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Planning review ‘flawed'
Economist Kate Barker's Treasury-commissioned review of the planning system is based on a false premise, claims the South-east England Regional Assembly.
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Yeang to masterplan Istanbul eco-corridor
Llewelyn Davies Yeang has won its first major international design competition since the practice launched last year. The architecture, planning and design consultancy will masterplan a 2km-long "ecological corridor" for Istanbul, Turkey, on a site that has been dominated by unplanned development.
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MPs urged to name best public design
MP Ed Vaizey has submitted an early day motion urging fellow MPs to nominate buildings in their constituencies for the 2006 Prime Minister's Award for Better Public Building.
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NewsNew library draws ‘mystery' fans
The first new library to be built in Gloucestershire in 15 years - in the market town of Dursley - challenges the traditional notions of a county library, with its transparent facade and skewed shape.
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NewsPupils help design school
Eldridge Smerin has designed a new west Midlands primary school. The £300,000 scheme, for Heart of England School, in Balsall Common, is in for planning. It boasts a colourful new bridge constructed of timber louvers on a translucent polycarbonate structure.
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‘Cinderella' role is championed
Specification writing - described as a "Cinderella activity" in the design process - is to be championed by the newly-launched Specifiers' Design Forum with a publicity drive, conference and CPD programme.
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Scotland rewrites architecture policy
Scotland's policy on architecture is to be rewritten just five years after it was introduced.
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NewsBrazilian Mendes da Rocha wins Pritzker
Brazil's Paulo Mendes da Rocha has been awarded the 2006 Pritzker Prize for architecture for work stretching back through six decades.
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Academies ‘dumbed down'
Partnerships for Schools to oversee city academies programme, with new emphasis on ‘value for money'
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LDA adds young firms to Plaistow shortlist
The London Development Agency has given its firm backing to young architects, insisting that two up-and-coming practices are on the shortlist to replace Herzog & de Meuron on a housing scheme in Plaistow, east London.
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NewsNew fire in Smithfield battle
Terry Farrell's study for English Heritage is ‘spin', claims City as it prepares to judge KPF planning application
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Foster's in fight for Folkestone
Foster & Partners has drawn up plans for a massive overhaul of the Folkestone seafront for local businessman and philanthropist Roger de Haan.
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News‘Brighton Eye' proposed for pier site
Marks Barfield, architect of the London Eye, has unveiled plans for a 183m-high observation mast on the site of Brighton's West Pier.
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Saatchi's new sensation
Britain's most controversial art collector has won planning permission for his new gallery in Chelsea. Charles Saatchi will move his collection into the refurbished Saatchi Gallery near Sloane Square next year.
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Cities ‘leading the way against climate change'
Cities' planning and energy policies are the world's best defence against irreversible climate change, according to the second Solar Cities conference held this week in Oxford, which last month declared itself a solar city.
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NewsSon of Shard
This dramatic office development at London Bridge by Renzo Piano is designed to accompany his proposed skyscraper the Shard of Glass.