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NewsArchitects draw up plans to adapt ExCeL centre for Olympics
Allies & Morrison, Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Populous have drawn up plans to adapt London’s ExCeL conference centre into a venue for the 2012 Olympics.
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NewsNine Elms tube station crucial for Battersea development
An extension to London’s tube network is crucial for the future of Rafael Vinoly’s redevelopment of Battersea Power Station, developer Treasury Holdings warned this week.
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NewsFootballer's sustainable house delayed
Make’s design for a flower-shaped eco house for Manchester United captain Gary Neville has been delayed.
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NewsEbbw Vale Environmental Resource Centre completed
Design Research Unit Wales has completed work on its £315,000 Environmental Resource Centre in Ebbw Vale.
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NewsVinoly’s Walkie-Talkie inches closer
Land Securities is set to form a joint venture with fellow developer Canary Wharf Group to build Rafael Viñoly’s 150m-high Walkie-Talkie tower.
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NewsUS green building standards ignore air quality, says report
The American green building accreditation system LEED has come under attack from health researchers who claim it conveys a “false impression of a healthy and safe building environment”.
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NewsLDA search for green scheme development partner
The London Development Agency is seeking architects and development partners for a major new mixed scheme in east London, which it hopes will cash in on enthusiasm for the area in the run up to the 2012 Olympics.
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NewsBelsay Fellowship awarded to architecture student
Newcastle University architecture student Ciarán Treanor has won the prestigious Belsay Fellowship which allows young artists to exhibit their work alongside leading contemporary artists.
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NewsNY's High Line wins environmental design award
The High Line in New York has won a D&AD Black Pencil for Environmental Design.
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NewsNominations open for the Hackney Design Awards
Nominations for the Hackney Design Awards 2010 have opened, with any building completed in the borough since September 2008 eligible.
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NewsFears for court plans as axe falls on Birmingham
Denton Corker Marshall scheme indefinitely postponed in savings drive.
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NewsCurtain rises on three theatre schemes
New projects for Regent’s Park, Great Yarmouth and Bangor
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NewsCabe draws up report on store-led schemes
Cabe is putting the finishing touches to a major planning report it hopes will lead supermarkets to rethink the design quality of their major schemes
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NewsUse architects to drive up housing standards, Cabe argues
Every publicly funded housing project should involve a competition or interview to select an architect, Cabe’s chief executive has argued in a new report on how to drive up design quality.
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NewsSchools secretary in new attack on BSF architects
Education secretary Michael Gove has once again claimed that architects working on the £55 billion BSF programme represent a waste of taxpayers’ money.
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NewsNew practice emerges as Buschow Henley splits
Buschow Henley is to relaunch itself as Henley Halebrown Rorrison.
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NewsODA scraps main Olympic wind turbine
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has abandoned plans to install a 130m-high wind turbine on the Olympic park site in Stratford, east London, citing “limited commercial interest” in the project.
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NewsConstruction summer ends for Antarctic modules
All seven modules of the Halley VI Antarctic Research Station, designed by Hugh Broughton Architects and Aecom, are now erected and clad after a second successful construction season
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NewsPawson triumphs as Design Museum winner
Appointment marks the final stage for transformation of the listed Commonwealth Institute