Archive for April, 2009

Watchdog boosts public sector role

Cabe has expanded its support to public sector bodies by adding around 40 design professionals to its enabling panels.

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Women ‘hit the hardest’ as profession endures slump

Statistics shows disproportionate number of women joining dole queue

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Aukett chief takes pay cut as practice plans lay-offs

The chief executive of Aukett Fitzroy Robinson is taking a pay cut of more than £30,000 as the firm prepares to make at least 20 redundancies.

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Rogers’ Pompidou Centre gets French fried in new poll

Prince Charles’ views on modern architecture have been echoed by the good citizens of Paris who, according to a poll in Le Figaro this week, hate modern buildings, especially towers, and have voted on which ones they’d like to see demolished.

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The lost glory of Chrysler

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Seven up: the best green skyscrapers

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Deluge of entries expected for Glasgow School of Art competition

A competition to design a new building for the Glasgow School of Art has attracted unprecedented levels of interest, with the organiser predicting possible success for a young practice.

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Scottish watchdog could be more like Cabe

The Scottish government has published a report on watchdog Architecture & Design Scotland which proposes a “significant restructuring of the organisation”.

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Arup’s institute for Manufacturing at Cambridge

The latest addition to the University of Cambridge’s science and technology campus opened its doors last week.

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Olympic site hope for Skylon bid

Campaigners behind a plan to recreate Powell & Moya’s iconic Skylon structure have entered into negotiations to find a site for the project in the 2012 Olympic park in Stratford, east London.

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