All articles by Ruth Bloomfield – Page 7
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NewsCameron and Brown both back memorial
Architect Liam O’Connor has achieved the almost impossible and managed to unite Gordon Brown and David Cameron less than a week before the general election.
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NewsWork gets underway on Williams’ Chichester Museum
Building work has begun on Keith Williams Architects’ £6.9 million Chichester Museum.
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Skyline competition to promote London Festival of Architecture
A competition to design a 21st century view of the London skyline has been launched in the run up to the London Festival of Architecture 2010.
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NewsA-Z to election 2010 for architects
Which party opposes Heathrow’s third runway and which would scrap Arb? Traditional left-right labels will be little help in distinguishing policies on May 6, so here is our guide to the parties’ plans for the built environment
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NewsOnly architects on over £75k to get work visas
Home Office rethink could lead to a ‘virtual ban’ on non-EU architects
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NewsBennetts building for West End given the go-ahead
Bennetts Associates has been given planning permission for a major new redevelopment in central London including a landmark 10,000sq m building on the key gateway into the West End.
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NewsLabour manifesto promises design thresholds for all public buildings
Labour has pledged to extend the minimum design threshold for schools to all public buildings if it is returned to office next month.
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Adam’s plans for ‘Stalinist’ mansion spark protest
English Heritage is leading efforts to halt plans by Robert Adam for a “Stalinist” eight bedroom mansion in Hampstead, north London
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NewsTory hopeful Chris Phillips aims to be next architect MP
Pre-election poll reveals a third of architects will vote Conservative
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Page & Park discovers 15th century beehives
A project by Page & Park to restore a 650-year-old Scottish chapel featured in the film The Da Vinci Code has uncovered a new mystery: a pair of stone beehives hidden within its ornate roof pinnacles
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NewsMcAslan’s music academy strikes all the right notes
John McAslan & Partners’ new extension to the Royal Academy of Music has opened
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McAslan to chair Saltire awards
John McAslan has been named the first-ever guest chairman of the judging panel of the annual Saltire Society Housing Design Awards.
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NewsRaumlabor bubble floats around London's parks
German architecture and artist collective Raumlabor-Berlin has created a mobile, bubble-shaped pavilion that will tour London’s parks this summer.
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NewsArchitects swing behind Tories as election approaches, poll suggests
Architects’ support for the Conservative Party has almost trebled in the last decade
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Developers under fire over size of new homes
Private developers are routinely building homes up to a third smaller than best-practice benchmarks, a new study has found.
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NewsBrixton Market listed
Brixton Market, the symbolic heartland of London’s Caribbean community, has been given grade II listed status, despite its lack of architectural merit.
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NewsWilkinson Eyre’s Kew centre set for green light
Wilkinson Eyre has designed a “vital” quarantine house to protect the collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from disease and destruction
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Architects rush to fill Shanghai charette
The RIBA’s charette at the Shanghai Expo is already oversubscribed fourfold, just a week after it was launched
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News7N mixes old and new at riverside
7N Architects has received detailed planning consent for a new visitor centre in Blairgowrie, Scotland
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NewsAnish Kapoor unveils Olympic sculpture
Anish Kapoor has unveiled London’s latest landmark: a 115m-high piece of public art destined for the Olympic Park.