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NewsDesign edge missing in Thames Gateway link
Cabe refuses to endorse Marks Barfield’s flagship bridge proposal
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Academies marked down by teachers
Teachers in the new academy schools think too much emphasis has been put on making bold design statements at the expense of more practical requirements, a survey revealed this week.
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NewsHit and miss
The troubled Portcullis House offices for MPs were once again struck by flooding this month. Water poured into the main courtyard space during the recent heavy rains and formed large puddles. Maintenance staff at the Michael Hopkins-designed building blamed the latest leaks on the automatic air vents not being able ...
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Selina Mason (pictured) has been appointed as Cabe’s head of design review. Mason has been acting head since the departure of Peter Stewart in December.Peter Roberts has been made chair of the new Academy for Sustainable Communities in Leeds. The aim of the academy is to improve skills among built ...
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Power play
Planning minister Yvette Cooper has launched a three-year study of the new system for making local development plans. She said: “It will enable us to assess progress and to share best practice.”The UK’s 21 urban regeneration companies will deliver 1.5 million sq m of commercial floorspace, 30,000 city centre homes, ...
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NewsSeeing the light
Carey Nieman Architects is one of four winners of the “Light at the End of the Tunnel” open ideas competition to find new uses for London’s railway viaducts.
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NewsArchitects to blame for lack of disabled access
Disabled actor Mat Fraser has attacked architects for failing to make cities such as London fully accessible quickly enough and blamed the profession for the historic lack of accessibility.
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Future plan threatens old schools, warns EH
English Heritage has warned that nearly 6,000 listed schools across the country could be endangered by the government’s ambitious £2.2 billion schools building programme.
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Corporation queries Kens green dream
London mayor Ken Livingstone’s green dream could be “impossible” to achieve according to the Corporation of London.
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NewsThe great glass garden of Italy
Stanton Williams has beaten a shortlist of architects including David Chipperfield to design an ambitious £7 million garden project in Italy.
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Robert Adam loses to Bristol Nimbies
A classical town house in Clifton, Bristol, designed by Robert Adam Architects has been rejected by the city council on design grounds following local opposition to the scheme.
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Eric Parry continues promise of change with AA presidency
Leading architect and academic Eric Parry has replaced Eva Jiricna as president of the Architectural Association.
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NewsFirst movement
Foster & Partners’ twin towers scheme in the Vivaldi urban quarter of Amsterdam has started on site. Commissioned by ING Real Estate, the 87m-high, 24-storey buildings have a distinctive lattice that scales the entire facade.
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Preservation plan for Barbican
A new heritage management plan for the listed Barbican estate in central London proposes the preservation of one of each of the eight types of flats in the massive development exactly as they were when completed in the seventies.
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Caravan design on Hemingway hitlist
Designer Wayne Hemingway, fresh from his savaging of new volume-housing design in the pages of BD last month (News Analysis May 13), has taken on a new design target: the caravan.
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Scottish watchdog bares teeth at school designs
The Scottish Executive’s new design watchdog has signalled a tough approach to design quality by slamming one of the country’s largest education projects.