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    Racing stripes

    2006-04-21T00:00:00Z

    Stuttgart's new Mercedes-Benz museum, designed by UN Studio's Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos and Tobias Wallisser, has been completed, and is due to open on May 19.

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    Capital designer wanted

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Mayor of London in bid to enhance Architecture & Urbanism Unit and take on high-flying design director

  • Ten years of winners and the runners-up.
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    Stirling stories

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Which buildings should have won? What do judges get up to on the big night? And why do we even need the Stirling Prize? Ellen Bennett digs for dirt in a new book celebrating the award's 10th anniversary

  • The Department of Health has confirmed that new hospitals,
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    Part L sends costs spiralling

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Delays in approving Barts & Royal London mean it must now comply with tough new carbon regulations

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    Kent centre loses out in Gateway

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Funding crisis forces policy changes

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    Government to teach school pupils about architecture

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Architecture minister David Lammy is set to announce a new initiative this spring that will see the built environment used as an educational tool, with the aim of possibly establishing an architecture GCSE.

  • Small Glasgow practice Studio Kap defended the design review system after receiving positive comments for Arduaine House
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    Growing pains in Scotland

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    A year old this week, Architecture & Design Scotland is coming under fire from critics who say it has not tackled issues such as PFI, the skills shortage and education. Will Hurst looks at how the watchdog is faring

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    RRP Cambridge plan refused

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Richard Rogers Partnership's proposals for a 1,000 home development around Cambridge station have been refused planning permission.

  • Wilkinson Eyre’s revised scheme still features a 40-storey tower
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    Wilkinson Eyre reworks Brighton Marina scheme

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Wilkinson Eyre has submitted radically redesigned proposals for Brighton Marina, but kept the controversial 40-storey tower at the heart of the scheme.

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    Planning review ‘flawed'

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Economist Kate Barker's Treasury-commissioned review of the planning system is based on a false premise, claims the South-east England Regional Assembly.

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    Yeang to masterplan Istanbul eco-corridor

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Llewelyn Davies Yeang has won its first major international design competition since the practice launched last year. The architecture, planning and design consultancy will masterplan a 2km-long "ecological corridor" for Istanbul, Turkey, on a site that has been dominated by unplanned development.

  • Demolition has been approved for Westgate House, a 12-storey office  block in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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    Spotcheck: The North-east

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Our weekly regional news round-up

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    MPs urged to name best public design

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    MP Ed Vaizey has submitted an early day motion urging fellow MPs to nominate buildings in their constituencies for the 2006 Prime Minister's Award for Better Public Building.

  • Glass stepping stones entice users into the building.
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    New library draws ‘mystery' fans

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    The first new library to be built in Gloucestershire in 15 years - in the market town of Dursley - challenges the traditional notions of a county library, with its transparent facade and skewed shape.

  • Eldridge Smerin has designed a new west Midlands primary school.
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    Pupils help design school

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Eldridge Smerin has designed a new west Midlands primary school. The £300,000 scheme, for Heart of England School, in Balsall Common, is in for planning. It boasts a colourful new bridge constructed of timber louvers on a translucent polycarbonate structure.

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    ‘Cinderella' role is championed

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Specification writing - described as a "Cinderella activity" in the design process - is to be championed by the newly-launched Specifiers' Design Forum with a publicity drive, conference and CPD programme.

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    Scotland rewrites architecture policy

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Scotland's policy on architecture is to be rewritten just five years after it was introduced.

  • Mendes da Rocha: “godfather” of Brazil’s brutalist movement.
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    Brazilian Mendes da Rocha wins Pritzker

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    Brazil's Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been awarded the 2006 Pritzker Prize for architecture for work stretching back through six decades.

  • Paris’s first major museum since the Pompidou Centre in 1977, the £180 million Musée du Quai Branly, is complete.
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    This Week

    2006-04-13T00:00:00Z

    A round-up of news this week

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    Academies ‘dumbed down'

    2006-04-07T00:00:00Z

    Partnerships for Schools to oversee city academies programme, with new emphasis on ‘value for money'