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NewsBDs A-Z guide to using your vote for architecture
The word “architecture” hasn’t made it into the three main parties’ manifestos, yet it remains fundamental to so many issues in the 2005 election campaign.
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NewsActivists storm Castle Prescott
Eight Greenpeace activists this week staged a rooftop protest at the Hull home of deputy prime minister John Prescott to criticise Labour’s stance on sustainability.
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On the hustings
Milton Keynes rant Michael Howard criticised the two Labour MPs for Milton Keynes this week for not speaking up against plans to develop 70,000 homes in the area. He pledged to put rural and urban communities in charge of their local development agenda during a visit to the town. He ...
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Victory for gatecrasher
An expert on sustainable building materials has gatecrashed government deliberations on the Sustainable Buildings Code.
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Plans for Cube successor
Cabe has joined forces with Manchester City Council, the North West Development Agency and regeneration agency Renew to develop a successor to the Cube architecture centre.
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Docking in Leeds
The site of this proposed waterside village at Granary Wharf in the heart of Leeds city centre was previously used as a car park. But Carey Jones Architects and regeneration company ISIS have drawn up designs for a mixed-use scheme which includes a new public square that will take up ...
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NewsMather gets cultural
Rick Mather Architects has unveiled designs for a new gallery and cultural centre in Eastbourne. The £8 million project, due to start on site in August, will provide a home for the nationally acclaimed Towner Art Gallery collection, as well as new conference halls, community rooms and a cafe. The ...
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Liverpool garden festival site set to bloom again
Carey Jones Architects’ masterplan to bring the long-neglected 33ha festival gardens site in Liverpool back into use after 20 years is close to being entered for planning permission.
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NewsBridge of lights
Steven Lenczner Architects has won planning permission for a bold art installation on Wandsworth Bridge in London. The four light sculptures, placed on existing plinths, change colour according to the level of the tide, and are designed to create a landmark for traffic crossing the bridge. The scheme won permission ...
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NewsSpotcheck: North-west
Speedy Sky Benoy’s innovative Sky Bar in Manchester’s Triangle shopping precinct will soon be open to the pubic, after being built in only eight weeks. The steel frame of the £1 million, two-storey building was manufactured off site and transported to the Triangle for re-assembly. The building is supported by ...
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Developers line up for Elephant & Castle
Southwark council has drawn up a shortlist of major developers for the £1.5 billion regeneration of Elephant & Castle in south London.
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Probe into Swiss Re panel fall
Foster & Partners is assisting an investigation into why a glass panel fell off its Swiss Re building in central London and dropped 28 storeys to the ground.
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Retrial for manslaughter case
A council architect accused of the manslaughter of seven people in the UK’s worst outbreak of legionnaires’ disease is to face a retrial.
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NewsGehrys the man for Marge on Simpsons
The architectural profession reached dizzying new heights of public recognition this month when its first member joined the ranks of politicians, musicians and Hollywood stars and played himself in The Simpsons.
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NewsIts a wrap
French architect Francis Soler has completed a E71 million (£48 million) headquarters for the French Ministry of Culture & Communication in Paris.