All UK articles – Page 895
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NewsFarrell warns over Edinburgh 'complacency'
Edinburgh is at risk of losing its status as one of Europe’s greatest capital cities, Terry Farrell has said.
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NewsRIBA 2009 awards winners unveiled
Allies & Morrison and Niall McLaughlin Architects are the big winners in this year’s RIBA Awards, collecting four prizes each for architectural excellence.
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NewsDeveloper hitch delays prince's eco-home
The chief executive of the Prince’s Foundation has admitted its Natural House project will open three months late after it had to switch developers.
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NewsSchmidt Hammer Lassen’s Barking revamp wins planning
Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s plans to revamp part of Barking in east London have been given the all-clear.
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NewsSouthend launches competition to redevelop fire-damaged pier
A competition has been launched for a design team to redevelop pier, four years after it was damaged by fire.
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NewsClinton heralds Elephant & Castle as model for sustainability
The redevelopment of Elephant & Castle has been lauded by former US president Bill Clinton as a global template for sustainable development.
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NewsLondon through a Shard
This is London as you have never seen it before – a glimpse of what visitors to the Shard will see when it opens to the public in 2012.
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NewsRIAS gives honorary fellowships to Gough and Fabiani
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has awarded honorary fellowships to former Scottish Parliament minister of architecture Linda Fabiani and CZWG principal Piers Gough.
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NewsSimon Jenkins launches all-out attack on architects
Columnist and National Trust chairman Simon Jenkins has launched a vitriolic attack on the architectural profession claiming the debate sparked by Prince Charles in 1984 has “never died”.
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NewsCulture secretary rejects Robin Hood Gardens listing appeal
Robin Hood Gardens has been dealt a huge blow after culture secretary Andy Burnham turned down an appeal from the Twentieth Century Society to list the estate, instead giving it immunity from listing for five years.
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NewsNo let-up as HOK slashes UK staff
Architects are continuing to haemorrhage staff, with the fourth biggest firm in the world the latest to cut UK jobs, despite growing evidence of green shoots of recovery in other areas of construction
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NewsRevisions risk scuppering theatre development
Plans by Loates-Taylor Shannon and theatre specialist Tim Foster to rebuild London’s historic Westminster Theatre are hanging in the balance after original plans became unviable
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Upton housing reaches completion
The UK's first zero-carbon homes outside the BRE Innovation Park have been completed in Upton in Northamptonshire
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NewsBurnham to police design standards
Government design champion and culture secretary Andy Burnham will be tasked with ensuring Whitehall departments bring all new government building projects up to scratch
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Brighton firm splits as workload collapses
Brighton practice DRP Architects has split into two new companies after losing 90% of its workload because of the recession
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NewsRose Bowl blossoms
Sheppard Robson’s Rose Bowl building for Leeds Metropolitan University was officially opened last Friday
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Seven on all-time Stirling shortlist
Seven buildings have been shortlisted for the RIBA Journal/Schüco Stirling of Stirlings, a vote for the best building of the entire 175 years of the RIBA’s existence
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NewsLink up with opportunities abroad
The second annual Beyond Britain conference - hosted by BD in association with UK Trade & Investment, the government's international business development organisation - will be held on May 21
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NewsAberdeen row over rival plans
Landscape architect Martha Schwartz is working on a £140 million Aberdeen project which critics claim threatens an arts centre scheme in the same location by Brisac Gonzalez Architects