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NewsBlears tells homes quango to promote good design
Communities secretary Hazel Blears called on the new Homes & Communities Agency to champion good design last week, as the super-quango revealed new details of its structure.
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Boris proposes three-year plan for affordable homes
Mayor Boris Johnson has opened negotiations with London boroughs to agree a programme to deliver 50,000 affordable homes over the next three years.
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NewsWork starts on LCE Architects’ eco-friendly sports centre
Designs for a £4.3 million eco-friendly sports and community centre by LCE Architects have been unveiled by Westminster City Council.
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MAD's Superstar scheme
Archibabble has returned, not that the pretentious twaddle architects are capable of ever went away, but we’re re-starting our search for the worst of “wisdom” shared. Here’s our first particularly mad entry.
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NewsAstearchitecture’s platform perches in the Austrian Tyrol
Austrian practice Astearchitecture has designed this steel and timber viewing platform, which perches 3,200m above sea level on Mount Isidor in Tyrol, western Austria.
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NewsMake at the movies
Make’s designs for a stainless steel luxury hotel and Odeon cinema on Leicester Square in central London have been approved by Westminster City Council.
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NewsCabe can't let Victoria scheme go
Cabe still has major concerns about Kohn Pederson Fox’s (KPF) troubled masterplan for Victoria in central London, despite a massive overhaul of the proposals, BD has learnt.
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American architecture billings index shows drop-off in government work
The latest American Architectural Association’s Architecture Billings Index suggests that previously safe government work has begun to be hit by the credit crunch.
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NewsMoxon's 'hedgehog' office submitted for planning
Moxon’s designs for an £8 million spiky office building, already dubbed the "hedgehog" have been submitted for planning in Preston, Lancashire.
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NewsFuksas' Peres Peace House to open in Israel
A ceremony to inaugurate the Peres Peace House at Jaffa in Israel, by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, is to be held this week.
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NewsDelft ideas competition is first step to rebuild fire-ravaged architecture faculty
Delft University of Technology, TU Delft, has launched an international ideas competition to re-design its faculty of architecture building, which was devastated by fire earlier this year.
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NewsAngus Meek wins Weston-super-Mare pier rebuild
Bristol-based architect Angus Meek Architects has won the competition to redevelop Weston-super-Mare’s fire-ravaged Grand Pier, beating off competition from five firms including Grimshaw.
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NewsCabe lukewarm on Fosters' Crossrail station
Cabe has given a cautious welcome to Foster & Partners’ design for a Crossrail station at Canary Wharf.
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NewsSweeping to victory
The Manser Practice’s Barry Mullin has won this year’s overall RIBA Downland Prize.
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NewsJohn McAslan Victoria scheme goes in for planning
Developer Land Securities has submitted its third and final planning application for the redevelopment of Victoria in London with this residential scheme by John McAslan & Partners.
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NewsCalatrava makes legal claim on Chicago property after fee dispute
Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has filed a lien — a legal claim to a property —against the Irish developer of the Chicago Spire in North America, claiming he is owed in excess of $11.3 million (£6.5 million).
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RMJM wins contest for Istanbul mixed-use scheme
RMJM has won a competition to design a £600 million mixed-used development in Istanbul’s new financial district.
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NewsFoster’s Lenbachhaus revamp goes on display
Foster & Partners designs for the modernisation and expansion of the Lenbachhaus museum in Munich will be previewed in a special exhibition at the museum itself.