All articles by Vikki Miller – Page 20
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Hackney land set to be sold as developer drops arts centre
Developer Roger Wratten in talks to sell land after bowing to local pressure over Broadway Market project
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The missionaries
Stepping down after seven years as a CABE commissioner, Sunand Prasad has plenty of advice about how to make a success of the job.
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Critics expose flaws in Part L computer software
Designers are able to manipulate software so unsustainable all-glass buildings can hit carbon emissions targets
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Rogers' departure knocks Birmingham renewal plans
Richard Rogers Partnership severs links with Eastside regeneration after quitting City Park Gate scheme
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Will Alsop on brink of selling out to SMC
Will Alsop looked set to sell his business to acquisition-hungry architect SMC Group this week after 30 years in private practice.
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Shortlist announced for first phase of Elephant & Castle
Cartwright Pickard, Haworth Tompkins and Panter Hudspith to fight it out for 200-home phase of £1.5bn scheme
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John Callcutt named as English Partnerships boss
Former Crest Nicholson chief executive to be unveiled later today.
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Exploited youth
A number of leading architectural firms are not paying students to work up to 60-hour weeks yet are happy to let them draw up important competition entries, while graduates are being offered hard-work, low-pay deals just for the kudos of being employed by a major practice. Illustration by Scott Garrett
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BDP falls victim to PFI hospital cull
Architect BDP has been stood down from the £761m PFI Pathway hospital development in Leicester while the government considers the future of PFI healthcare schemes.
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Parliament to get new entrance
The Houses of Parliament is to have a visitors' centre, designed by Architects Design Partnership.
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Arup to adapt ‘eco-city' idea for Thames Gateway
Consultant in talks with government over carbon-neutral city following renewable energy deal in China
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St Mary's Paddington put on hold - again
The future of the £400m St Mary's Hospital redevelopment in Paddington, north-west London, was placed in doubt this week as it emerged that the project has been put on hold.
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PFI firms diversify as health work dries up
The UK's leading PFI healthcare architects are being forced to look overseas and to other sectors as UK public spending dries up.
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Foreign Office Architects' profit breaks £1m barrier
Profit trebles to £1.1m at the husband-and-wife practice that is working on the London Olympic stadium
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‘Boring' Foster academy reworked
Architect Foster and Partners' design for a city academy has been revamped by a team of designers because the client said it was "boring".
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Ӱ manager jailed for manslaughter of employee
Head of A&E Ӱ sentenced to 18 months after worker fell to his death from defective telehandler
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Herzog & de Meuron quits east London housing job
Architect walks away from key-worker project after Newham council insists on design changes
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Sustainability code slammed
Senior industry figures have slammed the government’s long-delayed draft code for sustainable buildings, saying it falls well below current standards and that the ODPM went behind their backs to produce it.
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Ӱ wins campaign to Reform the Regs
ODPM agrees to develop process for updating regulations in a ‘simpler, more transparent manner’
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Simpson’s 68-storey tower in Southwark faces axe
Beetham Tower in doubt as council votes against allowing tall building along Blackfriars Road