All News articles – Page 1154
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NewsLuxury homes go underground
Thomas de Cruz Architects has won planning permission for two 500sq m houses in west London.
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Move to get rid of student ghettos
The government has called for new planning mechanisms to tackle the overconcentration of student housing in neighbourhoods.
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Land extension shortlist revealed
Norman Foster and Daniel Libeskind are in the lead to win an £8 billion project to extend Monaco out to sea.
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NewsFindlay returns with eco-houses scheme
Kathryn Findlay has returned to practice after three years’ sabbatical, with this residential project in Preston, Lancashire.
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NewsThree on Ebbsfleet Landmark list
Three artists — Daniel Buren, Richard Deacon and Mark Wallinger — have been shortlisted to create the £2 million Ebbsfleet Landmark, the largest public art commission since Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North.
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NewsTop names rally to save Seaton Delaval
A roll call of some of Britain’s leading modern architects — from Terry Farrell and Peter Cook to Will Alsop — have backed a National Trust campaign to buy one of John Vanbrugh’s most renowned buildings for public use.
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NewsCorb season takes off in Liverpool
The RIBA’s Le Corbusier season kicked off this week with the opening in Liverpool of Le Corbusier: the Art of Architecture exhibition in Edwin Lutyens’ crypt at the city’s Metropolitan Cathedral.
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M&S wins highest Breeam rating
3D Reid’s design for a Glasgow branch of Marks & Spencer has achieved the highest-ever Breeam retail fit-out rating.
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Parliament Square paving bugged Boris
Plans to pedestrianise Parliament Square had already cost £2 million when London mayor Boris Johnson scrapped the scheme.
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Board restructuring defended
Arb chairman Mike Starling has defended proposed changes to the structure of Arb’s board (News September 28).
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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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NewsWho will get the wooden spoon in BD’s Carbuncle Cup this year?
BD’s Carbuncle Cup is to the Stirling Prize what the Razzies are to the Oscars. So while the RIBA searches for architecture’s most sublime, we uncover its most reviled. Here’s the 2008 shortlist chosen from your nominations
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Faint praise damns Architecture Week
Future of Architecture Week is questioned again in light of review
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Architects vulnerable to claims as economy slows
Architects have become a “natural target” for litigation by cash-strapped clients due to the worsening economic climate and rising professional indemnity insurance premiums, experts have claimed.
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NewsDuggan Morris aims for brew of old and new at Sussex oast house
Plans for an unusual oast house conversion in an area of outstanding natural beauty have been unveiled by Duggan Morris Architects.
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NewsPiersland adds bedroom pavilion
Lawrence McPherson Associates has received planning permission for a garden pavilion at Scottish country hotel Piersland House Hotel near Troon, Ayrshire.
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NewsLiam O’Connor’s structure at the National Memorial Arboretum is 43m in diameter.
A major armed forces memorial at Alrewas, near Lichfield in Staffordshire, has been voted the UK’s favourite Lottery-funded heritage project.
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Homes expo has 12 on shortlist
DRMM, Fat and Sarah Wigglesworth Architects are among 12 practices shortlisted for the RIBA’s Scotswood Expo architectural competition.