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NewsSites picked for £60,000 houses
Architects have been selected for the first four sites in deputy prime minister John Prescott’s £60,000 home competition.
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Ministers back home generators
Ministers have given unofficial support to legislation that would make micro-generators compulsory in all new homes.
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Drawings of Hirst’s manor up for sale
The original collection of drawings for the grade I listed Toddington Manor have been put up for auction just months after the historic property was purchased by millionaire artist Damien Hirst.
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NewsPrince’s Foundation redesigns Gulf Coast
The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has revealed plans to redesign large parts of the US’s hurricane-devastated Gulf Coast along new urbanist lines, as Prince Charles used his tour of the country to launch a fresh attack on modern architecture.
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NewsWorking in a man’s world
The typical woman architect is about 40, employed and has a child at primary school. She is poles apart from her typical male colleague. Has the time come for the profession to change its rules?
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NewsTricorn site expects green light
The redevelopment of the former Tricorn site in Portsmouth looked set to win outline planning permission this week.
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New RIAS chief seeks to lose ‘golf club mentality’
The new chief executive of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has revealed plans to modernise the organisation, admitting it can be seen as a “Masonic and medieval guild”.
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NewsSmall wonder
Micro-compact homes which combine high technology with low energy use have been unveiled at a student village in Munich.
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NewsA healthy outlook
Swanke Hayden Connell Architects has unveiled images of this £265 million hospital planned in Nottinghamshire.
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NewsFoster’s Baaaa-rmy Biennale
He names his interests in Who’s Who as “running, flying and skiing” but Norman Foster might well add “herding of sheep” to this list after details of a stunt for the next London Architecture biennale were revealed.
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Olympic project looks to T5 model
The management of the £4.2 billion Heathrow Airport Terminal 5 construction project is being used as a model for the delivery of London’s Olympic Park.
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NewsBattersea power struggle
Ron Arad’s hotel ditched amid talk of ‘bitchiness’ and tensions on long-running power station scheme
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Pay-for-planning approved
Audit Commission set to endorse controversial developer payments to local authority ‘consultants’
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‘Business beats government on green homes’
London mayor Ken Livingstone has accused the government of doing less to cut carbon emissions than big business as it emerged that across London thousands of new homes are to be built by the private sector to new carbon-cutting standards.
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Backing for Farrell’s ‘Nash Ramblas’
Fundraising set to begin as vision for central London pedestrian boulevard gains widespread support
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SMC snaps up DTR:UK for £4.5m
SMC Group, one of the few UK practices listed on the stock market, has bought Manchester-based DTR:UK for a potential £4.5 million.
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NewsBattersea’s butterfly collector
As eccentric developer Victor Hwang has yet another reshuffle of his pack of star architects, Charlie Gates asks is something going wrong at the power station?