All UK articles – Page 939
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NewsKPF Victoria scheme is unpleasant, says Cabe
Cabe has warned that Kohn Pederson Fox’s (KPF) masterplan for Victoria in central London will result in “spaces that are unpleasant to live and work in”.
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Brent civic centre shortlist announced
Make, Sheppard Robson, EPR Architects, Hopkins Architects, John McAslan & Partners, BDP and TP Bennett have all been shortlisted for a landmark civic centre for Brent Council in north-west London, opposite Wembley Stadium.
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Welsh construction giant David McLean goes into administration
One of Wales’s biggest developers, David McLean Holdings, plus its subsidiaries, has gone into administration. Administrator Deloitte said that while the firm’s contracting division would close, its house-building division would be put up for sale.
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NewsMorrison anger over Waterloo towers call in
Allies & Morrison partner Graham Morrison has hit out at English Heritage after the government called-in the practice’s £1 billion Three Sisters project on London’s South Bank.
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NewsWilkinson Eyre to design Exeter University landmark building
Wilkinson Eyre has beaten Foreign Office Architects to design a £45 million landmark building for Exeter University.
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NewsAllies & Morrison Lambeth scheme called in by Blears
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has called in Allies & Morrison’s Three Sisters project in Lambeth.
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NewsMarks Barfield’s i360 kicks off
Work has finally started on Marks Barfields’ i360 tower at Brighton, East Sussex.
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Richard Buckley dies at 45
Architect Richard Buckley, 45, a founding partner of Buckley Gray Yeoman, has drowned while on a family holiday. Buckley (pictured) set up the practice with his wife Fiammetta Gray in 1996.
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NewsHope as key public projects accelerate
Architects have welcomed government plans to bring forward billions of pounds of public projects to stimulate the country’s faltering economy amid a further wave of redundancies in the profession.
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NewsHotel tower rethink after Boris intervenes
A proposed 16-storey hotel scheme by Hamiltons on London’s South Bank is likely to be sent back to the drawing board after mayor Boris Johnson went against his own planning officers’ advice to criticise the project.
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Village flat numbers slashed again
The Olympic village has been downsized again, losing a further 600 flats as cost pressures on the project continue to mount.
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OFT investigates agencies
Some of the UK’s biggest architectural recruitment agencies have been accused of price-fixing by the Office of Fair Trading.
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NewsArt applied to the locale
Wandsworth Council has approved the final two phases of a new £33 million campus for the Royal College of Art by Haworth Tompkins.
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PII offender struck off by Arb
Arb has struck off Behzad Sharouz of Sharouz Associates in Crouch End, north London, after he was found guilty of unacceptable professional conduct.
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Levitt Bernstein’s Shelter auction
Levitt Bernstein Architects is organising a “secret art sale” in aid of homelessness charity Shelter.
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NewsPFI’s biggest school scheme opened
England’s largest education PFI project, a £130 million school scheme in Nottinghamshire by Aedas AHR architects, officially opened this week.
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NewsDream design for leisure brings luxury to Italy’s Umbrian hills
Flacq has created a concept design for a new leisure and residential development in Umbria, north of Rome, which it hopes could do for the area what Peter Zumthor’s thermal baths did for Vals in Switzerland.
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NewsUniversity’s latest building complete
Work has been completed on a £12 million building at Liverpool University by Shepherd Epstein Hunter.
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NewsCabe calls in Sparks for Crossrail panel
Veteran to chair station review panel with Shuttleworth as deputy
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NewsCouncil claims lack of refurb cash
Tower Hamlets Council has reiterated its opposition to the listing of Robin Hood Gardens, describing the Smithsons’ iconic estate as an “outdated and unpopular design” which has “deteriorated badly”.