All News articles – Page 1206
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NewsAllies & Morrison bags Olympic media centre
Practice led by Bob Allies and Graham Morrison edges out Hopkins Architects for the massive 2012 project
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D’Offay calls for a Guggenheim of the North
Art dealer Anthony D’Offay has called for a Guggenheim-style architectural landmark to house his contemporary art collection in Scotland. D’Offay sold 725 works worth £125 million to the Tate and National Galleries Scotland last week, at a fraction of their market value. The collection, arranged into 50 “artists rooms” and ...
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RIBA launches President’s Awards for Research 2008
RIBA has put out a call for entries for its 2008 award for architectural research. The prize, now in its third year, is divided into three categories: best PhD thesis at a RIBA-validated school; best university-based research; and best research carried out in a professional context. In 2007 the winners ...
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NewsHundreds of potential Olympic training venues announced
Stephen Hodder's Clissold Leisure Centre among those across the country bidding to host foreign teams
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NewsCall for entries for Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award 2008
Cabe has launched the Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award 2008 with a call for entries. The competition, now in its eighth year, celebrates high-quality design in public sector architecture. To be eligible, projects must have been commissioned by or on behalf of central or local government or an organisation ...
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NewsLivingstone to slash energy costs on GLA buildings
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone has launched a major new works programme that will see the Greater London Authority's public buildings retrofitted to reduce energy consumption by a quarter.Livingstone announced the project during a debate at the Ecobuild conference in London yesterday (Thursday February 28) which saw rival candidates for ...
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Ward to lead urban regenerator
Michael Ward has been appointed chief executive of the British Urban Regeneration Association.
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Profession rallies to rescue Smithsons' Robin Hood Gardens
NEWS: Extraordinary response to BD campaign as council seeks to ratify demolition ANALYSIS: "It's a great place to live" PLUS: Our petition, comment and archive photographs
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NewsPlanning row threatens Highland homes fair
One of Britain’s most innovative housing schemes has been thrown into doubt amid allegations that residents and politicians have not been properly consulted.
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NewsProfession rallies to save threatened housing estate
Tower Hamlets Council confirms that it will seek to ratify demolition option next week
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NewsEco-towns ‘won’t tackle housing shortage’
Ministers have opened a “Pandora’s box” with plans for eco-towns, a senior government adviser on the controversial policy has warned.
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NewsNo zero-carbon promise at Ecobuild
Housing minister Caroline Flint has failed to commit to making new non-domestic buildings zero carbon by 2020, a key target of the UK Green Building Council.
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Former RIBA deputy dies
Maurice McCarthy, a former RIBA vice president and founder member of the Salaried Architects Group, has died aged 64 after losing his battle with cancer.
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CPRE concedes on housing need
The Campaign to Protect Rural England has conceded this week that, in order to meet Britain’s housing needs, it may be necessary to undertake “a small readjustment” of some green belt boundaries.
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Former schools chief goes east
Mukund Patel, former head of schools’ capital at the Department for Children, Schools & Family, is to take up a senior role at a Dubai-based education provider.
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NewsMcAslan in Cheapside
A seven-storey, mixed-use scheme by John McAslan & Partners, at Cheapside in the City of London, has been submitted for planning.
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NewsChapman Taylor wins in Bolzano
Chapman Taylor has won an international competition to regenerate part of the northern Italian city of Bolzano.
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Lighthouse centre board changes
Leading figures in the built environment sector in Scotland, including Reiach & Hall director Neil Gillespie, architect Kathryn Findlay and the design leader of Edinburgh City Council Riccardo Marini, have joined the board of Glasgow’s Lighthouse architecture centre.