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NewsStand up and be counted
Does the Victorian Society’s boiler-suited protest this week mark a change in tactics for the conservation movement?
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News‘Stand-off’ drives new embassy design
HOK chosen for Jakarta as US terrorist fear prompts Grosvenor Square sale
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Blair's decade: hit or miss?
Has the PM put architecture on the map or just kicked the public realm aside? Join the debate
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Housing in crisis
As Britain's largest housing practice slams wasteful competitions, culture minister David Lammy claims housing architects are out of touch with the public
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Calatrava in Chicago
NEWS: Calatrava wins permission to build America's tallest tower. COMPETITION: Win a copy of Taschen's blockbuster review of Calatrava's work.
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NewsCrystal Palace towers to be rebuilt
Brunel's 280ft water towers at south London's Crystal Palace Park will be recreated as sustainable energy towers under plans drawn up by German landscape architect Latz & Partner.The two original towers, which were removed during the second world war, stored water to feed a series of spectacular fountains at a ...
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NewsNews Junkie: 28 and 29 April
In this despatch: bins, earthquakes, Cornwall's sulky surfers, a professor of human radiation, 'tall, brick, barley-sugar chimneys thrusting skywards in a thicket', and why God's not Green.
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NewsSloane Square revamp dumped by the public
Ditching of Stanton Williams’ scheme is further blow to mayor’s 100 Public Spaces initiative
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron scores at Pompey
Herzog & de Meuron has designed this 36,000-seat stadium for Portsmouth Football Club as the centrepiece of a proposed £600 million harbour-front development by the club and Sellar Property Group.
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NewsRetirement ‘time bomb’ threatens conservation
The UK’s historic built environment could be damaged because of a retirement “time-bomb” among local authority conservation officers, experts have warned.
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NewsEight shortlisted for 2012 Velopark
Eight teams of architects have been shortlisted to design the Velopark for the 2012 London Olympics.
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NewsFarrell’s Edinburgh extension scrapped
Designs by Terry Farrell to extend his International Conference Centre in Edinburgh have been scrapped following the shock withdrawal of the developer.
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Cabe audits its ecological footprint
Cabe has carried out the most comprehensive audit of an ecological footprint ever conducted by a British public sector organisation.
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NewsEldridge Smerin's Highgate house
This new house be Eldridge Smerin will replace John Winter's house that was demolished in 2004
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NewsLarnaca Works passes planning
Hawkins Brown has won planning for its proposed redevelopment of Larnaca Works in Southwark.
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First Procure 21 project finished
The first phase extension of Friarage Hospital in North Yorkshire has been completed. The scheme, designed by P&HS Architects in Northallerton, is the first in the UK to be procured under Procure 21, the NHS’s framework agreement for the delivery of new capital-funded health schemes.
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NewsGrants to aid low- scoring homes
Buyers of energy-inefficient homes will get £100 to £300 in grants for improvements such as insulation, housing minister Yvette Cooper announced last week. Energy suppliers will give the grants to homes scoring low in their Energy Performance Certificates, mandatory for homes marketed from June 1.