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    Thermal comfort research

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Researchers at Leicester's De Montfort University are teaming up with academics at the Karlsruhe University in Germany and the Technical University of Denmark to find out more about thermal comfort in green buildings.

  • Blackpool boasts a new attraction — three sculptural wind shelters designed by London architect Ian McChesney.
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    Doing the twist

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Blackpool boasts a new attraction - three sculptural wind shelters designed by London architect Ian McChesney.

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    Four competing for Gateshead Quays

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    CZWG, Ryder HKS, the Fairhursts Design Group and multidisciplinary practice Watkins Gray International have been shortlisted for the prestigious Gateshead Quays phase two development.

  • CZWG, Ryder HKS, the Fairhursts Design Group and multidisciplinary practice Watkins Gray International have been shortlisted for the prestigious Gateshead Quays phase two development.
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    Hospital's green ambition

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Llewelyn Davies Yeang's healthcare team has designed what is hopes will be the world's greenest hospital for the Bouygues consortium as it redevelops the Broomfield Hospital in Essex.

  • Gardner Stewart Architects has won planning permission for 147 homes at Waterstone Park, Dartford
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    This Week

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Events this week ...

  • Feilden Clegg Bradley is working with Alison Brooks and Maccreanor Lavington on Cambridge’s Accordia development, an £80 million residential scheme.
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    Community spirit

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    Feilden Clegg Bradley is working with Alison Brooks and Maccreanor Lavington on Cambridge's Accordia development, an £80 million residential scheme.

  • Le Corbusier: Liverpool exhibition in 2008.
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    But Corb may steal the show

    2006-05-05T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA is committing almost £1 million to bring a major exhibition on Le Corbusier to Liverpool in 2008. The exhibition, curated by the Vitra Design Museum will focus on the architect's furniture and private spaces as well as his architecture. It will be held in the crypt of Liverpool's ...

  • ODA chairman Jack Lemley
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    Olympic design squeeze

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Delivery authority indicates that design-and-build will be adopted for stadiums and budgets will be cut

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    UK risks fines as it flouts European energy rules

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    EC ‘breathing fire and thunder' at UK's inaction over energy directive

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    Regeneration projects at risk in council polls

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Politicians campaign to overturn plans if they win local elections

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    RIBA education plans ‘unrealistic'

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Architecture schools have dismissed the RIBA's proposal for practice to play a key role in architectural education.

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    Arb clash over job advert

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Architects elected to the Arb board have clashed with chairman Humphrey Lloyd over the process of appointing a new £100,000-a-year chief executive.

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    High price of bad office design

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Poor office design is costing British business thousands of pounds a year because it reduces productivity and increases staff turnover, according a new survey by Wates Interiors.

  • Design by Gareth Hoskins for Wimpey housing in Haddington, East Lothian.
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    Wimpey commits to good design

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Housebuilder hires major names

  • Jon Rouse
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    Back in the thick of it

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Jon Rouse has gone quiet since joining the Housing Corporation, but now with a merger looming and design quality on the agenda, there's no holding him back

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    Assistive technology ‘can aid living with dementia'

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Research carried out by Housing 21 and the University of West Wales shows that in "extra care housing" older people with dementia are able to live independently for two years longer than they would otherwise do.

  • Multi-story: Malcolm Fraser Architects Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh
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    Spotcheck

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    This week: Scotland

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    It's got Seoul

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Foreign Office Architects has completed the headquarters of Dulnyouk Publishers at Paju Book City, outside the South Korean capital, Seoul.

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    Go-ahead for tallest tower

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    London's skyline is set to keep on rising as the tallest tower yet received the green light.

  • Plans for a £12 million mixed-use scheme designed by Cartwright Pickard have been submitted to Sheffield City Council.
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    Stacked up at Sheffield

    2006-04-28T00:00:00Z

    Plans for a £12 million mixed-use scheme designed by Cartwright Pickard have been submitted to Sheffield City Council.