Architects Journal
Jez Abbott

HSE in 'picking on profession' row

24-Jun-2004
The case of Neil Vesma, an architect convicted earlier this month of breaching health and safety regulations, has sparked a series of angry responses from his supporters, who claim he has been seriously mistreated.
Pearce on track for legal action

24-Jun-2004
A London-based architect is set to seek a judicial review against transport chiefs for snubbing plans for a monorail system for the capital.
DCMS set to put bishops in check

17-Jun-2004
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is considering a major overhaul of the 'ecclesiastical exemption' loophole in planning law, the AJ can reveal.
Hackney amasses £1.4m to fund Clissold crusade

3-Jun-2004
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Designs for strife

20-May-2004
Designer Martha Schwartz has always provoked awe and anger in equal measure.With a new book on her work already out of date, she shows no sign of slowing down
Greenwich stares into space

18-Mar-2004
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RHWL sets sail with P&O tower?

11-Mar-2004
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ARB claims victory in PII row after crunch verdict

13-Nov-2003
The ARB aims to put an end to the row over whether it has overstepped its legal powers and duties by publishing a QC's findings that it works within the law.
Claws are out for catwalk kings over housing design

13-Nov-2003
The latest big-name fashion designer to switch from catwalk creations to housing design has been greeted with catcalls from annoyed architects.
Seven up for East End high rises

13-Nov-2003
Seven design teams have been shortlisted in an anonymous international competition to design two tower blocks as part of a major regeneration scheme in east London.
Caernarfon plan savaged as 'too diagrammatic'

14-Aug-2003
Design chiefs have made a stinging attack on a mixed-use plan by the Willacy Horseman Partnership, calling it 'monolithic', 'unsatisfying' and 'entirely inappropriate'.
Coasting to success

14-Aug-2003
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Animal magic on show at the V&A

31-Jul-2003
'Zoomorphic', an exhibition inspired by animals, will bring together some of the world's most bizarre buildings by some of its best known architects. The V&A show will include Frank Gehry's surreal whale-on-stilts hotel and leisure complex for the Barcelona Olympic Games.
NT slated over Cliveden 'village'

31-Jul-2003
The National Trust has been condemned for 'selling off the family silver' after proposing nearly 200 homes on the doorstep of one of the world's most famous stately homes.
Moore gets 'real' with plans for AF

17-Jul-2003
Journalist Rowan Moore, who pledged to give the Architecture Foundation a major shake-up when he took over as director last summer, has revealed details of his plans.
Honour bound

10-Jul-2003
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Ellis-Miller hopeful for PPG 7 win

26-Jun-2003
Ellis-Miller is hoping to clinch approval for a modest home on 400ha of farm land under the threatened PPG 7 'country-house clause'.
ARB 'shocked' as Human Rights Act scuppers case

3-Apr-2003
The ARB was left 'surprised and shell-shocked' after a Professional Conduct Committee threw out a case that hinged on the Human Rights Act.
Big in the country with Civic Trust Awards

3-Apr-2003
A host of big and small projects have won gongs in Europe's biggest architectural design awards. The Civic Trust has honoured the best rural buildings of the past two years, with nine projects receiving special awards.
the renaissance man

26-Sep-2002
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Leicester eclipses rivals with Viñoly and Alsop projects

1-Aug-2002
Rafael Viñoly Architects has won a competition to build its first building in the UK, a £26 million theatre and performing arts venue in Leicester. And in another boost for the city, intended to push it ahead of its Midlands rivals, Alsop Architects has unveiled a strategic framework for 400ha development to include offices, housing and a science and technology campus. It also includes proposals to reunite the city core with its waterfront.
Strike action could kill off Rogers/Grimshaw towers

1-Aug-2002
Plans for major towers by Lord Rogers and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, worth £630 million, could be 'doomed' by strikes by Westminster council staff.
the project makers

20-Jun-2002
Small practice m3 architects is making its mark with a series of low cost but prestigious schemes and 'what if' speculative tower ideas, one of which appears in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
access all areas

6-Jun-2002
Michael Lynch's latest challenge - as the new chief executive of the unloved South Bank Centre - will seem like a cakewalk compared to coaxing the reclusive
ARB faces flak over 18% fee hike

30-May-2002
Architects have condemned ARB for upping its fees by 18 per cent, with some blaming the rise on the board's expanding role on policing issues such as indemnity insurance. The £10 increase to £65 was made last week. ARB said it was due to inflation and the costs of its statutory duties.
Hyett slams ARB in conduct case

