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    Biennale spotlight for front garden campaign

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Terry Brown, senior partner at GMW, is stepping up the campaign to tackle the blight on London streets caused by people abandoning their front gardens and concreting them over for cars and rubbish bins.

  • Austin-Smith Lord’s Renshaw Hall mixed-use scheme in Liverpool combines housing and commercial space.
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    Spotcheck

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    This week: The North-west

  • This £21 million residential and commercial scheme by London-based Biscoe & Stanton architects boasts Cambridge’s first £1 million apartment.
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    One in a million

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    This £21 million residential and commercial scheme by London-based Biscoe & Stanton architects boasts Cambridge's first £1 million apartment. The Belvedere's penthouse overlooks the city from the top of a 34m-high tower, which will be the city's tallest residential building when the project is completed in late summer.

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    Four in running for Manchester job

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Bptw is among four practices shortlisted for a residential scheme next to the Gorton Monastery in east Manchester.

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    Prescott slammed over housing plan water needs

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    A parliamentary inquiry into water management has concluded that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister failed to properly consider how plans for building hundreds of thousands of new houses across the South-east would affect water supplies and sewage plants in the region.

  • Carey Jones’ £17 million residential development in Layerthorpe, York, just 700m from the Minster has been granted planning consent.
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    Yes, Minster

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Carey Jones' £17 million residential development in Layerthorpe, York, just 700m from the Minster has been granted planning consent. The 365sq m scheme, being built by Tiger Developments, will create 158 one and two bedroomed flats alongside the River Foss.

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    RIBA hopeful Phillips rejects isolationist jibe

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    RIBA presidential candidate Peter Phillips has strenuously denied claims on Ribanet he wants to end international membership of the institute if elected.

  • Elements of the north facade have been “peeled out” to provide slot windows facing east and west.
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    Hammersmith office links old and new

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Heber-Percy & Parker has received planning consent for its office scheme at 3 Sussex Place in Hammersmith, west London.

  • Centrepiece of the show is Ian Simpson’s 70 storey tower, Number One Blackfriars.
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    Royal Academy show is delirious hodgepodgery

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    What virtues the Royal Academy summer show can claim have never included much in the way of a cohesion of vision. It is a ragbag and contentendly so. That said, year on year the rest of the exhibition is made to look positively monotonous by the delirious hodgepodgery of the ...

  • Danish practice Schmidt Hammer Lassen narrowly beat O’Donnell & Tuomey to win the competition to design a £55 million library for the University of Aberdeen.
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    Make mine a Danish

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    Danish practice Schmidt Hammer Lassen narrowly beat O'Donnell & Tuomey to win the competition to design a £55 million library for the University of Aberdeen.

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    BD online at the London Biennale

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    BD is the new media partner for the London Architecture Biennale.

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    This week

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    The week in brief

  • The 238th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition opens on Monday with an architecture room curated by Richard MacCormac, Peter Cook and Ian Ritchie.
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    ET comes home

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    The 238th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition opens on Monday with an architecture room curated by Richard MacCormac, Peter Cook and Ian Ritchie.

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    BD is the New Media partner for the London Biennale

    2006-06-09T00:00:00Z

    This is the site for BD's daily coverage of the London Architecture Biennale. Every day between 16 and 25 June we will be bringing you fresh reports from the festival's highlight events, with podcasts of lectures, photographs, gossips and our pick of the day.

  • Anarchitect, 75 Roman Road & 6 Peary Place, London (2006)
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    Twelve practices to compete in Cool Wall debate

    2006-06-08T00:00:00Z

    A dozen lucky practices have been chosen to compete in the BD/100% Detail Cool Wall contest during the London biennale

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    English Heritage sidelined from DCMS listings review

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Commonwealth Institute demolition plan sparks row over future of heritage protection

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    BDP and HLM land Sheffield schools haul

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    BDP and HLM have landed one of the biggest prizes yet in the government's £2.2 billion a year Building Schools for the Future programme, as part of the consortium appointed to rebuild every secondary school in Sheffield by 2015.

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    Mayor doubles green target

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Concern grows over Livingstone's plan to increase requirements for production of renewable on-site energy

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    Public space proposal for Building Centre

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    The chairman of the Building Centre Trust, Spencer de Grey, has outlined plans for a new public space for London outside the centre, where Sheppard Robson's £60,000 house is on display.

  • Charter’s project at Wood Street, Cardiff.
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    Now SMC is UK's second largest

    2006-06-02T00:00:00Z

    Practice leapfrogs Capita with its acquisition of Charter