All articles by Marguerite Lazell – Page 7
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NewsDesign Museum targets Commonwealth Institute building for new home
The Design Museum’s epic search for a larger new home is finally set to end with a new base at Kensington’s former Commonwealth Institute building.
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Blears defies Islington council to approve Squires’ City Road Estate
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has overruled a planning inspector to grant permission for a 39-storey triangular residential tower, designed by Squire & Partners, at the junction of City Road and Old Street in London.
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Brent civic centre shortlist announced
Make, Sheppard Robson, EPR Architects, Hopkins Architects, John McAslan & Partners, BDP and TP Bennett have all been shortlisted for a landmark civic centre for Brent Council in north-west London, opposite Wembley Stadium.
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Welsh construction giant David McLean goes into administration
One of Wales’s biggest developers, David McLean Holdings, plus its subsidiaries, has gone into administration. Administrator Deloitte said that while the firm’s contracting division would close, its house-building division would be put up for sale.
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NewsMorrison anger over Waterloo towers call in
Allies & Morrison partner Graham Morrison has hit out at English Heritage after the government called-in the practice’s £1 billion Three Sisters project on London’s South Bank.
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NewsAllies & Morrison Lambeth scheme called in by Blears
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has called in Allies & Morrison’s Three Sisters project in Lambeth.
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NewsHotel tower rethink after Boris intervenes
A proposed 16-storey hotel scheme by Hamiltons on London’s South Bank is likely to be sent back to the drawing board after mayor Boris Johnson went against his own planning officers’ advice to criticise the project.
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Boris proposes three-year plan for affordable homes
Mayor Boris Johnson has opened negotiations with London boroughs to agree a programme to deliver 50,000 affordable homes over the next three years.
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Government raids Olympic contingency fund as Lend Lease and ODA struggle to agree contract
The government has raided the Olympic contingency fund to provide £95 million for the construction of the London 2012 village.
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Pressure on Arb mounts as Tories raise questions
The Conservative Party has stepped up the pressure on Arb by tabling a series of questions to the government about the organisation’s spending habits and running costs.
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NewsCabe design review slams Aukett Fitzroy Robinson’s £450m Birmingham Eastside Locks masterplan
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson’s £450 million masterplan for the Eastside Locks area of Birmingham has been slammed by Cabe, which says it has “fundamental” concerns about the proposal.
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NewsLords call for design to be at heart of planning bill
Design quality must be placed at the heart of the new planning bill, peers in the House of Lords demanded this week.
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Dyson ditches Wilkinson Eyre design school, blaming lack of support
James Dyson has scrapped plans for his controversial school of design innovation in Bath, designed by Wilkinson Eyre.
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Alvaro Siza wins RIBA Gold Medal
Portugal’s Alvaro Siza has been awarded the RIBA’s Royal Gold Medal for 2009.
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NewsFunding blow could cancel Castleford Forum plans
Niall McLaughlin Architects’ ambitious scheme for a new museum, library and community building in the West Yorkshire town of Castleford has been turned down for lottery funding for a second time.
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Faint praise damns Architecture Week
Future of Architecture Week is questioned again in light of review
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NewsGovernment fails on pledge for good design
BD and British Council survey reveals depth of architects’ despair over UK housing policy
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Government has ‘degraded’ eco-town idea, says Shapps
Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps has condemned the government’s handling of its eco-town plans, claiming it had “taken a reasonably good idea and completely screwed it up”.
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Four firms shortlisted for Elisabeth House project
Glenn Howells Architects, Flacq, Stanton Williams and Austin Smith Lord have been shortlisted in a competition to design a major new scheme which tasks them with developing the “best commercial building in Manchester”.
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NewsUrban Splash and Muse launch homes competition
Urban Splash today joins forces with Muse Developments to launch a competition.