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Foster and Farrell stand to attention for barracks
Norman Foster and Terry Farrell are among the architects competing to design a residential scheme for Chelsea Barracks, the biggest site to be sold in London for a decade.
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Grimshaw expands Excel
Grimshaw has released the first images of its proposals for the next phase of the much-maligned Excel conference centre in London’s Docklands.
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Glazed look
Stephenson Bell has won a competition to design an office for Fountain Street in Manchester city centre.
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Salisbury council move to listed site approved
Stanton Williams has received planning approval and listed building consent for its scheme to bring together the seven disparate offices of Salisbury District Council into one building at Bourne Hill, Salisbury.
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NewsThe Tabard Square development in Borough
This striking 22-storey tower by Rolfe Judd Architects and Berkeley Homes has won a design honour at this year’s Housebuilding Innovation Awards.
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PRP Gateway scheme goes in for planning
PRP Architects’ masterplan for a £200 million re-development scheme in the Thames Gateway has been submitted to Basildon District Council for outline planning.
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NewsGalleries rediscover the blank canvas
London’s Frieze Art Fair, which opens this weekend, has reignited the debate over what makes the best art space. Is it a white cube or a cubic fantasy?
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NewsParks face funding threat
Report warning over upkeep of green space as council drops phase two of Northala Fields
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NewsHopkins favourite for Chiswick House work
English Heritage interviewed Hopkins Architects and five other shortlisted contenders for the hugely controversial extension and regeneration of Chiswick House and Gardens last week.
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NewsLiverpool’s status in danger
Unesco to consider whether city retains World Heritage status, following concern over new developments
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Cut obesity with design, says Cabe
In the same week the Department of Health announced Britain was the fattest nation in Europe — with 24% of adults clinically obese — Cabe has released a report that champions urban design as the key to tackling the problem.
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RIBA hotel contest hit by PPS7 difficulties
A high-profile RIBA competition to design a boutique country-house hotel is likely to fall at the first hurdle as it comes up against PPS7, the legislation which governs development in rural areas.
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Civic Trust has radical plans for Huntingdon
Radical plans to transform the historic Cambridgeshire town of Huntingdon have been proposed by the Civic Trust.
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NewsFive young architects shortlisted for 2006 YAYA
The five practices shortlisted for the 2006 Young Architect of the Year Award were announced last Thursday.
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Cabe chief wins 19% pay rise
Documents released by the cabinet office reveal that Cabe’s chief executive Richard Simmons received a 19% pay increase —more than seven times the rate of inflation — to earn in excess of £132,000 in salary, bonus and pension contributions in the year ending March 31, 2006.