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Green homes crisis
Two thirds of local authorities admit they are ‘not ready’ to deliver zero-carbon targets
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NewsInternet sabotages Stockholm library competition
The internet has threatened to derail one of the biggest open competitions in recent years after two of the six supposedly anonymous shortlisted contenders for the new Stockholm library were posted on the web.
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SMC founder McColl is demoted to deputy chair
Stewart McColl has been forced by investors to step down as chief executive of the country’s largest architectural firm, SMC Group.
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NewsBold new welcome to Sidcup
Studio Egret West has launched a bold attempt to bring distinctive contemporary design to Sidcup in Kent with this housing-led mixed use building for Cathedral Group, just entered for planning permission.
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Make plan for King’s Reach Tower axed
A dramatic scheme by Make Architects to remodel a London skyscraper has been shelved after the practice was replaced by a rival firm.
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Skanska announces team to design Kent schools
A host of young, design-led practices has been brought in to Kent’s Building Schools for the Future programme by Skanska UK.
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NewsNord wins design for Wexford council HQ
This scheme by Nord Architecture, BD’s Young Architect of the Year 2006, as won the open international design competition for the new headquarters building for Wexford County Council in Southern Ireland.
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NewsBlackpool competes for Libeskind’s Eden forest...
Blackpool plans to bounce back from losing in its bid to host the UK’s only supercasino by installing a Daniel Libeskind-designed indoor rainforest on the same site.
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NewsLondon to get Britain's first Mies Van Der Rohe?
High hopes that Peter Palumbo would win his battle to build Mies's Mansion House Square scheme.
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Tall Buildings
The UK’s skyline is on the rise, particularly in the main cities – London and the north. Skyscrapers are popping up all over the place with the enthusiastic backing of civic leaders such as London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Manchester city council chief executive Howard Bernstein, who want to maintain ...
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The Olympics
With just five years to go until the London 2012 Olympics, the race is on win lucrative jobs designing the permanent and temporary structures. But despite the profession’s euphoria when London first won the Games, grave doubts over the government’s commitment to design quality soon emerged as it became clear ...
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NewsYour new look BD: what, why and how
Editor Amanda Baillieu explains the thinking behind our redesign
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Cabe backs Simpson rethink
Cabe has backed Ian Simpson’s redesigned skyscraper for Blackfriars Road in Southwark, London.
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Highbury Corner set for revamp
The multidisciplinary design practice Gillespies is developing an urban design framework for Highbury Corner, in north London, on behalf of Transport for London.
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NewsNew members join Arb board
The Privy Council has appointed Philip Cunliffe and Alex Galloway to replace chair Humphrey Lloyd and Alan Crane as lay members of the Arb board (News February 9).
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NewsHotel is Bennetts’ Dutch debut
Bennetts Associates has won planning permission for its first project outside the UK — the largest hotel in the Netherlands for City Inn (pictured).
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NewsWalkway design competition gives young firms Olympic opportunity
Up-and-coming practices have been given their first chance to break into the London Olympics with the launch of a major competition to design a public walkway running from Victoria Park in Hackney to West Ham.
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NewsLivingstone proposes landmarks to denote arrival in London
Mayor wants new landmarks to signal visitors’ arrival in the capital
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NewsFeilden Clegg Bradley wins Gallions Park zero-carbon housing scheme
Feilden Clegg Bradley has beaten stiff competition from architects including Bill Dunster, Glenn Howells and Llewelyn Davies Yeang to design a flagship zero-carbon housing scheme for the mayor of London.
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News‘Far bigger’ 2008 London Architecture Biennale
The next London Architecture Biennale will run for an entire month and will expand to cover new areas of the capital such as Bloomsbury and Canary Wharf.