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  • Gustafson Porter’s plans for the redevelopment of Nottingham’s Old Market Square include a stepped water feature and ampitheatre-style seating.
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    Spotcheck: East Midlands

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    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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    UK firms in Polish spat

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    Winner angry as contest is annulled

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    Offices hold key to housing shortage in Birmingham

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    Birmingham City Council is considering taking on redundant office space to tackle a housing shortage.

  • Children often visited the architects in their one-bedroom house on the estate.
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    In bed with Byker

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-22T00:00:00Z

    As Capita Symonds swallows another firm, we ask what drives this profit-focused company

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    A kiss for Shanghai

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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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    Insurance four are struck off

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Profession reels as Arb gets tough

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    UK firms bid to rescue failed French icon

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Orléans in new attempt to regenerate area around Calatrava bridge

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    Top talents to tackle housing at Elephant & Castle site

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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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    Sickbay for £350m plans

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Lack of capacity feared for hospital programme

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    Election 05

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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.

  • Tony Fretton’s design for ‘the shame of Tietgen’ is a modern statement but fits with the surrounding 18th and 19th century buildings.
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    Final piece of a Danish jigsaw

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    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

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura have unveiled their designs for a summer pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery.

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    Bath Spa contractor is sacked

    2005-04-15T00:00:00Z

    Council takes action to finish job