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Cabe creates network of design panels
Cabe is to share its services with eight regional affiliates to create a national network of design review panels.
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NewsGoldfinger residents draw up masterplan
Residents of a west London estate designed by Erno Goldfinger have commissioned their own masterplan for the site as part of a campaign against a council demolition threat.
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NewsOnly five commit to waste reduction push
Only five architectural practices have signed up to a national campaign to reduce construction waste.
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News£61m Viñoly Leicester theatre ‘not good value for money’
Rafael Viñoly’s first completed project in the UK, the Curve theatre in Leicester, has been slammed by the Audit Commission for failing to provide good value for money.
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NewsLondon tower blocks at ‘high risk’ of fire
More than 100 social housing tower blocks in London are at even greater risk of fire ripping through them than Lakanal House in Camberwell, where six people died in July.
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NewsCouncil approves first phase of Oxford University’s Radcliffe Infirmary plan
Oxford City Council has given the go-ahead for the first phase of the Radcliffe Infirmary site, one of the most significant projects Oxford University has carried out for more than a century.
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Tory 'Green Deal' proposed to make homes more energy efficient
Conservative Party plans to give homeowners an allowance of up to £6,500 each to make their houses energy efficient have been strongly welcomed by green groups.
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NewsKoolhaas Glasgow Maggie’s Centre wins planning
Maggie’s has won planning permission for a new £2.1 million cancer care centre in Glasgow designed by Rem Koolhaas and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
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Follett steps down from parliament
Former architecture minister Barbara Follett is stepping down as an MP.
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NewsGlenn Howell's Canada Water scheme in for planning.
Glenn Howells’ mixed-used scheme next to Canada Water Tube station has been submitted to planners.
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NewsYAYA 2009 shortlist announced
Five firms have made the shortlist for BD's 2009 Young Architect of the Year award, sponsored by Autodesk.
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Judging panel meets Barracks developer
A judging panel set up to scrutinise the 10 plans put forward for the revised Chelsea Barracks scheme met the developer for the first time this week
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NewsSelwyn opens Porphyrios building
Porphyrios Associates’ neo-classical student accommodation block at Selwyn College, Cambridge, has opened
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NewsCaruso St John for Soane Museum job
Caruso St John has been selected to create a new interior scheme for London’s Soane Museum
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NewsODA leaves smaller firms out in the cold
Olympics framework to encourage up-and-coming practices is scrapped
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NewsVillage pavilion makes its debut
A pavilion designed by Cassion Castle and Fleet Architects for a village green in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, was unveiled at a music festival at the weekend
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NewsEH institute U-turn is 'ridiculous'
Condemnation for decision to back OMA’s Commonwealth revamp
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NewsGareth Hoskins wins Helensburgh pool competition
Gareth Hoskins Architects has won the contract to design a replacement swimming pool and community facility on the waterfront in Helensburgh, Scotland.
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NewsWhitworth Gallery shortlisted designs go on show
A series of design proposals for extending Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery have been released.