23-May-2002
An architect struck off the register for two years last week has received one of the most bruising verbal attacks ever from a RIBA president after Paul Hyett said he should have been banned for life.
'Make Blair RIBA president', institute's ruling council told

23-May-2002
The RIBA has side-stepped a controversial debate on whether the post of president should be paid - and heard prime minister Tony Blair touted as a possible future chief.
Birmingham hits out over extra time for Wembley

9-May-2002
Birmingham's team to rival Wembley National Stadium Ltd has condemned the government for giving another extension to the latter to finalise funding for the £715 million national stadium by Foster and Partners and HOK Sport.
'Architects should be shot' MP goes on walkabout with Hyett

25-Apr-2002
RIBA president Paul Hyett has taken an MP who said architects 'should be shot' on a tour of London's highest-calibre buildings to make him see sense.
Portsmouth blasts 'hideous' Pick Everard Navy scheme

25-Apr-2002
Architects in Portsmouth have condemned plans for a new Royal Navy HQ after dismissing the design by Pick Everard as hideous. The Portsmouth Society attacked the £14 million building proposed for Whale Island in Portsmouth Harbour, which is with the planners. Pick Everard's Taunton office drew up plans for a 13,500m 2block, with blue curtain walls and curved roofs to the five-storey design. The site commands the approach to the city from the water.
'Views will be ruined, ' warns GLA at mayor's high-rise plans

25-Apr-2002
The Greater London Assembly has had a dust-up with its mayor Ken Livingstone over tall buildings and his leadership style, within a week of a new report supporting skyscrapers in the capital.
ARB welcomes trade union chief Bill Morris to its ranks

18-Apr-2002
Bill Morris, one of the biggest hitters in the trade union movement, is one of three new appointments to the board of the Architects Registration Board.
Solo Aussie designer Glenn Murcutt wins Pritzker Prize

18-Apr-2002
Pritzker Prize judges have turned their backs on the trend for 'celebrity and glitz starchitects' to award the solo Australian designer Glenn Murcutt this year's crown. The 66-year-old 'Pritzker Laureate' works in Sydney but travels the world teaching and lecturing.
people the bigger picture

7-Feb-2002
The fight for the RIBA presidency is on, and candidate David Thorp is keen to bring some local colour to proceedings. He feels showing architects in the context of ordinary people is vital to the institute's development
Charles: prognosis on NHS 'tsar'

18-Oct-2001
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Ken Livingstone gunning for £400m Arsenal go-ahead

18-Oct-2001
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Falconer to take centre stage at urban design conference

30-Aug-2001
The Urban Design Alliance (UDAL) has secured Lord Falconer as the keynote speaker at its national conference next month, a move which the alliance is reading as a sign of the weight the government attaches to the subject. 'It shows the level of importance the government puts on urban design and how it values joined-up thinking between institutions, ' chairman David Whitby told the AJ.
Foster goes back to school to stop urban education rot

2-Aug-2001
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RIBA embraces government pledge to reduce red tape

2-Aug-2001
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Leeds tower practice set to bypass a third CABE report

21-Jun-2001
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Poor management skills 'to blame for chaos' says mayor

21-Jun-2001
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Farrell's Preston plan puts popular bus station in peril

14-Jun-2001
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Speed not the only problem, planning chiefs tell Labour

7-Jun-2001
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Ken and Wembley team up for 'megalomaniac-free' stadium

31-May-2001
London mayor Ken Livingstone and Wembley National Stadium are to join forces in an effort to persuade the government to build a new stadium in the capital - but free of 'megalomaniacal extras'.
HTA calls for 'lateral thinking' in fight to save Park Hill flats

24-May-2001
JL Womersley's Park Hill flats in Sheffield should be 'twinned' with Newcastle's Byker Wall to draw attention to their dire state, say architects fighting to save the Grade II*-listed flats.
Koetter Kim scoops job for Glasgow media quarter

29-Mar-2001
Koetter Kim Associates has beaten Patel Taylor Architects, Gareth Hoskins Architects and landscape designer Ian White Associates to win a major masterplan for a new media quarter on Glasgow's Pacific Quay.
No funding problem for new athletics stadium, says Smith

29-Mar-2001
Culture secretary Chris Smith has hit back after suggestions that FaulknerBrowns' planned national athletics stadium that will host the 2005 World Championships, unveiled last week, could founder through lack of funds.
CABE pushes BBC's design rating with A&M approval

