All News articles – Page 992
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NewsDoubts grow over future of Kickstart
Only one fifth of the half-a-billion pound budget earmarked for the second round of Kickstart has been committed amid growing doubts over the future of the controversial stimulus programme.
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NewsHopkins sues Dubai firm for unpaid fees
Hopkins is suing a Dubai property business for more than $7 million (£4.7 million) for alleged unpaid fees on a delayed tower scheme in the emirate’s financial district.
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NewsMinister hints at Finsbury closure
The government has given the strongest hint yet that it is siding with the local health authority wanting to shut down Finsbury Health Centre.
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NewsFraser branches out for art studio
Malcolm Fraser Architects has completed work on a 9sq m tree house studio in Glen Nevis for collaborative arts group London Fieldworks.
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NewsThe Union Street Urban Orchard
A lush urban orchard and community garden has been created on the south bank for the London Festival of Architecture and beyond.
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NewsLouvre manoeuvre
A design by Zaha Hadid Architects has made it on to a final shortlist of three in a competition for a 44,000sq m dance and music centre in The Hague.
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NewsHodder student residence tower set for Manchester
Hodder and Partners’ £25 million student accommodation tower, which would be the third tallest building in Manchester, is expected to win planning permission this week.
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NewsMitchell Taylor Workshop’s library for King’s College, Taunton
Work has begun on Mitchell Taylor Workshop’s £1.2 million library for a private school in Somerset.
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Canterbury Topping out for Williams’ theatre
Keith Williams Architects’ £25.6 million redevelopment of Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre has been topped out and is on track to be completed in September.
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NewsPublic backs prince in barracks row
The public has rallied to the defence of Prince Charles after he was reprimanded by a High Court judge for interfering in the Chelsea Barracks case.
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NewsRIBA action on low pay ‘does not go far enough’
The RIBA has announced a package of measures it says will tackle student hardship and low pay.
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News‘Bold’ Caruso plans for Tate trigger row over rotunda
A row has erupted over the first tranche of Caruso St John’s redevelopment of Tate Britain.
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NewsA billion pounds needed for church repairs, EH claims
England’s historic churches, synagogues and mosques need nearly £1 billion of repairs over the next five years, according to the first comprehensive survey of places of worship.
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NewsCabe pours praise on Haworth Tompkins' Everyman
Cabe has showered praise on Haworth Tompkins’ designs for the £28 million Everyman Theatre redevelopment in Liverpool.
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NewsEH persists with Stonehenge plan
English Heritage’s commissioners have agreed to seek private funding for Denton Corker Marshall’s £25 million Stonehenge visitor centre after the Government pulled the plug.
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NewsGormley hotel design wins planning
Reardon Smith Architects has won planning permission for a new £40 million hotel designed in collaboration with the artist Antony Gormley.
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NewsDecentralisation minister says new rules will make development more popular with locals
The man in charge of pushing through the government’s localism agenda has said he wants to reverse the view that all development work is bad.
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NewsHeneghan Peng unveils first images of Greenwich architecture school
The first images of Heneghan Peng’s design for the University of Greenwich’s £76 million School of Architecture and Construction have been unveiled as part of a public consultation.
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NewsHeatherwick's pavilion scoops the Lubetkin
The RIBA has named Heatherwick Studios’ UK pavilion at the Shanghai Expo as the winner of this year’s Lubetkin prize.
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News46 year old architectural technician is boxing heavyweight champion
An associate at Cardiff firm HLN Architects has just become the unlicensed boxing British heavyweight champion – at the age of 46.