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Planning deals boost Capita's turnover
Multi-disciplinary giant Capita Symonds has cited its controversial but lucrative planning deals with local authorities as one of the reasons for its 23% rise in turnover to £200 million in 2005.
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Alsop to advise Arup on China's Dongtan project
Will Alsop has been recruited to advise Arup on sustainable energy supply for the massive new city it is designing in China.
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Architects chosen for £850m Hackney project
Ian Ritchie, Wilkinson Eyre and Shepheard Epstein Hunter are among the architects working on one of London's largest urban regeneration projects, the £850 million redevelopment of Hackney's Woodberry Down estate.
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NewsDCM spin-off
Denton Corker Marshall has won planning permission for a new office building in Manchester.
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NewsHitting a high note
Eric Parry Architects has completed a £3 million music building for the prestigious Bedford School.
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Design guidance for ‘crappy suburbia'
The Housing Corporation has moved to crack down on poor design in medium-sized developments.
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NewsBlinking Biennale
Chetwood Associates has unveiled this tree-like installation, a centrepiece of this year's London Architecture Biennale.
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Barts all set to go, £35m later
The £1.2 billion Royal London and Barts PFI hospital was set to be given the go-ahead this week, following more than two months of delays costing a staggering £35 million.
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NewsShowing Mersey
Broadway Malyan has revealed its proposals for Liverpool's Fourth Grace site, which was originally earmarked for Will Alsop's Cloud.
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CDM safety guidelines further delayed
The introduction of new safety regulations has been postponed from October this year to April 2007. By that time it will have been nearly two years between the launch of the guidelines and their becoming law.
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NewsTales from the riverbank
Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects has won the competition to design a new footbridge for the Rochester Riverside regeneration programme.
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NewsDavid Cameron, celebrated cyclist, goes for green at home
Conservative leader David Cameron is bravely plunging into the planning system with one of the very sustainable construction proposals planners find so difficult to comprehend.
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NewsSearching for great urbanism
This week, the Academy of Urbanism begins a search for the greatest town, street, neighbourhood and place in Britain and Ireland. Five BD readers get the ball rolling
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NewsEmpty bottle, empty city
Urban designers' best efforts are being undone by alcohol policies that make public spaces no-go zones for families and children. Ellen Bennett grabbed a WKD and went out on the town in Leeds to investigate
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Team appointed for Alsop's Bradford plan
Urbed and Glenn Howells Architects have been hired by Bradford council to oversee the implementation of Will Alsop's masterplan.
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New PFI meeting resistance
A celebrated and innovative alternative to PFI for new hospitals in Northern Ireland is faltering amid political opposition.
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NewsAldgate off
Hamilton Associates has submitted a 25-storey residential tower in Aldgate, on the edge of the City of London, for planning permission.