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Exhibition Road accident shows it’s “time to review shared space”, says Labour MP Emma Dent Coad

October 9, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

“Shared space” streets have been called into question after a taxi ploughed into museum-goers on Exhibition Road, a broad boulevard shared by pedestrians and vehicles in London’s South Kensington. The driver of a Toyota Prius veered into a crowd of visitors in South Kensington’s semi-pedestrianised road on Saturday 7 October, injuring 11 people. Nine of the

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UK government’s £2 billion housing pledge is not high enough, says RIBA president Ben Derbyshire

October 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

UK prime minister Theresa May has committed an extra £2 billion to building new affordable housing – but the figure is nowhere near high enough to solve the housing crisis, according to Royal British Institute of Architects president Ben Derbyshire. Derbyshire, who took on the role of RIBA president last month, said that much more funding is necessary

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UK government’s £2 billion housing pledge is not high enough, says RIBA president Ben Derbyshire

October 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

UK prime minister Theresa May has committed an extra £2 billion to building new affordable housing – but the figure is nowhere near high enough to solve the housing crisis, according to Royal British Institute of Architects president Ben Derbyshire. Derbyshire, who took on the role of RIBA president last month, said that much more funding is necessary

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UK government’s £2 billion housing pledge is not high enough, says RIBA president Ben Derbyshire

October 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

UK prime minister Theresa May has committed an extra £2 billion to building new affordable housing – but the figure is nowhere near high enough to solve the housing crisis, according to Royal British Institute of Architects president Ben Derbyshire. Derbyshire, who took on the role of RIBA president last month, said that much more funding is necessary

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UK government’s £2 billion housing pledge is not high enough, says RIBA president Ben Derbyshire

October 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

UK prime minister Theresa May has committed an extra £2 billion to building new affordable housing – but the figure is nowhere near high enough to solve the housing crisis, according to Royal British Institute of Architects president Ben Derbyshire. Derbyshire, who took on the role of RIBA president last month, said that much more funding is necessary

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High-rise buildings should only be used to house the very rich, says Neave Brown

October 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Tower blocks like Grenfell should never have been built, according to 2018 Royal Gold Medallist Neave Brown, who believes high-rise housing ostracises council tenants and should instead be reserved for the most wealthy in society. “Almost all those point blocks and slab blocks should never have been built because they ostracise the underprivileged into special

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High-rise buildings should only be used to house the very rich, says Neave Brown

October 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Tower blocks like Grenfell should never have been built, according to 2018 Royal Gold Medallist Neave Brown, who believes high-rise housing ostracises council tenants and should instead be reserved for the most wealthy in society. “Almost all those point blocks and slab blocks should never have been built because they ostracise the underprivileged into special

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High-rise buildings should only be used to house the very rich, says Neave Brown

October 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Tower blocks like Grenfell should never have been built, according to 2018 Royal Gold Medallist Neave Brown, who believes high-rise housing ostracises council tenants and should instead be reserved for the most wealthy in society. “Almost all those point blocks and slab blocks should never have been built because they ostracise the underprivileged into special

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High-rise buildings should only be used to house the very rich, says Neave Brown

October 5, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Tower blocks like Grenfell should never have been built, according to 2018 Royal Gold Medallist Neave Brown, who believes high-rise housing ostracises council tenants and should instead be reserved for the most wealthy in society. “Almost all those point blocks and slab blocks should never have been built because they ostracise the underprivileged into special

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BIG completes Lego visitor centre shaped like a stack of building blocks

October 3, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Bjarke Ingels’ firm BIG has unveiled its new visitor centre for toy company Lego – a stack of huge building blocks, featuring brightly coloured patios that are home to a submarine, a shark and a camel. A pair of “pixelated” staircases allow visitors to scale the exterior of the Lego House to reach the patios, which are

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