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Brent has designs
Designs to reinvigorate democracy in the London Borough of Brent have been revealed by Witherford Watson Mann Architects.
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Bathroom woes at millennium village
Residents at the flagship Greenwich Millennium Village say they are experiencing widespread problems with their prefabricated bathrooms.
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Leeds lessons
Allen Tod Architecture has completed two new buildings for Park Lane College in Leeds.
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NewsFosters Malaysian towers
Foster& Partners’ first residential development in Malaysia has broken ground.
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NewsKen’s gas guzzler
London mayor’s ‘sustainable’ City Hall is missing energy consumption targets by 50%
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London’s high hopes
Seventy-storey Ian Simpson tower could be first of a cluster of Southwark skyscrapers
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NewsDarkhorse Holyrood deserves the nod
Courage and invention must give Miralles’s swansong the edge in the Stirling race over Bennetts PFI route
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Dilapidated listed gems threatened
New English Heritage guidelines could deny many historic buildings listing protection if they are in poor condition, and give greater authority to calls for some buildings to be delisted, leading conservationists fear.
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Bennetts library is Stirling favourite
Bennetts Associates’ Brighton library is the bookies’ favourite to win this year’s coveted Stirling Prize, but architects contacted by BD this week were rooting for Zaha Hadid.
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MP urges Olympics scrutiny
Minister for the Olympics, Tessa Jowell, has faced calls to ensure “complete transparency” in property deals between the public and private sector following BD’s investigation into Stuart Lipton’s dual role as private developer at the Olympics site.
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NewsLottery jackpot
Scotland’s largest Heritage Lottery Fund award was granted this week to Gareth Hoskins Architects’ revamp of the Royal Museum in Edinburgh.
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NewsHit and miss
- Spanish superstar architect Santiago Calatrava has unveiled plans for America’s tallest building.The spiralling Chicago structure, at 609m, would surpass both the city’s Sears Tower and the planned Freedom Tower in New York City. The 115-storey building is being planned by local developer Christopher Carley and will feature a steel ...
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- Jim Sneddon (pictured) has been appointed director of development to the London Thames Gateway Development Corporation. Sneddon studied architecture at Herriot Watt University and helped to found developer Grantchester.- Alan James, the BBC’s head of architecture for the corporation’s buildings, will leave at the end of this month after ...
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Power play
- The London mayor’s office has set a new target of 31,500 homes to be built in the capital each year from 2007 to 2017. The target has been revised upwards from 23,000 homes a year.- The government has no plans to harmonise VAT on new-build and refurbishment, according to ...
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Gough to fight roof mess
Celebrated architect Piers Gough has joined forces with residents of one of his landmark London buildings to attack plans for a “space-age” rooftop extension.
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NewsTime called on Fuller-inspired South Pole dome
A geodesic dome on the South Pole built by one of Buckminster Fuller’s students is to be demolished to make way for a new US research facility.
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BDP growth forces office move as staff reach 1,000
Europe’s largest architectural practice, BDP, is moving 70 staff into a new London office following a rapid expansion that has seen it grow to 1,000 employees for the first time.