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NewsFashion icon
Squire & Partners has beaten Make and Allies & Morrison to design a new flagship store for fashion retailer Reiss.
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Tory MP brands Prescotts 60,000 houses bokloks
Deputy prime minister John Prescott was forced to defend his ambitious housing plans in the House of Commons last week in a heated exchange with Tory shadow housing minister Caroline Spelman.
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Spotcheck: Wales
WalesOpera debut The first opera at Capita Percy Thomas’s Wales Millennium Centre, designed by former Alsop associate Jonathan Adam, takes place tomorrow (Saturday). The £104 million centre opened last year, but this will be the first test for the auditorium’s acoustics with a full opera chorus and orchestra. The Welsh ...
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NewsSteeling the show
Amanda Birch meets architect Amin Tah, whose practice’s new block of flats clad in Corten steel is making a bold statement in Clerkenwell
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Bath's blame game
The Bath Spa project became engulfed in a bitter political battle this week amid widening allegations of blame aimed at the architect, contractor and client.
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NewsGough versus Tesco in battle of the brewery
Supermarket giant tries to head off ‘inevitable’ inquiry in Sunderland
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NewsArb drafts in big hitter to settle Salisbury row
Board and rebel member both welcome corporate governance expert
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NewsSlough pair go it alone in shed land
Award winners frustrated with commercial property constraints
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‘No design vision’ in Belfast plan
A huge development plan aimed at transforming Belfast has been slammed by a leading city architect for lacking a “design vision” and coming too late.
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NewsHome sweet Home Office
As the Home Office continues to cause controversy with its policies on house arrest, staff were this week leaving their own prison of an office block to move into bright and airy new premises designed by Terry Farrell.
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RIBA design advisers to net 1,500 a day
The RIBA is to ask clients on public building projects such as schools and hospitals to pay as much as £1,500 a day for advice on how to achieve the best design.
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MP puts pressure on Fosters to join BDs 50/50 Campaign
A Labour MP and former chair of the all-party group on architecture this week urged Foster & Partners to finally back BD’s 50/50 Campaign for More Women in Architecture.
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Architect on manslaughter trial
Health and safety experts this week played down fears that the prosecution of an architect for manslaughter could affect the day-to-day work of the profession.
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NewsRising star
Young practice Arca has revealed exclusive designs for a £120 million skyscraper it claims will be the tallest residential building in Western Europe.
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English Heritage will take control of listing from April
Wide-ranging changes to the listing system in England and Wales are to come into effect this April.
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Gdansk competition in chaos
A prestigious competition in Poland that recently saw two young British practices awarded equal first prize has fallen into chaos after a local architect launched a public protest.