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Historic Lasdun archive damaged in RIBA’s care
Institute’s capability as archive custodian is questioned after water damage revealed
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Ashford plan: ‘a dash for trash’
Whistleblowers warn of government pressure and claim Sustainable Communities Plan is unachievable
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NewsFeilden Clegg Bradley in clash over Derby arts centre
Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects clashed with conservationists this week over its designs for a flagship arts centre in Derby.
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Wembley sinks into nastiness
Head architect on the troubled Wembley Stadium project has told BD that the atmosphere on the mega-project is unpleasant and confrontational.
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Council to tear down Aylesbury
A huge council estate in south London is set to be demolished and rebuilt because refurbishment would be too expensive.
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Big names lose Wear contest
Small practice Spence Associates has beaten Frank Gehry, Wilkinson Eyre and Marks Barfield to design a £43 million bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland.
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Minerva Tower put on hold
Grimshaw’s Minerva Tower will not be built until the developers have secured a major pre-let, it emerged this week.
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NewsAdjaye’s new Ideas
David Adjaye’s Ideas Store on Whitechapel Road opened on Thursday. The Ideas Store is a new type of public library that aims to involve the whole community and offer opportunities for adult learning.
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NewsHit and miss
- Urban Initiatives has won planning permission for Edge Lane (pictured), a public realm scheme on the edge of Liverpool which will be built in time for the Capital of Culture celebrations in 2008.- It will cost £1.3 million to fix the problems on Grimshaw’s Bath Spa, according to project ...
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- A mass bike ride of about 300 architects (above) took place last Wednesday through the centre of London in memory of architect Richard Feilden, a senior partner with Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects, who died last January.- Mike Gwilliam, director of planning and transport at the South East England Regional ...
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Power play
- Battersea Power Station’s iconic chimneys could be preserved, according to the Twentieth Century Society and the World Monument Fund. The two bodies are fighting proposals by developer Parkview to demolish the chimneys.- Poundbury residents are fighting proposals for a new block of flats, the subject of a public inquiry, ...
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Is Richard Rogers noteworthy?
The man who successfully campaigned to put 19th century prison reformer Elizabeth Fry on the back of the £5 note is lobbying the EU to immortalise architect Richard Rogers’ European Court of Human Rights at Strasbourg on the back of the €500 banknote.
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Architects give segregation warning
Commission for Racial Equality chairman Trevor Phillips said this week that Britain was in danger of “sleepwalking” into the kind of racial segregation seen recently in New Orleans.
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Masters of art
Will Alsop and Zaha Hadid are competing to design a new art gallery in Edmonton, Canada. The two architects unveiled their designs for the gallery this week, which will be on public display in Edmonton until November. A panel of building and technical experts will evaluate the designs and the ...
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First UK public project for Sauerbruch Hutton
Anglo-German practice Sauerbruch Hutton Architects has won its first public project in the UK.
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Sustainable pledge at Elephant & Castle
The £1.5 billion redevelopment of Elephant & Castle will set a new standard of sustainability, Southwark council has pledged.
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NewsAppointing the finger
Sheppard Robson has won planning permission for a £25 million new building for The University of Manchester. The new building, to be known as AMPPS, will bring together the university’s astronomy, mathematics, physics and photon science departments.