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Bonanza of work in Wales
Architects BDP, Nightingale Associates, Aedas, Powell Dobson, HLM and Boyce Rees are in line for a bonanza of health work in Wales after making it onto a £1.7 billion framework agreement being drawn up by Welsh Health Estates.
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Arb reformers fall at first hurdle
The Arb Reform Group suffered two defeats in its first board meeting last Thursday, indicating the struggle it faces influencing the 15-strong board with eight appointed members from outside the profession.
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Adam's house fails to impress
Robert Adam has been denied planning permission for a controversial country house in a test case of new planning guidance.
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NewsInternational brigade
Undeterred by the British weather, foreign architects are filling London offices as never before. As a BD survey uncovers the true extent of this influx, architects from six continents tell their stories. Interviews by Zoë Blackler. Photograph by Ed Tyler
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NewsGreen rhetoric exceeds reality
A Dublin conference called for sustainability in offices, but agents are a stumbling block
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Murray defends plans for Edinburgh old town
The architect of Edinburgh's £180 million old town redevelopment, Allan Murray, has blasted critics of the scheme for their lack of engagement.
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NewsBognor's £100m revamp
Bognor Regis may be associated with Butlins and gloomy British seaside holidays, but that is set to change with Lewis & Hickey Architects' plans for a £100 million redevelopment.
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NewsSole practioner joins RIBA president race
Rebel RIBA councillor Peter Phillips has entered the race for the RIBA presidency.
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Eight companies picked to work on BBC projects
The BBC has named the eight companies that will supply, design and manage a range of small to medium construction projects across the UK.
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NewsBold design for BAE
Michael Laird Architects has designed a bold new office building for BAE Systems at South Gayle in Edinburgh - phase one of its masterplan to redevelop the site.
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PFI buildings ‘exceptional', says new health minister
Newly appointed health minister Andy Burnham gave a robust defence of PFI this week, saying the system had produced some "exceptional" hospital buildings.
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NewsFour firms unveiled for British pavilion
The British Pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale will showcase an impressive quartet of architects working in the city of Sheffield.
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Observer architecture critic pledges to avoid celebrities
British design guru Stephen Bayley, who is to become the Observer's next architecture correspondent, has pledged to keep celebrities off the page to make room for less well-known architects and designers.
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Cooper to launch competition to design low-carbon homes
The Design for Manufacture challenge to create £60,000 homes has moved into a second phase, with housing minister Yvette Cooper calling on the construction industry to design and deliver low-carbon, or carbon neutral affordable homes.
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NewsCold mountain
Tokyo-based architect Benjamin Warner's latest project, the Iceberg, is now complete. The 5,173sq m building, near the famous Omote-Sando crossing in the Shibuya-ku district of Tokyo, includes restaurants, retail outlets, and a fitness centre.
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Deserting Koolhaas partner denies mutiny
The principal of Rem Koolhaas's New York office, who left the Office of Metropolitan Architecture on Monday taking all the office's 35 staff with him, has denied suggestions that he has fallen out with his former boss.Joshua Prince-Ramus, formerly the New York partner of Koolhaas's OMA network, has gone into ...
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NewsGlazed over
Wilkinson Eyre's design for the redevelopment of the 1976 Museum of London was revealed this week.
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