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Housing revolution in Harlow
4,000 homeowners could herald new era in British development by commissioning their own architects
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NewsStarters orders for Olympic design panel
Cabe commissioners were set to rubber-stamp the names of the Olympics design review panel as BD went to press on Wednesday.
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Smart PFI fails to convince
Health and education departments reject RIBA's model to bring design forward in the tender process
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NewsPressure on BBC over move north
The BBC is coming under increasing pressure to confirm its intention to move thousands of jobs north. Schemes by Ian Simpson and the Fairhurst Design Group in Manchester and Salford respectively have been shortlisted as the broadcaster's new headquarters, but fears are growing that it may stay in London to ...
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NewsCabe Space founder resigns
Cabe Space's founding director Julia Thrift has resigned from the organisation for family reasons. She will leave at the end of the month, and will work with Cabe on one-off projects in the future.
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Prince's plea for Edinburgh
Prince Charles has issued an "impassioned plea" for Edinburgh's historic city centre to be protected against careless development.
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Commonwealth threat spurs heritage groups
Heritage groups have sprung into action to oppose the leaked government proposal to delist the Commonwealth Institute via a parliamentary bill (News June 2).
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NewsStill bottom of the class
Richard Bowker's shock resignation from Partnerships for Schools has done little to allay to fears over the already delayed Building Schools for the Future delivery, discovers Ellen Bennett
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Sheppard Robson tipped for business school job
Sheppard Robson has been tipped as the surprise winner of the competition to design a multi-million pound extension to the London Business School.
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Hadid designs for Dubai
Dubai is the latest part of the globe to fall under Zaha Hadid's spell after the architect won a competition to design three iconic towers in the city.
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Biennale spotlight for front garden campaign
Terry Brown, senior partner at GMW, is stepping up the campaign to tackle the blight on London streets caused by people abandoning their front gardens and concreting them over for cars and rubbish bins.
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NewsOne in a million
This £21 million residential and commercial scheme by London-based Biscoe & Stanton architects boasts Cambridge's first £1 million apartment. The Belvedere's penthouse overlooks the city from the top of a 34m-high tower, which will be the city's tallest residential building when the project is completed in late summer.
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Four in running for Manchester job
Bptw is among four practices shortlisted for a residential scheme next to the Gorton Monastery in east Manchester.
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Prescott slammed over housing plan water needs
A parliamentary inquiry into water management has concluded that the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister failed to properly consider how plans for building hundreds of thousands of new houses across the South-east would affect water supplies and sewage plants in the region.
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NewsYes, Minster
Carey Jones' £17 million residential development in Layerthorpe, York, just 700m from the Minster has been granted planning consent. The 365sq m scheme, being built by Tiger Developments, will create 158 one and two bedroomed flats alongside the River Foss.
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RIBA hopeful Phillips rejects isolationist jibe
RIBA presidential candidate Peter Phillips has strenuously denied claims on Ribanet he wants to end international membership of the institute if elected.
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NewsHammersmith office links old and new
Heber-Percy & Parker has received planning consent for its office scheme at 3 Sussex Place in Hammersmith, west London.
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NewsRoyal Academy show is delirious hodgepodgery
What virtues the Royal Academy summer show can claim have never included much in the way of a cohesion of vision. It is a ragbag and contentendly so. That said, year on year the rest of the exhibition is made to look positively monotonous by the delirious hodgepodgery of the ...