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Your direct line to Prince Charles
Next month’s Think07 sustainability and regeneration conference is inviting architects to submit suggestions for climate change pledges to be presented to Prince Charles during his video address to delegates on May 1.
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NewsIvor Cunningham
Ivor Cunningham (pictured), the architect and landscape architect best known for his Mallard Place housing scheme in Twickenham, has died aged 78.
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NewsLand deal gives Trinity Quarter green light
Scottish Parliament architect EMBT will see its second major project in the UK built after a land deal was finally struck for a Leeds shopping centre site that has been in limbo for most of the last decade.
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NewsRIBA fails to promote us to public, say members
Largest ever survey of the profession calls on the institute to campaign harder on key issues
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Fat wins its first work for Liverpool
Fat has beaten competition from Marks Barfield, Page & Park and Hawkins Brown to design a new building within Liverpool’s £900 million Paradise Street retail development.
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NewsPolicy upturn hands streets to designers
Architects called to help revolutionise public space as priority shifts from cars to people
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NewsEH marks the abolition of slavery
English Heritage is marking the bicentenary of the ending of slavery in Britain with a web offering which highlights buildings with links to the slave trade and its abolition.
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NewsRogers adds Pritzker prize to busy year
Richard Rogers has won the Pritzker Architecture Prize for 2007, becoming only the fourth British architect to take the award after James Stirling, Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid.
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Adjaye teams up for Manchester art gallery
David Adjaye is to design his first regional art gallery in the UK as part of a £55 million collaboration with architect Maurice Shapero and regeneration specialist Urbed.
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NewsTate Modern extension approved
Southwark council’s planning committee has green-lighted Herzog & de Meuron’s daring extension (pictured) to the Tate Modern on London’s South Bank.
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NewsSalisbury takes on Arb over proof of insurance
Arb critic and former board member Ian Salisbury has revealed legal advice that he hopes will stop the Arb board disciplining architects who fail to provide evidence of their professional insurance.
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RIBA call to arms in Leeds
Four up-and-coming practices have been short-listed in an RIBA contest for a scheme at Britain’s oldest national museum.
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NewsBad hair day comes good
This tangle of timber is the winner of the AA’s second summer pavilion, inspired by a student’s experience of drying a mass of wet hair.
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NewsCondensation works hit troubled Bath Spa
Grimshaw Architects’ Bath Spa project has been hit by new problems after operators admitted that part of the complex may have to be shut down to carry out essential repair works to the steam rooms.
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NewsCabe blasts ‘dumbed down’ BBC HQ design
The BBC has been accused of “dumbing down” the final phase of its flagship headquarters designed by Sheppard Robson.
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NewsBig hitters join Bishop’s team
London design director Peter Bishop signalled the beginning of a new era for design in London this week by unveiling a high-powered and diverse set of architect advisers.
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NewsSt Botolph’s strong links
Work has begun on this mixed-use scheme in Bishops Square in London by Matthew Lloyd Architects. It includes the conversion of the nearby grade II-listed St Botolph’s Hall.
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NewsLobbyists urge review of BSF design failings
The government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme should be subject to an independent review because of its design shortcomings and “wasteful” procurement process, a key lobby group has claimed.
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NewsTrack energy performance — Cabe
Cabe chair John Sorrell (pictured) used this week’s launch of the 2007 Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award to urge ministers to ensure that all new public buildings meet the UK’s climate change obligations.
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RMJM designs Napier campus
RMJM is to design a £55 million new development for Napier University’s Faculty of Health, Life & Social Sciences in the south-west of Edinburgh.