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Building Design archives from July 2003

The Hilton group in the Deansgate area. (News).(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Caption: Ian Simpson Architects has submitted designs for the UK's tallest residential tower at 171m. The [pounds sterling]150 million, 47-storey glass tower in Manchester for developer Beetham Organization will combine 219 apartments, office...

Plan to bundle PFI schemes unravels.(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... The government's controversial initiative to "bundle up" privately financed hospital schemes into one contract has come unstuck after the latest batch of schemes due to be tendered in Kent this month was broken up. The system, set up by...

Flat VAT now: high-profile support for flat VAT rate on all construction as BD launches campaign. (BD Campaign).
July 4, 2003... Gordon Brown is facing a once-in-a-decade opportunity to end a perverse tax regime that has held back regeneration in vast swathes of urban Britain. This summer the government has a chance to reform the rules governing VAT on construction...

Rogers and Cabe lobby PM over Crossrail plans. (News).(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Richard Rogers and Cabe chief executive John Rouse joined over 50 leading figures to tell the prime minister that plans to regenerate London's Thames Gateway with thousands of new homes are "just a pipe dream" without the Crossrail under....

Primary job for White. (News).(White Design wins contract)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... White Design architects has beaten five other shortlisted practices to win the competition to design a new primary school for Anns Grove School in Sheffield. Sheffield City Council, which ran the competition with the RIBA, said it soughtan...

Housing winners. (News).(Housing Design Awards )(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... The Housing Design Awards for completed schemes went to Bill Dunster's BedZed scheme at Beddington Corner in Surrey; De Rijke Marsh Morgan's Centaur Street in London; Stephenson Bell's Chorlton Parkin Manchester; Ian Simpson's Deansgate scheme...

Conditions 'worsen' for black architects. (News).
July 4, 2003... Conditions for black and minority ethnic architects have got worse in the last decade, the founding chairwoman of the Society of Black Architects, Elsie Owusu, claimed this week. In a series of serious allegations aimed at the Housing...

13,683 enter NY competition. (News).(World Trade Centre Memorial competition)
July 4, 2003... A record 13,683 designers from 94 countries entered the World Trade Centre Memorial competition this week. The deadline for the competition to design a memorial on the site in New York passed at 5pm on Monday, marking a key milestone in the...

Trafaiqar Square reopened this week following Foster & Partners/Atkins. (News).(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Caption: Trafaiqar Square reopened this week following Foster & Partners/Atkins [pounds sterling]25 million scheme to pedestrianise the road at the north the square, adding a cafe and other facilities. New lighting was designed by Speirs &...

McAslan in last two for Beijing scheme. (News).(John McAslan and Partners bid against Skidmore, Owings and Merrill L.L.P.)
July 4, 2003... John McAslan & Partners is vying with US firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill for the prize of designing a 250,000sq m mixed-use development in Beijing. McAslan was interviewed this week along with three other practices. BD understands the...

HOK's designs for Europe's first indoor skydiving centre have been submitted for planning permission. (News).(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Caption: HOK's designs for Europe's first indoor skydiving centre have been submitted for planning permission. The 25m-high, [pounds]45 million structure, planned for Milton Keynes, would house a vertical wind tunnel which could produce a...

Pirate copies of Farrell book seized in China. (News).(Ten Years: Ten Cities by Terry Farrell)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... The launch of one Terry Farrell's books in China later this year is so eagerly anticipated that an illegal distribution of copies has been flourishing, BD has learnt. Trade in illegal copies of Farrell's monograph Ten Years: Ten Cities was...

Koolhaas bags Japan award. (News).(Rem Koolhaas wins Praemium Imperiale prize for architecture)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Dutch master architect Rem Koolhaas has won the [pounds sterling]85,000 Praemium Imperiale prize for architecture from the Japan Art Association -- given to architects who have made a profound international impact. Koolhaas's international...

Atkins to design hotel for Mecca. (News).(Atkins Architects )(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... A British-designed, modem-style hotel is set to rise up among the domes and minarets of Islam's holiest city Mecca. In what is believed to be one of the first contemporary-style buildings to be designed in the holy Saudi Arabian city, which...