22-Mar-2001
The Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment has given a thumbs up to Allies and Morrison's plan for a £200 million BBC media village in White City, west London, as the corporation looks to choose a private-sector partner.
Government plans to kill off culture department blasted

22-Mar-2001
Design chiefs have condemned the government's rumoured plan to abolish the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and warned that the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment will become an 'artless adjunct to the planning system'.
Icon tower faces planners

22-Mar-2001
Renzo Piano's 'shard of glass', the 306m high London Bridge Tower, is heading for the planners in a detailed application within days.
Leeds hospital on sick list as CABE blasts redesign plans

22-Mar-2001
Leeds General Infirmary is about to withdraw its planning application for a new wing by Thompson Spencer Architects after a bruising attack from the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment.
Smith slams 'anti-ethnic' architects

15-Mar-2001
Culture secretary Chris Smith has attacked the profession for its poor record on recruiting women and people from ethnic backgrounds after launching a major report which reveals the creative industry is now worth more than £100 billion.
Signs of the times

20-Apr-2000
Graphic designer for Lord's, Cartlidge Levene, warns that signage must be considered right at the start of play
SOM wins giant Liverpool masterplan contract

13-Jan-2000
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UFO goes underground in Sarajevo concert hall win

2-Dec-1999
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Wembley fiasco goes on as athletics groups cry foul

25-Nov-1999
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Foster axes 'circus tent' look and opts for Wembley arch

18-Nov-1999
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Milton Keynes bails Labour out by taking extra homes...

11-Nov-1999
Milton Keynes is 'throwing the government a life belt' by aiming to use tree-surrounded housing grids to double its population, contrasting with last week's Tory calls for towns to be ringed by greenbelts.
Multi-ethnic project gets millennium funding go ahead

11-Nov-1999
Patel Taylor Architects aims to bring together 10 different religious groups from Jews to Muslims and Sikhs to Buddhists in a £20 million design attracting the biggest-ever lottery grant to an ethnic project.
Mayoral hopefuls seek design vote

4-Nov-1999
Lord Archer has stolen a march on his rivals for the post of London mayor by appointing an ambitious trainee architect to form a design policy and use the power of architecture to try and put him into Lord Foster's gla building.
Architecture Week prepares itself for events lift-off

28-Oct-1999
Some of the finest architects in Britain are raring to go for Architecture Week, but the festivities may uncover some uncomfortable truths about the profession - from freemasonry links to how architectural practices work.
North-east's Red Box opens to take on the big boys

28-Oct-1999
Newcastle's Alan J Smith Partnership has joined forces with other design and building firms to form the Red Box Design Group and take on the biggest and best practices in Britain.
Carpenters nail down award winners for timber design

21-Oct-1999
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Manchester picks big names for city renewal

21-Oct-1999
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Planning boss ousted

21-Oct-1999
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Rogers rebuffed Paoletti in Jubilee designer quest

21-Oct-1999
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Newcastle part-demolition threat at Erskine's Byker

14-Oct-1999
Campaigners are calling for part of Ralph Erskine's world-famous Byker estate to be spot-listed to stop homes being flattened.
Now Alsop fires a broadside at RIBA and government . . .

14-Oct-1999
Architect Will Alsop has blamed the riba for threatening good architecture.
Actioning housing change hats provided the opportunity for innovative design and gave tenants real power - using government money

7-Oct-1999
On with the new. Top left: hta Architects' masterplan for Waltham Forest. Top right: prp Architects' brick housing in Cathall Road, Waltham Forest. Above: the Chingford Hall community centre, also designed by prp
Science Museum chief to head English Heritage

7-Oct-1999
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SCOPE slams housebuilders for 'fudging' disabled access

7-Oct-1999
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Senior Tory calls for a probe into lottery projects

30-Sep-1999
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Millennium wheel hoist hampered by socket

14-Sep-1999
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'Architecture Week' is right down Street-Porter's alley

9-Sep-1999
Janet Street-Porter, who turned her back on studies at the AA in favour of a media career, is back under the design spotlight after becoming the new 'patron' of 'Architecture Week'.
Liverpool media centre axed after grant delays

9-Sep-1999
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Prince and select committee give planners a bashing

9-Sep-1999
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Course applications plunge

26-Aug-1999
Architecture schools are blaming the £1000 student fees imposed following the Dearing Report for a big drop in course applications as they race against time to make up a 7 per cent shortfall of applicants.
Sun City set to shine in north London

