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Marks & Spencer plans to be carbon-neutral by 2012
Retail giant Marks & Spencer has announced ambitious plans to go carbon neutral by 2012, including a pledge to make its 500-plus stores 25% more energy efficient.
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News730-home Peabody project submitted
A flagship residential project in west London has finally been submitted for planning.
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NewsA&DS blasts ‘uncohesive’ Edinburgh masterplans
Plans by Make, Norman Foster & Partners and Robert Adam that would increase the number of homes in Edinburgh by 5% have come under fire from Scotland’s design watchdog.
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NewsCouncil set to approve Bath housing scheme
Feilden Clegg Bradley plan for 2,000 homes attacked as ‘out of scale’
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NewsAUU payments revealed
BD uncovers £100,000 paid to senior designer’s former practice as GLA concludes conflict of interest inquiry
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NewsAylesbury wood works
Aylesbury Vale District Council has granted planning consent for Arts Team’s £25 million theatre and entertainment centre.
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NewsCompetition to find Barking design team
The search is on for a masterplanner for the single largest development in the Thames Gateway.
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NewsFoster plans hit by Croydon’s bid to seize Gateway site
Croydon Council has issued a further blow to Norman Foster’s plans for a massive mixed-use scheme in Croydon.
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NewsBlue hotel
This 79-room Travelodge hotel, designed by Gianni Botsford Architects, has opened in Peterborough.
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NewsCabe to give schools a kicking
Watchdog receives £3 million for design panel to review all Building Schools for the Future schemes
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Regeneration super-quango confirmed
English Partnerships and the Housing Corporation are to merge to form a super-quango controlling public funds worth more than £4 billion.
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Heritage lobby demands huge funding hike
Britain’s leading heritage bodies have formed an unprecedented coalition to bid for an extra £37 million-a-year from taxpayers to protect the country’s historic buildings.
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Design to score high for Velodrome
The Olympics is set to be opened up to young designers through new guidelines which will give them a greater chance of getting through the red tape surrounding procurement.
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Design the zero-carbon home of the future
Architects have been challenged to design the zero carbon home of the future and win £5,000.
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NewsFrei Otto picked to design next Serpentine pavilion
Frei Otto, the German architect who designed the roof of the 1972 Olympic Stadium in Munich, will design the 2007 Serpentine Gallery pavilion, it has been announced.
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Estate residents opt for Urban Initiatives
An impressive host of practices has been appointed to redesign Southwark’s Aylesbury estate in a team led by masterplanner Urban Initiatives.
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Make steals Sherwood Forest from strong list
Make has beaten Glenn Howells and Wilkinson Eyre in the RIBA competition for a new £50 million visitor complex for Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire.
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NewsMirror image
Bere Architects has unveiled this image of its glass pavilion and landscaping works for Monument Square in the City of London, due to be opened on January 31.
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NewsSpace to sculpt
Sutherland Hussey Architects is preparing a planning application for this 2,000sq m new home for Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop at Newhaven, north Edinburgh.