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NewsWeb to help design out construction wastage
Architects must play a key role in reducing waste in the construction industry, according to a government-funded waste reduction and recycling programme.
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Architect of the Year – could it be you?
Architects are this week invited to submit entries to BD’s Architect of the Year Awards 2008, the only industry awards scheme that recognises the practices setting standards for others to follow rather than individual buildings.
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NewsView from the terrace
Planning permission has been awarded for a £1.5 million mixed-use development in the London Borough of Islington by Platform 5 Architects.
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Sheffield’s Sorby House opens
Bond Bryan Architects is celebrating the opening of Sorby House in Sheffield, a centrepiece project for the 10-year regeneration of the Burngreave area.
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NewsArundel pays homage to Jones
The Collector Earl’s Garden, a new garden at Arundel Castle in Sussex designed by Isabel and Julian Bannerman and Russell Taylor Architects, was opened by the Prince of Wales last week.
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Get into palaces’ secret places
Historic Royal Palaces is auctioning a range of experiences at its major attractions on eBay to raise cash for conservation work.
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NewsWait pays off for new-build scheme
After four years of trying, David Nossiter Architects has won planning consent for a new-build timber and glass house on a prominent corner of Honor Oak conservation area in south-east London.
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NewsRogers attacks eco-towns as a big mistake
Richard Rogers has launched an extraordinary criticism of the government’s eco-towns project calling it one of the government’s “biggest mistakes”.
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NewsCaruso St John and dRMM among seven architects picked to join 2012 Athletes Village team
Seven leading architects have been appointed to join the team designing the £2 billion London Athletes Village amid a renewed focus on design quality.As the International Olympic Committee visited the capital to check on 2012 progress this week, Athletes Village developer Lend Lease announced it had appointed de Rijke Marsh ...
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NewsBerlin Philharmonie concert hall hit by fire
A blaze at the Philharmonie concert hall in Berlin was believed to be under control this morning, but the full extent of damage to the Hans Scharoun-designed building is still unknown.The fire, thought to have been caused by welding work, struck the world renowned structure yesterday lunchtime after a concert ...
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NewsLipton warns that London's planning sector is over-reliant on Australians
Developer and former Cabe chairman Stuart Lipton has warned MPs that London’s planning sector is over reliant on short-term agency staff from Australia — a situation he claimed is creating a “stop-go” development culture.Speaking at a Parliamentary debate on Monday hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Built Environment Group, Lipton ...
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NewsRobert Gordon University picks BDP as sole designer for new campus
BDP is to design the campus for Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University and six of its buildings, including a new school of architecture. The university’s director of estates Mike Berry said that while it was unusual for one architect to design all the buildings within a masterplan, this approach would help ...
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NewsEisenman: computers dumb down design
Peter Eisenman used the platform at RIAS 2008 to bemoan a culture of passivity among students of architecture
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NewsCabe backs efforts to save ‘ground-breaking’ estate
Review panel’s call for listing renews pressure on Hodge as Rogers urges ‘let’s keep fighting’
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NewsBDP sustainability chief moves west
BDP’s head of sustainability Trevor Butler is relocating to Canada to start a new company which aims to bridge the gap between architects and engineers to realise sustainable buildings.
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NewsEnglish Heritage defends its failure to back Robin Hood Gardens
EH chair says estate 'fails as a place for human beings to live'. Read the statement; watch the video
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NewsRow as JCB boss tries to demolish own house
Experts split over bid to redevelop Chelsea grade II listed Georgian house
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NewsCreative in White City
Dutch practice OMA is dubbing its £2 billion masterplan for White City “Creative London”.
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NewsFosters’ return customer
Fosters & Partners unveiled its latest addition to the City of London skyline this week with the official opening of the 28-storey Willis Building more than three decades after Norman Foster designed his landmark hi-tech Willis Faber building in Ipswich.