All News articles – Page 994
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NewsIndustry waits till autumn to learn where axe will fall
Architects face a long summer of uncertainty before finding out where £100 billion in public spending cuts will come from.
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NewsVictorian artwork takes pride of place on Kingston’s riverfront
Haworth Tompkins has won planning permission for a £9 million mixed-use scheme to revamp and extend a monolithic brown brick 1970s building on the banks of the Thames near Hampton Court.
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NewsEH holds out hope for Stonehenge visitor centre
A crunch meeting will be held next week to examine the prospects for pursuing Denton Corker Marshall’s £27.5 million Stonehenge Visitor Centre despite the government’s withdrawal of £10 million worth of funding.
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NewsHaiti housing competition launched
An international competition to design new housing in Haiti has been launched on behalf of the Haitian government.
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NewsStudio Weave at Glastonbury
Studio Weave’s dystopian dance platform has been unveiled at the Glastonbury festival and is so convincing some revellers believe it is genuinely on fire.
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NewsImpressive volumes
Next week sees the official opening of the second phase of Haworth Tompkins’ redevelopment of the London Library.
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Green is go at Public
Architect Flannery & de la Pole has put the finishing touches to the final £1.4 million phase of Will Alsop’s troubled West Midlands landmark, The Public
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NewsFive-star praise for Heron’s hotel neighbour
Cabe has praised PLP’s plans for a new five-star hotel next door to the Heron Tower in the City of London. The scheme is part of a mixed-use development, including public space and private residences.
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NewsHayward Smart wins planning for Henley family house
Hayward Smart Architects has won planning permission for a large family house (pictured) in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
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Community centre go-ahead
Belfast-based McCaw Architects has won planning permission for a new community centre and retail unit in the Upper Ardoyne area of the city
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NewsCollective approach
Glasgow practice Collective Architecture has lodged a planning application for a £5.5 million housing and shopping development in the city.
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Cuts also hit hospital and BFI Film Centre
A £450 million hospital and a £166 million centre for the British Film Institute are among other projects derailed by government cuts.
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HCA presses ahead with design standards
The Homes & Communities Agency is hoping to make public the findings of a consultation on housing design standards by September
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NewsGove to relax planning rules so disused buildings can become schools
Architects have given a cautious welcome to education secretary Michael Gove’s announcement that he will relax planning rules to make it easier to turn derelict hospitals, shops and pubs into “free schools”.
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NewsLifschutz Davidson Sandilands to masterplan UCL campus
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has been appointed by University College London to masterplan its Bloomsbury estate – beating 120 others to win the job.
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NewsArb unveils cost-cutting measures
Architects are set to see a reduction in the fees they pay to be on the register after The Arb unveiled plans for a series of cost-cutting measures including slashing all staff bonuses.
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NewsNewport station starts on site
Work to clad the new Newport train station with 31 air-filled plastic cushions has begun.
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AHMM disputes breach claim
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has said it will “vigorously defend” a legal claim made by Wickham van Eyck that it breached a joint venture agreement the pair struck in order to bid for a job at Amsterdam University.
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NewsRIBA voices relief over Osborne’s Budget
The RIBA has given a cautious welcome to yesterday’s Budget, praising the Chancellor’s commitment to maintain capital spending and predicting that there will still be money for well-designed schools, housing and hospitals.