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NewsLarge PFI healthcare projects slashed
Healthcare architects are facing growing competition for work after the government admitted its £12 billion PFI hospital building programme has been slashed by almost £4 billion in the past 16 months.
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Centre for youth design opens
The Sorrell Foundation, which campaigns to involve young people in improving design standards in schools and hospitals, has opened a Young Design Centre.
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Chatham bids for Unesco title
A bid to achieve world heritage status for Chatham Dockyard in Kent will be launched on Thursday next week.
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Seed sculpture debuts at Eden
Nicholas Grimshaw has hailed a unique granite sculpture, dubbed Seed, which will sit within The Core, his education building for Cornwall’s Eden Project.
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NewsTyneside OKs casino makeover
Plans by architect Ryder to convert the former Bannatyne Casino in Newcastle-upon-Tyne into offices have been approved by Newcastle City Council.
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News‘Wonder’ vote on Stonehenge
English Heritage is urging people to nominate Stonehenge as one of the new seven wonders of the world.
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Bradford contest for green homes
The RIBA has set up a competition to create innovative modernisation schemes for Victorian housing in Manningham, Bradford.
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NewsMassie Architects wins royal medal
Graeme Massie Architects has won this year’s Royal Scottish Academy medal for architecture.
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Zaha's Hadid Architects press release on the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre
Growth-simulation processes have been used to develop spatial representations into a set of basic geometries and then superimposed with programmatic diagrams into a series of repeated cycles.
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Axis Design Collective
From Axis Design Collective's entry into the 2006 Euroclad Drawing competition, which asked entrants to "sketch a fresh look for Brighton’s West Pier"
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NewsNews Junkie: 2 and 3 June
This week: how to build a FAT sandcastle, why rooks need fag ends, what a Heteropolitan looks like and how Thatchers' Britain is making a comeback.
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PFI hospitals budget is slashed by £4 billion
Architects say work is drying up for large PFI projects
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NewsPoland calls for its architects to return
Exodus is denting ability to deliver major projects and infrastructure
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NewsGuy’s facade is a wrap
Work is nearly complete on this modular structure by Thomas Heatherwick beneath Guy’s Hospital tower in London.
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NewsUrban Splash canal homes contest for Manchester
Developer Urban Splash has revealed plans for a competition to create the most architecturally diverse street in Britain.
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NewsLend Lease panel for Games village
Olympic village developer Lend Lease has confirmed plans to appoint a panel of around 40 practices to design parts of the village.
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Architecture boosts UK’s economic growth
The architectural profession is a leading player in the recent growth of the UK economy, the Office for National Statistics claims.
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Israel petition ‘misguided’
Architects including Will Alsop, Terry Farrell, Richard MacCormac and Ted Cullinan were wrong to attack Israeli architects for working in disputed territories, British and Israeli professionals said this week.