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Bishop promises to ensure transparency
London’s new design director, Peter Bishop, has pledged to use “transparent and open” appointment processes for architects working with Design for London, the new body incorporating the Mayor of London’s Architecture & Urbanism Unit and the design arms of the LDA and Transport for London.
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McCloud discussions with green developer
Television presenter Kevin McCloud is in talks with environmental developer BioRegional Quintain about a possible collaboration in his bid to build a flagship housing development.
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NewsBirmingham skyscraper could signal high-rise era
Tall buildings in Birmingham are set to reach new heights following a landmark planning decision last week.
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NewsFarmhouse HQ for River Cottage
Satellite Architects is behind these designs for celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s new River Cottage HQ at Park Farm, Devon.
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PRP to join Piano at St Giles
Housing specialist PRP has been drafted in to work with star architect Renzo Piano on a landmark development in central London.
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NewsPrivate view
The Avenue, designed by Sheppard Robson creative director Tim Evans, has become the latest building to win planning consent at Allied London’s Spinningfields development in Manchester.
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NewsOver the border
Danish architects may be hampered by a restrictive high-rise policy in Copenhagen, but on the other side of the 16km long Øresund Bridge in Malmö, Sweden, CF Møller Architects has won a competition to design the town’s second skyscraper.
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Polish body complains to Arb about accreditation
The Polish Chamber of Architects has written to Arb to complain about its treatment of part-qualified Polish architects in the UK.
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BD's Carbuncle Cup: Call for nominations
As the Golden Raspberries are to the Oscars so the Carbuncle Cup is to the Stirling Prize.
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Welcome to ‘Superbia’
Housing Corporation chief Jon Rouse challenges the high-density urban orthodoxy
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‘Architects needed for nuclear programme’
Government plans to build a new generation of nuclear power stations will provide a valuable source of work for architects, energy minister Malcolm Wicks suggested this week.
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NewsPeter Bishop chosen for London’s top design job
Architects hail Camden director as ‘someone designers can relate to’
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Reform group anger as Arb uses loophole to raise fees
A further schism opened in the troubled Arb board last week when the chair and chief executive approved the use of an extraordinary postal vote to pass an increase in Arb’s retention fee.
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NewsEx Grimshaw firm to restore Cutty Sark
The Cutty Sark restoration, now being led by former Grimshaw architects Youmeheshe, is to go ahead after being awarded an £11.75 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
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Newcastle signs up big names for housing expo
Newcastle City Council has signed up a host of top name architects for its 2010 housing expo in a bid to develop new ways of dealing with housing market failure in the region.
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NewsLeeds takes the high-rise lead
While in London the debate over tall towers rages, Leeds is ploughing ahead.
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Six compete for Docklands zero-carbon development
Six consortiums have been shortlisted for London mayor Ken Livingstone’s “zero-carbon” development at Gallions Park in the London Docklands.
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NewsBack to school
Rem Koolhaas has revealed his design for a new building at the Cornell University College of Architecture, Art & Planning, in New York, where he studied architecture in the 1970s.