All UK articles – Page 904
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NewsCapita Symonds buys town planner Andrew Martin
Capita Symonds has acquired town planning and urban design firm Andrew Martin Associates (AMA) for an undisclosed sum
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NewsSlump blamed for awards dip
38 schemes shortlisted for Housing Design Awards, but organisers say entries are down by 30%
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NewsAnger over future of 80s RMJM building
Plans by Archial to demolish a 1980s building designed by RMJM’s founding partners Robert Matthew and Stirrat Johnson-Marshall have sparked a row over the building’s future
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NewsMather starts again after Oxford quad plan falters
Rick Mather Architects has been forced to go back to the drawing board over its proposed £45 million quadrangle for Oxford University’s Keble College after heritage groups and the council objected to the demolition of a listed building
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Cabe approves of £135m extension
Cabe’s design review panel has praised Rogers Stirk Harbour’s scheme for a £135 million extension to the British Museum
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NewsShortlist for PM’s awards revealed
Buildings by Ian Ritchie, Make, Wilkinson Eyre, BDP and Nicholas Hare have made the shortlist for the Prime Minster’s Better Public Building Award, alongside a ring road project, a railway extension and a canal link
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NewsPeer makes dig at superstar names
Labour peer William Howie has claimed that architects such as Richard Rogers and Norman Foster are unfairly taking credit for high-profile projects such as the Millennium Dome and the Great Court at the British Museum
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Schools programme a ‘tall order’ for government, say MPs
The government’s programme to redevelop England’s schools buildings has been beset by over-optimism and will struggle to deliver all schools on deadline, MPs have claimed.
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NewsAlsop tops list of world’s most creative people in architecture
Will Alsop has beaten Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid and Herzog & de Meuron to be named number one in a list of the world’s 10 most creative people in architecture.
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NewsCouncil strongly backs Rogers' Chelsea Barracks scheme
Prince Charles’ attempts to derail the controversial £1 billion redevelopment of Chelsea Barracks have been dealt a major blow.
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NewsRescue plan for Viñoly’s Colchester arts centre
A rescue plan to save Rafael Viñoly’s troubled Colchester visual arts centre was unveiled this week in a move that will see the project delivered up to three years late.
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NewsWork begins on McAslan's King's Cross concourse
Work has begun on John McAslan’s huge semi circular-shaped concourse for King’s Cross Station, due to open in time for the 2012 Olympics.
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NewsWilkinson Eyre’s dramatic plans for Science Museum revealed (fly-through)
Business secretary Peter Mandelson has unveiled new plans by Wilkinson Eyre for London’s Science Museum.
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NewsRescue plan to save Victorian concrete house
A rescue plan has been drawn up to save one of London’s most unusual houses.
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News£7m bid to give new life to Manchester towers
City South Manchester Housing Trust has revealed its £7 million plans to refurbish four landmark towers in the city’s Hulme area
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Kay Andrews to chair English Heritage
New culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has named Kay Andrews as the new chair of English Heritage.
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Six win RMJM Harvard scholarship
Six young people from under-privileged backgrounds have won places on a six week architecture course through RMJM’s Architecture for Everyone scheme.
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NewsArchitects to design tower block – for animals
Leeds-based Garnett Netherwood Architects has won a quirky competition to design a tower block for animals.
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NewsGo-ahead for Gloucestershire large-scale eco housing scheme
The country’s first large-scale housing scheme to be built to level 6 of the Code for Sustainable Homes has won planning permission.