All UK articles – Page 938
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NZ masterplan goes to Farrells
Farrells has beaten competition from Foster & Partners, Frank Gehry, SOM and Gensler to masterplan a mixed-use redevelopment scheme in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Flint on the defence over eco-town plans
Housing minister Caroline Flint has insisted the government is making “significant progress” with its eco-towns plan, despite a report from an advisory panel which pointed out serious flaws in many of the shortlisted proposals.
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Tom Russell in eco-village coup
Tom Russell Architects has won a RIBA competition to turn Lawrenny in Pembrokeshire into an eco-village
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NewsConran set to convert hall to flats
Conran & Partners has received planning permission to convert and extend a grade II listed building by Royal Festival Hall architect Leslie Martin
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NewsClear run for Foster scheme in Croydon
A 150,000sq m scheme by Foster & Partners now looks likely to be built at south London’s Croydon Gateway site after communities secretary Hazel Blears effectively ruled out rival plans by Michael Aukett Architects.
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NewsKevin McCloud’s own ‘grand design’ in chaos
TV presenter replaces Wright & Wright with practice ready to work weekends for no money
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NewsCornish keeps energy low in brownfield office plan
Cornish Architects is set to transform a brownfield site in Denham, South Buckinghamshire, into low-energy office space.
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NewsScott Brown to top Biennale speakers
Denise Scott Brown will be the keynote speaker at a British Council debate on housing design next month.
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Watkins Gray to refit Barnardo’s
Architect Watkins Gray International has won a competition to refurbish the new 187sq m office space for children’s charity Barnardo’s in the London Borough of Southwark.
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NewsSaga of Barbican office block stalls
Kohn Pedersen Fox’s design for a 90,000sq m office block beside the Barbican Centre has been shelved after the intended occupier, investment bank JP Morgan, pulled out.
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NewsRobinson attacks EH claims on liveability
Housing expert hits out at argument that estate ‘fails as a place to live’
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NewsKen attacks Boris over design policy
Former London mayor Ken Livingstone has accused his successor Boris Johnson of cost-cutting and “hypocrisy” over his changes to the capital’s design policy.
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NewsStarting gun sounds for Athletes’ Village
Planning has been granted for the first element of the 2012 Athletes’ Village in the Olympic Park in east London
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Arb strikes off bankrupt architect
John Dowland of Godstone in Surrey has been struck off the Arb register for failing to pay a series of debts, and for failing to report his bankruptcy to the board.
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Brits shortlisted in under-50 awards
David Adjaye and Thomas Heatherwick have been shortlisted for a new international award celebrating the work of architects aged under 50.
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£350m Blackfriars revamp begins
Network Rail has announced that work has begun on a £350 million project to regenerate Blackfriars Station in London
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NewsBlears stops KPF’s Smithfield General Market redevelopment
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has vetoed plans by Kohn Pederson Fox to demolish a set of Victorian red brick buildings at the western edge of the historic Smithfield meat market in Farringdon, central London.
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NewsTowering pillars to mark 7/7 victims
Architect Carmody Groarke has revealed its designs for a permanent memorial to the victims of London’s 7/7 bombings.
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RIBA form leaves firms vulnerable, says insurer
An insurance specialist has warned architects not to use the RIBA’s new standard form of agreement, claiming it could lead to bankruptcy in the event of an uninsured claim being made against them.