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NewsFrei Otto picked to design next Serpentine pavilion
Frei Otto, the German architect who designed the roof of the 1972 Olympic Stadium in Munich, will design the 2007 Serpentine Gallery pavilion, it has been announced.
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Marks & Spencer plans to be carbon-neutral by 2012
Retail giant Marks & Spencer has announced ambitious plans to go carbon neutral by 2012, including a pledge to make its 500-plus stores 25% more energy efficient.
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Key report puts design at heart of education
Teachers are set to lead the way in the design of new schools as an influential panel of government advisers places architecture at the heart of sweeping changes proposed for the UK education system.
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NewsLast Rykwert building in danger
Campaigners rally to save 1970s Chelsea housing from Foster & Partners’ luxury apartment scheme
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Plea to end loophole on listing
Buildings damaged while awaiting assessment, says Victorian Society
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NewsStudy will probe ‘the possible’ for Lambeth Palace
Church of England managers have commissioned a new study to explore possible alterations to the “charmingly chaotic” Lambeth Palace, home of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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NewsGensler blasts Cabe over supercasino
Gensler, the world’s second largest architecture practice, has accused Cabe of failing to understand the outline planning application process and being unable to give schemes outside London due consideration.
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Welsh design panel admits it has failed
The Design Commission for Wales has admitted that its efforts to improve the province’s built environment have failed, in a brutally honest review of its first three years.
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NewsLondon's new cultural heart
The sheer number and quality of schemes waiting to be built in Southwark will transform London’s oldest borough into a showcase for architectural talent.
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NewsWatch this space
Penoyre & Prasad’s new Richard Desmond Children’s Eye Centre at Moorfield Eye Hospital in central London has reached practical completion.
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NewsJenkins: apologise for 1960s estates
One of Britain’s most influential journalists has demanded that the RIBA establish a South African-style reconciliation commission to allow architects to investigate their responsibility for sixties and seventies housing estates, which he claimed “ruined lives”.
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NewsStratford City moves to planning
Developer Westfield has submitted a full planning application for Stratford City, designed by Arup, Fletcher Priest and landscape architect West 8, to the Olympic Delivery Authority.
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NewsArray of large-scale projects in the Southwark pipeline
Southwark Borough Council has staked an early claim to be the architectural client of 2007 by revealing an incredible array of pioneering developments in the pipeline.
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EP/Housing Corp merger imminent
The government is set to announce the merger of the Housing Corporation and English Partnerships into a “super quango” called Communities England.
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NewsLearning tower
Carey Jones Architects has secured planning permission for an £80 million student flat development in central Leeds, set to become the tallest in the UK at 37 storeys.
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Glen Howells to masterplan 21ha Birmingham scheme
Glenn Howells Architects has been appointed by Isis Waterside Regeneration to masterplan the regeneration of a huge site in north west Birmingham.
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NewsKaleidoscope children's health centre by van Heyningen & Haward
Following a year of planning and 18 months construction, architect van Heyningen & Haward has completed work on Kaleidoscope, its new children’s health centre for Lewisham Primary Care Trust.