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Foster’s Swiss Re building and Future Systems’ Selfridges store in Birmingham have been shortlisted for the EU’s best building award. The winner of the 2005 Mies van der Rohe prize will be announced next week.Swansea council has launched an international search for architects to carry out a £25 million refurbishment ...
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Joanna Averley (pictured) has been appointed as the deputy chief executive of Cabe. Averley, who will continue to act as director of Cabe’s enabling programme, said the new position was designed to oversee Cabe’s advisory services. Foster’s partner Ewan Anderson has joined Make, the latest in a string of senior ...
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Power play
Constructing Excellence, the government body tasked with implementing the Egan Review, has merged with independent supply-chain body Be. The merged organisation, Constructing Excellence in the Built Environment, will work with the property and construction industries and has promised to place design high on its agenda.Broadway Malyan is to redesign the ...
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Liverpool focuses on design
Following scathing criticism, 2008 Capital of Culture looks to team of champions to put design centre stage
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NewsShowing its metal
Herzog & de Meuron’s latest contribution to landmark architecture, the expansion of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, will open to the public next weekend.
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Call for Department of Built Environment
The Construction Industry this week called on Tony Blair to establish a new Department of the Built Environment to deal with the entire construction industry.
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Fosters win asserts its civic supremacy
Foster & Partners has been appointed to design the first home of the UK Supreme Court in a move that confirms the practice’s predominance in London’s civic space projects.
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Design watchdog to tackle Ulster design
The battle to combat low architectural standards in Northern Ireland began in earnest on Monday when proposals for a new design watchdog and government policy on architecture were announced by the Northern Ireland Executive.
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NewsInternational colours of Atlantic
Designs for student and staff accommodation at an international college on the Welsh coast have been revealed by Latitude Architects.
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Anger at U-turn on casinos
Large-scale casino projects by architects including John McAslan, Norman Foster, Ian Simpson, HOK Sport and Carey Jones were thrown into serious doubt this week after the government scaled down plans for eight super-casinos to just one.
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NewsUniversity colours
Fraser MacKenna Architects has won planning permission for a £33 million student residence complex for the University of East London on the Royal Albert Dock.
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Race on for 60K house as ODPM sets out rules
Architectural practices including Cartwright Pickard, PRP and PCKO have joined the race to build a £60,000 house in the week the government announced the rules of the contest and the first four sites where the bargain houses will be built.
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Eastern European workers plug UK building skills gap
Workers from eastern Europe are plugging the skills gap in the construction industry, according to research by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
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NewsNew-look Leopold
The PRP-designed refurbishment of a Tower Hamlets estate will go ahead after tenants voted to transfer their homes from the council to a registered social landlord.
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NewsSpotcheck: Northern Ireland
Store war Rows over the proposed first Northern Irish John Lewis store will come to an end in the next few weeks when a planning decision is made following months of delay. Geddes Architects designed the contentious 20,440sq m two-level store in Lisburn, seven miles from Belfast. The £40 million ...
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Building Futures chair for Dickon Robinson
Dickon Robinson, former director of development for the Peabody Trust, has been appointed to the chair of Building Futures.
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NewsQuestion time for the contenders
As campaigning kicks off, party leaders answer your questions on the issues that matter most to you