All News articles – Page 1203
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NewsDuggan Morris victory at Mersey Observatory
Duggan Morris Architects is to design the new Mersey Observatory in Crosby after seeing off competition from Studio 8, Phos Architects, Farrell & Clark, and Ellis Williams Architects.
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NewsMartin Pawley dies
Martin Pawley, architect, critic, teacher, and a former editor of BD, died on Sunday aged 69, after a long illness.
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NewsOMA unveils Dubai development
OMA Architects has revealed its masterplan for a 12 million sq m waterfront development in Dubai.
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EH joins in criticism of Luton retail scheme
English Heritage has joined the Victorian Society in condemning a £150 million Broadway Malyan retail scheme which involves demolishing two grade II listed buildings in Luton’s historic hat-making district.
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NewsConcrete creates elegant pavilion
The Architectural Association’s pavilion at Bedford Square in London opened on Thursday 13 March.
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News‘Delighted’ Edinburgh champions Farrell
Terry Farrell will remain as Edinburgh City Council’s design champion, despite earlier rumours that the local authority was poised to scrap the position.
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NewsHOK Sport's champion design for Lyon FC
HOK Sport unveiled its designs for Olympique Lyonnais’s new 60,000-seat stadium at the Mipim property fair in Cannes this week.
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NewsFCB Studios wins castle consent
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ visitor centre for the Museum of Somerset at grade I listed Taunton Castle has won planning.
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NewsUrban Splash hires Hoskins for Cardross regeneration
Developer Urban Splash has hired Gareth Hoskins Architects to develop regeneration ideas for one of Scotland’s most important modernist buildings, St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross.
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NewsRIBA calls for medal nominees
The RIBA is calling for nominations for next year’s RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
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Capita Symonds buys up Lovejoy
Capita Symonds has bought one of the UK’s largest multi-disciplinary consultancies, Lovejoy, for an undisclosed sum.
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BPF chief calls for green incentives
The British Property Federation has called on ministers to offer financial incentives in return for better environmental performance in buildings.
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Darling cash boosts green housing
Chancellor Alistair Darling has announced that he will pour £26 million into the government’s Green Homes Service from next year in a bid to improve the sustainability credentials of the UK’s housing stock.
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Wifi to boost new city development
Southampton’s architecture centre is to use wireless technology to transmit site-specific stories to the public in a bid to increase architectural awareness in the city.
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Big names set to join Circle’s healthcare framework
Health Properties Management, the development arm of UK-wide private healthcare operator Circle, has revealed that it is looking to sign more high-profile firms up to its hospitals panel.
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Bid to stop Jewish charity dinner
Charles Jencks, Eva Jiricna and recent RIBA gold medal winner Ted Cullinan are among 45 architects who have signed a letter calling for the cancellation of a dinner at Windsor Castle in aid of a Jewish charity, claiming the organisations is oppressing Palestinians through construction work.
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NewsBath Council set to reject Wilkinson Eyre design school
Wilkinson Eyre’s troubled scheme for James Dyson’s School of Design Innovation in Bath looks set to be rejected next week after planning officers recommended that the scheme be denied planning permission.
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NewsManchester is banking on Reid to fuse new design with the old
Reid Architects is about to go on site with this competition-winning £8 million design which will fuse a five-storey grade II listed former bank and a new 10-storey building in Manchester, near the city’s Piccadilly station.
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NewsIsland plan goes back to nature
Levitate Architecture & Design Studio has beaten AOC, Flacq and Richards Partington Architects in a joint Urban Splash/RIBA competition for Birnbeck Island and the grade II* listed pier at Weston-super-Mare.
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NewsPlasma scoops Next Generation award
East London-based practice wins prestigious BD-sponsored title