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Power play
Westminster City Council was due to object to proposed safety work at the Diana Memorial Fountain in London’s Hyde Park as BD went to press. A report to the planning applications sub-committee said the “elegant simplicity” of the original design would be compromised by the work.The Crossrail Bill will be ...
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Election 05
The Labour manifesto revealed plans for a Heritage Protection Review aimed at giving members of the public a greater say in listings decisions.As well as pledges to nominate design champions and build new millennium villages, revealed in last week’s BD, the party has said it will give the Arts Council ...
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NewsSpinnaker on course
The dramatic 170m-high Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth is finally starting to take shape and is due for completion by the end of the summer.
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Shakespeare Company eyes County Hall move
A new chapter in the long and frequently controversial history of London’s County Hall is set to open after the Royal Shakespeare Company entered negotiations to join tenants ranging from Charles Saatchi to McDonald’s in the landmark building.
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Livingstone adviser pushes high density
Ricky Burdett, architectural adviser to London mayor Ken Livingstone, has set out the case for high-density urban living in a report which claims that density is no barrier to creating successful communities.
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NewsFinal piece of a Danish jigsaw
Tony Fretton Architects has submitted for planning permission designs for a historic Copenhagen site known as “the shame of Tietgen”.
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NewsAnimal attraction
Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura have unveiled their designs for a summer pavilion at London’s Serpentine Gallery.
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Goodsyard plans dusted off after three-year halt
Prominent Dutch masterplanner Kees Christiaanse is once again working on the controversial Bishopsgate Goodsyard site in east London following an almost three-year hiatus on the project.
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Flood defence warning for Gateway
Government’s chief scientific adviser says defences must be in place before development gets under way
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Return to Fourth Grace site
The original developers behind Will Alsop’s failed Fourth Grace in Liverpool have been re-appointed to bring forward proposals for a £110 million mixed-use scheme on the waterfront site.
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NewsTall order
Ian Simpson Architects has revealed designs for this 131m-high tower proposed in Manchester.
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Foster’s back in frame for tallest tower
Foster & Partners is back in the running to design the tallest building in central London since Centre Point and BT Tower in the 1960s.
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NewsSpotcheck: South-east
Dickens park A theme park designed by Kemp Muir Wealleans, based on the life and work of Charles Dickens, is set to be built at the Chatham Maritime site in Kent. Construction of the £62 million, 13,375sq m Dickens World complex is expected to start in June. The theme park ...
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NewsIs Labour built to last?
Has Labour lived up to its design rhetoric? We hit the road to find out if ordinary architecture is on the up
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NewsLet battle commence
Labour has pledged to appoint design champions in all public agencies and three-quarters of local authorities, as it revealed a mini manifesto for the built environment exclusively in BD this week.
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NewsTechno park
Lawrence Barth and S333 Architecture & Urbanism have completed the designs for an innovation park in Singapore.
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Cabe faces costly delay on rebranding
Cabe has postponed plans to rebrand until the autumn in a move that could increase design consultants’ fees which are already due to reach £40,000.