All articles by Heidi Ancell

  • The area of the masterplan
    News

    Heneghan Peng shortlisted for Manchester masterplan

    2008-01-25T00:00:00Z

    Dublin-based practice Heneghan Peng is in the running against KPF, BDP and Arup Design to masterplan an 8ha site in central Manchester.

  • Network Rail says it is “comfortable” with the structural safety of Smithfield’s General Market
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    Network Rail supports Smithfield

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    The battle over London’s Smithfield Market took a new twist this week after Network Rail failed to back the City of London’s assertion that the General Market building needs to be demolished in order to replace unsafe railway tunnels below.

  • Where the new pavilion will be sited at Headingley.
    News

    Delays mean Alsop pavilion at Headingley misses Ashes

    2008-01-18T00:00:00Z

    A proposed £17 million cricket pavilion designed by Will Alsop for Headingley Carnegie cricket stadium in Leeds will not be ready for next year’s Ashes series following a series of delays and design changes.

  • Aaron Betsky
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    Aaron Betsky to curate Venice Biennale

    2008-01-17T14:43:00Z

    Aaron Betsky has been appointed director of the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. Betsky, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum in the United States and former director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute of Rotterdam, will curate the festival on the theme “Architecture Beyond Building”. The eleventh international architecture exhibition will include ...

  • News

    Ferguson blasts KPF's "gargantuan" Smithfield plans

    2008-01-11T17:40:00Z

    Former RIBA president George Ferguson has thrown his weight behind English Heritage’s objections to the redevelopment of Smithfield Market.Giving evidence on Wednesday at the public inquiry into KPF's controversial scheme, Ferguson blasted proposals to demolish the General Market building and replace it with a structure he described as “gargantuan” in ...

  • The original (left) and the amended design, which spins the tower by 25 degrees.
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    Foster’s fails to win round Ealing tower opponents

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has failed to convince English Heritage and local residents to back plans for a controversial suburban skyscraper after altering its designs.

  • MJP's BBC Broadcasting House
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    MacCormac Jamieson Prichard reveals loss

    2008-01-09T12:12:00Z

    MacCormac Jamieson Prichard operated at a loss last year following its sacking from the flagship BBC Broadcasting House project.Accounts posted with Companies House reveal the practice made a loss of £329,699 in the year to March 2007 — a drop of 130% from the previous year when it made a ...

  • Foster's amended version of its proposed tower for Ealing.
    News

    Foster changes to proposed Ealing skyscraper fail to win over critics

    2008-01-07T11:52:00Z

    Foster & Partners has failed to convince English Heritage and local residents to back plans for a controversial suburban skyscraper, despite altering its designs.It emerged this week that the practice had amended its plans for the 40-storey “penny whistle” tower in Ealing following strong criticism by the heritage body.But despite ...

  • KPF's office development proposed at the site of Smithfield's General Market building
    News

    English Heritage accuses Smithfield opponent of "character assassination"

    2007-12-21T15:39:00Z

    Quango's London director criticises questioning of public inquiry witness Eric Reynolds

  • Architecture minister Margaret Hodge
    News

    Architecture minister defends dropping of Stonehenge visitor centre

    2007-12-19T12:00:00Z

    Denton Corker Marshall's £65 million proposal was "unviable" Margaret Hodge tells MPs

  • McAslan’s doomed design
    News

    Florida school board rejects McAslan’s ‘illegal’ design

    2007-12-14T00:00:00Z

    RMJM usurps winning entry for Rudolph’s Riverview High School

  • News

    Tate extension nets 50m

    2007-12-06T11:26:00Z

    The government has announced a £50 million contribution to Herzog & de Meuron’s extension at Tate Modern, which it claimed will boost Britain’s cultural offering in the run-up to the Olympics. Speaking at Tate Modern on Wednesday morning, culture secretary James Purnell said the capital funds — part of the ...

  • News

    O'Donnell & Tuomey's Photographers Gallery wins planning - images

    2007-12-04T15:03:00Z

    Celebrated Dublin architect O’Donnell & Tuomey has received planning permission for its new £16 million building for the Photographers Gallery in London.The six storey building, to be located in the heart of Soho off Oxford Street, will provide exhibition space, an online resource centre, education areas, a bookshop and a ...

  • Farrell’s “national park” of wetlands and green spaces stretches along the Thames into Kent and Essex interspersed by high-density live/work and transport areas represented here by the yellow and red dots, respectively.
    News

    Farrell to be Gateway design champion

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    £35 million scheme to improve area’s natural and urban environment

  • News

    RIBA blasts Arb appeal process as ‘inadequate’

    2007-11-30T00:00:00Z

    The RIBA has dismissed Arb’s proposals to let architects challenge its decisions, calling them “woefully inadequate”

  • Alison Carr
    News

    RIBA blasts Arb review panel plans

    2007-11-26T16:38:00Z

    Proposals by Arb to allow architects to challenge its decisions have been dismissed as “woefully inadequate” by the RIBA.Arb chief executive Alison Carr had claimed that the third party review panel would provide a check on the regulator and was evidence of Arb’s “open and transparent” approach (News 31 August).But ...

  • News

    Practices sponsor Cambridge

    2007-11-23T00:00:00Z

    ORMS and Allies & Morrison to pay salaries of four design fellows

  • The Smithfield General Market building was designed by Horace Jones in 1883.
    Analysis

    Has English Heritage lost its way?

    2007-11-15T00:00:00Z

    As the public inquiry into the redevelopment of Smithfield market kicks off, is it time to review the adviser’s role, asks Heidi Ancell

  • Arsenal's Emirates stadium by HOK Sport
    News

    Government calls for anti-terror design

    2007-11-14T18:01:00Z

    The government has called on architects to help “design out” the terrorist threat to crowded places such as shopping halls and sports stadiums.A report published by security minister Admiral Lord West today identified stations, nightclubs and theatres as the building types that will need to be designed with anti-terror measures ...

  • News

    Adjaye among seven shortlisted for Olympic Park’s Eton Manor site

    2007-11-13T15:35:00Z

    Adjaye Associates and Stanton Williams are among seven practices shortlisted by the Olympic Development Authority for a cluster of venues in the north of the Olympic Park.Firms on the shortlist, which also includes Bennetts Associates, David Morley Architects, Opus International Consultants, S&P with Nord, and Sports Concepts, will compete to ...