Grimshaw's RCA extension all set. (News).(Royal College of Art )(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Its original architect described it as "a leech that sucks the blood" from his building, and Cabe was "unconvinced", but Grimshaw's plans for a [pounds sterling]22 million extension to the Royal College of Art look set to go ahead. ...

Holyrood inquiry learns fee details. (News).(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... The scale of architects' earnings on the controversial new Scottish Parliament building at Holyrood, Edinburgh, emerged late last week, as the build-up to the independent inquiry into the project continued. The Scottish parliament heard...

Rain releases poetry from concrete tiles. (News).(waterproof coating used to reveal messages painted on tiles)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Imagine running to catch your bus in the pouring rain and the pavement in front of you suddenly revealing a Shakespearian sonnet. This is one of scenarios made possible by a design products student for his final-year project at the Royal...

Mayoral rivals slate Ken's design record. (News).(London mayor Ken Livingstone)
July 4, 2003... Ken Livingstone has promised that improving the "pedestrian" standard of much of London's architecture will be one of the key battlegrounds of next year's mayoral election campaign. "The issues of design and architecture didn't figure in...

Camden tube must rock on. (News).(subway station design to include music venue)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Ken Livingstone has called for big changes to Jestico & Whiles' design for a [pounds sterling]100 million redevelopment of Camden Town underground station in north London. Livingstone wants the redevelopment to include a major new music...

Chipperfield in Berlin. (News).(David Chipperfield Architects begins renovation of museum in Germany)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... David Chipperfield Architects has started work on the restoration ofthe Neues Museum in Berlin, designed by Friedrich August Stuler, which was badly damaged in World War II. The practice is also working on two buildings on the site as part of...

Sussex job for ADP. (News).(Architects Design Partnership to design building for University of Sussex)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Architects Design Partnership has won the competition to design a [pounds sterling]6 million building in Brighton for the University of Sussex. The building will include lecture theatres and seminar rooms. Construction is set to start at the...

11 names make panopticon list. (News).
July 4, 2003... Shortlisted designs for three panopticons -- landmark viewing platforms -- in the east Lancashire hills have been released. The three sites are the Coppice, Peel Park, Accrington; the Cannon Battery, Corporation Park, Blackburn; and Haworth...

Cabe in hot water again over 'non-visits': watchdog defends criticism of quay scheme saying that head 'knew the area well'. (News).
July 4, 2003... Cabe has come under fresh attack for speaking out on schemes when its experts have not visited the site. The watchdog has urged a "serious rethink' of the Design Buro's mixed-use Brayford Quays scheme in Lincoln in its latest design review. ...

Plans of 12,500 historic churches go online. (News).(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... An archive of more than 12,500 plans for historic churches across England and Wales has been made available online. The collection, created by Lambeth Palace Library and Newcastle University with funding from the New Opportunities Fund,...

Canadian panels aid Kent housing. (News).(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Architects have turned to a novel Canadian timber panellised system to beat labour shortages and ensure that a private housing development in Kent gets built on time. So impressed has Clague Architects been with the Super-E system that it...

David Mikhail Architects has released designs for a [pounds sterling]1 million extension to a manor house on a private estate in Horringer, Suffolk. (News).(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Caption: David Mikhail Architects has released designs for a [pounds sterling]1 million extension to a manor house on a private estate in Horringer, Suffolk. The 400sq m building will contain a swimming pool which overlooks a lake and woodland....

New RIBA president meets 'skills tsar'. (News).(George Ferguson meets John Egan)
July 4, 2003... Newly installed RIBA president George Ferguson's first act in the hot seat this week was to meet the government's skills tsar John Egan to discuss his study into the skills needed to deliver the government's sustainable communities housing...

Turn left, says the lamppost. (News).(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... A "talking lamppost" that can help blind and partially sighted people find their way around the streets of north London more easily was launched this week. Under the [pounds sterling]100,000 system, guiding messages from machines mounted...

