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'Dear Mayor of London,'
| Friday, 2 May 2008 10:45 BST | Londoners have been voting to choose their mayor for the next four years. Here, some of architecture’s key players pen an open letter setting out their wishes for the city – from urban branding and public space strategies to air conditioning on the Tube....
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Krier attacks 'idiot' architects
Richard Vaughan | Friday, 25 April 2008 11:54 BST | Léon Krier, the architect behind Prince Charles’ experimental Poundbury village in Dorset, has slammed contemporary architects, labelling them ‘idiots’ who build ‘absurd shapes’....
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Images unveiled for Ebbsfleet landmark
Ruth Slavid. | Wednesday, 7 May 2008 12:05 BST | Images by the five artists commissioned to design a landmark for Ebbsfleet Valley have been unveiled....
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Commons committee slams Zaha's 'expensive' and 'overdesigned' Olympic Aquatics Centre
Richard Vaughan | Wednesday, 30 April 2008 11:49 BST | A House of Commons select committee has blasted Zaha Hadid’s 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre as being ‘over-designed’, and accused London Olympic organisers of being ‘willing to spend money like water’....
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Staff shortage threat to planning system
Richard Waite | Friday, 2 May 2008 12:59 BST | The ‘creaking’ planning system is facing a staffing timebomb, a damning report by the New Local Government Network (NLGN) has warned....
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