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Goodsyard plans dusted off after three-year halt
Prominent Dutch masterplanner Kees Christiaanse is once again working on the controversial Bishopsgate Goodsyard site in east London following an almost three-year hiatus on the project.
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Flood defence warning for Gateway
Government’s chief scientific adviser says defences must be in place before development gets under way
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Return to Fourth Grace site
The original developers behind Will Alsop’s failed Fourth Grace in Liverpool have been re-appointed to bring forward proposals for a £110 million mixed-use scheme on the waterfront site.
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NewsTall order
Ian Simpson Architects has revealed designs for this 131m-high tower proposed in Manchester.
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Foster’s back in frame for tallest tower
Foster & Partners is back in the running to design the tallest building in central London since Centre Point and BT Tower in the 1960s.
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NewsSpotcheck: South-east
Dickens park A theme park designed by Kemp Muir Wealleans, based on the life and work of Charles Dickens, is set to be built at the Chatham Maritime site in Kent. Construction of the £62 million, 13,375sq m Dickens World complex is expected to start in June. The theme park ...
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NewsIs Labour built to last?
Has Labour lived up to its design rhetoric? We hit the road to find out if ordinary architecture is on the up
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NewsLet battle commence
Labour has pledged to appoint design champions in all public agencies and three-quarters of local authorities, as it revealed a mini manifesto for the built environment exclusively in BD this week.
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NewsTechno park
Lawrence Barth and S333 Architecture & Urbanism have completed the designs for an innovation park in Singapore.
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Cabe faces costly delay on rebranding
Cabe has postponed plans to rebrand until the autumn in a move that could increase design consultants’ fees which are already due to reach £40,000.
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NewsHit and miss
Foster’s Swiss Re building and Future Systems’ Selfridges store in Birmingham have been shortlisted for the EU’s best building award. The winner of the 2005 Mies van der Rohe prize will be announced next week.Swansea council has launched an international search for architects to carry out a £25 million refurbishment ...
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Joanna Averley (pictured) has been appointed as the deputy chief executive of Cabe. Averley, who will continue to act as director of Cabe’s enabling programme, said the new position was designed to oversee Cabe’s advisory services. Foster’s partner Ewan Anderson has joined Make, the latest in a string of senior ...
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Power play
Constructing Excellence, the government body tasked with implementing the Egan Review, has merged with independent supply-chain body Be. The merged organisation, Constructing Excellence in the Built Environment, will work with the property and construction industries and has promised to place design high on its agenda.Broadway Malyan is to redesign the ...
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Liverpool focuses on design
Following scathing criticism, 2008 Capital of Culture looks to team of champions to put design centre stage
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NewsShowing its metal
Herzog & de Meuron’s latest contribution to landmark architecture, the expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will open to the public next weekend.
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Call for Department of Built Environment
The Construction Industry this week called on Tony Blair to establish a new Department of the Built Environment to deal with the entire construction industry.
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Fosters win asserts its civic supremacy
Foster & Partners has been appointed to design the first home of the UK Supreme Court in a move that confirms the practice’s predominance in London’s civic space projects.
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Design watchdog to tackle Ulster design
The battle to combat low architectural standards in Northern Ireland began in earnest on Monday when proposals for a new design watchdog and government policy on architecture were announced by the Northern Ireland Executive.