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Go-ahead on Gustafson Porter designed Woolwich Squares

Builder & Engineer reports
A £6.6m project to revamp the two squares at the heart of Woolwich town centre will go ahead in the New Year after Greenwich councillors gave the scheme the green light yesterday….
The scheme has been designed by landscape architects Gustafson Porter, and follows detailed consultation with local residents and businesses, as [...]

Ecological Agriculture: can it feed the world?

The latest edition of the Monthly Review (November 2009, Volume 61, Number 6) includes a paper from Jules Pretty is professor of environment and society at the University of Essex, UK. titled Can Ecological Agriculture Feed Nine Billion People?
Below is an extract from the paper
Something is wrong with our agricultural and food systems.Despite great progress [...]

UNStudio win Beijing Creative Zone competition

UNStudio has been awarded 1st prize in the recent competition for the masterplan of the Beijing River Creative Zone, located in Yanqing, 200km from Beijing. From the nine projects presented (Foster+Partners (UK), Zaha Hadid (UK), Atelier d’Architecture Christian de Portzamparc (FR), AS. Architecture-Studio (FR), Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning &Design Institute (CN), Beijing Institute of Architectural [...]

SKM to acquire Enviros

Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM) has posted their intent to acquire Enviros, a multi-disciplinary sustainability, environmental and health and safety consultancy in the UK. The deal is expected to complete within the coming weeks.
Enviros has leading capabilities in climate change and renewables, compliance management, health and safety, sustainable development, and waste and resource management. The firm [...]

High Speed Rail gathering speed

News in the USA and UK over the last few days has been humming about High Speed Rail initiatives in both countries.
In the USA news is reaching fever pitch over High Speed Rail as the details of submissions for the US Government’s $8 billion high speed rail initiative start to appear.
Routes currently being reported are [...]

Mott MacDonald win contract to develop Crossrail

Mott MacDonald, the global management, engineering and development consultancy has recently been awarded several new design contracts worth a total of around £10 million to help develop Crossrail, one of the biggest and most complex rail projects in the world.
David Gutteridge, Mott MacDonald’s director for Crossrail commented: “We’re delighted to continue our long relationship with [...]

New Chair of CABE appointed

Paul Finch has been appointed as the new chair of CABE and will take over from Sir John Sorrell this December.
Paul is Programme director of the World Architecture Festival, and editor emeritus of Architectural Review and Architects’ Journal.
He has chaired CABE’s London 2012 design review panel since 2006. A former commissioner and deputy chair of [...]

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