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Sign up to Studio in the Woods 08
Architects with a penchant for the great outdoors are invited to sign up for this year’s Studio in the Woods, July 3-6, in Gloucestershire.
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Mayor gains power to approve projects
The next mayor of London will enjoy unprecedented control over the capital’s architecture and planning, using new powers and financial resources.
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Cabe backs £350m Portsmouth project
Chapman Taylor and van Heyningen & Haward’s £350 million scheme for the redevelopment of a major site in central Portsmouth has won broad support from Cabe, despite concerns over architectural confusion within the scheme.
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NewsChelsea terraces
Dixon Jones has revealed its £12 million Chelsea Apartments scheme, for the Manhattan Loft Corporation and the Trevor Osborne Property Group, which is set to go on site this summer.
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Erinaceous collapse sees LRW go it alone
Manchester architect Leach Rhodes Walker (LRW) has completed a management buyout from parent company Erinaceous Group, which went into administration this week.
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NewsCity festival in full bloom
Tonkin Liu is to design the signature pavilion for this year’s London Festival of Architecture
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Chimps’ Budongo Trail open to view
Cooper Cromar’s £6 million chimpanzee complex, the Budongo Trail at Edinburgh Zoo, has opened to the public.
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OMA unveils its design for Prada
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s think-tank, AMO, has unveiled its design for a complex near Milan for the Prada Foundation.
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NewsMcCapra to head landscape body
Alastair McCapra has been appointed as the new director-general of the Landscape Institute, the professional body and regulator for landscape architecture.
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NewsEPR graduate’s yacht club submitted for planning
EPR Architects is seeking planning permission for a yacht club on Guernsey in the Channel Islands.
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NewsNorman Foster's tax status questioned in Parliament
Lib Dem peer raises questions over BD's claims Foster has become a Swiss resident
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NewsRHG too political to call during mayoral race
Minister’s decision on Robin Hood Gardens is delayed until after May 1
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NewsCastleford TV show delayed till autumn
A Channel 4 series billed as the first televised regeneration scheme in the UK is now likely to hit the small screen four years later than originally planned.The repeatedly-delayed programme, presented by Grand Designs broadcaster Kevin McCloud, chronicles the regeneration of Castleford in Yorkshire through 11 schemes by architects including ...
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NewsHOK chief says architects favour celebrity over sustainability
The chairman of one of the world’s biggest practices has attacked the profession for favouring celebrity over sustainability in their approach to design.HOK’s Bill Valentine claimed architects were still more interested in appearing on the cover of magazines than truly embracing green design.The comments follow a speech last month by ...
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NewsThames Gateway needs a single authority, Quintain boss tells conference
The troubled Thames Gateway project should be delivered by a single unitary authority, leading figures including regional design champion Terry Farrell are set to tell the government.Speaking last week at a conference on low-carbon development, Quintain Development chief executive Adrian Wyatt revealed that he and Farrell are part of a ...
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NewsPiano sceptical on anti-terror design
The architect behind London’s tallest planned skyscraper has criticised government efforts to “design out” terrorism.
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NewsRIBA three open up on presidential ambitions
Steering the profession away from “starchitecture”, giving the regions a stronger voice and tackling the thorny issue of architectural copyright are just some of the issues exercising the minds of the three figures vying to become RIBA president in 2009.
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NewsFuksas cleared for take-off after contest to design Chinese airport
Leading Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas has won a global competition to design a £1.2 billion international terminal for Shenzhen airport in China, beating practices including Foster & Partners, Foreign Office and Japan’s Kisho Kurokawa.