All articles by Ruth Bloomfield – Page 18
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NewsWoods Bagot's Tower of London hotel wins planning
A £150 million scheme to transform a landmark City building into one of London’s smartest hotels has been approved.
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NewsWomen ‘hit the hardest’ as profession endures slump
Statistics shows disproportionate number of women joining dole queue
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NewsStern opposition to Atkins' Leicester Square structure
Atkins is facing fierce opposition to its plans for a towering arch for London’s Leicester Square.
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News2012 media centre 'would blight Olympic legacy', says Cabe
Cabe has savaged plans for London 2012’s Olympic media centre, saying it is unable to support the current designs.
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NewsMake's Nine Elms towers put on hold by recession
Make’s plans for a 30-storey complex of curving towers close to London’s Battersea Power Station have stalled just weeks after they were first unveiled.
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NewsWork to part-pedestrianise Oxford Circus begins (video)
Work on an experimental scheme to semi-pedestrianise Oxford Circus, one of central London’s busiest junctions, begins this week.
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NewsPlan for sports stadium on Maze Prison site dropped
A controversial proposal for a multi-sport stadium on the site of Belfast’s Maze Prison has been scrapped.
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NewsCF Møller dumped from Maritime Museum project
Purcell Miller Tritton replaces concept architect on Greenwich landmark scheme
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NewsLifschutz Davidson Sandilands' Ferrier Estate masterplan wins planning
The Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands' masterplan for the £1 billion redevelopment of London’s worst sink estate has been approved.
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NewsPrince Charles urges Chelsea Barracks owner to scrap Rogers Stirk Harbour design
Prince Charles is attempting to derail Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ plans for the redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks.
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NewsBirmingham basks in building boom
£20bn of public-led projects are enabling the city to buck the recession
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NewsMecanoo reveals design for Birmingham library
Dutch architect Mecanoo this week revealed its design for a £193 million new library for Birmingham.
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NewsUrban Initiatives and JCMT reveal London regeneration schemes
Details of two major new regeneration schemes for the capital – in Hackney and Notting Hill Gate – have been unveiled.
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NewsWork starts on installing Hadid’s Aquatics centre roof
Work to lift Zaha Hadid’s wave shaped roof for the London 2012 aquatics centre into place began this week.
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20% of Northern Ireland architecture jobs lost
One in five architecture jobs in Northern Ireland have been lost over the last year, according to a report released today.
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£2.7m in regeneration grants for UK seaside towns
Grants worth almost £2.7 million have been awarded to help regenerate nine seaside towns across the UK.
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Call for religious centres to be adapted for community use
Churches, synagogues, mosques and temples should reinvent themselves as semi-secular centres serving their local communities, according to a new government report.
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NewsLifschutz Davidson Sandilands wins competition to landscape £140 million Luxembourg tram scheme
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has won a major competition to refurbish public spaces along a new tram line in the city of Luxembourg.
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NewsKazakhstan beckons for jobless architects
Highly qualified architects who have been made redundant are having to take jobs in “unusual” locations including Kazakhstan, Armenia, Libya and Nigeria, recruitment experts claim.