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NewsAdjaye’s arts centre lives out Bernie Grant’s dream
David Adjaye’s £15 million Bernie Grant Arts Centre opened today in Tottenham, north London. The centre was proposed by the late Bernie Grant, who represented Tottenham in parliament before he died in 2000.
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News‘Unsettled’ Cabe considers its future
Chief executive defends performance despite regional panel concerns
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Doubt cast on PM’s eco-towns plan
A leading sustainability expert, whose firm is working on plans for one of Gordon Brown’s first eco-towns, has questioned the viability of the prime minister’s conference pledge to double the number of schemes.
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NewsHolburne extension appeal wins more time
Eric Parry’s controversial Holburne Museum extension proposals have been given a stay of execution after the Heritage Lottery Fund gave the museum more time to convince Bath planners of the £10 million scheme’s merits.
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NewsChipperfield tunes in to Scots’ BBC
BBC Scotland’s new £180 million headquarters building, designed by David Chipperfield, has won the praise of Gordon Brown. Officially opening the building last week, the prime minister described it as a “design classic”.
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NewsMurphy: ‘cynical’ Cala broke contract
‘Bitterly disappointed’ architect says developer used him as trophy
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BD Careers Supplement September 2007
Boosting your career online, me and my mentor, salary survey + 32 architect employer profiles View the supplement as a digital edition
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The winners of Urban Splash's Tutti Frutti terrace competition
NEWS: Ellis Woodman joins Griff Rhys Jones, Will Alsop and a BBC film crew to pick the winning schemes IMAGES: The 20 houses that will make up Britain's most diverse street
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Architecture minister attacks design quality in the Thames Gateway
NEWS: Margaret Hodge says new housing is "awful" OPINION: Minister is right to raise danger of private-led regeneration
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Architecture00 wins the BD/100% Detail Cool Wall contest
NEWS: Architecture00 takes top billing on the Cool Wall IN PICTURES: Images of all ten constestants
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Planners want more green space
The Town & Country Planning Association has called for more green space in urban developments to help combat climate change and flooding.
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron honoured
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron (pictured) have won the architecture category in the world’s most lucrative art award, the prestigious Japanese Praemium Imperiale.
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DRMM to work on a mobile Tate
De Rijke Marsh Morgan has seen off international rivals to the contract for a feasibility study for a mobile Tate gallery. The practice will also provide design advice for the preliminary stages of the project.
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Perkins & Will opens UK office
Perkins & Will, the second largest architect in the US, has opened its first UK office to handle its work as executive architect on the Merchant Square scheme in Paddington, west London.
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NewsMargate Beach contest winner
Collado Collins has won a competition to design this £600 million mixed-use scheme (pictured) at Margate Beach in Kent.
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Aedas profits fall back
Aedas, ranked fourth in BD’s World Architecture 2007 survey, has recorded an 8% drop in its 2006 pre-tax profit, to £1.58 million, even though its 2006 turnover of £41.6 million represented a 7% rise year on year.
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Six firms shortlisted for garden history museum
AOC, Sarah Hare Architects and Ullmayer Sylvester are among six young firms shortlisted for a competition at the Museum of Garden History on the banks of the Thames at Lambeth.
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NewsContemporary centre set to face Riga’s medieval heritage site
Fletcher Priest has won an international competition to design this 46ha urban centre in the capital of Latvia, Riga.
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NewsSheffield master work
Urbed has submitted its competition-winning masterplan for Sheffield’s £400 million West Bar scheme for outline planning.