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Houses of horror
I would totally agree that the level of housing design in the UK is “overwhelmingly disappointing” (9 February, page 25), with little attention to detail and devoid of any new ideas.
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Coffee and calamities
If you were to publish an anthology of your safety blunders as a coffee table book, I would buy a copy, if only to pass round the table at design team meetings when carrying out risk workshops as CDM co-ordinator and everyone is looking bored.
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Castlemore and URBED
In reference to the recent article on Southall Gasworks and the appointment of Make Architects as the new masterplanner (9 February, page 15), Castlemore wishes to clarify that URBED’s plans have not been “ditched” in the way inferred in the article.
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The price of being free
Cabe’s recent notice advertising that it is looking for architects to join its design panel but expecting them to work for free has attracted much criticism.
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Features‘My most obvious mistake? Taking out the dampers on the Millennium Bridge’
HOW THEY MADE IT - Despite that minor mishap, Chris Wise is proud of the 20 years’ work he did at Arup. He tells Dan Stewart what he learned – and why the best is yet to come
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FeaturesDead Sea canal: And the dead shall live
Vikki Miller reports on how a canal became an obsession for architects and engineers around the world, including a chap at Foster + Partners
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NewsThere, there
A 9,000m2 superclinic, which is claimed to be the largest building of its type in Europe, has opened in Hounslow, west London.
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... three-storey office with reception area, seminar room, exhibition space and underwater meeting room on 1,000m2 site on Fox Dale Island. Smudger Monro (that’s him below) tells us more
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50 firms line up for Amec sale
About 50 companies have expressed an interest in buying all or some of Amec’s built environment business.
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NewsTime for one last kick
This is your final chance to make your voice heard on the planning gain supplement. Don’t ignore it
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Rebuilding estates ‘too costly’ says LSE report
Knocking down council estates is not a cost-effective way of dealing with poor neighbourhoods’ social problems, a government review of social housing has concluded.
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PFI money set to be released
The government is finally set to release the remainder of its long-delayed housing PFI budget.
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Cost overruns at city academies average £3m
Two-thirds of the city academies built so far have suffered cost overruns averaging £3m, according to a National Audit Office report.
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Carbon neutral Games talks
Olympic bosses are gearing up to go carbon neutral. Officials have been in talks for four months over whether the 2012 Games could reduce emissions to a minimum and offset the rest.
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NewsWembley looks wobbly
Fresh doubts emerged this week over whether the 2007 FA Cup Final will be held at Wembley.
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Herzog & de Meuron pulls off British double
Herzog & de Meuron has revealed that it is to be commissioned for two projects in the UK.
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NewsSpanish practice
Reid Fenwick Asociados, part of the Reid Architecture, has revealed this design for a retail and leisure park in Madrid.