All Behind the story articles
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TechnicalHawkins Brown on the Parliament Square debacle
Hawkins Brown director Roger Hawkins spent two years leading an £18 million project to pedestrianise London’s Parliament Square, only to see the scheme axed by mayor Boris Johnson
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TechnicalUrban Initiatives remodels south London’s Aylesbury Estate
Urban Initiatives’ Kelvin Campbell has spent nearly two years masterplanning the £2.4 billion Aylesbury redevelopment. It’s the sixth such plan in ten years, so why is he confident it will succeed?
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TechnicalReach for the sky
Richard Murphy Architects is masterplanning Edinburgh’s Haymarket and has designed a 17-storey hotel on the site which last week provoked Unesco to call for a halt to construction. Here director Richard Murphy defends the project
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TechnicalRMJM’s Russian odyssey
Roger Whiteman, principal of RMJM and director of its London office, talks to Amanda Birch about the trials of the practice’s Gazprom HQ scheme, recently renamed the Okhta Centre, in St Petersburg
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Technical'Working with Stonehenge is like rolling a rock uphill'
As English Heritage announces new plans to appoint an architect for a temporary visitor centre at Stonehenge, Denton Corker Marshall director Stephen Quinlan recalls his firm’s part in the long-running saga
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TechnicalBath’s Holburne Museum extension, seven years on
Eric Parry describes the seven-year struggle to see his extension to Bath’s Holburne Museum finally achieve planning permission
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TechnicalMargate’s Turner Contemporary undergoes a sea change
Turner Contemporary director Victoria Pomery relives the axing of Snøhetta and Spence’s Margate gallery, and explains the challenges of implementing Chipperfield’s replacement
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TechnicalTroubleshooting at the Museum of Liverpool with AEW
How AEW ran with the £68 million project initiated by Danish practice 3XN
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TechnicalHow the Cutty Sark rose from the ashes
When Simon Beames, project architect for Grimshaw’s Cutty Sark renovation, left the firm to start Youmeheshe, his fledgling practice received a boost by keeping the project. But, as he tells Amanda Birch, this became a major headache last May after a fire caused serious damage to the ship
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TechnicalThe challenges of taking over Alsop’s The Public
Flannery & de la Pole took over Will Alsop’s troubled project for a community arts venue in West Bromwich. In the first in a new series on troubleshooters, practice director Julian Flannery talks about the challenges of completing the building on a greatly reduced budget