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as review panel gives heritage a voice
Cabe has pledged to appoint more classicists to its design review committee after heritage experts complained to the government that it was "overriding" heritage concerns in its judgments.
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NewsCabe says poor, planners say yes
A controversial twin tower development in Ilford has won full planning approval. Permission for Pioneer Point, a £65 million landmark designed by Haskoll for the Empire Property Group and comprising a 24-storey and a 31-storey tower on a brownfield site, was granted by the London Borough of Redbridge. Earlier this ...
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Contractor on Ushida Findlay job still owed
Subcontractors working on Ushida Findlay Architects projects in Qatar are to lose substantial earnings following the voluntary liquidation of the practice.
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Brits Olympic glory
While the organisers of this summer’s Olympic Games in Athens race to finish the facilities in time, they can rest easy at the city’s Faliron Bay, where UK practice Sport Concepts’ arena for the handball and tae kwon do events has just completed. It is hoped the 8,000-seat arena will ...
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Plea for no new planning laws
One of Britain’s best known developers has called on the government to freeze planning legislation for five years.
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Architecture’s folk hero dies
The American-born architectural scholar Gene Raskin, who combined study of architecture with writing a bestselling folk song, has died.
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Ball wins £1.8m Eden payout
Architect and co-founder of the Eden Project Jonathan Ball has won a £1.8 million legal settlement.
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Development deal agreed for Dome site masterplan
A £4 billion deal was signed last week to redevelop the Greenwich Peninsula in south-east London to Terry Farrell & Partners’ masterplan.
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Appeal overturns Cornish village’s bar on modernism
London practice Evans Davies has won a major planning victory that could open the door to modern new housing in the affluent seaside village of Rock, Cornwall.
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Winged creatures
Artist Gerry Judah has completed a dramatic series of winged structures to celebrate the centenary of Rolls Royce. The 30m-high steel designs, which in total weigh more than 30 tonnes, will form the main display for this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. They display three of the company’s record-breaking vehicles: ...
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Demolition kick-starts Gorbals regeneration
A massive regeneration plan for an area dubbed "Glasgow's Bronx" has been kick-started by the decision to demolish the first of the area's 1970s tower blocks.
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NewsSpotcheck: The South-east
Richard Rogers Partnership has completed public consultation on a 1,500-home, 13ha development on the waterfront in Southampton. The mixed-use scheme, with the South East England Development Agency (Seeda) , Southampton City Council and English Partnerships, is a redevelopment of the Vosper Thornycroft shipbuilding yard, which Seeda bought for £15 million. ...
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NewsArchitecture's longest day
Is architecture accessible to all? Zoë Blackler goes in search of answers with a one-day blitz of Architecture Week and London Biennale events
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The green man
Robert Booth meets the MP steering the sustainable buildings bill through parliament this week
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News'The Tories are not anti-housebuilding. We dispute the where, what and how'
After drubbing Labour in local elections, the Conservatives are on the attack over the built environment led by regeneration and planning spokeswoman Caroline Spelman.
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PFI fells Welsh giant
Outsourcing business Capita swooped on the Percy Thomas Partnership this week as mounting debts forced Wales's leading practice into administration.
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NewsCabe rethink after audit into conflict of interest
Design watchdog will change appointment process
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NewsAcademy to teach teens design
Yorkshire city academy will be first secondary school ever dedicated to the built environment