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More delays to Clissold repairs
Clissold Leisure Centre in east London will not reopen until the autumn, meaning the building will have been closed for a full three years.
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Bold Waterloo plan unveiled by mayor
Plans for the redevelopment of London's Waterloo were unveiled this week by London's mayor Ken Livingstone.
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NewsSimpson told to rework skyscraper
Architect Ian Simpson has been sent back to the drawing board over his £500 million skyscraper proposed for London's South Bank, amid growing objections to the scheme.
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Affordable homes needed, says Charles
Good design can overcome nimbyism in rural areas, according to Prince Charles.
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NewsMcAslan plans flats over Dalston Tube
A high-density residential scheme, which is seen as a landmark project by the mayor of London - but yet contains no affordable housing - has been unveiled by John McAslan & Partners.
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Jowell: some health buildings ‘appalling'
Culture secretary Tessa Jowell outlined a new Cabe campaign last week to improve the "many appalling places" that exist in the health sector.
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Turner gallery scrapped
The Turner Contemporary Art Gallery in Margate, Kent, has been scrapped after costs spiralled from £30 million to £50 million.
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Levitt Bernstein faces legal action over Caspar
Levitt Bernstein Associates is facing legal action over the failure of one of the UK's most high-profile modular housing schemes.
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NewsCamden site completed
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris's striking limestone-clad residential scheme has been completed.
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Axe raised over bespoke schools
Kelly adviser reveals plan to use 10 to 15 designs on £2.2 billion of work
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NewsArt centre gets go-ahead
Hawkins Brown has won planning permission for a £3.7 million arts centre in Nottingham, due to open in 2007.
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£100m plans for Barbican
David Walker Architects has been appointed to design a £100-million new development at London's famous Barbican complex.
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UK architects consider Israel boycott
A group of prominent British architects is considering launching a boycott of businesses involved in building Israeli settlements in the West Bank and the construction of the security wall separating Israel and Palestine, its coordinator Abe Hayeem said this week
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NewsRevealed: How Prescott plans to let 40,000 buildings dodge carbon cuts
As many as 40,000 new buildings are set to dodge tough new carbon-cutting laws because the government has been too slow to prepare legislation.
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Robots to build homes
Transatlantic race to research freeform construction will deliver first building in months
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NewsArchigram goes public with £300,000 grant
Archive of 1960s collective's material will appear on a special website
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Liverpool takes heritage hardline
The new leadership of Liverpool City Council will take a strong pro-heritage stance, refusing to "sit back and accept" the kind of proposals it would have "welcomed in the 1990s", it said this week.
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NHS heralds fresh era in hospital design
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt signalled the end of the grand hospital this week when she unveiled a white paper ushering in a new generation of around 50 cottage hospitals providing out-patient services within local communities.
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NewsJackson walks the walk
Richard Jackson, a paediatrician by profession and the former health adviser for California state governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, was in London last week to tell none other than Prince Charles how the design of our environment has a massive influence on our health.