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Backing for man-hour fee scales
The time taken to design a building rather than a percentage of construction costs could become the new way of measuring fees, under proposals for a new pan-European system.
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Cash fears for culture buildings
The Victoria & Albert Museum will not commission an iconic piece of architecture to replace the dumped Daniel Libeskind “Spiral” extension.
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Design optimism for NHS Estate
Fresh hopes have emerged that the healthcare design functions of the soon-to-be-scrapped NHS Estates will be retained and kept together.
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NewsEvolving the Gateway
Branson Coates Architecture has unveiled its vision for how new housing in the Thames Gateway could be planned “in a more visionary way”.
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Dickon Robinson joins loft company
Manhattan Loft Corporation boss Harry Handlesman has hired social-housing guru Dickon Robinson in a bid to reinvigorate the design credentials of his loft and penthouse empire.
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NewsColour takes over Silvertown
Whatever local residents think of two completed social housing schemes at Silvertown, east London, by Niall McLaughlin Architects and Ash Sakula, they certainly cannot deny that they brighten the place up.
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Shed war defeat for Edinburgh architect
An “absurd” planning inquiry has resulted in an Edinburgh architect being ordered to take down his garden shed.
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NewsBridge of numbers
Recently formed London-based practice IJP Corporation has won a design competition for a 280m cycle and pedestrian bridge at the Southern Ridges on the southern coast of Singapore.
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Design not to blame for World Trade Centre towers collapse
A two-year, $16 million (£9 million) inquiry has ruled out design flaws as a cause of the collapse of the World Trade Centre towers on September 11, 2001.
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Twentieth Century Society seeks to save Islington school
A 1960s school in north London has been put forward for spot listing by the Twentieth Century Society.
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Fresh flat-VAT plea made to chancellor
Construction economists this week made a fresh plea to chancellor Gordon Brown to reduce the 17.5% rate of VAT on repair and maintenance of buildings.
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NewsCan designs like this... sober up Nottingham’s binge-capital culture?
The city says architects can make a difference. But will a crop of new projects really reform Nottingham’s image
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NewsYoung guns dream job razed to ground
Forensic experts are investigating the cause of a massive explosion that last week destroyed the first major public building project by one of the UK’s most highly regarded young architects.
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CZWG off Croydon Gateway
CZWG has been dropped from the controversial Croydon Gateway scheme as developer Stanhope rushes to submit a detailed planning application for the project.
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Foster: bigger and better
Stirling Prize winner claims firm is “richer and more creative” than ever
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NewsFaults found at second Hodder pool
Fresh problems have emerged on a Hodder Associates-designed swimming pool — not the troubled Clissold Leisure Centre, but its latest award-winning baths at Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria.
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RIBA plans election manifesto
If you could sit down with the prime minister over coffee and tell him three things architects could do to improve life in Britain, what would they be?