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The £200m South Bank Centre project is on hold again after officials admitted that no decision will be made on the architect for the crucial 1st phase until next year. (BD,27/11/01)
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A new three-pronged attack on decades of failed hospital design was announced
last week
by the health minister, Alan Milburn, handing architects a vastly expanded
role in the procurement of more than £7 billion of hospitals in
the next decade.
Speaking at the launch of Prince Charles' appointment as the NHS's design tsar, Milburn revealed that for the first time an architect will be appointed to design an 'exemplar' for every new hospital in the country; that Cabe, the Prince's Foundation and NHS Estates will be given powers to review the design of every PFI bid before selection; and that all projects must provide evidence of the involvement of staff, patients and the public in their planning and design.
(Source: cnplus.co.uk, 27/11/01)
The Prince's appointment has been positively received by many
Edinburgh
launches first centre for small practices
by Zoë Blackler
A group of architects in Edinburgh has set up a pioneering resource centre
for small practices which could be replicated across the UK.
The Architects’
Resource Centre (ARC) will provide members with access to the sort of
resources and facilities typically found in a medium-sized architectural
practice. It will help small practices to raise their professional profile
and to compete more successfully.
(source: ajplus.co.uk, 27/11/01)
 (source: www.news.bbc.co.uk, 03/09/01) |
But Cabe commissioner Sunand Prasad gave a warm welcome to the new measures: "In this process, design is under threat every step of the way," he said. "To safeguard that we need to reinforce the design and we have to strengthen the client side." He warned that the emphasis on involving architects more fully "may be good news for a few big practices and that is the thing to watch now. We have to get some more talent in there." |
(source: Building Design, 23/11/01)
The first pictures from inside a "shabby, dusty" Millennium Dome since March were shown yesterday.
According to regional news programme BBC London, the pictures reveal at least one hole in the roof of the stripped-out Dome in Greenwich, south London. And shadow culture secretary Tim Yeo, who was allowed to tour the site by car on Monday of this week, said the building looked "like a demolition site".
The London
Tourist Board has launched its latest PR Push to woo visitors. The
campaign -London Love In- aims to attract as many visitors as possible
over the weekend of 30/11. It will focus on the attractions of Christmas
shopping and free entry to museums.
(Source: PRWeek, 23/11/01)
BBC London said one of its reporters, working undercover, went into the Dome and took pictures of the site which is closed to all visitors. The programme said it had learned that the two giant figures of the Body zone had been reduced to a pile of crushed rubble and used as an in-fill on the Dome site.
Yeo said: "It's a very sad place. There's a forlorn atmosphere. The whole sense of the place is extremely gloomy and it looked pretty shabby to me. The place is dirty and there's dust everywhere."
(source: www.news.bbc.co.uk, 23/11/01)
Levis
described this week's landmark ruling against 'grey imports' as a "strong
win for brand owners". Tesco vowed to fight on.
Levi's, and many other manufacturers, celebrated following the decision
by the European Court of Justice to support the company's right to control
distribution of imports of its products to the European Economic Area.
(Source: Marketing. 22/11/01)
He added,
"There doesn't seem to be a great sense that this is about to be
converted into some exciting new project. It's really like a demolition
site."
BBC London said keeping the Dome standing empty was costing taxpayers
£1.8 million a month. But Government regeneration agency English
Partnerships, which owns the Dome site, said the cost of maintenance and
management was £240,000 a month. A
spokeswoman for the agency added: "Maintenance is required from time
to time on the roof's flexible joints, but there are no holes in the roof.
Nobody wanted to buy the Body. I'm not sure what happened to the remains.''
English Partnerships
took responsibility for the Dome from the New Millennium Experience Company
on July 1 this year. The agency has had around 150 expressions of interest
from organisations wishing to take over the site. The spokeswoman added:
"The market testing process is still going on and we don't know how
long that will take. There's no date yet for the start of the bidding
process for the Dome."
Later,
the English Partnerships' spokeswoman added: "A small part of the
Body zone - the foundations and the first-floor deck - were used as in-fill.
The zone comprised steel and cladding. The steel was recycled and the
cladding went to a licensed tip." (source:
cnplus.co.uk, 27/11/01)
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