RMJM has won planning permission for a mixed-use scheme on a brownfield site at the heart of Glasgow's new Broomielaw business district. (News).(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Caption: RMJM has won planning permission for a mixed-use scheme on a brownfield site at the heart of Glasgow's new Broomielaw business district, It will include 200 apartments and commercial units, and a public square designed with the artist...

Hyett hits out after closer blunder. (News).(Outgoing RIBA president Paul Hyett)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Outgoing RIBA president Paul Hyett has hit out at clients' "pitiful" level of prototyping after an architect was sued for [pounds sterling]185,000 for specifying over 700 door closers that malfunctioned and had to be replaced. Hyett said...

Gallery contest. (News).
July 4, 2003... A competition to design a [pounds sterling]15 million landmark art gallery in Colchester, Essex, has been launched by the RIBA Competitions Office. The building, to house contemporary visual arts, will replace the existing Minories art...

Minister to update planning guidance. (News).(housing minister Keith Hill)(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... New housing minister Keith Hill has agreed to update planning guidance for architects and developers to clarify their obligations to the community. Hill promised to update the guidance "very shortly" after fears were voiced by MPs that the...

Robert Dye Associates. (News).(Brief Article)
July 4, 2003... Caption: Robert Dye Associates has received planning permission for a timber-framed house in Denmark Hill, south London. Wrapped around two sides of a partly demolished house on the site, the building will be clad in black-stained redwood, with...

We plan to win, but we need your help. (Analysis & Comment).(Column)
July 4, 2003... OK, taxis boring, but this is important. The launch of BD's Flat VAT campaign is a fundamental challenge to the government's approach to our built environment. It is not just about Customs & Excise and endless bureaucracy. It is about the...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
July 4, 2003... What you pay for From Gordon Murray, Glasgow I must take issue with the notion that the profession in Scotland and the RIAS have been lacking in their support for the parliament building project and its design team over the five years since its...

Timespan. (Analysis & Comment).
July 4, 2003... 1993 Architects stay ahead of PFI by swerving into its path. 2003 Design champion encouraged to be more socially aware. 2013 Godalming sacrificed to meet South-east's density targets.

Big business: harmonising VAT across the construction industry makes economic sense. (Comment & Analysis).(Editorial)
July 4, 2003... My cousin -- an accountant specialising in bankruptcy -- is practised in that most wearying of gestures, the rubbing together of thumb and first two fingers which, accompanied by a sardonic "duh, stupid" look, reminds dolts like me -- aesthetes...

Haemor horror. (Concrete Boots).
July 4, 2003... When you receive an e-mail entitled "pile wonder is on the way out", you open it with a sense of trepidation. And so it was this week with an e-mail from a well-known figure in the built environment that began: "Glad to able to report that the...

Proof of the pudding. (Concrete Boots).
July 4, 2003... Veteran Radio I disc jockey John Peel was recently spotted at the RIBA Cafe in Portland Place generating speculation that he has developed a love of architecture. Or is it that not even the Glastonbury-hardened Peel can stomach the BBC canteen...

Just deserts. (Concrete Boots).
July 4, 2003... Daniel Libeskind gave Britain a sample of the music he would listen to as a castaway on a desert island this week. As well as Mozart and Beethoven, the bespectaded one would also listen to a monotone that sounds like static. This is in fact a...

Game for a laugh? (Concrete Boots).
July 4, 2003... If we could tell how a two-year RIBA presidency was going pan out by studying the portraits released of the new president then we are in for some fun and games with George Ferguson (pictured above left) who clearly has the whole world in his...

Doing the shows. (Concrete Boots).
July 4, 2003... To the opening of this year's end-of-year show at the Bartlett and a great eavesdropping moment between mother and daughter looking at an enormous balsa wood model of what looked like a Transformer in mid-transformation. Mother: "I don't...

It's not unusual. (Comment & Analysis).(no architects from Wales nominated for Stirling Prize)
July 4, 2003... This year there wasn't a single Welsh building on the 70-strong Stirling Prize long list. And before that came a whole saga of missed architectural opportunities. So, what's going on? 'We were just admiring your building. dear. It's looking...