12-Aug-1999
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Glasgow determined to demolish Thomson offices

29-Jul-1999
Big names are fighting to keep bulldozers off a building worked on by one-time tenant 19th-century architect Alexander 'Greek' Thomson.
Government promises better care of historic stock

22-Jul-1999
The government has pledged to clean up its act on the 1800 historic buildings it owns with new guidance that puts sensitive care above sale price.
Plymouth preservationists fight council museum plans

22-Jul-1999
Campaigners are waging war on Plymouth city council over a 1963 cafe they want spot-listed to stop it being demolished to make way for a museum.
Home Office set to knock Marsham Street down

15-Jul-1999
Marsham Street, the notorious former Department of the Environment block, has moved closer to destruction after a surprise move by the government to invite the three consortia bidding to create a new Home Office hq to submit rejigged plans for a new-build office.
TV glitz applied to highlight London's ugly blots

15-Jul-1999
Two of TV's brightest stars have waged war on six of London's ugliest blots in a campaign to highlight and improve derelict areas.
mps' £250m building 'value for money' says report

8-Jul-1999
A long-awaited report on Michael Hopkins and Partners' Portcullis House has been published with an official and uncomfortable breakdown of spiralling costs.
Architects ready to mobilise on Kosovo rebuilding

1-Jul-1999
Architects may be drafted into the 'lean and mean' Kosovo Regeneration Taskforce when the full scale of the devastation hits home.
RIBA's special collections become museum pieces

24-Jun-1999
riba president David Rock has ended 20 years of institute hand-wringing and wrangling over its special collections by sending more than a million drawings, manuscripts and archives to the Victoria & Albert Museum site.
Glasgow severs ties with Horden on Millenium Tower

17-Jun-1999
There is no chance of a reconciliation between Richard Horden Associates and the promoters of Glasgow's £8.5 million Millennium Tower, following the firm's removal from the project in a dispute over time and cost.
Chipperfield finds honour but no profit in his country

10-Jun-1999
David Chipperfield, who has not been commissioned in the uk for 11 years, won plaudits at home and abroad this week. His Henley Rowing Centre won the Royal Fine Art Commission's building of the year award, and his practice the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal, awarded by Hamburg's Alfred Toepfer Foundation.
EH puts £400m price tag on saving buildings at risk

10-Jun-1999
About £400 million is needed to rescue England's damaged Grade I and Grade II* buildings, says English Heritage, which has launched its second Buildings at Risk Register.
DEGW lands top-secret Sainsbury HQ scheme

27-May-1999
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Green light for Foster's London Bridge City

27-May-1999
Foster and Partners' detailed masterplan for London Bridge City, which hems in but does not include its curved gla building, has been given the go-ahead by planners, despite fears of that it may create a towering 'canyon' effect.
DETR links local design and planning for first time

20-May-1999
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Fears for accountability in 'local choice' planning

13-May-1999
Government proposals are afoot to wrench powers from planning committees in favour of a ruling elite of councillors who may be secretive and non- accountable, experts warned this week.
Planners clash over Scots parliament car provision

13-May-1999
Enric Miralles' £60 million Scottish Parliament building could be delayed by planning fears that its proposed 135 parking spaces may turn it into an environmental blot.
Foster puts curves into City of London offices

6-May-1999
Foster and Partners has unveiled its design for Moor House at 119 London Wall, with its sweep of glass described as 'breathtakingly wonderful' by the Corporation of London.
Mass-production quality comes to Manchester

29-Apr-1999
Glenn Howells Architects has won £20,000 for designing a mass-production housing scheme in Manchester's Britannia Basin competition.
Engineering students pioneer computer-linked learning

22-Apr-1999
A prototype classroom has been designed with mini-computers to maximise teaching potential and identify and help slow learners.
Cambridge charts its next building phase

15-Apr-1999
Danish architect Erik Christian Sorensen is back at Cambridge University working on one of two new buildings recommended by planners for approval, and totalling £32.5 million.
Europan 5 chooses England winners

8-Apr-1999
Europan 5, a major Europe-wide competition for architects under 40 to overhaul run-down urban wastelands, has chosen the winners for two English sites.
Arsenal to be in King's Cross 'within ten years', says Luder

1-Apr-1999
An riba big name has pitched into the long-running saga of Arsenal Football Club's possible move by saying he thinks King's Cross will be the club's new home.
MBM scoops Newham

