More News – Page 1369
-
News
Nightingale bags academy honour
The UK’s first national skills academy will be designed by Nightingale Associates after it was chosen by the owner of BHS, retail mogul Philip Green.
-
News
America looks to UK style
Will Alsop has won a £134 million project in Canada as evidence mounts that North American clients prefer British and European practices for “plum commissions”.
-
News
Housing awards offer ‘seed of hope’
Volume housebuilders have won rare praise from Cabe following the announcement of this year’s Building for Life Awards.
-
News
ODPM takes flak on sustainability
The government is under fire from its own expert advisers over the way it is handling new sustainable building laws.
-
News
Battersea’s chimneys ready to fall
The controversial bid to demolish and rebuild Battersea Power Station’s iconic chimneys looked set to win planning permission this week, despite a row over whether they need to come down.
-
News
Rogers’ city library plan resurrected
Scrapped plans for a state-of-the-art library in Birmingham by the Richard Rogers Partnership could be resurrected when the council’s scrutiny committee calls for a rethink.
-
NewsCity on the march
Fosters’ new office complex in Spitalfields is just one of the City schemes charging eastward. Is expansion unstoppable?
-
News
Revealed: the Stirling judge that blocked modern design
Stirling Prize judge and broadcaster Joan Bakewell opposed a modern scheme near her home in London’s Primrose Hill.
-
News
Gummer assault on Arb policing powers
The Architects Registration Board’s fundamental right to police RIBA members was questioned in Parliament this week by the former minister who created it.
-
News
Hit and miss
Work has started on Wilkinson Eyre’s £146 million Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre at Kings Waterfront. The 9,500 capacity arena and 1,350 capacity conference centre will take two years to construct. The practice unveiled new images of the interior of the centre this week.
-
News
Power play
Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has announced more than a billion pounds in new funding to improve and build schools across the country. The initiative includes funding for 10 more Classroom of the Future design projects and 12 new schools in later stages of the Building Schools for the Future programme.
-
News
Tate designer sees red over extension
The original architect of the Tate St Ives gallery is protesting about extension plans for the building after missing out on the project to young architect Jamie Fobert.
-
News
Capita banking error amuses Scottish firm
Capita Percy Thomas has issued a writ against its former Scottish offices to claim back nearly £10,000 which was accidentally paid into their accounts.
-
News
Into the woods
James Gorst Architects has entered a country house in the New Forest for planning permission.
-
News
Trial over architect’s murder
A man accused of the murder of architect Bernard Hegarty went on trial last week at the Old Bailey.
-
News
Pakistan alert came too late
Saturday’s earthquake struck before Pakistani authorities had a chance to reinforce key public buildings following a warning that the area was at greater risk.
-
NewsTime to splash out
Andrew Wright Associates has designed this windswept home and pavilion inspired by the sea and located on a remote island off the Irish mainland.