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NewsSmall firms: get ready for school
The Department for Education & Skills has a problem that should make architects jump for joy: it just can’t get enough of them.
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Manslaughter bill reprieve for street designers
Richard Rogers has won reassurance from home secretary Charles Clarke that the forthcoming corporate manslaughter bill will be amended so as not to inadvertently stifle design innovation.
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NewsWhen Will went to prison
Will Alsop is asking inmates to design their own lock-ups. Has he gone soft on crime or will his plans encourage rehabilitation? Will Hurst joined Alsop at a workshop in HMP Gartree
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Save slams ‘bad old days’ Lambeth demolition plans
Save Britain’s Heritage has called plans to demolish a row of Victorian terraced housing in Vauxhall, south London, a “return to the bad old days”.
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Manslaughter bill reprieve for street designers
Richard Rogers has won reassurance from home secretary Charles Clarke that the forthcoming corporate manslaughter bill will be amended so as not to inadvertently stifle design innovation.The reassurance comes after watchdog Cabe expressed concern the bill could put a stop to innovative streetscape design and pedestrianisation plans.Organisations would be in ...
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NewsMerseyside Mather
Liverpool John Moores University has won planning permission for a £23.5 million academy designed by Rick Mather.
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Lammy lists war buildings
Heritage minister David Lammy has listed hundreds of wartime buildings, which played crucial roles in the first and second world wars. They include the bunker in Uxbridge where Churchill watched the Battle of Britain unfold.
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By the books
Hawkins Brown is due to go on site this month with the redevelopment of Boscombe library, near Bournemouth. The £2.2 million development replaces an existing 1960s single-storey block and will also include 24 flats.
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2012 bid firm Edaw merges with Aecom
Planning and landscape architect Edaw has merged with Aecom, a global design business based in America.
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NewsFour in running for Worcester
Competition entries for the University of Worcester’s proposed £90 million campus — by Broadway Malyan, Alsop Design, BDP and Architects Design Partnership — were revealed this week.
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Experts disagree on Taipei 101’s powers
Claims that the tallest building in the world could have caused an increase in earthquakes have been met with skepticism by British experts.
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NewsDRMM’s school colours
De Rijke Marsh Morgan has followed its celebrated Kingsdale School in south London with another colourful school building.
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Make snakes
Make has been parachuted into the £60,000 house competition by housebuilder William Verry.
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Foster’s Swiss Re is world’s most admired building
Foster & Partners’ Swiss Re tower has been voted the most admired new building in the world, in a poll of the world’s largest firms of architects.
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NewsRainbow picture show
John MacAslan & Partners has collaborated with artist David Mach on Rainbow Bridge, a public art project proposed for a site in Liverpool.
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Koolhaas to design 2006 Serpentine Pavilion
Pritzker Prize-winner Rem Koolhaas will design next year’s Serpentine Gallery pavilion.