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NewsEnglish Heritage slams Viñoly icon as ‘oppressive’
The battle lines have been drawn for a fight over the future of the London’s skyline, with English Heritage ranged against Rafael Viñoly, Land Securities and the City in a landmark public inquiry.
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Velopark entrants ready for the off
Make, David Morley Architects, Faulkner Browns Architects, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris and Ryder HKS are all in the running to design the Olympic Velopark. SMC Alsop, S&P Architects and Atherden Fuller Leng are also considering entering the contest, while Foster &Partners refused to rule itself out.
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NewsGoing private
The first PFI hospital to be run entirely by private companies has opened after a two-year build.
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News‘Peter Pan village’ under threat
The Twentieth Century Society has launched a campaign to stop the redevelopment of Thorpeness in Suffolk, dubbed the Peter Pan village because of its association with author JM Barrie.
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News‘Far bigger’ 2008 London Architecture Biennale
The next London Architecture Biennale will run for an entire month and will expand to cover new areas of the capital such as Bloomsbury and Canary Wharf.
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Skanska announces team to design Kent schools
A host of young, design-led practices has been brought in to Kent’s Building Schools for the Future programme by Skanska UK.
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NewsNew members join Arb board
The Privy Council has appointed Philip Cunliffe and Alex Galloway to replace chair Humphrey Lloyd and Alan Crane as lay members of the Arb board (News February 9).
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NewsLivingstone proposes landmarks to denote arrival in London
Mayor wants new landmarks to signal visitors’ arrival in the capital
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Cabe backs Simpson rethink
Cabe has backed Ian Simpson’s redesigned skyscraper for Blackfriars Road in Southwark, London.
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Bennett steps up to City surveyor
The City of London Corporation has appointed Peter Bennett to the ancient role of city surveyor.
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NewsHotel is Bennetts’ Dutch debut
Bennetts Associates has won planning permission for its first project outside the UK — the largest hotel in the Netherlands for City Inn (pictured).
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NewsBlackpool competes for Libeskind’s Eden forest...
Blackpool plans to bounce back from losing in its bid to host the UK’s only supercasino by installing a Daniel Libeskind-designed indoor rainforest on the same site.
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NewsBold new welcome to Sidcup
Studio Egret West has launched a bold attempt to bring distinctive contemporary design to Sidcup in Kent with this housing-led mixed use building for Cathedral Group, just entered for planning permission.
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NewsFeilden Clegg Bradley wins Gallions Park zero-carbon housing scheme
Feilden Clegg Bradley has beaten stiff competition from architects including Bill Dunster, Glenn Howells and Llewelyn Davies Yeang to design a flagship zero-carbon housing scheme for the mayor of London.
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NewsFoster brings Heathrow up to date
BAA has unveiled Foster & Partners’ designs for Heathrow Terminal 3.
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NewsCathedrals win Wolfson funds
English Heritage has turned to the Wolfson Foundation, a major grant-making charity, to bolster its cathedral repairs fund.
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SMC founder McColl is demoted to deputy chair
Stewart McColl has been forced by investors to step down as chief executive of the country’s largest architectural firm, SMC Group.
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NewsMake’s luxury redevelopment of Westminster City Hospital goes to planning
Make has submitted a planning application to Westminster City Council for this luxury redevelopment by Candy & Candy of the derelict 1.2ha Middlesex Hospital site, which it bought last year for £175 million.
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NewsWalkway design competition gives young firms Olympic opportunity
Up-and-coming practices have been given their first chance to break into the London Olympics with the launch of a major competition to design a public walkway running from Victoria Park in Hackney to West Ham.
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NewsInternet sabotages Stockholm library competition
The internet has threatened to derail one of the biggest open competitions in recent years after two of the six supposedly anonymous shortlisted contenders for the new Stockholm library were posted on the web.