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Arb chief speaks out against reform group
The Arb’s new chief executive has criticised the Arb Reform Group in her first interview in the post.
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NewsUps and downs
This office scheme proposed by CTM Architects near Maidstone has won planning permission.
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Specifiers under fire in back injury campaign
The Health and Safety Executive is planning to track down architects who specify heavy blocks that put construction workers at risk.
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‘F’ for green schools
New study reveals ‘exemplar’ schools use five times as much electricity as intended
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Shared surfaces are ‘death traps’ for blind
Shared surface schemes which remove boundaries between pedestrians and vehicles have been attacked in a report by the charity Guide Dogs for the Blind, which describes them as “death traps”.
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NewsUnderground sets out new agenda for design
Managing director pledges to look back to Pick era for inspiration
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Gehry Hove scheme gets more ‘wiggle’
Frank Gehry has redesigned his controversial King Alfred scheme in Hove to have “more of a wiggle factor”.
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Cabe knocks fail to dent Cube
Ken Shuttleworth’s landmark Birmingham development, Cube at the Mailbox, received planning despite mixed comments from a Cabe design review, it emerged this week.
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New twist in saga of Stonehenge visitor centre
English Heritage’s tortuous struggle for a new visitor centre at Stonehenge descended into farce last week when it withdrew its approved planning application for a £65 million scheme by Denton Corker Marshall.
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NewsA new face for London
As London’s first design director, Peter Bishop wants to engage public debate over the way the city looks and works.
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Founder members sought for Green Building Council
The UK’s Green Building Council is about to be formally launched — and founder members are being sought.
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NewsStreet life
Walter Menteth Architects has designed a six-storey, mixed-use scheme on the site of a former school in Deptford, south-east London.
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron win Gold Medal
Herzog & de Meuron has been awarded the 2006 Royal Gold Medal, it was announced this week.
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NewsCarbuncle Cup seeks crimes against design
As the Golden Raspberries are to the Oscars so the Carbuncle Cup is to the Stirling Prize.
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NewsIndustrial designers
DLG Architects received planning permission last week from Kirklees Council for the £175 million Waterfront Quarter development in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
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NewsHadid branches out
This is the Pierres Vives building which has been designed for the administration of France’s Herault sub-region by Zaha Hadid Architects. It is to start on site in Montpellier at the end of this year.