All UK articles – Page 952
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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RIBA looking for floodproof home
RIBA and insurer Norwich Union have launched a joint competition to design a floodproof home.
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NewsTheatre foyer given the go-ahead
CZWG’s East Terrace Foyer, part of its Bournemouth pavilion and gardens project, has been granted planning permission
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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.
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NewsThirteen practices shortlisted for RIBA South West awards
Thirteen practices will battle it out in the seventh annual RIBA South West Town & Country Design Awards next month.
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Mecanoo wins Birmingham Library competition
Mecanoo has won the competition to design the new Birmingham Library, beating fellow Dutch stars OMA along with Foster & Partners, Foreign Office Architects, Hopkins, Wilkinson Eyre and Schmidt Hammer Lassen.
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NewsFoster scheme has clear run 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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NewsKen blasts Boris for ditching 100 Public Spaces programme
Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone has launched a stinging attack on his successor Boris Johnson, accusing him of cost cutting and “hypocrisy” following BD’s revelation that he has axed the 100 Public Spaces programme.