All News articles – Page 1209
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NewsPrince does it again with Essex ‘dustbin’ comment
The Prince of Wales has once again ruffled feathers in the architectural community by branding a building by Patel Taylor a “dustbin”.
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News£14m Southwark scheme go-ahead
Alan Camp Architects has won planning approval for a £14 million, five-storey, mixed-use development in the London Borough of Southwark.
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NewsSign up to save Robin Hood Gardens now!
For the next two weeks, Building Design will be collecting signatures in favour of listing Robin Hood Gardens before presenting our petition to English Heritage by March 7th.
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NewsTo the rescue of Robin Hood
Demolishing unpopular housing estates is simply a way of trying to obliterate the past rather than deal with it
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NewsOnly listing can save Robin Hood Gardens
BD launches campaign, spearheaded by Simon Smithson, to save his parents' 1972 Robin Hood Gardens estate
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NewsMassie wins Reykjavik scheme
Graeme Massie Architects has won a competition to masterplan a 150ha site in Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavik, scooping €60,000 (£45,000) in the process.
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Zero-carbon homes face delivery issues
Government plans to roll out thousands of low and zero-carbon homes by 2016 have been dealt a serious blow by a National Trust report which says build quality and supply chain problems could jeopardise delivery.
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Arb member evaluation a waste of time and money, say reformers
Arb members have slammed plans to perform yearly evaluations of the board at an annual cost of £22,500, calling them an expensive waste of time.
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NewsMcAslan’s Olympic Energy Centre Unveiled
John McAslan and Partners’ designs for an energy centre to power the Olympic development in east London were unveiled on Tuesday. The centre is part of a scheme to provide electricity, heating and cooling for the entire Olympic site and for the legacy community once the games have finished. ...
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NewsGraeme Massie wins Reykjavik masterplanning competition
Graeme Massie Architects has won a competition to masterplan a 150ha site in Iceland’s capital city, Reykjavik, scooping €60,000 (£45,000) in the process.The Edinburgh-based Yaya runner-up triumphed over French firm Jean Pierre Pranlas-Descours and Dutch architect Studio Irander in the final of the contest, triumphing over other practices from Australia, ...
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Last chance to apply for Riba ICE McAslan Bursary
Applications for the Riba ICE McAslan Bursary, which supports environmental or community-focused schemes in deprived areas of the UK or overseas close on March 3.Aimed at students, graduates and newly-qualified architects and engineers, it offers grants of up to £10,000 for projects to be carried out during 2008. Past recipients ...
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NewsPrince Charles labels building 'a dustbin'
The Prince of Wales has once again ruffled feathers in the architectural community by branding a building by Patel Taylor a "dustbin". Speaking to an audience of paratroopers about to leave for Afghanistan, he said: "I understand around 1,700 of you are crammed in what looks like a dustbin from ...
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NewsBerman Guedes Stretton wins Cheltenham Museum extension
Oxford-based practice Berman Guedes Stretton have won the competition to design a £4 million extension to the Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. The new space will include a gallery for temporary exhibitions, educational facilities and a café. The judges said the winning scheme “possessed clarity of vision and an uncomplicated ...
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NewsVandals attack Adjaye’s Stephen Lawrence Centre
Less than a week after it was officially opened, David Adjaye’s Stephen Lawrence Centre has suffered thousands of pounds worth of damage at the hands of vandals. Six windows by Turner prize winning artist Chris Ofili were smashed by bricks in the early hours of Thursday morning, according to a ...
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NewsRival Palace plan offered
Campaigners have drawn up plans for a £220 million replica of south London’s Crystal Palace, which was destroyed by fire in 1936, in response to the London Development Agency’s plan for the park.
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NewsShed KM’s Liverpool vision
Shed KM’s has unveiled its £26 million vision for one of Liverpool’s most famous landmarks, the former Littlewoods building on the eastern gateway to the city.
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NewsPage & Park-designed HQ opens
Page & Park’s £2.9 million headquarters for the Carnegie UK Trust at Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline (pictured) was opened by Princess Anne on Wednesday (February 13).
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NewsHow does Fat's garden grow?
The Belvedere, a 19-storey, mixed-use timber-clad tower designed by Fat, has been put in for planning.The tower, to stand in Mile End Park in east London, has a vertical garden, a ground floor restaurant and 27 flats, designed to meet level four of the Code for Sustainable Homes. The building’s ...