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Power play
The planning system will be made more responsive to housing need under government plans. In her first major speech as housing and planning minister, Yvette Cooper told the Royal Town Planning Institute last week that the Barker Report meant planning policy should take better account of market signals such ...
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Games to provide big break for new generation
The 2012 Olympic Games will allow a new generation of British architects to showcase their skills on a global stage, say the masterplanners behind the successful bid.
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London appalling for cyclists and pedestrians
Oxford Street is the worst place in the industrialised world for pedestrians and cyclists, and London streets and spaces are as bad as the Soviet Union, a respected adviser to London mayor Ken Livingstone has said.
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RIBA agrees Arb reform order
Radical plans to curb the legal powers of Arb have won the approval of RIBA council.
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Alsops country house
The Alsop House is one of more than 40 homes designed by architects also including Piers Gough, Eva Jiricna and Sarah Featherstone, to be built on a Cotswolds site.
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New Freedom
SOM has revealed new designs for New York’s Freedom Tower. The building is being built on the site of the World Trade Centre, destroyed by terrorists in 2001.
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Bristol campaigners rally against Ferguson scheme
A Bristol campaign group that has caused trouble for local schemes by Wilkinson Eyre Architects and Robert Adam Architects has turned its attention to a design by RIBA president George Ferguson.
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NewsRevealed: Concern over Cabe boss’s Olympic deal
Developer Lipton denies conflict of interest over Olympic land deal signed while Cabe chair
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Glam pavilion leaks
The great and good of architecture got a little more than they bargained for when they turned up for the glitzy opening of Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura’s Serpentine Pavilion on Tuesday.
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‘City the size of Leeds’ planned for Gateway
Richard Rogers unveils vision to build city for 700,000 in east London
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Zaha Hadid eyes social housing
Zaha Hadid wants to design social housing in Britain, she told BD this week.
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Getting in a bothy
Jonathan Woolf of Woolf Architects and Neil Lamb of the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture have completed the House Building project as part of Aberdeen’s Look 2005 arts festival.
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NewsHit and miss
Hakes Associates Architects’ Mobius Bridge (pictured) at Finzels Reach in Bristol has won planning permission. The bridge is part of the £200 million Finzels Reach scheme by HDG Mansur. Its design is based on a dynamic, continuous tied structure which will be completely independent from either riverbank, both physically and ...
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Power play
Communities minister David Milliband has launched an action plan called Together We Can, to pass power from central government to local communities.Tory peer Kenneth Baker has attacked Broadway Malyan’s Vauxhall Tower plans in the House of Lords. The plans already have planning permission and have been backed by deputy prime ...
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Stonewall of China
Chinese authorities stymie agreement to fully open up market to foreign architects
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Surfbury goes for modern
Prince Charles’s follow up to his Poundbury village is set to be thrown open to contemporary design in an apparent softening of the heir to the throne’s attitude towards modern architecture.
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EH image problem
English Heritage’s most pressing challenge is an image problem, its chief executive has admitted.