Collector's lot: Caruso St John's exhibition space for Henry Wellcome's collection of artefacts lets the exhibits themselves take on the quality of architecture. (Caruso St John, London).
July 4, 2003... Henry Wellcome (1853-1936) grew up in Garden City, Minnesota -- frontier territory set deep in the American midwest. As a small boy he found himself caring for the wounded when his hometown came under attack by Indians. The interest in medicine...

Hand of history: Wilford Schupp's History Museum in Stuttgart completes a trilogy of buildings, and maintains its own identity despite some uncomfortable jarring between old and new. (Building Study).(Product/Service Evaluation)
July 4, 2003... The histories described by Stuttgart's new History Museum are many and various. The building serves to tell the story of Baden-Wurttemberg -- the region of which Stuttgart is the capital -- takes in the Napoleonic wars, the world wars of the...

Roman holiday: the Soane Museum's exhibition on the 18th century Robert Adam's sabbatical to Rome shows how this crucial career move was to change the look and taste of the nation. (Culture).
July 4, 2003... When I went to the new exhibition Bob the Roman about the importance of Rome in Robert Adam's work, not only did I feel I was Bob the Roman II, but I felt I knew how "the practice of architecture rushes so fast upon me that I have but few...

Show stopper: the end of year show at Nottingham University's school of the built environment illustrated why it is rated so highly.
July 4, 2003... Recently confirmed as top of the league in the Times higher education list, Nottingham University Institute of Architecture clearly means to maintain this standard if its end of year show is anything to go by. Environmental aspects were...

Architectural road trip: a new approach to architectural theory emerges from a book that uses narrative and character rather than scholarly hypothesis.(Book Review)
July 4, 2003... Jacques drives down the freeway, tyres slapping on the expansion joints, his companion Maria "sprawled out like a dead thing, head back, eyes shut, mouth open". Jacques is supposed to be writing a book about machines, but Maria is upsetting...

Lectures. (Diary).(Brief Article)(Calendar)
July 4, 2003... FRIDAY * Cedric Price. Venue Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1, Gower Street UCL, London. 630pm. * Oscar Niemeyer: Architecture as fashion, Nigel Coates, Caroline Bos. Details 020 7679 4815. Venue Serpentine Gallery, Kensington...

Now booking. (Diary).(Brief Article)(Calendar)
July 4, 2003... JULY 11 Fresh Thinking on High Street Activity. Venue 1 Birdcage Walk, London 9.30-5 pm. Cost [pounds sterling]225/[pounds sterling]3l5. Details 020 7582 0128.

Exhibitions. (Diary).(Brief Article)(Calendar)
July 4, 2003... UNTIL JULY 11 Villa Muller/Villa Tugendhat 1930. Venue Czech Centre, 95 Great Portland Street, London. Details 020 7291 9924. UNTIL AUGUST 3 Exodus: Between promise and fulfilment. Venue Kettles Yard, Castle Street,...

Watch this space. (Back Space).(Column)
July 4, 2003... Less well-known than it deserves is an essay by Rem Koolhaas. Called "Junkspace", it appeared in Domus a couple of years ago. and then, much revised and expanded, last year in the American journal October. Junkspace is an architectural satire...

Ian Martin.
July 4, 2003... Monday Join the VAT campaign by buying a level playing field at a knock-down price, then applying for planning permission to build high-density affordable homes. Tuesday The Day of Assumption at Portland Place. I am one of a small group...

Office for metropolitan architecture has completed [pound sterling]8.2 million of renovations on the paard van troje performance centre in the hague.(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Caption: Office for metropolitan architecture has completed [pound sterling]8.2 million of renovations on the paard van troje performance centre in the Hague. Work on the 4,000sq m centre protected the facades of the two original buildings on...

City leaders back BD's tax compaign. (Flat Vat).(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... City leaders across the UK threw their weight behind BD's Flat VAT campaign this week, while construction minister Nigel Griffiths said he saw "a strong case for reducing VAT". Contributing to a major political boost to the campaign, London...

