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    Creative ideas for green belt

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    The government has claimed it is protecting the green belt from development as planners called for more creative use of the land.

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    Stonehenge visitor centre to be delayed for months

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    The troubled Stonehenge visitor centre will be in limbo until at least the end of the year. English Heritage plans to resubmit a revised scheme for planning permission in November, following the surprise rejection of the Denton Corker Marshall project last month.

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    Spotcheck: The South-east

    2005-08-12T00:00:00Z

    - De La Warr reopens The De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea will reopen to the public on September 17 as a national centre for contemporary art. The building, commissioned by the 9th Earl De La Warr in 1935 and designed by architects Eric Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff, was the ...

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    Battling for Britain

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    170 military buildings to be listed, but historians say it’s not enough to preserve the past

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    Population soars in city centres

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    More than 25,000 new residents have moved into the centres of Manchester and Liverpool in a city living boom which could result in 40,000 people living in the two northern centres by 2010.

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    Alsop forms a gang of four

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Stirling prize winner Will Alsop has unveiled a new architectural movement to challenge the establishment by linking with like-minded practices Fat, Branson Coates and AOC .

  • Fuksas: Looking for Olympic opportunities.
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    Edinburgh opens its Hearts to Fuksas plan

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Italian to design stadium for Hearts FC, and has eye on London Olympics

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    Plan to restrict vehicles in City

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Parts of the City of London could be closed to drivers who do not have identification and an appointment under radical new proposals to improve public space and protect buildings from the threat of terrorism.

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    Laban architect wants area plan

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron partner Harry Gugger has welcomed the demise of a Broadway Malyan scheme proposed opposite his award-winning Laban dance centre in south-east London.

  • Zeyrek residents look at some strategies to improve their decaying slum neighbourhood
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    Tackling the slum timebomb

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Rising above the burnt out tenements and rubble-filled wastelands of Istanbul’s worst slum, Zeyrek mosque offers a reminder of better days.

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    Detecting a pattern

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    A new John Lewis store in Leicester designed by Foreign Office Architects won planning permission this week.

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    Estate agents target modern

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Modernist architects looking to flog their wares need look no further: the country’s first estate agency specialising in 20th and 21st century homes has been launched.

  • Morton: “Prickly and arrogant”.
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    Fomer GLC architect Morton convicted

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The millionaire architect convicted of killing his wife worked for the Greater London Council general division and is remembered by colleagues as being “prickly” and “arrogant.”

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    ODPM reforms planning

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The ODPM has announced tough measures to speed up the planning system and stop developers sitting on empty sites.

  • London’s first Maggie’s Centre, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership, has won planning permission
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    Maggies Centre for London

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    London’s first Maggie’s Centre, designed by Richard Rogers Partnership, has won planning permission.

  • The Beetham Organisation has unveiled images of a 70-storey tower
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    Hit and miss

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The Beetham Organisation has unveiled images of a 70-storey tower, designed by Ian Simpson Architects to be built at Number 1 Blackfriars Road.

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    People

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    l Stephen Marriott has been appointed chairman of Scott Brownrigg following the retirement of Mike Kellard.

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    Power play

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Cabe’s role has been extended to include responsibility for considering disabled access in design. The body has taken on the remit of the Inclusive Environment Group at the request of the government.

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    Award

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    The Young Architect of the Year Award aims to recognise the UK’s most talented architect aged 40 or under, or practices where the majority of principals are under this age.

  • Surface Architects has won planning permission
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    Surface projection

    2005-08-05T00:00:00Z

    Surface Architects has won planning permission for a new Film & Media Studies Research Centre at Birkbeck College in Bloomsbury, north London.