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NewsBetter late than never
More than 30 years after his death, Le Corbusier’s l’Eglise Saint Pierre in Firminy-Vert, France, has been inaugurated.
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LDY to masterplan Buncefield fire site
A year on from the devastating fire at the Buncefield oil refinery in Hertfordshire, Llewelyn Davis Yeang has been appointed to masterplan a new 324ha business park for the site.
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NewsBrixton beacon
The mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has praised a Brixton housing estate by Bill Dunster Architects and PRP as the model for all new housing in the Thames Gateway.
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Ken fumes at climate change underestimate
All the climate change predictions for London to date have been wrong, mayor Ken Livingstone revealed at last week’s Thames Gateway Forum.
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Arb bid to protect consumers
Following a BD investigation, the Arb pledges to address consumer complaints and compensation claims
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Gateway hosts school of urban renaissance
A world-leading school of urban rennaissance is to be set up in the Thames Gateway, communities secretary Ruth Kelly announced on Wednesday.
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NewsA slammer with glamour
Nightingale’s works with ex-prisoner to produce scheme where construction training rehabilitates inmates
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Cambridge launches earn-and-learn part II
Cambridge’s School of Architecture has come back fighting, with plans to introduce a radical new part II that would see students spending half of a two-year course with practices such as Foster & Partners, Allies & Morrison and BDP.
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Back rent added to RRP claim
Marco Goldschmied has sued Richard Rogers and John Young for rent that has not been paid on the Richard Rogers Partnership’s landmark offices and the next-door River Cafe.
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NewsPrize for Inverness Maggie’s Centre
Page & Park has won the £25,000 RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland prize for its Maggie’s Centre in Inverness.
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NewsIkea plans 500 homes a year in UK
Ikea has outlined its plans to build at least 500 identical homes across the UK each year, starting with sites in Gateshead and Scotland.
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News‘Honest architects spend time complying with regulations, fulfilling CPD, carrying the right insurance. All in aid of what?’
Ellen Bennett reports on the human cost of one architect’s breakdown, and why there was no redress
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NewsRising from the ruins
The scaffolding has finally come off Peter Zumthor’s new Diocesan Museum of Cologne, Kolumba, in Germany, due to open next summer.
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NewsModernist furniture banished from Gwynne’s Homewood
Classic pieces of modernist furniture including chairs by Saarinen in Patrick Gwynne’s house, The Homewood, could be put in storage as the National Trust struggles to meet the terms of Gwynne’s will.
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NewsBold as brass
Ken Shuttleworth has found himself caught between a rock and a hard place with these designs for 12 luxury flats, backing onto the Arb headquarters and overlooking the RIBA’s home at 66 Portland Place.
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Green light for Barking Riverside
The largest single housing development in the Thames Gateway has been given planning permission by Barking & Dagenham Borough Council.
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Jowell admits Olympic survey only half done
Culture secretary Tessa Jowell admitted on Tuesday that the survey of the Olympic site in east London was only half completed.
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NewsAtkins gets its quarry
Atkins has won an international competition to design a five-star hotel inside a water-filled quarry in the Songjiang district, near Shanghai in China.