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NewsCabe plans hitlist for ‘crap' design
Cabe is asking the public to nominate buildings and places which should be bulldozed, amid rising frustration inside the watchdog at the "crap" standard of development in the UK.
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Six on list for Turner gallery take two
Danish practice Schmidt Hammer Lassen has been named on the star-studded shortlist to design the Turner Contemporary at Margate, four months after Spence and Snøhetta's scheme for the art gallery was scrapped for being vastly over-budget.
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Pay rises more than 5% a year
Architects' pay has risen by more than 5% in the last 12 months, with average salaries ranging from £19,000 for part I students to £80,000 for directors working in London, according to a survey by recruitment agency Adrem.
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Details of new £60K competition revealed
Second phase of scheme to launch this summer as Future Homes
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Lloyd flak over Arb vice chair
Arb chairman Humphrey Lloyd has come under fire from architect board members over his role in the controversial election of vice-chair Sarah Lupton.
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News60 second interview: Peter Ackroyd
Historian Peter Ackroyd talks to Zoë Blackler ahead of his lecture on the Sacred Thames this evening
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NewsFarewell to an anachronism
Built on the cheap, and never meant to last, the Commonwealth Institute's time is up
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Sheffield Civic Trust will champion modern design
The newly formed Sheffield Civic Trust has pledged to fight for good contemporary design in the city. Launched on Monday, the trust says it does not want to act solely as a conservation body.
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NewsFresh brew
This dramatic conversion of a 1940s tea and coffee factory in south-east London has just won planning.
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NewsOff the wall
Images of IM Pei's Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, which will open on July 1 in time for Luxembourg's Capital of Culture celebrations in 2007, were unveiled this week.
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Line of Site appoints high-calibre judges
Judges for all three sections of the Line of Site competition have been appointed, as its first brief reaches its midway point.
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NewsAlsop looks to reunite Toronto districts
SMC Alsop's Toronto office has revealed images of this arresting new residential development, due to become Will Alsop's second built project in the city.
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Green light likely for Cameron's turbine
Conservative leader David Cameron is set to get the green light to install a wind turbine on the roof of his home in Kensington & Chelsea, one of the UK's most conservationist boroughs.
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Academies shortlist
Practices including SMC Alsop, Penoyre & Prasad and Feilden Clegg Bradley are on the shortlist to design 40 city academies and 50 other schools.
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NewsBright future
A new exhibition, Future City: Experiment in Architecture and Utopia in Architecture 1956-2006, opens at the Barbican Art Gallery in London this week.
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NewsScene change
The Royal Shakespeare Company's plan to create "the best theatre for Shakespeare in the world" at Stratford-upon-Avon has moved a step closer as the design for the new theatre is unveiled.
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AF stands firm in face of Glory Hole critics
The Architecture Foundation has robustly defended Glory Hole, its forthcoming art exhibition on architecture and gay sex.
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NewsThe good shepherds
Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano proved themselves the good guys of architecture this week, stepping in to save the London Architecture Biennale's opening event following the 11th- hour withdrawal of Norman Foster.