1-Apr-1999
MBM Arquitectes, a major force in Gold-Medallist Barcelona, has won a competition to turn one of Europe's biggest derelict sites into another showpiece, this time for modern living in Newham.
Planners disagree over new housing guidance

1-Apr-1999
Housing experts have criticised the government's new planning guidance for being too low in density requirements and lacking detail on its 'sequential approach' to new homes.
Hopkins refutes MPs' building cost allegations

25-Mar-1999
Michael Hopkins and Partners has defended its embattled Portcullis House in Westminster after a barrage of media criticism over allegedly spiralling costs.
30-storey tower planned for edge of Liverpool city centre

18-Mar-1999
Liverpool's equivalent of Manhattan's Flatiron Building - a giant, dramatic wedge-plan tower - has gone in for planning consent. The 30-storey tower will include a 144-bedroom hotel on the lower 12 floors and 80 residential flats above. It will be more than 150m high.
Allies and Morrison wins £160m King's Cross refurb

18-Mar-1999
Allies and Morrison is going underground for a £160 million redevelopment of King's Cross tube station. The architect will work with Ove Arup & Partners on a two-stage project expected to run into 2007. The first phase will cost £80 million and include refurbishing the existing ticket hall, concourse and tube platform areas. Planning consent is expected later this year.
Architects under fire from MoD

11-Mar-1999
The government is moving towards a method of procurement for public buildings which will put architects and other consultants in the back seat - unless they are willing to shoulder a large burden of risk in the lead role.
Get thee behind me, casino, say Bristol clergy

11-Mar-1999
Bristol Cathedral is waging war against a major Arup Associates design on its doorstep by urging the government to call it in.
Conservation concerns over change of use

4-Mar-1999
A proposal to change a Grade I Arts-and-Crafts building back into a private home has sparked major concerns over its future use.
Solar panels give power to council's tower block facelift

4-Mar-1999
Architects for a Midlands council have given a tower block for social- housing tenants a solar-powered upgrade and glass facelift.
Coventry invites architects to square up to cathedral

25-Feb-1999
A competition to create and refurbish squares for Coventry has been launched, and may include landscape, water features and lighting similar to some of the world's most famous squares.
Royal Academy gets serious about architecture

25-Feb-1999
The Royal Academy of Arts aims to dedicate prime exhibition space to a new architecture gallery as part of an ambitious expansion.
Urban task force to model itself on Garden City pioneers

18-Feb-1999
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All MoD cons for Swindon

11-Feb-1999
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Allies and Morrison wins refurb job for 'grim' LCP tower

11-Feb-1999
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Latest South Bank brief could save the Hayward

11-Feb-1999
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When in Rome . . .

11-Feb-1999
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Who wants to work with Renzo?

11-Feb-1999
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Magnificent seven to decide on architecture champion

4-Feb-1999
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Architects not always up the right street in Tower Hamlets

28-Jan-1999
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Liverpool has no time for tea in cinema scheme

21-Jan-1999
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Turn Britian's cities into powerhouses, says task force

14-Jan-1999
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Architects win court case over work by unregistered staff

7-Jan-1999
A London practice has won a ground-breaking court battle over the status of work carried out by unregistered staff - in a ruling which could also lead to speedier payment of disputed fees.
English Heritage puts a spanner in London works

7-Jan-1999
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News: Rogers' scheme for friends, Romans and congressmen

17-Dec-1998
A design by Richard Rogers Partnership and Ove Arup & Partners with a 'great floating roof' has been shortlisted for a competition for a convention centre in Rome.
News: Aukett sees profits leap in best year since 1990

3-Dec-1998
Aukett Associates is entering the economic downturn on a positive note, boasting a 54 per cent increase in turnover to £10 million and its best year since 1990.
News: Massive regeneration plan for one of Europe's worst estates

3-Dec-1998
One of Europe's biggest regeneration projects on one of its worst estates is shaping up with a planning application due this month for the first phase of £260 million of housing.
Dome's mind and body zones unveiled in blaze of publicity

26-Nov-1998
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Fosters hit by planning 'centralism gone mad'

19-Nov-1998
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Prescott gives Wellcome scheme a second chance

19-Nov-1998
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Dutch team wins prize to redesign Jubilee Gardens

22-Oct-1998
West 8 Landscape Architects, famous for blending architectural elements into gardens, has won a top competition to redesign Jubilee Gardens on London's South Bank.
Arts Council grant pledge as architecture unit awaits fait

