All UK articles – Page 723
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NewsAmanda Levete and Ian Ritchie on pylon shortlist
Gustafson Porter and Knight Architects also finalists of RIBA competition
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Building StudyPark Hill estate, Sheffield, by Hawkins Brown with Studio Egret West
The apartments of the regenerated Park Hill are a world away from 1961’s socially conscious streets in the sky. Here, BD looks at how Sheffield’s iconic housing block has echoed 50 years of Britain shifting political moods
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NewsYoung practices triumph in Brentford competition
Riches Hawley Mikhail, Duggan Morris and Karakusevic Carson have won a competition to design canal-side housing in Brentford, west London, for the development arm of British Waterways.The three practices were selected from a shortlist of three. The unsuccessful teams were DSDHA, Stephen Taylor and Bauman Lyons; and Maccreanor Lavington, Alison ...
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NewsRIBA launches housing space standards campaign
The RIBA has launched a major campaign against what it calls the inadequate size of Britain’s volume housing.It is hoping to engage the public in a national conversation at the same time as lobbying government and house builders to improve standards.It is taking a three-pronged approach: launching a HomeWise website ...
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NewsPrince's Foundation backs local involvement in planning
Organisation renews support despite National Trust criticism
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NewsPringle Brandon wins work on Shell move
Staff moved to allow redevelopment of Shell Centre site
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NewsMinistry of Sound threaten lawsuit over Panter Hudspith tower
Club fears flats by Panter Hudspith and Allies & Morrison could seal its fate
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NewsGensler reveals new images of London River Park
Floating pavilions to provide event space and swimming pool on the Thames
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NewsNewcastle architect Browne Smith Baker falls into administration
Practice is behind Peterborough zero-carbon housing scheme
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NewsDavid Walker Architects wins permission for City scheme
David Walker Architects’ has won planning permission for the 8,000sq m redevelopment of Centurion House in the City of London for Rockspring and Charterfield Asset Management.Centurion House was built in the mid 1980s and contains around 6,000sq m of office space. The redesign will increase this by a third increase ...
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NewsZap Architecture reveals Vent judges
Zap Architecture has revealed the judges for its upcoming Vent competition, including 2010 Yaya winner Chris Lee of Serie Architecture..Zap has invited students and young graduates’ to produce work relating to the cost of their education, expressed through drawing, montage and photography. The entries will be displayed at the RIBA’s ...
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NewsAlex de Rijke named dean of RCA architecture school
Alex de Rijke, director of DRMM, has been appointed as dean of the school of architecture at the Royal College of Art (RCA).De Rijke replaces former head of architecture Nigel Coates, who left the post in May after 16 years.De Rijke will be responsible for creating a new, enlarged school ...
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NewsBrooks/Murray Architects submits detailed plans for Scottish new town
Chapelton of Elsick scheme is largest proposed new town in Scotland
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NewsGreen light for PRP's Myatt's Park scheme
PRP has won planning approval for a new community facility and park in Myatt’s Field North, in Lambeth, south London.The scheme will see the creation of one of the largest new parks in London outside the Olympics.PRP associate director Richard Harvey said: “The community centre is designed to slip under ...
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NewsTate Modern oil tanks to open next year
First phase of Herzog & de Meuron’s development to be finished for Olympics
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NewsEmbassy architects axed from Foreign Office work
Tick-box procurement blamed for award-winning practices failing to make new framework
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NewsPage Park files Glasgow theatre scheme
Designs for the redevelopment of Glasgow’s grade A listed Theatre Royal have been submitted for planning approval by Page Park Architects.
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NewsUS-style housing trust scheme set for Mile End
Maccreanor Lavington plans UK’s first permanently affordable homes
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NewsEdward Cullinan creates green film store for BFI
Edward Cullinan Architects has completed a film storage centre in Warwickshire for the British Film Institute.