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  • The Farmscape Production Line
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    The Farmscape Production Line

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Architectural connection: Three of the band have worked at Frederich Gibberd Partnership, and are or were architecture students.

  • The Hipshakes
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    The Hipshakes

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Architectural connection: The band's guitarist, Dan Russell, is a second-year architecture student at Sheffield University.

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    Beamish museum competition shortlist

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Beamish open air museum is a collection of 19th and 20th century buildings rescued from across north-east England and reconstructed in the County Durham countryside. Now, a competition for a £6 million visitors centre, will add a contemporary building to the mix.

  • Home zones
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    Paradise in the parking lot

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    English Partnerships has produced a toolkit that aims to revive our streets. But will this new road map for better car parking design be enough to steer housebuilders in the right direction?

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    Howells and Castlemore take on Leeds city centre

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Glen Howell's domination of the North continued this week with his appointment to develop a £275 million mixed-use scheme in Leeds City Centre.

  • Maber Associates’ mixed-use proposal for Nottingham.
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    Spotcheck

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    This week: East Midlands

  • Beamish’s collection of historic industrial buildings
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    Shortlist of seven for Beamish centre

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    A shortlist of seven practices has been announced for the design of the £6 million visitor centre at Beamish, the North of England Open Air Museum.

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    Presidents Medals hit the road

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    The annual show displaying work by students nominated for the RIBA President's Medals could go as far as Australia next year.

  • Work has begun on the £35 million Baltic Place project in Gateshead, a 13-storey, twin-tower office by Waring & Netts.
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    Tyne and again

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Work has begun on the £35 million Baltic Place project in Gateshead, a 13-storey, twin-tower office by Waring & Netts.

  • German band Hörstreich is one of the bands playing at Architecture Rocks later this month
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    Vote for the best architecture band

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    From Germans with synthesisers and avant-garde Dutch people to teenage Sheffield architecture students - the quest to find architects in rock bands produced diverse and rewarding results.

  • View of Architype’s design for the school, as it would be seen from neighboring tower blocks.
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    Architype's lesson in sustainability

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Bristol City Council has granted planning permission for this sustainable primary school and children's centre designed by Architype. The £4 million scheme will be built on the site of the existing Barton Hill Primary School site, replacing the school as well as nearby Cashmore Nursery.

  • The Architecture Foundation is attempting to answer the question “What would the capital look like if planning controls were removed?”
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    Shanghai on Thames

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    The Architecture Foundation is attempting to answer the question "What would the capital look like if planning controls were removed?"

  • Design for a recycling camp in West Panchsheel Vihar, South Delhi,  by Natalie Horner, a fourth-year student at Maurice Mitchell's practice, Dwyer Mitchell Architects.
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    Course gives training in natural disasters

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Architects will have an opportunity to assist those recovering from natural disasters with the introduction of a new masters degree at the London Metropolitan University.

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    Highways officials ‘stuck in the past'

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Highways officers are thwarting innovative ways to incorporate parking space in new residential developments, according to English Partnerships and Design for Homes.

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    Grimshaw mixes business and pleasure

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Grimshaw Architects has won two major appointments: to design phase 2 of the Excel London centre, and to create a new Winter Gardens in Bournemouth.

  • Grimshaw Architects has won two major appointments: to design phase 2 of the Excel London centre, and to create a new Winter Gardens in Bournemouth.
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    Art of gold

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    The government has given the green light to Rafael Viñoly's visual arts centre in Colchester. The borough council hopes the crescent-shaped building - dubbed "the Golden Banana" - will provide a catalyst for the regeneration of the town's St Boltoph's quarter.

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    This week

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    The week in brief ...

  • Simpson’s Beetham tower in Manchester.
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    Simpson to stop whistle

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Contractor Carillion and Ian Simpson Architects have pledged to silence the "whistling tower", otherwise known as the 47-storey, 168m Beetham Tower in Manchester, Europe's tallest residential tower.

  • L&G is developing this City office scheme designed by Foster & Partners and Jean Nouvel.
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    Cloud descends on City

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    GLA gives reassurances that Foster/Nouvel scheme will not be blocked by protected views

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    Architects closer to super-casino jackpot

    2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

    Simpson, Carey Jones and Chapman Taylor schemes make shortlist