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    Foreign Office Architects gets foothold in bureaucratic UK

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Foreign Office Architects has secured a fresh chance to establish itself in the UK market with a commission to design a new John Lewis department store in Leicester.

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    Well-brewed designs

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Twenty two of the world’s best-known architects are exhibiting their designs for coffee and teapots at the Sir John Soane’s Museum in the Tea & Coffee Towers exhibition.

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    MMPs mull sweeping changes to Cabe

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    MPs could recommend swingeing changes to the way that Cabe operates as a major inquiry into the design watchdog gets under way.

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    A new battle sight

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Visitors to the Gareth Hoskins-designed Culloden Battlefield Memorial Centre will get an experience that culminates in a panoramic view of the site of the dramatic 1746 battle.

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    Portable premises

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Lifschutz Davidson’s £1.6 million community facility for Southwark Council will start on site next month.

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    Planning minister backs Poundbury model

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Housing minister Keith Hill MP was given a guided tour of Poundbury by the Prince of Wales last week.

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    Guerrilla architect strikes with seats across London

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    A mysterious architect has installed a series of architecturally striking public seats across London.

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    New Jersey remembers

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Ground has been broken on Frederic Schwartz Architects’ 9/11 memorial in New Jersey.

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    UK firms fail to make Ground Zero shortlist

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Britain’s leading practices have failed to make two superstar shortlists for theatres and museums on the Ground Zero site in New York.

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    Making it all add up in wake of Holyrood

    2004-09-24T00:00:00Z

    Budget-busting Portcullis House should have been a warning to Holyrood. It cannot be allowed to happen again, writes Charlie GatesBudget-busting Portcullis House should have been a warning to Holyrood. It cannot be allowed to happen again

  • Hooray for Holyrood: RMJM managing director Brian Stewart says despite tough criticism, Fraser vindicates RMJM and restores his personal faith in architecture.
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    ‘I’d do it all again’

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Relief for architects as Holyrood inquiry lays blame with clients, but design team still suffers biting criticism

  • After the party: Cabe awaits a new chief executive and chairman and faces yet another investigation into its practices - this time from a powerful select committee of MPs.
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    Facing the morning after

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    As Cabe prepares to celebrate its fifth birthday, Zoë Blackler asks where next for a watchdog at the crossroads

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    Size does matter as Peter Cook joins HOK

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Archigram veteran and Stirling-shortlisted architect, Peter Cook, will next week launch a surprise career in commercial architecture when he starts work at HOK in London.

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    Big Brother gets bigger

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Design watchdog Cabe is looking to regional development agencies for help in reviewing building projects

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    Tube listing scuppers Farrell

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Hopes of developing a mixed-use scheme above South Kensington tube station now look slim after the building was listed.

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    Rogers has designs on Cloud site

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    RRP set to propose Fourth Grace

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    Murray quits over Farrell

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Edinburgh design adviser objects to Farrell’s “guru for hire” role

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    Lighting

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Blackpool Rocks Kinetic Light SculptureVisualising Wembley: How 3D software lights the way

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    Guess who?

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    Alsop’s back with designs intended to regenerate the leafy London borough of Harrow. Already they have been criticised by a local conservation society.The concept-stage proposals, centred on Harrow on the Hill tube station, involve a new bus and rail terminal, a pedestrian link across the tracks, homes and retail and ...

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    Arb ups fees again

    2004-09-17T00:00:00Z

    The right to use the title architect will cost £3 more from next year if the Architects Registration Board votes to raise fees for the third year in a row this week.