All Online news articles – Page 620
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NewsPopulous's Olympic hockey pitches get the blues
The pitches in Populous’s Olympic Hockey Centre will be blue, making 2012 the first time Olympic field hockey is played on any colour other than green.
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NewsNightingale's Cardiff University research centre wins go-ahead
Nightingale Associates’ design for a new research building at Cardiff University has received planning permission.The £30 million scientific research facility will be built on the site of a derelict railway, providing 9,000sq m of new laboratory space for the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics & Genomics and two new institutes covering ...
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NewsRIBA councillor Chris Roche resigns over London region unrest
RIBA Council member Chris Roche has resigned as a result of the unrest in the RIBA London region last year.The resignation follows last Thursday’s RIBA Council meeting when Roche put forward a motion asking for a public apology from Ruth Reed to himself and former London region chair Azar Djamali.Last ...
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BlogsDown the plughole
Its great to see a team of young(ish) engineers working so closely and so decisively.
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NewsAmanda Levete triumphs in V&A contest
Former Future Systems partner will design temporary exhibitions galleries
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NewsJailed architect has sentence reduced
A disgraced architect who conned a family into spending £6,500 on work he never carried out has had his prison sentence reduced at the Court of Appeal in London.Workington-based Richard John Lindsay, 64, was jailed for nearly four years at Carlisle Crown Court last November, after pleading guilty to one ...
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NewsHeritage lottery
Among the rumours about the V&A post is that Simon Thurley, debonair head of English Heritage, is also in the running.
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ReviewCultural Guide: March 28- April 2
This week’s cultural guide gets to grips with Stirling and Gowan’s Leicester Engineering Building amongst other highlights
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NewsCash crisis ends Dublin hall contest
Cancellation leaves finalists 3XN and Henning Larsen out in the cold
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NewsGreen light for Glenn Howells' racket club revamp
£10 million project approved by Birmingham planners
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NewsMetropol Parasol in Seville nears completion
J Mayer H Architects’ redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnacion in Seville, Spain, is set to be fully complete next month.Metropol Parasol, as the project is known, is set to become the new urban centre in the medieval quarter of the city, containing an archaeological museum, a farmers market, ...
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NewsLottery Fund awards for Fobert, Harrap and Purcell Miller Tritton
Jamie Fobert, Julian Harrap and Purcell Miller Tritton were celebrating today after the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded £10 million to projects of theirs.Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge – which will receive £2.32 million - and Charleston Barn, near Lewes – awarded £2.4 million - are both Fobert projects. He and Julian ...
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NewsSergison Bates wins Novartis job in China
Sergison Bates has won its biggest ever project, designing a key building for Novartis’s huge new Shanghai campus.
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NewsRIBA launches Conservation Register
The RIBA has launched a Conservation Register of architects specialising in work in the heritage sector.Designed as a tool for those commissioning work on heritage buildings, the register offers three levels of membership allowing young practices to gain the necessary skills in working on historic buildings.RIBA president Ruth Reed said: ...
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NewsSquire to turn Russian royal stables into luxury homes
Squire & Partners has won an international design competition to transform a historic Russian coach house into a luxury residential development.
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NewsAdam Khan's floating visitor centre launched in Lancashire
Adam Khan Architects’ floating visitor centre at Brockholes nature reserve in Lancashire is due to be floated for the first time.The practice won the £8.6 million project following an RIBA competition for the reserve, where it will also oversee masterplanning activities.Project manager Ian Selby said the floating process itself, which ...