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NewsBranching out in Tokyo
A Toyo Ito-designed building for the Italian shoe and handbag brand TOD in Tokyo has been completed. The exterior of the building is made distinctive by 300mm concrete structural elements which form a lattice pattern inset with glass. The practice has likened it to the “branching diagram of a tree”.It ...
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Boost for Bracknell
The Richard Rogers Partnership’s £750 million regeneration project for Bracknell town centre has been entered for outline planning permission. The 36ha project includes new shops, offices, leisure facilities and more than 1,000 homes. Chapman Taylor is working on the proposed new retail facilities. The project also features a new covered ...
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Ian Simpson takes over from Foster on South Bank scheme
Ian Simpson Architects is working on a “large mixed-use scheme” on London’s South Bank after a Foster & Partners design for the same site was scrapped.
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NewsCabe joins row on university funding
Cabe has demanded changes to how schools of architecture are funded because it fears that a spate of school closures could lead to a critical shortage of design skills needed to deliver ambitious government housing targets.
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NewsLearning pod
KSS Design Group has completed its campus for South East Essex College of Arts. The £52 million building, in Southend-on-Sea, replaces two former campus sites and features an eight-storey atrium space clad in ETFE cushions. The atrium houses a distinctive blood-red, 250-seat space, known as The Pod, which is completely ...
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Last-ditch demo to save Cambridge school
An “11th-hour” fight to save Cambridge University’s school of architecture got under way this week as students announced plans for a march through the city and revealed thousands have already signed a petition of protest.
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Prince Charles slams ‘wow factor’
Prince of Wales locks horns with deputy prime minister over ‘adolescent obsession with being modern’
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NewsRising out of the waves
A 40-storey residential tower on Brighton seafront, designed by Wilkinson Eyre, will be a beacon-like landmark for the east of the city, the architect claims.
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Consultant on BedZed does U-turn
One of the main players behind the award-winning environmental housing project BedZed has turned its back on the use of innovative architecture to help slow climate change.
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Foster & Partners to lead team on Arizona university scheme
Norman Foster is set to touch down in Arizona to design another major university project.
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NewsMuseum revamp
Plans for a £70 million revamp of Edinburgh’s Royal Museum by Glasgow-based Gareth Hoskins Architects and New York-based exhibition designer Ralph Appelbaum have been unveiled.The fabric of the 1866 building will be upgraded, access and movement throughout the museum will be improved. New spaces, including a multimedia performance and learning ...
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Arsonists admit destroying Gilbert Scott grade I hall
Two men have admitted starting a fire that destroyed a grade I listed hall designed by George Gilbert Scott
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Planning system at stake, Greenside inquiry warned
The public inquiry into the demolition of the celebrated modernist home Greenside began this week with English Heritage claiming the integrity of the entire planning system was at stake.
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NewsLets go round again
A £100,000 sculpture on a roundabout was officially unveiled to the public last week. The 11m-tall sculpture, by artist Rob Olins, includes a laser. It stands on a roundabout at the entrance to Haverhill from Cambridge.
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Welsh Assembly close to £70m
The cost of the controversial debating chamber for the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff is rising towards £70 million — more than £1 million per elected member —after the assembly’s finance minister announced extra costs.
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Late change to Housing Bill boosts energy efficiency
The Housing Bill has been amended at the last minute to include a target to improve the energy efficiency of English homes by 20% by 2010.
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NewsLessons in lucre
Any architect can rake in the cash, says management guru Robert White. We brought six architects to talk to him about their finances
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