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New RIAS chief seeks to lose ‘golf club mentality’
The new chief executive of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has revealed plans to modernise the organisation, admitting it can be seen as a “Masonic and medieval guild”.
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Small wonder
Micro-compact homes which combine high technology with low energy use have been unveiled at a student village in Munich.
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A healthy outlook
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects has unveiled images of this £265 million hospital planned in Nottinghamshire.
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Foster’s Baaaa-rmy Biennale
He names his interests in Who’s Who as “running, flying and skiing” but Norman Foster might well add “herding of sheep” to this list after details of a stunt for the next London Architecture biennale were revealed.
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Olympic project looks to T5 model
The management of the £4.2 billion Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 construction project is being used as a model for the delivery of London’s Olympic Park.
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Battersea power struggle
Ron Arad’s hotel ditched amid talk of ‘bitchiness’ and tensions on long-running power station scheme
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Pay-for-planning approved
Audit Commission set to endorse controversial developer payments to local authority ‘consultants’
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‘Business beats government on green homes’
London mayor Ken Livingstone has accused the government of doing less to cut carbon emissions than big business as it emerged that across London thousands of new homes are to be built by the private sector to new carbon-cutting standards.
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Backing for Farrell’s ‘Nash Ramblas’
Fundraising set to begin as vision for central London pedestrian boulevard gains widespread support
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SMC snaps up DTR:UK for £4.5m
SMC Group, one of the few UK practices listed on the stock market, has bought Manchester-based DTR:UK for a potential £4.5 million.
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Battersea’s butterfly collector
As eccentric developer Victor Hwang has yet another reshuffle of his pack of star architects, Charlie Gates asks is something going wrong at the power station?
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A Brighton stadium’s seven-year pitch
A 22,500-seat stadium by KSS Architects has won planning permission, after a seven-year planning wrangle and three public inquiries.
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Livingstone’s ‘London views’ plan under fire
Eminent landscape architect and Royal Parks adviser Hal Moggridge has waded into the row over London mayor Ken Livingstone’s new protected views plans in the capital, claiming the new policy will lead to more expensive public inquiries.
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Norwich’s union
Norwich-based practice LSI Architects is close to completing a major new space linking the grade I-listed Surrey House, designed by renowned Norwich architect George Skipper, to new offices for insurance giant Norwich Union.
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Rogers puts final touches to task force housing report
Richard Rogers’s reconvened Urban Task Force has finally set a publication date for its long-awaited progress report on Deputy Prime Minster John Prescott’s housing plans.
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Aardman fire destroys Coda’s early archive
Bristol practice Coda has lost more than 10 years worth of drawings in the same fire that consumed Aardman Animations’ archive of props and models from the Wallace & Gromit films.