More News – Page 1411
-
NewsThe Zaha way
Women must stop hiding, take charge and demand more, says Zaha Hadid. Zoë Blackler interviews architecture’s leading lady.
-
-
NewsJencks on Johnson
Remembering one of the 20th century’s most provocative architects. Robert Booth speaks to Charles Jencks after the death of Philip Johnson
-
News
RIBA claims victory over planning policy
Government capitulates as good design is enshrined in new ODPM guidance
-
News
Green light for second Poundbury
Prince Charles-backed village scheme in Bradford gets go-ahead
-
News
Planning crisis in N Ireland
Northern Ireland’s planning system is in the grip of a severe and worsening crisis largely of its own making, prominent architects claimed this week.
-
News
Olympic bid lifts public-space hopes
The RIBA and English Heritage are using a presentation to the International Olympic Committee to try to kick-start the long-delayed regeneration of London’s public spaces.
-
NewsHadid talks tough
Britain’s leading female architect, Zaha Hadid, has added her voice to the clamour of support for the 50/50 Campaign.
-
NewsZahas competition wins keep on flowing
Zaha Hadid has continued her spectacular series of competition wins by clinching the commission for the Aquatics Centre for London’s 2012 Olympics bid. Hadid, who won the competition for the Architecture Foundation’s new headquarters last month, has come up with a sinuous S-shaped roof inspired by the flow of water.The ...
-
News
Extreme sports touted for Skelmersdale
A forgotten new town stuck between Liverpool and Manchester will finally find its place on the map as the British home of extreme sports, according to architect Broadway Malyan.
-
NewsHit and miss
Benson & Forsyth has beaten HBMA, Rick Mather and Stanton Williams to design a £25 million retail and leisure development in Nottingham city centre. A planning application will be made in March, with completion anticipated by the end of 2006.The £30 million transformation of Liverpool’s central library was thrown into ...
-
NewsPeople
Norman Foster (above) has been awarded the inaugural Great Briton award for outstanding achievement in the creative industries. The awards celebrate the international success of British individuals and were established by banking group Morgan Stanley in partnership with the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, and ...
-
News
Power play
John Prescott has hit back at the environmental audit committee, which claimed this week that his plans for housing growth did not take into account environmental costs. Speaking at the Sustainable Communities Summit in Manchester, he said: “That is the kind of nonsense you get from the chair of the ...
-
News
Brown backs Prescott plans
Chancellor Gordon Brown this week moved to allay fears that government housing plans would not win sufficient Treasury funding by backing deputy prime minster John Prescott’s ambitious development strategy.
-
News
Housing Corporation to value d
The government’s funding body for housing is to rate design quality above ease of delivery when handing out grants.
-
News
English Partnerships secures team for 15,000 London homes
The national regeneration agency, English Partnerships, has selected three consortia including nine architects to design up to 15,000 new homes across London.
-
News
Leisure goldmine
CZWG and Holder Mathias’s £300 million entertainment resort, promising more than 92,900sq m of entertainment facilities and the UK’s largest theatre outside London’s West End, has been submitted for outline planning permission. The YES! project, a 130ha resort near the Rother Valley Country Park in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is on ...
-
News
Architects fees are set to soar by 40%
Architects’ fees will rise by more than 40% in the next four years, according to market researchers.
-
News
Hepworth plan still on despite grant loss
David Chipperfield Architects is confident its £23 million Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield will go ahead despite being turned down for a £7 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant last week.