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NewsDon’t call it a commune
We visit Britain’s first co-housing project and finds its pioneers keen to shake off the hippy tag
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NewsThe designer of which of these buildings just won the USs richest architecture prize?
The answer’s both. One is known as the bad boy of American architecture who “sees architecture as a contact sport”, the other is a tweed-wearing leader of the classical revival.
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Track event
David Morley Architects has unveiled designs for the £16 million new Lee Valley Athletics Centre in east London.
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Row as Arb gets heavy over PII
The row between Arb and the RIBA over professional insurance has flared up again after the regulator punished six architects for failing to prove they have sufficient cover.
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Mr Japan dies at 91
Kenzo Tange, a colossus of post-war Japanese architecture, died in Tokyo on Tuesday, aged 91. He leaves behind a legacy of distinctively adapted European modernism in his own schemes and the work of celebrated followers such as Arata Isozaki.
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Bennetts sits Shakespeare test
Bennetts Associates last week won its largest public commission yet when it beat MacCormac Jamieson Prichard and Dublin firm O’Donnell & Tuomey to the £50 million transformation of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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NewsHit and miss
Grimshaw is to expand and renovate a prominent art museum in New York City. The project will double the size of the Queens Museum of Art. Grimshaw is one of eight practices taking part in the city’s Design Excellence initiative.Arup Associates has been called in to examine water supply problems ...
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Power play
The government must introduce effective new climate-change targets in order to meet its wider environmental goals, according to the Energy Saving Trust (EST). EST claimed this week that UK homes were wasting £5 billion worth of energy every year and recommended the government adopt targets to improve home and transport ...
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Official: Sixties estate risks gas blast collapse
Levitt Bernstein scheme on ice after collapse danger admitted at South London estate
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Transport funding goldrush
The government unveiled its £200 million spending plans for vital transport infrastructure needed to deliver new housing in the South-east this week.
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RIBAs votes in architecture manifesto gets mixed reaction
A flagship 21-point manifesto for architecture launched by the RIBA this week has won praise from construction minister Nigel Griffiths but was questioned by other MPs contacted by BD.
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NewsAquatic ambition
Grimshaw’s ambitious plans for a £250 million sealife centre four times the size of the Eden Project took a step forward this week when a site was chosen for the two biodomes in Bedfordshire.
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Job audit and new territories at Aukett
The chairman of newly formed practice Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has told BD of possible redundancies and also plans to expand into new territories such as healthcare and education.
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Liverpool steps in to save listed building
Liverpool City Council has for the first time bought a listed building to save it from ruin.
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NewsWilkinson Eyre crosses into Europe
Wilkinson Eyre Architects has won its first major commission in France with a competition entry to build one of the longest new rail bridges in Europe with this environmentally-sensitive design.
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Lottery fund bows to timber pressure
The Heritage Lottery Fund this week agreed to only fund projects which use legal and sustainable sources of timber following a high-profile Greenpeace campaign.
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Adjaye back in to fix Street-Porter house
David Adjaye has returned to fix problems with the house he designed for journalist Janet Street-Porter, just a year after completion.
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NewsStation controller
Terry Farrell & Partners has reaffirmed its dominance in the Far Eastern market after beating competition from a smaller London rival on two large train stations in China.