All UK articles – Page 783
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NewsParadise Circus scheme forces Birmingham music school move
The Birmingham Conservatoire has vowed it will move to a new home after Glenn Howell’s £500 million Paradise Circus scheme cleared its final hurdle.The conservatoire’s current home at Paradise Place sits on the proposed site of the scheme for developer Argent. Earlier this month the government granted John Madin’s Birmingham ...
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NewsDecision imminent on Stephen Holl’s Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow City Council’s planning committee is expected to approve Stephen Holl Architects’ proposals for the new Glasgow School of Art building when it meets tomorrow (Tuesday) .The £50 million scheme, designed with local practice JM Architects, is for a five-storey building opposite Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s building for the school.A report ...
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NewsPlasticine model of future city needs new home
A model depicting how a city may look in the future, made entirely of plasticine, needs a new home because its creator no longer has room for it.
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NewsTurn redundant high streets into housing, says think tank
Policy Exchange calls for planning reform
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NewsBDP launches sponsored cycle ride in memory of Jo Yeates
BDP has launched “Cycle for Jo”, a charity cycle ride, where employees from BDP studios all over the world will ride in relay teams between studio locations.The ride, which starts on May 6 at BDP’s London office, has been organised in memory of murdered landscape architect Joanna Yeates, who worked ...
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NewsGrimshaw power plant 'exemplary' says Cabe
Design watchdog praises Suffolk waste-to-energy facility proposal
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NewsCabe could become 'DeCabe'
New name emerges at New London Architecture seminar on design review
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NewsCabe slams Chapman Taylor's Liverpool Waters masterplan
Chapman Taylor’s proposed £5.5 billion regeneration of the Liverpool Docks has been criticised by Cabe for being “generic” and “not organised or expressed in a meaningful way”.In its report the quango said 1.3 million sq m project, known as Liverpool Waters, “does not provide confidence that a high quality scheme ...
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NewsArchitect sought to restore House Mill in east London
The River Lea Tidal Mill Trust is seeking an architect to work on the restoration and development of its grade I listed House Mill in east London.The £2.65 million project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, will see the restoration of the mill, installing renewable energy sources and providing education ...
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NewsGreen light for 11.04 Architects' Camden war memorial
11.04 Architects has received planning permission for a memorial dedicated to the British prisoners of war who died in the Far East, building the Burma railway for Japanese forces.The plaque, made of an inscribed granite slab supported on a facsimile railway track, was commissioned by local newspaper the Camden New ...
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NewsWorking abroad: Brisac Gonzalez
Enthusiasm is the hallmark of this firm’s extensive overseas portfolio
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NewsLipton says Make’s City scheme is ‘the worst’
Original Broadgate developer Stuart Lipton has said Make’s proposals to replace the current buildings are the worst he has seen in the City of London for two decades.
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OpinionWho can afford localism?
Neighbourhood plans will only be as local as the people that pay for them
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NewsArchitecture centres to charge for design review
Under-pressure architecture centres have admitted they will begin charging for design reviews as they face up to life without Cabe funding.
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NewsFirms axed as Leeds plans shrink
Farrells, McAslan and Heatherwick all victims as scheme scaled back
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NewsAustin-Smith Lord triumph for Hereford's Buttermarket
Austin-Smith Lord has won an RIBA open ideas competition for the redevelopment of Hereford’s Buttermarket.The firm won the commission ahead of Ryder Architects, RRA Architects and Troy Kidsley Architecture, following a meeting of the jury chaired by former Cabe and English Heritage commissioner Les Sparks.Herefordshire Council cabinet member for economic ...
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NewsNeil Sutherland wins Bute forest competition
Neil Sutherland Architects has won a controversial competition to masterplan the transformation of a forest on the Isle of Bute, off the west coast of Scotland.