Elizabeth Hopkirk
Elizabeth Hopkirk is assistant editor of BD, responsible for news and commissioning comment. You can email her on elizabeth.hopkirk@bdonline.co.uk or call her on 020 3011 3135
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NewsHaworth Tompkins appointed to design first major London theatre for 45 years
Project part of £1.3bn Olympia redevelopment by Heatherwick and Spparc
- News
Qualifications bill could repair some of Brexit damage, says RSHP partner as staff shortages loom
Architecture becoming job-seeker’s market, warn specialists as government outlines new plans for mutual recognition
- News
5th Studio wins Stratford urban design framework
Brief comparable in scale to recent projects at Kings Cross and London Bridge stations
- News
Edinburgh’s 7N beats transport giants to shape Britain’s future railways
Atkins and Pascall & Watson among finalists in station design ideas contest
- News
Counterspace’s Serpentine Pavilion takes shape – a year late
Gallery confirms no glitzy parties to celebrate 20th annual architecture commission
- News
City talks itself up with future skyline images
Corporation claims projections demonstrate post-pandemic confidence
- Opinion
We need to talk about the future of the profession
Climate crisis, the Grenfell tragedy and the biggest professional shake-up for 60 years, not to mention a global pandemic and Brexit. Never has it been more critical to shape the way forward. Building Design invites you to join an urgent conversation
- Technical
Technical: Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, restored by David Chipperfield Architects
‘Surgical’ €100m, decade-long project had to tackle flaws in Mies’ original design
- News
Prior & Partners team wins £8bn Thamesmead masterplanning competition
Successful line-up includes microbusinesses as well as Arup, Alison Brooks and Turner Works
- News
Next phase of HS2 will create ‘considerable opportunities’ for small practices, says design director
Some of early phase 1 designs ‘could have been better’
- Features
Interview: Designing Britain’s biggest infrastructure project
By any standards and on any scale, it’s a huge job – and one with plenty of critics. HS2’s design director Kay Hughes tells Elizabeth Hopkirk she is relishing the unprecedented challenge
- News
Adjaye Associates completes Brixton memorial
Cherry Groce Memorial Pavilion honours mother whose shooting by police sparked Brixton riots
- News
RSHP wins Chinese airport terminal job
Practice is a founding signatory of environmental movement Architects Declare
- News
Women architects hit hardest by pandemic, research finds
Females more likely to be furloughed and made redundant, as well as carrying disproportionate domestic burden
- News
Dixon Jones founders pay £98,000 redundancy bill from own pockets
Pair took out loan when practice folded to ensure staff were not left in lurch
- News
Sanaa unveils major expansion for Sydney art museum
Architect promises ‘very exciting museum’ overloooking harbour
- News
Eric Parry’s £170m Fleet Street ‘justice quarter’ approved
Scheme sparked uproar for its proposed demolition of historic buildings
- News
Tamsie Thomson to take the reins at RIAS
Former London Festival of Architecture director appointed chief executive
- News
Office S&M wins planning for aluminium weatherboard homes
Infill terrace will overlook Thames in Dickens village
- News
PLP mulls South East Asian office as it lands Singapore resi tower
Meanwhile 10 Design poaches two Aedas principals as it opens studio in the city state
