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    New centre for Snowdon

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Work has begun on site on the highest building in the UK — a new visitor centre at the top of Mount Snowdon.

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    Hopkins puts service first for Hackney

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    This design by Hopkins Architects for a new multi-purpose service centre for the London Borough of Hackney has won planning permission.

  • Peter Bishop
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    Brixton boost for 100 Public Spaces plan

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    The Mayor of London’s beleaguered 100 Public Spaces programme has been given a massive boost under a £7 million plan to transform Brixton town centre.

  • Victorian Society protesters encircle the pond outside Walthamstow Town Hall with police tape.
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    Stand up and be counted

    2007-05-04T00:00:00Z

    Does the Victorian Society’s boiler-suited protest this week mark a change in tactics for the conservation movement?

  • On the market: The US is looking for a modern secure facility to replace its famed UK embassy.
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    ‘Stand-off’ drives new embassy design

    2007-05-03T00:00:00Z

    HOK chosen for Jakarta as US terrorist fear prompts Grosvenor Square sale

  • “Buildings might become warmer but damper, leading to mould and asthma” Douglas Kent
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    Heritage lobby blasts info packs

    2007-05-03T00:00:00Z

    Energyefficiency measures could harm old buildings

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    Blair's decade: hit or miss?

    2007-05-03T00:00:00Z

    Has the PM put architecture on the map or just kicked the public realm aside? Join the debate

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    Housing in crisis

    2007-05-03T00:00:00Z

    As Britain's largest housing practice slams wasteful competitions, culture minister David Lammy claims housing architects are out of touch with the public

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    Calatrava in Chicago

    2007-05-03T00:00:00Z

    NEWS: Calatrava wins permission to build America's tallest tower. COMPETITION: Win a copy of Taschen's blockbuster review of Calatrava's work.

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    Crystal Palace towers to be rebuilt

    2007-04-30T12:52:00Z

    Brunel's 280ft water towers at south London's Crystal Palace Park will be recreated as sustainable energy towers under plans drawn up by German landscape architect Latz & Partner.The two original towers, which were removed during the second world war, stored water to feed a series of spectacular fountains at a ...

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    News Junkie: 28 and 29 April

    2007-04-30T11:24:00Z

    In this despatch: bins, earthquakes, Cornwall's sulky surfers, a professor of human radiation, 'tall, brick, barley-sugar chimneys thrusting skywards in a thicket', and why God's not Green.

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    Campaign to help minorities

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    RIBA task force sets targets for a ‘gender-balanced’ profession

  • Uncertain future: Sloane Square has been thrown into limbo by the rejection of the plans.
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    Sloane Square revamp dumped by the public

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Ditching of Stanton Williams’ scheme is further blow to mayor’s 100 Public Spaces initiative

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    Herzog & de Meuron scores at Pompey

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron has designed this 36,000-seat stadium for Portsmouth Football Club as the centrepiece of a proposed £600 million harbour-front development by the club and Sellar Property Group.

  • “Retirements loom and there aren’t remotely enough people coming in” - Bob Kindred
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    Retirement ‘time bomb’ threatens conservation

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    The UK’s historic built environment could be damaged because of a retirement “time-bomb” among local authority conservation officers, experts have warned.

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    Eight shortlisted for 2012 Velopark

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Eight teams of architects have been shortlisted to design the Velopark for the 2012 London Olympics.

  • Terry Farrell: Plans to extend his own Edinburgh icon have been scuppered by the developer’s withdrawal
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    Farrell’s Edinburgh extension scrapped

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Designs by Terry Farrell to extend his International Conference Centre in Edinburgh have been scrapped following the shock withdrawal of the developer.

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    Cabe audits its ecological footprint

    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

    Cabe has carried out the most comprehensive audit of an ecological footprint ever conducted by a British public sector organisation.

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    Eldridge Smerin's Highgate house

    2007-04-27T16:15:00Z

    This new house be Eldridge Smerin will replace John Winter's house that was demolished in 2004

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    2007-04-27T00:00:00Z

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