Free advice for communities to support neighbourhood planning

Communities are getting a supportive boost to help make their neighbourhood vision a reality through a new scheme offering free access to expert advice and guidance, Planning Minister Greg Clark announced today.

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Philosopher Roger Scruton has accused star architects of talking "pretentious gobbledegook" in a bid to justify new buildings which will be torn down in 20 years' time.

In an opinion piece in the Times on Saturday, Scruton named Daniel Libeskind, Frank Gehry, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman and Rem Koolhaas, criticising them for building monuments to themselves.

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Why am I regarded as an awkward and quirky cog in this process?" David Chipperfield

David Chipperfield to Receive the 2011 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture

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Prince Charles seeks 'big society' role in shaping UK towns and cities

The Prince of Wales's charity, the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment, is aiming to co-ordinate community groups setting the planning vision for local areas

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Soma Architects reveal design for mosque near Ground Zero

The futuristic-looking building is wrapped in a honeycomb of abstract shapes, with a core containing far more space for secular pursuits than religious worship. The renderings are preliminary, but they project the development team's desire to build something cosmopolitan and fun …

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Giant Coca-Cola hoarding covers part of the Doge's Palace, Venice,

A group of the world's leading cultural experts have launched a stinging attack on the Italian government over the use of giant advertisements placed on some of Venice's most historic sights.

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Foster's academy building is a nightmare, says school's boss

A flagship academy school, designed by Foster & Partners, has been branded a "nightmare" by the woman who runs it.

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Views of Empire State Building to be Wrecked

The 1,216-foot Pelli Clarke Pelli-designed tower would replace McKim Mead & White's notable Hotel Pennsylvania.

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Splines, Nurbs and Subdivs: The New Architectural Vocabulary of Parametricism - the "Great New Style After Modernism"

Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects argues that the unified style of architecture for the 21st century will be parametricism. What is parametricism?

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Classical Architecture: Three Fallacies by Robert Adam

Classicism has been wronged, argues Robert Adam. Although its longevity proves people still want classical buildings, three fallacies about style, relevance and authenticity are used to justify the hostility it receives from the profession

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British architect to design a Hindu temple in India in a style not used for more than 700 years.

Adam Hardy, from Cardiff's Welsh School of Architecture, believes he is the only person in the world with the knowledge to design in the style of the 12th century Hoysala dynasty.

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Paris is under barbarian siege — again

In the 1920s, a plan to replace central Paris with towers over highways through parkland was proposed by the arch-modernist Le Corbusier. France spurned his plan.

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Architects Passed Over as Turner Prize Winner Designs "Eyeful" Olympic Monument to Rival the Statue of Liberty

Kapoor designs 2012 Orbit tower Olympic Orbit 2012 will be built near the stadium Enlarge Image A spiralling sculpture designed by Turner Prize-winning artist Anish Kapoor has been chosen as the monument to mark the London 2012 Olympic Games.

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The Art of Mud Building: Heritage and Sustainability

Join Paul Oliver, acclaimed academic and Emeritus Professor at the International Vernacular Architecture Unit, Oxford Brookes University, for a stimulating talk about the future of vernacular building traditions and their role in creating sustainable, culturally vibrant, people o …

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Masdar Initiative for energy security, climate change and sustainability.

As the first major hydrocarbon-producing economy to take such a step Abu Dhabi has established its leadership position by launching the Masdar Initiative a global cooperative platform for the open engagement in the search for solutions to some of mankind's most pressing issues en …

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"Modern materials are more of a threat than a promise to the green agenda."

Only 3% of the 55,000 materials currently used in the construction industry have been rigorously tested for their long-term impact on human health, so in using them widely we are conducting a mammoth experiment.

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"Living in a pseudo-intellectual ghetto, architects spend their time admiring their own and each other's navels, uncaring of public opinion."

Piers Gough - "as with modern music which people by and large loathed when it was first made, the public have shown themselves to be extremely bad judges of the arts and I fear they are a very bad judge of architecture.

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How do we design in outer space?

As space becomes the domain of the private sector, architects will be increasingly important, says Foster & Partners' John Jennings, while Robin Nicholson argues we should master building on earth rather than screwing up space

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Castle-style building concealed from council planners with bales of straw must be demolished, high court rules

Fidler, 61, built the luxury four-bedroom property, complete with ramparts, turrets and cannon, over two years, and then lived in it with his wife and son.

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Foster pastiches 80 year old Villa Savoie for first hospital

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English Heritage Urges Councils to Examine the Value of Historic Schools

"The Government's current Building Schools for the Future initiative represents the biggest school building and refurbishment programme for 50 years.

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RIBA to widen the profession's catchment area - with the help of a cartload of quangos

Is it inevitable these days that if you want to do anything you have to work through a cartload of quangos? The RIBA initiative to widen the profession's catchment area has to work through Panel on Fair Access to the Professions

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Ordos - A Brand New Great City In Search of Inhabitants

It is not often that anyone builds big new cities these days from scratch. But the Chinese do. This is is what the newest Chinese urbanism looks like - trendy pod-Modernism in the centre with suburban homes to live in. The latter look quite nice

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Sir Fred the Shred's skills to be applied to architecture

Former RBS chief executive is now working for Scottish architects RMJM. RMJM was the firm awarded the lucrative contract for the parliament at Holyrood which was originally supposed to cost £40 million.

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New RIBA head calls for new award for buildings that last

Newly-arrived RIBA head Harry Rich is pushing for a new award to be given to buildings that remain successful several years after completion

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