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NewsThe Future for our children
Future Systems has designed this £1.8 million nursery and adult learning centre, dubbed “Art Baby” and shown here for the first time.
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NewsBeacon for regeneration
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
The Welsh Assembly is spending ony £250,000 on public art — half as much as officials had hoped for.
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NewsIn fine health
Healthcare practice Anshen Dyer has reached financial close on the £300 million Newcastle Hospitals PFI project.
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Fosters to design tsunami memorial
Foster & Partners is to design a school in Thailand in memory of a British victim of the tsunami.
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NewsSpotcheck: The North-east
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
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
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.
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NewsBlobs: the best medicine
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?
Zoë Blackler asks whether professional training is keeping architects out of trouble
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Demand doubles for architecture courses
The number of people applying to study architecture has almost doubled in the past five years, resulting in at least five new architecture courses being set up.
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Corporate death bill planned
A new offence of corporate manslaughter was included in the Queen’s mammoth 45-bill speech on Tuesday.
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A French lesson
A new conference promoting the French model of urbanism to the British is to take place in Lille this summer.
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Mills move on
MBLC Architects has won planning permission for an eight-storey mixed-use building in the historic Ancoats area of east Manchester.
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NewsHit and miss
Transport secretary Alistair Darling opened Wilkinson Eyre’s Pier 6 passenger bridge at Gatwick airport’s North Terminal (above) on Monday.A joint office venture by Make and RHWL has been granted planning permission by Camden council. The two-building development on Hampstead Road in north London is designed to set a new standard ...
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People
Celebrity developer Donald Trump is championing engineer Ken Gardner’s designs for Ground Zero in New York. Trump has branded Daniel Libeskind’s Freedom Tower, the winning design for Ground Zero, “disgusting”.Stanley Hall Cox MBE died on April 28, aged 77. Cox was a teacher at the Welsh School of Architecture and ...