15-Oct-1998
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Mass listing includes Festival of Britain church

1-Oct-1998
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Stonehenge masterplan may not include Cullinan

1-Oct-1998
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Top ten compete for 400ha London brownfield site

1-Oct-1998
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Architects join opposition to mayor's planning powers

24-Sep-1998
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Raynsford lambasted over London HQ procurement

24-Sep-1998
New Labour is trying to unload a 'Thatcherite' and 'scruffy' deal for the London mayor's new assembly building, say leading designers.
riba presses for tax changes and the return of civic architects

17-Sep-1998
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Farrell urban design council 'will put cities on world stage'

10-Sep-1998
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Architecture schools hit by fees and Asian economies

3-Sep-1998
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National Gallery seeks designer for more public space

27-Aug-1998
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Peterborough practice lands £750m tower masterplan

13-Aug-1998
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Zandra Rhodes plans Legoretta fashion museum

13-Aug-1998
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On-line construction register aims to cut out the cowboys

23-Jul-1998
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Prescott delivers blueprint for integrated transport strategy

23-Jul-1998
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Hadid to design exhibitionspace for Hayward Gallery

9-Jul-1998
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Lottery act likely to endfunding of major projects

9-Jul-1998
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Urban blueprint for London' the mother of all strategies'

9-Jul-1998
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Gongs for Gough and Hodderin Queen's birthday honours

18-Jun-1998
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Half fees awarded in first adjudication case

11-Jun-1998
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Quartet urged to continue on Tower plan

21-May-1998
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Redundancies at South Bank from falling student roll . . .

14-May-1998
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'Rushed' decision on final five for Scottish parliament . . .

14-May-1998
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Gumnan shoots architect leaving him 'seriously ill'

7-May-1998
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Milton Keynes shopping centre faces listing battle

7-May-1998
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Weighty problems faceDome engineers

7-May-1998
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Prescott urged to investigate £15m Greenwich scheme

16-Apr-1998
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Councils shelve greenfield housing plans in confusion

9-Apr-1998
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Tube sell-off will see stations demolished and grant used up

26-Mar-1998
Hiving off London's tube to the private sector will result in wholesale demolition of stations and soak up half its recent £365 million allocation, an expert forecast this week.
Ian Simpson wins Manchester millennium gallery

19-Mar-1998
The international competition for a twenty-firstcentury gallery celebrating the millennium has been won by Ian Simpson Architects.
Institute picks its latest honorary fellows

19-Mar-1998
Lord Jacob Rothschild, trustee chairman of the National Gallery, and Financial Times architectural critic Colin Amery are two of the latest nominations for RIBA honorary fellowships.
Galaxy of stars line up to design Scottish parliament

5-Mar-1998
Many of the world's most famous architects have entered the Scottish parliament building competition, though the highest-profile British ones have snubbed it.
Rock slams Luton council for cut-price design contest

5-Mar-1998
The RIBA president, David Rock, has attacked yet another drastically cut-price design competition, which he says will leave winning architects tens of thousands of pounds out of pocket.
Architects will still lose money if their PFI bids fail

26-Feb-1998
Architects who pour thousands of pounds into design work for PFI competitions will not get a penny back if the bid fails, the Treasury has insisted.
Rogers heads brownfield task force to ginger up councils

26-Feb-1998
Lord Rogers has been drafted in to help councils - or give them a 'kick up the backside' - on urban housing, by identifying enough 'recycled' derelict and unused land for 60 per cent of the projected 4.4 million new homes.
Experts warn greenfield taxes will only boost demand

19-Feb-1998
Hefty new taxes aimed at putting the brake on housing over the countryside will not deter greenfield development but increase demand, experts fear.
Liverpool dump to house Europe's tallest building

12-Feb-1998
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RFAC slams EP for its support of poor design in Bristol

12-Feb-1998
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Major design schemes underthreat from Chunnel fiasco

5-Feb-1998
The possible collapse of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project has left designers dreading that billions of pounds of world-class architecture schemes will go down the tubes.
Tube station sell-off would 'threaten design identity'

29-Jan-1998
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Architects ambivalent about Scottish parliament site . . .

22-Jan-1998
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RIAS plans global competition for Scottish parliament

15-Jan-1998
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Farrell's £180m cement works will be 'like a mini-city'

8-Jan-1998
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South Korean economic woesset to hit UK architects

8-Jan-1998
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