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    New RIAS chief seeks to lose ‘golf club mentality’

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    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”.

  • student village in Munich
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    Small wonder

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    Swanke Hayden Connell Architects has unveiled images of this £265 million hospital planned in Nottinghamshire.

  • How Norman Foster might look herding a flock of Herdwick sheep.
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    Foster’s Baaaa-rmy Biennale

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-11-11T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Arad: “Bitchiness” is behind him.
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    Battersea power struggle

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Ron Arad’s hotel ditched amid talk of ‘bitchiness’ and tensions on long-running power station scheme

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    Cloak of secrecy for Olympic plan

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Arup and Atkins on ‘secret’ list for masterplan bid

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    Pay-for-planning approved

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Audit Commission set to endorse controversial developer payments to local authority ‘consultants’

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    ‘Back off’ Arb chair tells RIBA

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Ombudsman plan to cost profession

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    ‘Business beats government on green homes’

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    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’

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    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?

  • Invest Northern Ireland has moved into the completed first phase of its new office scheme in Belfast. Developer McAleer & Rushe/Dunloe Ewart plans a further nine floors.
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    Northern Ireland

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Regional focus...

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    A Brighton stadium’s seven-year pitch

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Norwich Union's new office
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    Norwich’s union

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    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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    Yin and yang

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has revealed designs for a new performance venue in Scotland.

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    Rogers puts final touches to task force housing report

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-11-04T00:00:00Z

    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.