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    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Glasgow-based practice Graeme Massie Architects has won an RIBA competition to redesign Bonn Square in Oxford.

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    English Partnerships submits plans for first 60k homes

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    English Partnerships has submitted plans for the prototype £60,000 house to be built at Allerton Bywater in Leeds.

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    Battle of Hastings

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Revised Hopkins scheme is a ‘missed opportunity’

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    Winchester planners failing in duty of care

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Winchester City Council’s planning department is struggling with low morale and a funding shortage after the government halved its planning delivery grant because of poor performance.

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    Divine intervention

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    EPR Architects has won planning permission for a new church, community facilities and affordable housing on the Isle of Dogs in east London.

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    A dazzling display of detritus

    2005-06-03T00:00:00Z

    Herzog & de Meuron has turned the Turbine Hall into a jumble sale of their most extraordinary ideas

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    Embankment plan will not drive out traffic

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    The Victoria Embankment will remain open to traffic under plans drawn up by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard for the mayor of London.

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    Edinburgh divided on tall possibilities

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    A council investigation into the possibility of building skyscrapers in Edinburgh is causing ructions among the city’s architects.

  • The colourful and light-filled interior is inspired by the creative approach of the Italian Reggio Emilia learning system.
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    The Future for our children

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Future Systems has designed this £1.8 million nursery and adult learning centre, dubbed “Art Baby” and shown here for the first time.

  • Steele: Understands AA machinations.
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    Steele wins AA vote

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    New chairman seen as safe choice

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    Beacon for regeneration

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Engineer WhitbyBird’s landmark bridge across the River Lea in east London has won planning permission.

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    Welsh Assembly scrimps on art

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    The Welsh Assembly is spending ony £250,000 on public art — half as much as officials had hoped for.

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    In fine health

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Healthcare practice Anshen Dyer has reached financial close on the £300 million Newcastle Hospitals PFI project.

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    Sights set on Blackburn to be new Eden

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Bradford dismisses Spice project

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    Fosters to design tsunami memorial

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners is to design a school in Thailand in memory of a British victim of the tsunami.

  • FaulknerBrowns’ Paul O’Gorman Building, at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, has been shortlisted for this year’s Hadiran Awards.
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    Spotcheck: The North-east

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Scheme on hold Multi-million-pound regeneration plans for Whitley Bay, north Tyneside, by Places for People, have been put on hold by the town’s new mayor. The £19 million scheme, which includes 400 new homes, a pedestrianised piazza and a £1 million refurbishment of the Playhouse theatre, have been postponed for ...

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    Gehry plan ‘too garish’ for Hove

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Revised designs by Frank Gehry for a £225 million development in Hove, East Sussex, have failed to dispel doubts and controversy surrounding the scheme.

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    Poundbury housing scheme rejected due to high density

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Prince Charles’s expansion plans for his Poundbury model village in Dorset were dealt a fresh blow last week after a controversial housing scheme for the site was refused planning permission.

  • The “centre of the cell” children’s visitor centre hovers above researchers’ benches in the basement. Lighting and sprinklers are concealed in the bench hoods.
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    Blobs: the best medicine

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    We find Will Alsop in abrasive mood at the opening of his new Queen Mary medical school. The architecture provides a much smoother ride

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    Is training selling out?

    2005-05-27T00:00:00Z

    Zoë Blackler asks whether professional training is keeping architects out of trouble