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NewsBig hitters join Bishop’s team
London design director Peter Bishop signalled the beginning of a new era for design in London this week by unveiling a high-powered and diverse set of architect advisers.
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NewsBad hair day comes good
This tangle of timber is the winner of the AA’s second summer pavilion, inspired by a student’s experience of drying a mass of wet hair.
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NewsSt Botolph’s strong links
Work has begun on this mixed-use scheme in Bishops Square in London by Matthew Lloyd Architects. It includes the conversion of the nearby grade II-listed St Botolph’s Hall.
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NewsSalisbury takes on Arb over proof of insurance
Arb critic and former board member Ian Salisbury has revealed legal advice that he hopes will stop the Arb board disciplining architects who fail to provide evidence of their professional insurance.
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Viñoly inquiry ends with daggers drawn
English Heritage’s attack on the design of Rafael Viñoly’s “walkie talkie” tower was hotly contested in the two sides’ final submissions to the public inquiry on Monday.
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NewsEH marks the abolition of slavery
English Heritage is marking the bicentenary of the ending of slavery in Britain with a web offering which highlights buildings with links to the slave trade and its abolition.
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NewsTate Modern extension approved
Southwark council’s planning committee has green-lighted Herzog & de Meuron’s daring extension (pictured) to the Tate Modern on London’s South Bank.
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Save loses Guildhall fight
Campaigning group Save Britain’s Heritage has lost its High Court battle against Westminster council’s decision to permit the conversion of the listed Middlesex Guildhall into a Supreme Court— to be designed by Feilden & Mawson.
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NewsTrack energy performance — Cabe
Cabe chair John Sorrell (pictured) used this week’s launch of the 2007 Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award to urge ministers to ensure that all new public buildings meet the UK’s climate change obligations.
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Wimpey and Woodrow merger
The largest deal in the continuing consolidation of the UK’s house-building industry, the proposed £2.5 billion purchase of George Wimpey by Taylor Woodrow, could be derailed.
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NewsRogers adds Pritzker prize to busy year
Richard Rogers has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2007, becoming only the fourth British architect to take the award after James Stirling, Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid.
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Mosque drops Mangera
Young Architect of the Year runner-up Mangera Yvars’ flagship project — a huge mosque in east London — was in serious doubt this week after a shock announcement by client and evangelical Islamic group Tablighi Jamaat.
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NewsCondensation works hit troubled Bath Spa
Grimshaw Architects’ Bath Spa project has been hit by new problems after operators admitted that part of the complex may have to be shut down to carry out essential repair works to the steam rooms.
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NewsBarn-style affordable housing feels at home in Sussex
This picturesque RIBA competition-winning housing development by Riches Hawley Mikhail has gone on site in Sussex.
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NewsFloating ideas for London
This surreal design of temporary floating islands in the River Thames by architect Tomas Klassnik is a vision of London in the future, as it adapts to the pressures of climate change and soaring summer temperatures.
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NewsFoster’s a driving force in Spain
Foster & Partners has won the competition to design a new leisure complex in the town of Alcañiz, north-eastern Spain.
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Adjaye teams up for Manchester art gallery
David Adjaye is to design his first regional art gallery in the UK as part of a £55 million collaboration with architect Maurice Shapero and regeneration specialist Urbed.
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RIBA call to arms in Leeds
Four up-and-coming practices have been short-listed in an RIBA contest for a scheme at Britain’s oldest national museum.
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NewsLobbyists urge review of BSF design failings
The government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme should be subject to an independent review because of its design shortcomings and “wasteful” procurement process, a key lobby group has claimed.