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Stadium design row gets political
The Tories have waded into the row over designs for the Olympic stadium, accusing minister Tessa Jowell of using it as a political football.
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NewsGovernment sets industry targets
The construction industry has been set targets to improve its sustainability.
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NewsPlymouth University's new arts complex
The £36 million Roland Levinsky building by BDP and Henning Larsen Architects opens its doors next month
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Cabe wants towers to exceed eco rules
Tall buildings are expected to exceed all current sustainability guidelines under new rules drawn up by Cabe and English Heritage.
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NewsMammoth museum goes back to the ice age
New York practice Leeser Architecture has beaten competition from architects including Massimiliano Fuksas and Antoine Predock to design the World Mammoth and Permafrost Museum in central Siberia.
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Capita aiming for Stirling shortlist
Listed firm Capita Symonds is to merge its three architecture practices and rebrand them collectively as Capita Architecture.
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ODA takes control of Olympic site
The London Development Agency last week handed over the Olympic Park site to the Olympic Delivery Authority, marking the “five years to go” point in the build-up to the 2012 games.
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NewsSite work starts on luxury ski village
Developer Capital Partners has begun construction of HOK’s masterplan for a ski village in the Kazakhstan mountains.
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Hain calls autumn safety summit
Work and pensions secretary Peter Hain has announced a construction summit in the autumn, bringing together key industry figures to find ways of reducing industry fatalities.
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Building of discovery centre starts
Work has begun on the RSPB’s £7 million international nature reserve at Saltholme in Teesside, including a wild bird discovery centre by Jane Darbyshire and David Kendall of Newcastle practice JDDK.
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NewsBath makes King visiting professor
Bath University has appointed Doug King as visiting professor of environmental design.
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Was Bath right to reject the Holburne Museum scheme?
DEBATE: Exemplary architecture or a threat to the historic fabric? OPINION: The planners, not the client, are to blame NEWS: Shock at Bath's rejection and our first news report
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The Dutch come to Barking
NEWS: KCAP and Maccreanor Lavington selected for first phase of Thames GatewayFACTBOX: Briefing on KCAP
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High dropout rate for architecture
Courses report students among most likely to leave after the first year
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NewsNews Junkie: 28 and 29 July
This week: the Tsar of St Partysburg who lives in the Versailles of Hampstead, Jeremy Clarkson's brilliant plan to conserve the countryside, and how architects can spend 'a bearable 23%' of their earnings...
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NewsLandmark Rykwert Inner Court saved from Foster plan
Planning inspector finds in favour of 1970s mews courtyard over Foster’s ‘monolithic’ scheme
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NewsChipperfield named twice on Stirling shortlist
David Chipperfield is widely tipped to win this year’s Stirling Prize, with two of his buildings on the shortlist.
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Tall buildings will have to meet higher eco standards, say Cabe and EH
Tall buildings will be expected to exceed all current sustainability guidelines under new rules drawn up by Cabe and English Heritage.The two watchdogs want skyscrapers to act as “exemplars”, performing above current regulations for minimising energy-use and reducing carbon emissions over the lifetime of the development.Lucy Carmichael, senior design review ...
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Government may boost Cabe’s power
Green paper reveals concern that design standards are still falling short