Ferguson seeks soul revival in cities.(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... A large number of Britain's cities and public spaces have lost their soul and architects are partly to blame, according to the inaugural speech of RIBA president George Ferguson. The speech, given today at the RIBA conference in Rotterdam,...

Future shock for architects: bold vision of life in 2023 raises questions for professionals.(RIBA and Cabe project that by 2023 architects could be a thing of the past)
July 11, 2003... The architecture profession could disappear in the next 20 years, according to a hard hitting report to be launched next week by the RIBA and Cabe think tank Building Futures. In a complex and wide-ranging analysis of the future of the...

RDAs exceed brownfield target. (News).(Regional Development Agencies rehabilitate brownfields)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Regional Development Agencies have beaten their target for regenerating brownfield land in the past year, regenerating a total of 1,448ha -- well above the government's 1,256ha target. Eight of the nine agencies exceeded their targets with...

Stamp's out. (News).(Gavin Stamp leaves Mackintosh School)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Architectural historian Gavin Stamp has left the Mackintosh School of Architecture for a research position in Cambridge. His decision to leave Scotland, where as founder of the Alexander Thomson Society he was a key figure, has been met...

Prefab costs 'twice normal construction'. (News).
July 11, 2003... One of the leading exponents of off-site manufactured housing has revealed that its prefabricated developments cost nearly twice as much as its projects that use traditional construction. The Peabody Trust revealed this week that Feilden...

Cartwright Pickard Architects.(setting up operations in Chicago)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Caption: Cartwright pickard architects, the practice behind peabody's prefabricated murray grove project, is exporting its expertise to the US. The practice has been appointed by a chicago-based developer to work up ideas for modular housing...

PRP wins estate contest. (News).(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... PRP Architects has made a clean sweep of redevelopment projects in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets by winning the competition to redevelop the 1,750-home Ocean Estate in Stepney. PRP's brief involves reworking a masterplan, drawn up by...

International housing unions. (News).(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Winning architects have been announced to develop affordable housing sites in and around London in an international initiative run by Cabe and the Direction del'Architecture et du Patrimoine. Cartwright Pickard Architects and B & C...

Edinburgh college buy-up. (News).(college building sold; to be redeveloped into flats)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Donaldson's College, one of Edinburgh's architectural treasures, is to be sold to a developer and converted into flats. The grade A listed building was designed by William Henry Playfair and completed in 1851. Scotland's School for the...

Buildings at risk highlighted. (News).(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... The Scottish Civic Trust has published its latest Buildings at Risk bulletin containing details and photographs of around 1,300 buildings in Scotland urgently in need of rescue. The 2003-4 bulletin, a summary of Historic Scotland's...

Tate to appeal over tower plans. (News).(art museum files suit to block construction of 20 story building)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... The Tate is on the verge of launching a High Court appeal against plans for a 20-storey tower next to its Bankside gallery. If it loses, it could cost the public body as much as [pounds sterling]250,000. Tate director Nicholas Serota led a...

Lad culture forces women to quit: RIBA-funded study looks at reasons behind profession's high female drop-out rate. (News).
July 11, 2003... Women are being forced out of architecture because of a combination of sexism, macho culture and low pay, according to the first comprehensive study of the issue. It identifies a series of problems with Arb, the RIBA and the architectural...

Stock Woolstencroft has won planning permission for an [pound sterling]8 million mixed-use development in Hoxton, London.(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Caption: Stock Woolstencroft has won planning permission for an [pound sterling]8 million mixed-use development in Hoxton, London. The scheme includes 50 private residential units, 19 shared ownership homes and a new surgery for three GPs. The...

Holyrood costs 'could top [pounds sterling]0.5bn'. (News).(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Officials in charge of the Holyrood parliament building in Edinburgh have refused to rule out the cost of the building escalating to a staggering [pounds sterling]500 million. Under questioning from the elected members at a meeting of the...

