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New CDM guidelines in force
New safety regulations for the construction industry will come into force tomorrow, despite the Tories’ efforts to derail them.
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Booming hotel sector set to rocket
Architects working in the hotel sector have been boosted by a new report predicting rapid growth in the UK market.
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NewsEdinburgh scheme approved
Controversial plans by Gareth Hoskins and Comprehensive Design Architects for this redevelopment in the Edinburgh world heritage site have been approved.
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Blackpool’s regeneration hopes look up
Regeneration task force launched as Lords reject casino decision
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Fat wins its first work for Liverpool
Fat has beaten competition from Marks Barfield, Page & Park and Hawkins Brown to design a new building within Liverpool’s £900 million Paradise Street retail development.
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NewsIvor Cunningham
Ivor Cunningham (pictured), the architect and landscape architect best known for his Mallard Place housing scheme in Twickenham, has died aged 78.
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£3 million helps colliery refurb
English Heritage has given £3 million to help refurbish and secure the future of buildings at Stoke-On-Trent’s historic Chatterley Whitfield Colliery.
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Your direct line to Prince Charles
Next month’s Think07 sustainability and regeneration conference is inviting architects to submit suggestions for climate change pledges to be presented to Prince Charles during his video address to delegates on May 1.
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NewsBDP submits campus plans
BDP has submitted plans for a £120 million campus for Worcester University to include a university town square, an 800-seat open-air amphitheatre and a conference and performance centre.
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ODA masterplan ‘robust’ — Cabe
Cabe has given broad support to the Olympic Delivery Authority’s planning application for its Olympic Games masterplan.
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NewsMoneo’s Prado extension opens
Pritzker prizewinner Rafael Moneo’s modernist extension to the 19th century Prado Museum in Madrid has been completed after a five-year build.
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NewsPublic buildings get energy rating
Public buildings from the House of Commons to local libraries are to get energy ratings similar to those used on fridges.
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Welsh architects’ green proposals
The Royal Society of Architects in Wales this week launched its first architecture manifesto, 21 Actions for a Better Wales, to influence candidates for the Welsh Assembly election on May 3.
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Architect fined over Legionnaires
An investigation into the UK’s worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, which killed seven people in the summer of 2002, has found a catalogue of mistakes by officials at Barrow Borough Council in Cumbria.
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NewsHouse takes the rough with the smooth to bridge buildings gap
This residential property by Alan Camp Architects is shortly due to go on site in south-east London.
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NewsVinoly to masterplan Battersea Power Station
Rafael Viñoly has been appointed to masterplan the redevelopment of Battersea Power Station under a secret competition exclusively revealed in BD.
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NewsPolicy upturn hands streets to designers
Architects called to help revolutionise public space as priority shifts from cars to people
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New CDM regulations launched
New construction safety regulations came into force this week, despite Tory pressure for a delay. Two campaigners give BD the arguments for and against while the RIBAs Richard Brindley assesses the impact on your projects.
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NewsNews Junkie: 31 March and 1 April
This week: the world's first hydroelectric house is restored, posh and scuzzy casinos are compared, and another of Prescott's Pathfinder schemes gets a spanking...