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NewsHKR heart for Dublin
HKR Architects has received planning for Northern Quarter, a €750 million (£510 million) mixed-use scheme in the centre of Dublin.
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Bluecoat arts space topped out
Merseyside’s Bluecoat arts space, redesigned by Holland-based BIQ with Austin Smith Lord and Donald Insall Associates, was topped out last week.
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United front to tackle housing
Housing and regeneration authorities in the North-west are to join forces in a bid to secure the future for a balanced housing market in the region.
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News£8 million for flood recovery
Communities minister John Healey (pictured) last week released £8 million to help 34 local authorities hit by the recent flooding.
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NewsRotunda gets new glass skin
Glenn Howells Architects’ reworking of the Birmingham Rotunda now has a new glass skin.
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Regency upgrade for homeless
John Thompson & Partners has won a limited entry competition to redesign the premises of homelessness organisation St Mungo’s in King’s Cross, central London.
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BD Magazine - July 2007
Sport & Leisure is the focus of this month’s issue, with ideas and inspiration on a sector that certainly isn’t leisurely - but we hope is still sporting
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NewsBrighton street scheme makes blind people "confused and fearful"
Jan Gehl criticised by his own client for Brighton shared surfaces scheme
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Superdense housing must avoid mistakes of the past, warns architects’ report
A new wave of “superdense” urban housing estates must be developed with great care to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, warns a report by four of Britain’s largest housing practices.The study, Recommendations for Living at Superdensity, claims that schemes of between 150 and 500 homes per ha are ...
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NewsNews Junkie: 14 and 15 July
The world goes mad, again. China's caused a shortage of British wind turbines, London's on the isostatic rebound, and now we're all living in Billy Joel's uptown world. On a 'raft of flaws...'
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NewsTate Modern keeps land set for Design Museum
Director’s ambitions to expand museum thwarted as gallery trustees keep its options open
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NewsVelodrome win for Hopkins
This concept design by Hopkins Architects with Expedition Engineering is the winning proposal for the Olympic velodrome.
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NewsGough quits urban group over awards
Architect says academy favours places ‘conceived in the distant past’
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Architecture Week’s done its job, says Livingstone
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has backed the Arts Council’s shock decision to axe next year’s Architecture Week, claiming the national event has fulfilled its purpose, and instead promising to focus on the London Festival of Architecture.
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NewsGovernment backs Viñoly walkie talkie
The government has approved Rafael Viñoly’s highly controversial “walkie talkie” tower, concluding that it would “make a significant architectural contribution to London”.
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NewsBrown plans 40,000 extra homes a year
Prime minister Gordon Brown has outlined his plans to increase the delivery of new homes by an additional 40,000 per year in England and Wales by 2016.
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NewsHadid’s pavilion is third time lucky for Serpentine
Zaha Hadid’s stand-in installation for the Serpentine Gallery was unveiled this week, marking the third design for this year’s ill fated pavilion project.
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NewsFury erupts as Islington rejects tower as ‘too tall’
Cabe has weighed in to defend a planned 39-storey skyscraper by Squire & Partners that has been rejected by Islington Council against the advice of planning officers.
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RTKL purchase swells Arcadis
Dutch engineering firm Arcadis has acquired RTKL Associates, one of the world’s largest architecture, engineering and design firms.