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NewsGalleries rediscover the blank canvas
London’s Frieze Art Fair, which opens this weekend, has reignited the debate over what makes the best art space. Is it a white cube or a cubic fantasy?
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NewsParks face funding threat
Report warning over upkeep of green space as council drops phase two of Northala Fields
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NewsHopkins favourite for Chiswick House work
English Heritage interviewed Hopkins Architects and five other shortlisted contenders for the hugely controversial extension and regeneration of Chiswick House and Gardens last week.
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NewsLiverpool’s status in danger
Unesco to consider whether city retains World Heritage status, following concern over new developments
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Cut obesity with design, says Cabe
In the same week the Department of Health announced Britain was the fattest nation in Europe — with 24% of adults clinically obese — Cabe has released a report that champions urban design as the key to tackling the problem.
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RIBA hotel contest hit by PPS7 difficulties
A high-profile RIBA competition to design a boutique country-house hotel is likely to fall at the first hurdle as it comes up against PPS7, the legislation which governs development in rural areas.
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Civic Trust has radical plans for Huntingdon
Radical plans to transform the historic Cambridgeshire town of Huntingdon have been proposed by the Civic Trust.
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NewsFive young architects shortlisted for 2006 YAYA
The five practices shortlisted for the 2006 Young Architect of the Year Award were announced last Thursday.
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Cabe chief wins 19% pay rise
Documents released by the cabinet office reveal that Cabe’s chief executive Richard Simmons received a 19% pay increase —more than seven times the rate of inflation — to earn in excess of £132,000 in salary, bonus and pension contributions in the year ending March 31, 2006.
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BRE backs Rouse on suburban expansion
The Building Research Establishment this week added its voice to growing calls for a government rethink on suburbs and the inner city.
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NewsIt’s all academic
Conservative leader David Cameron pledged his support to prime minister Tony Blair’s city academy scheme this week as he opened the latest school by Foster & Partners, the London Academy in Edgware.
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NewsPlay it again, Frank
Brighton & Hove Council’s Policy & Resources Committee gave the go-ahead to Frank Gehry’s controversial King Alfred scheme last week.
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Young practices compete for Aylesbury masterplan
Young practices including S333, Witherford Watson Mann and de Rijke Marsh Morgan are among those competing to masterplan the redevelopment of a huge council estate which has become a graveyard for previous schemes.
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HOK team is favourite for Olympic stadium
HOK with Robert McAlpine and Buro Happold were tipped as the hot favourites to land the prestigious contract for the Olympic stadium this week, with insiders claiming the consortium was the only serious contender.
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RIBA adopts ‘contraction and convergence’ model
The RIBA has become one of the first professional institutes in the UK to sign up to the “contraction and convergence” approach to managing climate change.
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NewsGreen light for Edinburgh offices
Planning permission has been granted for Michael Laird Architect’s £15.2 million designs for a new open-plan office complex in central Edinburgh, on behalf of Kenmore Property Group.
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Battersea scheme ‘not abandoned’
Parkview International has insisted that it is pressing ahead with Arup’s masterplan to redevelop Battersea Power Station, despite reports to the contrary.
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NewsThe future’s rosy
Sheppard Robson has won planning permission for the Rose Bowl, a development for Leeds Metropolitan University’s faculty of business and law.