All articles by Elizabeth Hopkirk – Page 237
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NewsParry’s Park Lane spa inspired by India and Japan
Eric Parry’s rooftop spa at the Four Seasons Hotel on central London’s Park Lane has opened.
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Mecanoo’s library is disgraceful, says Madin
The architect behind the doomed 1970s Birmingham library has attacked Mecanoo’s replacement scheme which has condemned it to the wrecking ball.
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NewsFosters completes first projects in Africa
Third building in Morocco will be completed later this year
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NewsBIG wins motorway junction competition with floating sphere design
BIG has won the Stockholmsporten masterplan competition to design an attractive new entrance to Stockholm at the intersection of a massive new motorway junction.
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NewsPublic consulted again on Walthamstow plans
A public consultation on plans to redevelop Walthamstow Stadium that was abandoned amid allegations of intimidation is back on.
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NewsArchitects divided over what Budget 2011 means for built environment
Charles Holland of Fat brands Budget “pretty disastrous”.
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NewsUS practice Inaba wins Norwegian art commission
Inaba, the Californian architecture and urbanism firm founded by Jeffrey Inaba, has been selected to design a permanent artwork for a new concert hall being built in Stavanger, Norway.The LA-based practice was chosen from a field of six invited international teams by Koro Public Art Norway.Its 8m x 13m cylindrical ...
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NewsHOK restores Kama Sutra translator's mausoleum
HOK has completed the restoration of the grade II* listed mausoleum of Richard Burton, the Victorian explorer and adventurer who translated the Kama Sutra.The mausoleum, which is in graveyard in Mortlake, south-west London, resembles the tent he used while travelling in the Middle East. It was built in 1891 and ...
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Cheltenham Art Gallery extension to start on site after lottery grant
Berman Guedes Stretton has been given the green light for its £6.3 million extension to Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum after the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded the project crucial funds.Work is now due to start on site this summer and could be completed by the end of next year.The Oxford ...
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NewsMorrison parachutes in new bosses to run RMJM's Hong Kong office
RMJM has dispatched two senior architects to run its Hong Kong office after it was hit by a series of defections and a blast by a managing principal, angry that staff wages were not being paid on time.Gordon Hood, currently managing principal of the global education studio at Princeton, New ...
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NewsRussian cathedral plan for Paris site sparks spy fears
Franco-Russian practice Sade-Arch has sparked fears of cold war-style espionage in the heart of Paris with its plans for a £30 million Russian Orthodox cathedral beside the Eiffel Tower.
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NewsLondon practice Mossessian wins Moroccan competition
Architect beats hundreds to work on World Heritage Site
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NewsAdam wins planning for Hampshire community
Robert Adam’s practice Adam Architecture has won planning for a 211ha mixed-use development at Waterlooville in Hampshire.The development, Newlands, will contain 2,550 family homes as well as supporting social infrastructure including a community centre, land designated for healthcare and elderly care facilities, two primary schools and a nursery. As well ...
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NewsColumbia University opens architecture outpost in Rio
New York architecture school expands global research project
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NewsHadid, Chipperfield and Nouvel shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe Award
Buildings by David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid and Jean Nouvel have all been shortlisted for the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - the Mies van der Rohe Award.The shortlist of six also features Belgian practice MDMA, Paris-based Bernard Tschumi and Dutch company Koen van Velsen.They were shortlisted from 343 ...
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NewsArchitects more optimistic about workloads, says RIBA survey
But concerns raised over fall in foreign projects
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NewsTurn redundant high streets into housing, says think tank
Policy Exchange calls for planning reform
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NewsWorking abroad: Brisac Gonzalez
Enthusiasm is the hallmark of this firm’s extensive overseas portfolio
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NewsFirms axed as Leeds plans shrink
Farrells, McAslan and Heatherwick all victims as scheme scaled back
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NewsApollo Architects' Sendai houses survive Japan earthquake
Satoshi Kurosaki of Tokyo-based Apollo Architects has confirmed the two family houses he completed recently in Sendai have survived the earthquake.Lift, finished in the last few weeks, is in a residential district of central Sendai. It is a wooden house on a tight plot, which veers up at the front ...