All UK articles – Page 793
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NewsScottish awards shortlist announced
The Edinburgh Architectural Association (EAA) Awards has revealed its shortlist for 2011.
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NewsTwentieth Century Society pushes for ABK library to be listed
The Twentieth Century Society has launched a last-ditch attempt to save one of Redcar’s landmarks.
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NewsBelfast Expo Centre shortlist unveiled
Architects including Hawkins Brown, Carmody Groarke and Hacket Hall McKnight have been shortlisted to turn a former police station in Belfast into a new Expo Centre.The competition jury is being chaired by Daniel Libeskind. The scheme involves transforming the now demolished Andersonstown police into an centre to showcase the wider ...
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NewsGensler draws up ski slope for Olympic media site
Gensler has drawn up plans for a radical indoor snow resort which could be built on the site of the Olympic media centre in Stratford.The 28,500sq m snow sports and leisure complex - called Snow in the City - is being built by artificial ski slope creator Acer Snowmec.The company, ...
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NewsWeston Williamson's Woolwich Crossrail station secured
A deal confirming funding for Weston Williamson’s Crossrail station at Woolwich has been reached.
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NewsLifschutz Davidson Sandilands submits Thameside fire HQ plans
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has submitted revised plans to redevelop the listed headquarters of the London Fire Brigade beside the Thames.
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NewsHaworth Tompkins' RCA Dyson Building tops out
James Dyson has attended the topping out of The Royal College of Art’s (RCA) new “art factory’ in Battersea.
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NewsConstruction start for Studio Egret West's The Fold
Work has started on firm’s £20 million residential-led project next to Sidcup railway station in Kent.
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NewsBritish Land spells out £1.9bn work programme
Rogers, Make, Farrells and JRA schemes move forward
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NewsNational Trust launches £1.5 million appeal for Lutyens castle
Money needed to fix leaking roof at Castle Drogo in Devon.
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NewsGreen light for Blackheath eco home
E2 Architecture & Interiors has received planning consent to build an eco-house adjoining a grade II* listed pagoda designed by William Chambers in Blackheath, south-east London.
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NewsRogers Stirk Harbour bags another Thames-side development
Tideway Wharf granted planning by Wandsworth Council
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NewsLeeds-based director fined for falsely claiming to be architect
Leeds-based firm SDE Architecture has been fined £600 after one its directors falsely claimed he was an architect.The city’s magistrates court heard that the unnamed director told one of Arb’s staff he was an architect, and added that he would be able to carry out architectural work on behalf of ...
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TechnicalParker Library in Cambridge by Kilburn Nightingale Architects
Bronze and oak created a suitable atmosphere when a vault for vulnerable manuscripts was introduced into a grade I building at Corpus Christi College.
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NewsRIBA launches Oxford College competition
Expressions of interest are invited from architects to design a new lecture theatre and kitchen for Oxford University’s Worcester College
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NewsCartwright Pickard Architects wins planning for PassivHaus homes
West London development tackles cramped plot by using shared spaces
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NewsIt's official: Cabe merges with Design Council
Cabe’s merger with the Design Council has been confirmed following an agreement reached by the two bodies and the government.
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NewsWest Ham wins battle for the Olympic Stadium
West Ham United has been named as the preferred bidder to take over the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 games, it was announced today.The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) unanimously chose the premiership football club’s bid over rival club Tottenham’s, which involved demolishing the Populous-designed stadium and replacing it with ...
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NewsHigh Court rules that axing BSF was unlawful
Michael Gove’s decision to stop funding later-stage schools was “an abuse of power”
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NewsBattersea Power Station architects appointed
Ian Simpson and DRMM are first to be selected as Viñoly’s Battersea masterplan wins final approval.