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NewsGovernment delays eco-town design competition
Government plans for a competition to “set the design standards” for its eco-towns programme have been delayed by at least a year amid mounting hostility to the 10 proposed developments.
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Boris to boost London “low-carbon” zones
Mayor of London expands Ken Livingstone’s policy to cover 10 areas by 2012
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NewsUrban Splash Walsall competition winners unveiled
Flacq and Moh Architects are among the seven finalists announced for the Urban Splash Lex Walsall competition.
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Big slump in construction activity
Activity in the construction industry has fallen at its fastest rate in more than a decade as the credit crunch tightens its grip on the house building sector.
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron wins Lords masterplan contract
Herzog & de Meuron has won the contract to develop a masterplan for Lords cricket ground, it was confirmed on Tuesday.
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NewsCredit crunch threatens Gehry's Hove scheme
Frank Gehry's controversial scheme for the Hove sea front has been thrown into doubt because of the credit crunch.
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EH proposes grade II listing for BBC Television Centre
English Heritage has advised culture minister Andy Burnham to list parts of the BBC Television Centre at White City in London at grade II.
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NewsProtestors set to fight on as Holland Park wins planning permission
Kensington & Chelsea Council has granted planning permission for Aedas’s highly controversial design for London’s Holland Park School.
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NewsEnglish Heritage looks to public in latest round of Stonehenge visitor centre saga
English Heritage is to launch a public consultation to find a new site for its long-planned Stonehenge visitor centre.
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NewsRIBA National and European Award winners announced
Contenders for the Stirling Prize shortlist were revealed at the RIBA National and International Awards at London’s Hilton Hotel on Friday night.
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NewsHeritage Fund pledges £23m for threatened buildings
The Heritage Lottery Fund on Friday pledged £23 million for scores of threatened buildings, including £7 million for a grade II* listed church in Bolton and Georgian town house in Llanelli in Wales.
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Walker steps down in SMC rejig
SMC Group executive chairman Rodney Walker is stepping back from frontline duties at the huge listed practice following a company reshuffle this week.
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NewsHowzat! Herzog & de Meuron scheme bowls Lord’s over
Swiss practice set to take its third major UK commission redeveloping the ‘home of cricket’
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NewsBoris pledges to reinstate Parker Morris standards
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has promised to reintroduce Parker Morris space standards for new residential developments in a bid to improve the quality of inner city living.
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NewsViñoly Battersea plan ‘a menace’
Rafael Viñoly unveiled his masterplan for the redevelopment of the Battersea Power Station site amid a storm of protest last week.
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Leeds joins green awards winners
This year’s Ashden sustainable energy awards included Leeds City Council, which has saved around 88,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year through energy efficiency, and Kensa Engineering, for its easy-to-install heat pumps.
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NewsCelebratory Aspire tower complete
Make’s Aspire tower at Nottingham University was completed on Monday
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NewsArchitects to take lead in zero-carbon schools drive
Leading architects Robin Nicholson, Peter Clegg and Irena Bauman are to sit on a government panel helping to ensure that all new schools are zero carbon by 2016
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NewsCouncil anger as EH asks for Birmingham library listing
Birmingham Council has harshly criticised the city’s central library after English Heritage recommended the 1973 building be grade II listed.
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NewsSunderland is 2012 camp
Faulkner Brown’s CitySpace scheme for the University of Sunderland has been selected by the Olympic Delivery Authority as a training camp for the 2012 games.