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NewsAukett chief takes pay cut as practice plans lay-offs
The chief executive of Aukett Fitzroy Robinson is taking a pay cut of more than £30,000 as the firm prepares to make at least 20 redundancies.Nicholas Thompson said his 20% drop in wages from this month was part of a wider attempt to save money which will see pay cuts ...
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Sarkozy announces £31 billion budget for Paris transformation
French president Nicholas Sarkozy has unveiled a Euro35 billion (£31bn) budget for the Greater Paris project, which will transform the city’s urban masterplan with new transport links, green spaces and skyscrapers.
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NewsSpare a penny for the cuboctahedron?
A temporary building for the British Red Cross makes the news in 1976
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NewsDot to dot: 01 May 2009
Connect the dots, name the building and send us your answer by 10am on Wednesday May 6, 2009, for a chance to win a copy of the handsomely illustrated Glasgow by Charles Jamieson
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NewsStaff and students’ practice to design Chinese cultural park
A small practice founded by staff and students from London’s Bartlett School of Architecture, including built environment dean Christine Hawley, has won an invited competition to design a cultural park on the site of a former mine in Heyuan City, China.
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NewsDive pool will put Olympic swimmers in the fast lane
Archial has submitted detailed designs for a £10 million 25m dive centre and swimming pool at Southend Leisure & Tennis Centre, one of the pre-games training camps for the London 2012 Olympics.
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NewsBattle brewing over Commonwealth plan
Heritage groups angered as Design Museum scheme seeks to ditch original institute features
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Leeds United plans kick off
KSS has won planning approval to redevelop part of Leeds United Football Club’s stadium
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NewsLights go on at Candle House
A twisting 23-storey residential tower by Carey Jones Architects in Leeds was topped out last week at a ceremony attended by industry and council representatives.
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Watchdog boosts public sector role
Cabe has expanded its support to public sector bodies by adding around 40 design professionals to its enabling panels. The buildings, urban design and homes panel has grown from 162 to 191, while the Cabe Space panel has increased from 110 to 120.The watchdog said the expansion was to reflect ...
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Deluge of entries expected for Glasgow School of Art competition
A competition to design a new building for the Glasgow School of Art has attracted unprecedented levels of interest, with the organiser predicting possible success for a young practice.
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NewsOlympic site hope for Skylon bid
Campaigners behind a plan to recreate Powell & Moya’s iconic Skylon structure have entered into negotiations to find a site for the project in the 2012 Olympic park in Stratford, east London.
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Scottish watchdog could be more like Cabe
The Scottish government has published a report on watchdog Architecture & Design Scotland which proposes a “significant restructuring of the organisation”.
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NewsArup's institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge
The latest addition to the University of Cambridge’s science and technology campus opened its doors last week.
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NewsRMJM's Louisiana cancer research centre on site
RMJM has designed a cancer research centre in New Orleans, which will provide support to residents of Louisiana, the US state with the highest rate of cancer deaths in the country.
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NewsHeritage groups dismayed at Koolhaas's Commonwealth Institute proposal
Battle lines have been drawn over the future of London’s Commonwealth Institute after plans for a radical redevelopment of the grade II* listed building were submitted by Rem Koolhaas and fellow Dutch architect West 8.
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NewsRojkind Arquitectos and BIG win Tamayo museum competition
Mexican practice Rojkind Arquitectos and Danish practice BIG has won a competition to design a new 3,500 sq m branch of the Tamayo Museum on the outskirts of Atizapan, Mexico.