All UK articles – Page 952

  • News

    Staff face the axe at Urban Splash

    2008-09-18T10:09:00Z

    Urban Splash is set to cut jobs due to the ongoing effects of the credit crunch.

  • BDP shines for Little Britain
    News

    BDP shines for Little Britain

    2008-09-18T00:00:00Z

    BDP scooped the prize for the highest placed architect in the Little Britain Challenge Cup sailing regatta last week (pictured), trouncing the other 27 architects who took part.

  • Ian Simpson's proposed Blackfriar's tower
    News

    London mayor: South Bank towers are inappropriate

    2008-09-17T16:54:00Z

    London mayor Boris Johnson has dealt a massive blow to Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre’s neighbouring tower projects on the South Bank, labelling them “unacceptable”.

  • News

    Prasad hits out at RIBA ‘old boy’s club’ attack

    2008-09-17T16:00:00Z

    RIBA president Sunand Prasad has hit out at the head of one of the UK’s biggest architecture practices after hearing him describe the profession an “old boy’s club”.

  • Chinatown in London
    News

    Feng shui makeover for Chinatown

    2008-09-16T16:52:00Z

    The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment has proposed “healing” parts of London’s Chinatown using ancient Chinese traditions of feng shui.

  • News

    Go ahead for Norwich campus

    2008-09-16T16:23:00Z

    Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has won planning consent for its £120 million masterplan to redevelop City College in Norwich.

  • Foster & Partners’ £600 million Croydon Gateway scheme
    News

    Croydon Council backs Foster Gateway

    2008-09-16T16:18:00Z

    Croydon Council now supports Foster & Partners’ £600 million Croydon Gateway scheme after cutting ties with the developer behind the rival Michael Aukett Architects-designed scheme.

  • News

    Blackfriars towers pair offer their view at inquiry

    2008-09-16T09:29:00Z

    Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre’s Jim Eyre have offered a robust defence of their neighbouring tower projects on London’s South Bank, in the first week of a joint public inquiry into the schemes.

  • Blogs

    News Junkie: 13 and 14 September

    2008-09-15T12:27:00Z

    Planning system changes, Slo Homes and tree houses

  • News

    Canterbury gets £500,000 repair

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    The Save Canterbury Cathedral Appeal has announced a 20-week, £500,000 project to repair the lead roof on the historic building’s south-east transept.

  • News

    Art takes an ad break

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    Plans for a new piece of public art funded through advertising revenue have been unveiled in the West Midlands.

  • News

    Anger as visitor centre list chosen in six hours

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    RIBA and RIAS join architects calling on National Trust to explain Hadrian’s Wall decision

  • News

    Hiring foreign architects set to become harder

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    ...as RIBA survey reveals growing globalisation of large practices

  • The double L-shaped block design, to be submitted for planning in November, will be highly sustainable.
    News

    Coventry job for Arup

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    Arup Associates’ design for a £30 million engineering and computing building has beaten designs by Foster & Partners, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Wilkinson Eyre in a contest by client Coventry University.

  • News

    Design Share award for UK school

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects’ Hazelwood School in Glasgow for pupils with sensory impairment has become the first UK school to win the top honour at the Design Share awards.

  • Interior of the romanesque-byzantine chapel, the only buiding remaining from the original barracks.
    News

    Listing threat to Chelsea Barracks development

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    English Heritage has dealt a new blow to Rogers Stirk Harbour’s controversial Chelsea Barracks scheme by recommending a Victorian chapel on the site be listed at grade II.

  • News

    New lease of life for Soho baths

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    The historic Marshall Street Baths in London’s Soho are to be renovated by Finch Forman Architects as part of a £25 million redevelopment plan backed by Westminster City Council.

  • Tower Works: on hold.
    News

    Developer exits Bauman Lyons’ Leeds eco-scheme

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    Bauman Lyons Architects’ biggest-ever project, a flagship £45 million eco-scheme in Leeds, has suffered a blow from the credit crunch after its developer withdrew from the scheme.

  • Foster has applied to convert Rykwert’s 1970s Inner Court.
    News

    Rykwert building to become school

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    The sole surviving UK building designed by architect and academic Joseph Rykwert is to be converted into a special needs school by Foster & Partners.

  • News

    Bennetts’ design data

    2008-09-12T00:00:00Z

    Edinburgh University last week opened its new School of Informatics research department, designed by Bennetts Associates.