All articles by Anna Winston – Page 22
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NewsHeatherwick's pavilion scoops the Lubetkin
The RIBA has named Heatherwick Studios’ UK pavilion at the Shanghai Expo as the winner of this year’s Lubetkin prize.
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NewsArchitect designs set for opera in former gulag
UK-based architect Charlotte Skene Catling has collaborated with director Michael Hunt to design the set for the staging of Beethoven’s opera, Fidelio, in the remains of the last functioning Gulag in Russia.
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NewsTemporary bookshop is open and shut case
Created by design studio Campaign, RIBA Bookshops and Claire Curtice Publicists, the Foldaway Bookshop is a specialist architecture bookshop open for the London Festival of Architecture.
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NewsMetropolitan Journeys
The Redundant Architects Recreation Association played host to the latest screening of Dicussions on Film as part of the London Festival of Architecture.
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NewsUS architectural billings index takes a dive
Fears of a double-dip recession have been fuelled by the latest results from the American Institute of Architects Billings Index, showing a dramatic dive.
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NewsRIBA acts over low-paying practices
RIBA president Ruth Reed has announced a series of proposals to protect young architects, including new “rigorous” minimum pay requirements for all chartered practices.
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Blogs
El Segundo loses Frank Gehry
Gehry has cancelled plans to move his office from Los Angeles to El Segundo
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NewsRIBA takes the Stirling Prize to the BBC
The RIBA has announced that this year’s Stirling Prize will be shown on BBC Two’s The Culture Show, after viewing figures dipped to an all time low on Channel 4 last year.
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NewsFeilden Clegg Bradley's structural spaghetti
Feilden Clegg Bradely challenged eight other practices in London’s Fitzrovia and members of the public to build a structure using spaghetti as part of the London Festival of Architecture last weekend.
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NewsCarmody Groarke builds east temporary restaurant on east London building site
Carmody Groarke has completed work on a temporary restaurant structure, 35m above ground level on top of the still-under-construction Westfield Stratford City in east London.
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FeaturesThe Architects and Developers Bike Race
50 architects and developers took to the streets of Smithfield in London to compete against each other in the London Festival of Architecture Smithfield Nocturne bike race.
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Blogs
Will Alsop as John Nash - video
Will Alsop dons the garb of John Nash to launch the London Festival of Architecture.
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News3XN's new landmark building at the Vällingby Parkstad
Danish practice 3XN has won a competition to create a new landmark building at the entrance to the Vällingby Parkstad in Stockholm in Sweden.
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NewsMinister gives Brent Cross scheme green light
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has said he will not call in the controversial Brent Cross Cricklewood scheme, a £4.5 billion development masterplanned by Allies & Morrison.
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NewsAD's celebration speakers announced
Celebrated names from the last five decades of architecture will top the bill at the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of Architectural Design.
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NewsGovernment announces bonfire of cultural projects
The government has pulled the plug on Denton Corker Marshall’s £27.5 million Stonehenge Visitor’s Centre and a £45 million grant for the BFI Film Center.
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NewsHaworth Tompkins' National Theatre revamp in for planning
Haworth Tompkins’ plans for the £70 million revamp of London’s National Theatre have been submitted for planning to Lambeth Council.
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NewsRIBA launches competition to create watery gem
The RIBA has announced the launch of an international competition to design a new drinking fountain which will be installed throughout London’s eight Royal Parks.
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NewsPrime Minister’s better public building award shortlist unveiled
Rick Mather’s Ashmolean Museum, Reiach & Hall’s New Stobhill Hospital and AHMM’s Kentish Town Health Centre are among the 22 projects shortlisted for this year’s Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award.
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NewsHats off to the architect
A pop-up exhibition of hats created by architects, artists and designers as part of the London Festival of Architecture is set to open tomorrow.