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NewsArchitects to blame for lack of disabled access
Disabled actor Mat Fraser has attacked architects for failing to make cities such as London fully accessible quickly enough and blamed the profession for the historic lack of accessibility.
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Future plan threatens old schools, warns EH
English Heritage has warned that nearly 6,000 listed schools across the country could be endangered by the government’s ambitious £2.2 billion schools building programme.
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Corporation queries Kens green dream
London mayor Ken Livingstone’s green dream could be “impossible” to achieve according to the Corporation of London.
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NewsThe great glass garden of Italy
Stanton Williams has beaten a shortlist of architects including David Chipperfield to design an ambitious £7 million garden project in Italy.
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Robert Adam loses to Bristol Nimbies
A classical town house in Clifton, Bristol, designed by Robert Adam Architects has been rejected by the city council on design grounds following local opposition to the scheme.
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Eric Parry continues promise of change with AA presidency
Leading architect and academic Eric Parry has replaced Eva Jiricna as president of the Architectural Association.
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NewsFirst movement
Foster & Partners’ twin towers scheme in the Vivaldi urban quarter of Amsterdam has started on site. Commissioned by ING Real Estate, the 87m-high, 24-storey buildings have a distinctive lattice that scales the entire facade.
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Preservation plan for Barbican
A new heritage management plan for the listed Barbican estate in central London proposes the preservation of one of each of the eight types of flats in the massive development exactly as they were when completed in the seventies.
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Caravan design on Hemingway hitlist
Designer Wayne Hemingway, fresh from his savaging of new volume-housing design in the pages of BD last month (News Analysis May 13), has taken on a new design target: the caravan.
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Scottish watchdog bares teeth at school designs
The Scottish Executive’s new design watchdog has signalled a tough approach to design quality by slamming one of the country’s largest education projects.
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NewsThe ideas deficit
We need to embrace past architectural traditions in order to build anything meaningful and lasting today
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Fight the flab with Sorrells archi diet
Buildings and public spaces must be redesigned to help Britain fight obesity and avoid diseases caused by chronic inactivity, the government’s top design adviser declared this week.
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Stars clash in gold rush
Gehry and Libeskind fight for their man as RIBA judging panel faces pressure over Royal Gold Medal
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NewsHit and miss
Leicester City Council has pledged to press ahead with Rafael Viñoly’s performing arts centre at a cost of £48 million, £4 million more than previous estimates and nearly double the original £26 million price tag.The sustainable headquarters for the Environment Agency, designed by Scott Brownrigg, was officially opened ...
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Deyan Sudjic (pictured), architecture critic for the Observer and former editor of Domus and Blueprint, has been appointed the new dean of the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture at Kingston University.Former local government minister Nick Raynsford has been appointed as chairman of the Construction Industry Council from June 2006.
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NewsPowerplay
Frank Gehry’s controversial scheme for the King Alfred site in Hove (below) has won the backing of the Brighton & Hove council’s policy and resources committee, which acts as landlord for the site. Developer Karis will now prepare a planning application.London’s planners must be well trained if they are to ...