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Green fears over flood risk
Green Party London Assembly member Darren Johnson has laid down the gauntlet to architects to design flood resistant homes in the Thames Gateway.
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NewsThe diary of an Antarctic odyssey
You thought this week was cold? Engineer Chris Dunlop is just back from somewhere even chillier. This is a record of his site visit with a difference...
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NewsLocking out foreign talent
Legislation affecting the registration of overseas architects is driving talented designers from our shores.
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NewsAll aboard for Kings Cross
A great London landmark is set to change forever as John McAslan & Partners’ £275 million plans for transforming King’s Cross station have been given the green light.
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New era for Europan
The competition that shot S333, MVRDV and Maccreanor Lavington to fame will be resurrected in Britain, Cabe has pledged.
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Salisbury quits Arb board
A two-year war of attrition between Arb and its rebel board member, Ian Salisbury, has ended after Salisbury unexpectedly resigned and reached a legal settlement with the regulator
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‘Potential for chaos’ in sustainability goldrush
New academy chief Murray concerned at shortage of skills
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NewsSpanish skyscraper blaze
Arup’s chief fire engineer in Spain, who witnessed last weekend’s dramatic tower fire in Madrid, has told BD that a “structurally sound design” was let down by the lack of a sprinkler system.
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Skyscrapers loom for the South Bank
Seventy-storey residential block one of three towers to rival City skyline
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Charles de Gaulle airport report fails to clear designer
An investigation into the collapse of a futuristic terminal at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport which killed four people last May has left open the possibility that architect Paul Andreu could be prosecuted.
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Massive difference made to Olympic bid by architects
The country’s top architects have “made a massive difference” to London’s chance of winning the 2012 Olympics, a member of the bid panel claimed as the International Olympic Committee visited the capital this week.
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NewsStratford City boost
To coincide with the visit by the International Olympic Committee’s to assess the capital’s 2012 bid, Fletcher Priest Architects, Arup Associates and West 8 unveiled new images of their £4 billion masterplan for the Stratford City scheme next to the proposed Olympic Village in east London.
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Rethink after student village fails design test
Vehement protest forces FaulknerBrowns to redesign Sheffield scheme
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NewsOtto attacks crazy profit-led design
A “very proud” Frei Otto accepted his RIBA Gold Medal in London on Wednesday as he spoke of his own fears about the spreading influence of the “crazy architecture of investors”.
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Campaign hits double century
The number of firms signed up to BD’s 50/50 Charter broke through the 200 barrier this week as the campaign for more women in architecture continued to gather pace.
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Dunwich’s double vanishing act
A steel sculpture designed to rise from the sea as a permanent monument to the lost city of Dunwich in Suffolk could be downgraded to a temporary structure following heated opposition from locals.
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HOK hospital one step closer following Ipswich PFI deal
An HOK-designed PFI hospital came closer to being realised this week as the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust selected its private-sector partner for the job.
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MJP to study revitalisation of Victoria Embankment
The success of London’s South Bank’s regeneration is set to be repeated along the Victoria Embankment on the opposite side of the River Thames after London mayor Ken Livingstone appointed MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects to study the area.