'Teletubby House' goes to appeal. (News).(novel subterranean housing plans result in court case)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... An innovative house design that could help solve London's housing shortage is going to a planing appeal in what is seen as an important test case. Nicknamed the Teletubby House, the prototype for a largely subterranean house could be...

Foster's in final trio for [pounds sterling]600m Beijing airport. (News).
July 11, 2003... Foster & Partners' quest to gain a foothold in Beijing had mixed results this week after it was surprisingly omitted from the [pounds sterling]120 million Beijing Olympic swimming pool shortlist, but made the shortlist for the [pounds sterling]...

Kew wins world heritage status. (News).(Kew Gardens received UNESCO award of world heritage status)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Wilkinson Eyre Architect's wide-ranging architecture review at Kew Gardens has received a boost with Unesco's award of world heritage status to the west London site. The site contains more than 40 listed buildings and two ancient monuments. ...

Cullinan's wins Edinburgh job. (News).(Edward Cullinan Architects)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Edward Cullinan Architects has beaten finalists Michael Hopkins & Partners, Wilkinson Eyre Architects and Richard Murphy Architects to win the competition for a [pounds sterling]10 million visitor facility at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh....

Cabe calls for award entries. (News).(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Cabe is calling for entries for its latest Building Sights award, which recognises projects that engage the public during the construction process. The [pounds]5,000 prize is jointly supported by Cabe and the Arts Council England. Entries are...

[pounds sterling]9m for Liverpool. (News).(Northwest Development Agency and English Partnerships funding urban renewal efforts)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... The Northwest Development Agency and English Partnerships has committed joint funding of [pounds sterling]9 million for a series of projects in the Liverpool Vision urban regeneration companies area. The money, announced just weeks after...

Green failure. (News).(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... The survey also found that 95% of companies surveyed were not aware of the business benefits of environmental action. The majority of small companies in the construction industry are failing to protect the environment, according to anew...

White wins school. (News).(White Design Architects to design Anns Grove School in Sheffield)(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... White Design Architects of Bristol has won an RIBA competition to design a new primary school for Anns Grove School in Sheffield. Sheffield City Council were looking for a school design with strong sustainable credentials. The RIBA's...

Barbican revamp. (News).(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Allford Hall Monaghan Morris's revamp of the Barbican's foyers and entrances has started on site. The scheme will transform the famous Silk Street entrance to the arts complex and improve the widely criticised way finding system. The [pounds...

[pounds sterling]87m health funding. (News).(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... The government has announced a cash injection of [pounds sterling]87 million by 2006 for the development of new extra care housing. Health minister Stephen Ladyman announced the new funding last week and said the money would be available for...

Ken's powers at risk: 'maverick' ruling that Livingstone must pay inquiry costs could curtail London mayor's planning clout. (News).
July 11, 2003... A "maverick' planning decision by deputy prime minister John Prescott, could threaten London mayor Ken Livingstone's powers to refuse a scheme at the planning stage. A scheme for a 517-room student accommodation block in Wembley, north...

Anshen Dyer in PFI blitz. (News).(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... Anshen Dyer is about to enter its [pounds sterling]180 million PFI hospital scheme in Newcastle for planning and is down to the final two on major PFI hospital schemes in Portsmouth and Birmingham. The firm is working up detailed designs of...

Glimpse into future makes tough reading. (Analysis & Comment).(RIBA releases "Professionals' Choice" outlining the industry for the next 20 years)
July 11, 2003... Only II days into his job as president of the RIBA and George Ferguson is already behind on his reading. His institute has published, with Cabe, a remarkable piece of brainstorming that maps out the next 20 years for construction professionals....

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
July 11, 2003... VAT agreement From Tim Gough, London Good luck with your campaign for standardising the VAT rate across the construction industry. This will not only encourage inner-city development on some difficult sites, but will also provide...

Timespam.(Brief Article)
July 11, 2003... 1963 Health and safety management toolkit put in place. 2003 Report into why women leave architecture cites exotic life in quantity surveying. 2023 Architects now able to tap into sustainable reserves of genius. 'Browser'

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