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NewsA vision of the Future in Naples
Future Systems has rekindled its collaboration with artist Anish Kapoor with plans for a subway station in the Italian city of Naples revealed exclusively in BD this week. The collaborators have moulded rudimentary but exciting models to show possible entrances to the new station, which is due to start on ...
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Hitch for bill
John Prescott is facing a showdown with the House of Lords that could delay the proposed Planning Bill becoming law.
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West Country Zed bid flops
Bill Dunster’s bid to take his zero-carbon (Zed) housing concept to the West Country has come to nothing, the practice said this week.
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NewsA&M to extend Bristol cathedral
Designs to extend Bristol cathedral were unveiled by Allies & Morrison this week.
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NewsLift on
Penoyre & Prasad has gained planning approval for the 9,000sq m Thelma Golding health centre in west London. The building, which will house health and social-care services, mental health services and outpatient clinics for four GP practices, has changeable internal panels to enable it to adapt to changing needs. The ...
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Fight for Spitalfields goes on
Campaigners against redevelopment of London’s world-famous Spitalfields Market have vowed to fight on after Tower Hamlets council last week approved plans that would see the indoor market filled with four glass pavilions.
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NewsAnthroposophist Rex Raab dies at 90
One of the leading proponents of the anthroposophical movement, Rex Raab, has died aged 90.
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NewsKoolhaas in Paris
Rem Koolhaas and Jean Nouvel are competing to design a shopping centre in the centre of Paris. Also vying to transform the Les Halles area are Dutch practice MVRDV and French firm SEURA.
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NewsMcAslan to remodel Stirling library
John McAslan is set to remodel James Stirling’s listed Seeley Library at Cambridge University after beating bids from Allies & Morrison and Bikkerdike Allen.
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NewsSpotcheck: The East
A proposal for the tallest building in Suffolk has been submitted to planners. John Lyall Architects' 23-storey mixed-use tower in the Cranfield Mills area of Ipswich has met with opposition from The Ipswich Society because of its height. Its chairman Jack Chapman told BD the existing scheme would dominate the ...
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An architect's guide to the planning bill
The Planning Bill had its final Commons reading on Monday, and legislation is now round the corner. Karen Glaser rounds-up its measures
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Trophy trouble hits PFI
Will Alsop has sparked fears that the much-loathed practice of "trophy architecture" has spread to the £4 billion a year PFI market.
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NewsKings of the wild frontier
John Prescott and Richard Rogers remain the power behind UK architecture policy. We asked them how the Sustainable Communities Plan was shaping up. Neither seemed entirely happy with progress
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NewsThe world according to Joep
Is this the future of small practices? Karen Glaser listens to Joep van Lieshout's plans to change architecture
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Housing plot to split rich and poor
Secret Westminster housing plan attacked as 'social engineering'
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RRP Wembley plan under fire
Opponents say masterplan must be scaled down unless transport is improved