'Champion of architecture' sought as RFAC goes

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The UK government has announced plans for the creation of a new national group to promote architecture. This group will take over the design-review role of the Royal Fine Art Commission, which will be disbanded. It will receive funding of 1.53 million pounds sterling in 1999. Its other responsibilities will include the grants programme for architecture currently operated by the Arts Council. This development is widely regarded as the most significant that has taken place in architecture in the UK for several decades.

United Kingdom, Architecture

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Claws are out for catwalk kings over housing design

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John Rocha, the biggest fashion designer in Hong-Kong has switched from catwalk creations to housing design, and has collaborated on a 40 million pounds sterling scheme for 317 flats in Birmingham for Crosby Homes. His ideas included the use of alternative interior materials, color sampling and water walls in the E-shaped building with a 26-storey tower and 1,300m sq. of shops and offices.

United States, Management dynamics, Practice, Interior design, Fashion designers, Rocha, John

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Signs of the times

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Graphic designers at Cartlidge Levene worked with architects from the earliest stages of the modernization of Lord's cricket ground in London, England. This ensured that signage was an integral element of the project. Emphasis was placed on making signs clear and simple.

Design and construction, Buildings and facilities, Signage, Cricket clubs

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