More News – Page 1214

  • News

    Architect shrugs off ‘silly stories’

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Landscape architect Gustafson Porter has dismissed allegations that its Diana Memorial Fountain will have to be ripped out as “silly stories”.

  • News

    Crystal Island clears planning

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Foster & Partners has won preliminary planning permission for the largest single building in the world.

  • News

    Neil Baxter is new RIAS secretary

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has appointed Neil Baxter (pictured) as its secretary.

  • The long and flexible views both within the house and out across the garden are a central feature of the design
    News

    Contemporary style wins out with flexible room for a view

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Architects in Residence has won a planning appeal for this £600,000 family house in the London borough of Bromley.

  • Design for Northfleet School for Girls by Hazle McCormack Young
    News

    FCBS/Ryder group scoops Kent schools

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    A consortium including Feilden Clegg Bradley and Ryder has won a £600 million Building Schools for the Future deal after beating the much touted Skanska consortium, which included Make, DRMM, Flacq and DSDHA.

  • News

    Design goes to the Dogs

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Hamiltons Architects has submitted its design for the £140 million Indescon Court scheme in east London’s Isle of Dogs for planning.

  • MJP's BBC Broadcasting House
    News

    MJP makes loss following Broadcasting House sack

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    MacCormac Jamieson Prichard operated at a loss last year following its sacking from the BBC Broadcasting House project.

  • News

    Crystal clear vision

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    This mixed-use scheme in the City of London by Foreign Office Architects, for developer Beetham, has won planning permission.

  • News

    Planners stake competition claim

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    The government’s eco-town design competition must not be used to replace masterplanners already in line for sites, Town & Country Planning Association chairman David Lock has warned.

  • News

    Cooper lost her nerve, say MPs

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    MPs have accused housing minister Yvette Cooper of “poor preparation” and losing her nerve over home information packs.

  • News

    Sorrell knighted in honours list

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    Cabe chairman John Sorrell has been knighted in the New Year honours.

  • How St Nicholas Cole Abbey will look after renovation
    News

    Wren conversion gets go-ahead

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    The Hutchinson Studio has won planning permission to renovate and convert the grade I listed St Nicholas Cole Abbey in central London, designed by Sir Christopher Wren.

  • News

    This week

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    This week’s ups and downs

  • News

    Cabe cuts funding to architecture centres

    2008-01-11T00:00:00Z

    NEWS: Cabe's architecture centre funding "penalises success" OPINION: Does anyone know what architecture centres are for? asks Amanda Baillieu

  • News

    £18.5 million Leicester Square transformation revealed

    2008-01-10T12:05:00Z

    Landscape architects Burns & Nice picked to redesign anti-social behaviour hotspot

  • News

    Goldschmied wins battle for Rogers HQ

    2008-01-10T00:00:00Z

    Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners could be forced out of its riverside headquarters after the Thames Wharf site was bought by Richard Rogers’ former colleague Marco Goldschmied, who has pledged to turn it into a zero-carbon development.

  • Rem Koolhaas
    News

    Koolhaas to design Maggies Centre in Glasgow

    2008-01-09T11:26:00Z

    Rem Koolhaas is to design Scotland’s next Maggie’s Centre in Glasgow. The Dutch architect joins a list of world-famous names who have designed hospices for the cancer charity, including Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid, and Scottish designers Richard Murphy and Page and Park.The £2.1million building will be built close to ...

  • MJP's BBC Broadcasting House
    News

    MacCormac Jamieson Prichard reveals loss

    2008-01-09T12:12:00Z

    MacCormac Jamieson Prichard operated at a loss last year following its sacking from the flagship BBC Broadcasting House project.Accounts posted with Companies House reveal the practice made a loss of £329,699 in the year to March 2007 — a drop of 130% from the previous year when it made a ...

  • Phos Architects
    News

    Shortlist for Mersey Observatory competition revealed - images

    2008-01-08T17:58:00Z

    CJ Lim’s Studio 8 and Ellis William Architects are two of five practices shortlisted in the RIBA competition to design a new Mersey Observatory in Crosby, just north of Liverpool.Duggan Morris Architects, Phos Architects and Farrell and Clark are also on the shortlist, beating almost a hundred other entries.The winning ...

  • News

    Hamiltons seeks planning for Tower Hamlets tower

    2008-01-08T16:32:00Z

    Hamiltons Architects has submitted this design for the £140 million Indescon Court in the Isle of Dogs, London for planning.The 30-storey mixed-use building, which includes 600 apartments, a 108-room four star hotel and 9,000 sq m of retail space has been inspired by the self-contained nature of London’s Barbican centre. ...