisbury council move to listed site approved

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Stanton Williams has received planning approval and listed building consent for its scheme to bring together the seven disparate offices of Salisbury District Council into one building at Bourne Hill, Salisbury.

  • The Tabard Square development in Borough
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    The Tabard Square development in Borough

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    This striking 22-storey tower by Rolfe Judd Architects and Berkeley Homes has won a design honour at this year’s Housebuilding Innovation Awards.

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    PRP Gateway scheme goes in for planning

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    PRP Architects’ masterplan for a £200 million re-development scheme in the Thames Gateway has been submitted to Basildon District Council for outline planning.

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    Nightingale nets five Welsh jobs

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Firms toast Designed for Life wins

  • Glasgow’s Briggait development will feature an atrium built around a 17th century steeple.
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    Scotland

    2006-10-20T00:00:00Z

    Action centre Glasgow City Council has launched its £489 million, five-year City Centre Action Plan. The scheme will develop the area, expand Glasgow’s existing regeneration projects and increase its retail sector. It also aims to attract an extra 4,000 residents to the area.

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