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NewsRogers attacks eco-towns as a big mistake
Richard Rogers has launched an extraordinary criticism of the government’s eco-towns project calling it one of the government’s “biggest mistakes”.
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NewsCaruso St John and dRMM among seven architects picked to join 2012 Athletes Village team
Seven leading architects have been appointed to join the team designing the £2 billion London Athletes Village amid a renewed focus on design quality.As the International Olympic Committee visited the capital to check on 2012 progress this week, Athletes Village developer Lend Lease announced it had appointed de Rijke Marsh ...
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NewsBerlin Philharmonie concert hall hit by fire
A blaze at the Philharmonie concert hall in Berlin was believed to be under control this morning, but the full extent of damage to the Hans Scharoun-designed building is still unknown.The fire, thought to have been caused by welding work, struck the world renowned structure yesterday lunchtime after a concert ...
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NewsLipton warns that London's planning sector is over-reliant on Australians
Developer and former Cabe chairman Stuart Lipton has warned MPs that London’s planning sector is over reliant on short-term agency staff from Australia — a situation he claimed is creating a “stop-go” development culture.Speaking at a Parliamentary debate on Monday hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Built Environment Group, Lipton ...
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NewsRobert Gordon University picks BDP as sole designer for new campus
BDP is to design the campus for Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University and six of its buildings, including a new school of architecture. The university’s director of estates Mike Berry said that while it was unusual for one architect to design all the buildings within a masterplan, this approach would help ...
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NewsEisenman: computers dumb down design
Peter Eisenman used the platform at RIAS 2008 to bemoan a culture of passivity among students of architecture
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NewsCabe backs efforts to save ‘ground-breaking’ estate
Review panel’s call for listing renews pressure on Hodge as Rogers urges ‘let’s keep fighting’
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NewsBDP sustainability chief moves west
BDP’s head of sustainability Trevor Butler is relocating to Canada to start a new company which aims to bridge the gap between architects and engineers to realise sustainable buildings.
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NewsEnglish Heritage defends its failure to back Robin Hood Gardens
EH chair says estate 'fails as a place for human beings to live'. Read the statement; watch the video
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NewsRow as JCB boss tries to demolish own house
Experts split over bid to redevelop Chelsea grade II listed Georgian house
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NewsCreative in White City
Dutch practice OMA is dubbing its £2 billion masterplan for White City “Creative London”.
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NewsFosters’ return customer
Fosters & Partners unveiled its latest addition to the City of London skyline this week with the official opening of the 28-storey Willis Building more than three decades after Norman Foster designed his landmark hi-tech Willis Faber building in Ipswich.
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NewsDublin’s new apartments get a Metropolitan look
A new £58 million residential scheme in the north Dublin suburb of Belmayne by Metropolitan Workshop has gone on site after recently winning planning permission.
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NewsBDP looks east in worldwide expansion
Building Design Partnership has acquired its first foreign practice as part of an unprecedented drive to expand its overseas operation.
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Building Regs hinder green refurbs, RIBA tells MPs
Building Regulations are a “barrier” to the government’s carbon reduction targets, the RIBA has told a parliamentary inquiry into retrofitting commercial property.
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NewsBroadway Malyan told to rework Everton plan
Broadway Malyan’s design for a £400 million, retail-led development in Kirkby, including a new stadium for Everton Football Club, has been sent back to the drawing board after being slammed by Cabe and neighbouring local authorities.
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NewsFire devastates Delft architecture faculty
Coffee machine short circuit causes blaze; Delft students and former students share their comments
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NewsRoyal Mail’s stamp of approval
Great British cathedral architecture is celebrated with a set of commemorative stamps issued by Royal Mail this week.
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Roof chosen for Aquatics Centre
Zaha Hadid’s £303 million Aquatics Centre, approved by planners this week, will feature an aluminium standing-seam roof, the Olympic Delivery Authority has revealed.