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NewsLocal challenge to density
North London residents fight plans for 1,355 new homes in test case of government housing policy
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Schools face 'dumbing down'
Architects who worked up design exemplars for the UK's future schools this week reacted with horror to the news that the government is talking to modular construction company Yorkon with a view to producing modular versions of their designs.
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Anatomy of a 'nightmare'
What the Fraser inquiry heard:September 1997Cost of new Parliament is estimated at between £10 million and £40 million.December 1997Competing architect Enric Miralles submits his professional indemnity insurance certificate, which is later found to provide insufficient coverage for the job. January 1998Holyrood officially selected as site for parliament.April 1998Twelve design firms ...
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Minister defends Arb
The minister in charge of the Architects Registration Board has given the regulator his full backing. Phil Hope, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, rejected calls for an inquiry into the Arb. He said: “I have full confidence in the board and the ...
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Corby eyes iconic bid
Urban regeneration company Catalyst Corby is looking for architects to design an iconic new town centre for Corby, the former steel town in Northamptonshire. A planned £4 billion redevelopment would create a new town square, council offices and an arts centre. Contact Jon Whowell at Corby Borough Council on 01536 ...
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Student assurances
The RIBA has met with education minister Alan Johnson to discuss university top-up fees and was reassured that students gaining professional experience between RIBA part I and part II would be eligible for fee support, access to a student loan and deferred repayment of student loans.
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Euston ramblas plan
A feasibility study into Terry Farrell’s vision to transform London’s busy Euston Road into a continental-style ramblas was given the thumbs up by Camden council this week. The study by consultant Hyder looked at Farrell’s plan to open up public space on the traffic-clogged route and demolish the widely criticised ...
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BDP Stockport win
Building Design Partnership has been commisioned by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council to draw up a masterplan for the redevelopment of Stockport town centre. The masterplan, supported by the North West Development Agency and Cabe, will look at ways to improve city-centre buildings from the 1960s, including the much-loathed bus station. ...
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CCA director retires
The director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, who oversaw the controversial acquisition of Jim Stirling’s archive in 2001, has retired after 15 years at the institute. Nicholas Olsberg will be succeeded by current chairman Phyllis Lambert. Olsberg bought Stirling’s archive of drawings when the RIBA could not raise the ...
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De Matos Storey Ryan
De Matos Storey Ryan has won planning permission for a modern single-storey house at Dowdeswell Court in Gloucestershire. The “Bath House” is designed to have minimal visible impact on the surrounding landscape while offering dramatic views of the valley. It is linked to a grade II listed Cotswold limestone folly.
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NewsGillespies, Patel Taylor, Stig L Andersson (SLA), Gustafson Porter, Hopkins Architects
Gillespies, Patel Taylor, Stig L Andersson (SLA), Gustafson Porter, Hopkins Architects and Conran & Partners have been shortlisted to redevelop Nottingham’s Old Market Square. Clockwise from top left: Patel Taylor’s “container for contrasting uses”; Gillespies’ landscaped “sky park”; Hopkins Architects’ network of 1,000 bronze circles.
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Cabe hopes to calm things
Cabe is to publish guidelines on housing density that it hopes will minimise local opposition.
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NewsRoyal Dublin Hotel
A new limestone facade to the Royal Dublin Hotel by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard and Ashlin Coleman Architects has been given planning permission by Dublin City Council. Works to the hotel on O’Connell Street are expected to complete next year.
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Planning Bill 'won't help one jot'
Rees also slammed the Planning Bill in the week after the bill had its final reading. Rees claimed the bill, which is set to become law next month, wouldn't help crisis-ridden planning departments "one jot".
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John Thompson’s 5,500-home development
John Thompson’s 5,500-home development on the edge of Moscow, which comes with a false history of the town’s origins, has been criticised as being “as bad as Disney”.
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Me and my architect
How and why the rich and famous choose the architect to create the home of their dreams will be explored in a new BBC series to be screened next month.