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NewsWatch the birdie!
Pigeon population rockets as architects’ use of louvres on eco-friendly buildings provides ideal nesting
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NewsCincinnati winner
Bernard Tschumi Architects’ Richard E Lindner Athletics Centre has opened at the University of Cincinnati.
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Poles put pressure on Arb over registration
Pressure is mounting on the Arb to relax the rules allowing foreign architects to register in the UK.The Arb Reform Group is gathering evidence of cases which, it claims, expose inconsistencies in the standards expected of foreign architects attempting to have their qualifications recognised in the this country by taking ...
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NewsCairo terminal revision
GMW Architects has been appointed to refurbish the interior design of the new terminal at Cairo airport.
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Olympic sustainability targets are too vague
Experts say delivery authority must sign up to specific targets now
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Businesses back eco buildings
Almost 90% of UK businesses would be more willing to pay for energy-efficient buildings than for iconic ones, according to new research carried out for architectural consultancy Gensler. The study, which examined the differences in attitudes to energy efficiency between property developers and the companies occupying the buildings they create, ...
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Hospital to pilot single-room ward
The brave new world of healthcare design in Britain is to be put to the test with the building of an entire ward to study the use of single rooms in hospitals.
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School designs menu is ‘possibility’
The newly appointed chief executive of Partnerships for Schools has raised the spectre of a menu of standardised designs for the 13,500 schools to rebuilt or refurbished over the next 13 years.
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Upmarket visitor centre for Loch Ness
Niall McLaughlin Architects has won the competition to design a visitor attraction on the edge of Loch Ness.
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NewsFit for a Prince
RMJM has submitted a planning application for its first project in Liverpool, a large mixed-use development including a residential tower on the historic Princes Dock site.
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NewsBalmond slates UK ‘conservatism’
British architecture pales in comparison to the rest of the world, according to Cecil Balmond, one of the country’s foremost engineers.
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Six projects vie for £50m lottery prize
Projects including a conference centre in Sherwood Forest, a technology museum on a former airfield in Wiltshire and a cluster of waterways schemes in Somerset are on a shortlist to receive to £50 million of lottery money.
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Rejected Wirral project undermines Cabe’s role
A developer has questioned the advisory role of Cabe and English Heritage after a large waterfront regeneration scheme in New Brighton on the Wirral was rejected at public inquiry.
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Mixed-use and transport are keys to Lea Valley Park
The first stage of Urban Initiatives’ report on Lee Valley Park says mixed-use developments, as well as improved transport links and job creation, are fundamental to the area’s future
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Cutting edge couple deserve Royal Gold
We won’t know until December if Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown will be the recipients of this year’s Royal Gold Medal, but they fully deserve this recognition.
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NewsStyle over size at budget hotel
Planning permission has been granted for this colourful £4 million hotel in the heart of Manchester.
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NewsAlsop to bid for London design job
Will Alsop made a dramatic bid to run design in London this week, turning his longheld frustrations with the Richard Rogers-led orthodoxy into action.