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Spotcheck: East Midlands
Pod hopes Benson & Forsyth is waiting to hear if a £25 million development in Nottingham city centre has got the go-ahead after submitting it for planning approval earlier this month. The Pod, a seven storey building on the edge of the Lace Market, will house retail units, a hotel ...
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Offices hold key to housing shortage in Birmingham
Birmingham City Council is considering taking on redundant office space to tackle a housing shortage.
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In bed with Byker
The contenders for the Byker Estate revamp are following in the footsteps of its original architect Ralph Erskine and living with residents. Vikki Miller popped in to see how they were getting along
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The big fish gulps
As Capita Symonds swallows another firm, we ask what drives this profit-focused company
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A kiss for Shanghai
Will Alsop is to design China’s answer to the London Eye. The £100 million structure, part of Alsop’s growing body of work in the Far East, has been dubbed the “Shanghai Kiss” and will be taller than the Eiffel Tower.
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UK firms bid to rescue failed French icon
Orléans in new attempt to regenerate area around Calatrava bridge
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Top talents to tackle housing at Elephant & Castle site
A panel including some of the most promising small- and medium-sized practices in the UK has been assembled by Southwark council to design 1,000 new homes.
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Hit and miss
Rem Koolhaas and Ellen van Loon have won the Mies van der Rohe Award for the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin (pictured).Marks Barfield and Make are among the six practices on the shortlist for the final phase of Birmingham’s Mailbox development. They are up against Glenn Howells Architects; Associated Architects; ...
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People
Gillian Beckingham, the local authority architect who is being tried for manslaughter following an outbreak of legionnaire’s disease in Barrow, Cumbria, denied responsibility in court last week. The trial continues.Peter Cook (pictured) has been commissioned to design a new head-quarters for the Jet Propulsion Centre, part of NASA, on behalf ...
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Power play
Westminster City Council was due to object to proposed safety work at the Diana Memorial Fountain in London’s Hyde Park as BD went to press. A report to the planning applications sub-committee said the “elegant simplicity” of the original design would be compromised by the work.The Crossrail Bill will be ...
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Election 05
The Labour manifesto revealed plans for a Heritage Protection Review aimed at giving members of the public a greater say in listings decisions.As well as pledges to nominate design champions and build new millennium villages, revealed in last week’s BD, the party has said it will give the Arts Council ...
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Spinnaker on course
The dramatic 170m-high Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth is finally starting to take shape and is due for completion by the end of the summer.
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Shakespeare Company eyes County Hall move
A new chapter in the long and frequently controversial history of London’s County Hall is set to open after the Royal Shakespeare Company entered negotiations to join tenants ranging from Charles Saatchi to McDonald’s in the landmark building.
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Livingstone adviser pushes high density
Ricky Burdett, architectural adviser to London mayor Ken Livingstone, has set out the case for high-density urban living in a report which claims that density is no barrier to creating successful communities.
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Final piece of a Danish jigsaw
Tony Fretton Architects has submitted for planning permission designs for a historic Copenhagen site known as “the shame of Tietgen”.
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Animal attraction
Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura have unveiled their designs for a summer pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery.