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  • Gardner Stewart’s mixed-use scheme for the Dairy site next to Parsons Green tube station.
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    Spotcheck

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    This week: London

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    Contract tied up for troubled Barts Royal London hospital

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    The contract for the troubled Barts & the Royal London hospital, designed by HOK, has finally reached financial close.

  • Manchester-based developer Artisan has submitted plans for its first project outside the North-west — this £20 million mixed-use scheme in Sheffield city centre.
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    Artisan in Sheffield

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Manchester-based developer Artisan has submitted plans for its first project outside the North-west - this £20 million mixed-use scheme in Sheffield city centre.

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    SMC Group records huge rise in profits

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    SMC Group, the Stock Market listed architecture firm which recently acquired Will Alsop's practice, has recorded annual pre-tax profits of £2.9 million on a turnover of £13.5 million.

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    Peckham Pulse pool set to reopen in October

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Southwark council has appointed contractor Makers to repair the Peckham Pulse, its flagship public swimming pool which has been closed for more than a year because of leaking pipes.

  • Planning consent has been granted for Broadway Malyan’s £43 million regeneration scheme for the town centre of Urmston, Greater Manchester.
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    Urmston regeneration

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Planning consent has been granted for Broadway Malyan's £43 million regeneration scheme for the town centre of Urmston, Greater Manchester.

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    Nelson's column is ‘pigeon-proofed'

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Nelson's column has been shrouded in scaffolding as restoration work begins at the landmark site in Trafalgar Square. It is the third time the monument has been restored in the last 40 years, and is believed to be the first time this sort of work has been done in the ...

  • Page & Park’s apartments for the Gorbals are arranged in a crescent shape.
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    Glasgow materials are bent into shape

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    This distinctive crescent of apartments in the Gorbals, Glasgow, has been designed by local practice Page & Park.

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    EH favours £510m bored tunnel for Stonehenge

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    English Heritage has rejected four out of the five proposed road schemes for improving access to Stonehenge, and called on the government to implement the most expensive, bored-tunnel option at a cost of more than £500 million.

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    Thermal comfort research

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Researchers at Leicester's De Montfort University are teaming up with academics at the Karlsruhe University in Germany and the Technical University of Denmark to find out more about thermal comfort in green buildings.

  • Blackpool boasts a new attraction — three sculptural wind shelters designed by London architect Ian McChesney.
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    Doing the twist

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Blackpool boasts a new attraction - three sculptural wind shelters designed by London architect Ian McChesney.

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    Four competing for Gateshead Quays

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    CZWG, Ryder HKS, the Fairhursts Design Group and multidisciplinary practice Watkins Gray International have been shortlisted for the prestigious Gateshead Quays phase two development.

  • CZWG, Ryder HKS, the Fairhursts Design Group and multidisciplinary practice Watkins Gray International have been shortlisted for the prestigious Gateshead Quays phase two development.
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    Hospital's green ambition

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Llewelyn Davies Yeang's healthcare team has designed what is hopes will be the world's greenest hospital for the Bouygues consortium as it redevelops the Broomfield Hospital in Essex.

  • Gardner Stewart Architects has won planning permission for 147 homes at Waterstone Park, Dartford
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    This Week

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Events this week ...

  • Feilden Clegg Bradley is working with Alison Brooks and Maccreanor Lavington on Cambridge’s Accordia development, an £80 million residential scheme.
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    Community spirit

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Feilden Clegg Bradley is working with Alison Brooks and Maccreanor Lavington on Cambridge's Accordia development, an £80 million residential scheme.

  • Le Corbusier: Liverpool exhibition in 2008.
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    But Corb may steal the show

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA is committing almost £1 million to bring a major exhibition on Le Corbusier to Liverpool in 2008. The exhibition, curated by the Vitra Design Museum will focus on the architect's furniture and private spaces as well as his architecture. It will be held in the crypt of Liverpool's ...

  • ODA chairman Jack Lemley
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    Olympic design squeeze

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Delivery authority indicates that design-and-build will be adopted for stadiums and budgets will be cut

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    UK risks fines as it flouts European energy rules

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    EC ‘breathing fire and thunder' at UK's inaction over energy directive

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    Regeneration projects at risk in council polls

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Politicians campaign to overturn plans if they win local elections

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    RIBA education plans ‘unrealistic'

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Architecture schools have dismissed the RIBA's proposal for practice to play a key role in architectural education.