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Planning reform set for large schemes
Large, complex planning applications will be streamlined in 30 pilot areas announced by the government this week.
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Aedas set for Kazakh expansion
Architectural giant Aedas is set to open three new offices around the world - including one in a former Soviet republic condemned for its human rights record.
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Two cities in battle for BBC HQ
Manchester and Salford are fighting it out to host the BBC's new northern headquarters and win all the regeneration benefits that will go with it.
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NewsMeet the fixer
In the tight-knit world of City development, Simon Harris is the broker who matches the best architects with the best developers. Ellen Bennett took a ride in his convertible to find out what lies behind his little-known power
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Rem's pavilion puzzle
Architect Rem Koolhaas and his new employer the Serpentine Gallery posed a tricky philosophical question this week: When is a pavilion not a pavilion?
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NewsSporting life
Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza's stunning new sports centre has set a bold new standard for the architects of the London 2012 Olympics.
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Schemes for Basin replaced
Plans for six new buildings by three architects including former SOM director Michel Mossessian have replaced schemes by Richard Rogers and Jestico & Whiles at London's Paddington Basin, it emerged this week.
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Foster means business
Foster & Partners has designed this tower for Spinningfields, Manchester's new business district.
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NewsThis Week
Hit and missRichard Rogers Partnership has unveiled concept designs for the first phase of expansion for the Javits Convention Center in New York (above). The masterplan and design concept includes proposals for a park and 120,000sq m of new exhibition space.The London Development Agency has issued an Ojeu notice for ...
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Clients asked to sign design manifesto
Olympics bosses including Tessa Jowell, Sebastian Coe, Ken Livingstone and Olympic Delivery Authority chairman Jack Lemley are to be asked to commit to a manifesto for design covering all new projects for the 2012 Games.
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Edaw consortium takes park contract
The design team which helped secure the Olympics for London was finally rewarded this week, when the four architects and three engineers were handed the contract for the Olympic Park.
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NewsRiverside views
The Interim Olympics Delivery Agency has revealed these images of how the Lower Lea Valley will look in just six years time.
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Foster to design new Heathrow terminal
Norman Foster's dominance of the world's airports was confirmed this week with his firm's selection as designer of the new Heathrow East terminal.
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Architects in Scotland ‘punished' for Holyrood
Architects in Scotland are being "punished" by clients for the failures of the £430 million Scottish Parliament project, leading lights of the profession have claimed.
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NewsOlympic recycling
Architecture Association student Kim Minseok has won the second annual KPF/ Architecture Foundation student travel award with his designs for converting Olympic stadiums into a spaghetti junction-style road system once the games have finished.
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Government silent over Gateway role
The government is to appoint a chief executive of the massive Thames Gateway project next month after an independent report slammed the leadership behind the scheme.
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NewsUniversity challenge
Edward Cullinan Architects last week celebrated the opening of the first phase of its £90 million campus for the new Singapore Management University.
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Bad design can make you ill, says academic
Badly designed neighbourhoods lead directly to rising obesity and mental illness, according to an eminent American academic.