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  • Mark Price visited earthquake-affected areas of Pakistan, spending a week as a design consultant to the World Society
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    Architects for Aid in Pakistan relief

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    Shelter solution comes out of charity’s first mission

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    Olympic hope for small firms

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    New Olympic Delivery Authority chairman says he will take action to remedy bias towards large practices

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    Cabe backs Gehry’s quirkier Hove design

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    Watchdog supports tower scheme but criticises more boring elements

  • The Caspar housing scheme in Leeds, built using modern methods, was evacuated after fears it might collapse in high winds.
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    Prefabs ‘four times quicker’

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    New study backs modern methods

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    Business advice could boost fees

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    Architects are missing out on a golden business opportunity to get involved in new buildings much earlier, according to a report from one of the construction industry’s leading reformers.

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    Crystal Palace demolition under fire

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    Ex-minister vows to stop bulldozers

  • The Olympics Park is one of the most important developments for a generation
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    Britain’s design deficit

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    Architects have been left out of the urban renaissance, leaving design quality to fall short, says a report from Richard Rogers’ Urban Task Force.

  • Terry Farrell’s vision for the Thames Gateway includes man-made forests, woodland and wetlands.
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    Big talk, little action

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    If everyone wants a piece of the Thames Gateway, why is nothing much happening?

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    Southwark council seeks volunteers

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    Southwark council is seeking volunteers to sit on a new design review panel to advise on poorly designed schemes flagged up by its planning officers.

  • DLA Architecture has received planning approval for its Duke Street mixed-use scheme set around a rear courtyard.
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    Spotcheck

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    North-west

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    Gateshead towers win award

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    Saltwell Towers in Gateshead has won the Society of Chief Architects of Local Authorities’ (Scala’s) Civic Building of the Year Award

  • David Chipperfield Architects’ new hotel in Hamburg has started on site.
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    Hamburg hotel

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    David Chipperfield Architects’ new hotel in Hamburg has started on site.

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    Lowest density scheme picked for Packington

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Architect Pollard Thomas Edwards has beaten HTA and Feilden Clegg Bradley to be selected as preferred bidder to re-design north London’s Packington Estate.

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    Embankment rejuvenation

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    London’s Victoria Embankment could be transformed into a promenade to rival the South Bank under a vision drawn up by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard for the Greater London Authority.

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    Young Birmingham firm beats big names

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    Young Birmingham firm Kinetic AIU has won a competition to design the masterplan for a large waterside site in Eastside, central Birmingham.

  • Stedman Blower’s scheme features a timber-clad barn, what it calls a brick pigeon loft and glass kitchen, with wall along the length for services.
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    A mix of styles down on the farm

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    This family home, proposed for land next to a brick grade II listed Georgian farmhouse in Dorking, Surrey, aims to balance traditional materials and vernacular architecture with modern detailing and clean lines.The £350,000 development, which recently won planning permission, is by local practice Stedman Blower Architects.The new 340sq m scheme, ...

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    Shortlist drawn up to rebuild Broadmoor

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    BDP, Maap Architects, Swanke Hayden Connell and Oxford Architects are competing for the first phase of a £190 million plan to redevelop Broadmoor Hospital — home to some of the UK’s most notorious criminals.

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    Two appointed for Trocadero revival

    2005-11-25T00:00:00Z

    Sheppard Robson and international practice Moren Gregory have been appointed as architects on the latest revamp of London’s Trocadero building.

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    A Spiracle in Leeds

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    Make and Carey Jones Architects have revealed designs for St Paul’s Quarter in Leeds for developers HBG Properties and Barratt Homes.

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    Stockton-on-sea

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    RyderHKS has released masterplan images of a £300 million mixed-use redevelopment of a former industrial area on the river Tees in Stockton.