All UK articles – Page 953
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NewsRavensbourne sets a pattern
Construction work has begun on Foreign Office Architects’ £50 million Ravensbourne College of Design & Commun-ication, on the Greenwich peninsula in London.
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NewsPublic toilets become gallery space
A former public toilet block in Teddington - The Powder Rooms - has been transformed into a new home for architectural practice, Architecture WK.
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NewsPrince of Wales opens Eastbrook Hall restoration
Eastbrook Hall in the Little Germany area of Bradford has been opened by the Prince of Wales following its restoration by a team headed by the Prince’s Regeneration Trust and designed by Brewster Bye Architects.
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NewsAukett is ditched from pioneering eco-home
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has been axed as the architect of a pioneering eco-home set to be built using hemp at the Building Research Establishment’s innovation park.
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NewsFollett joins Scott Antarctica hut campaign
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has joined the campaign to save a hut in Antarctica used by Captain Scott.
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NewsBeckett insists Thames Gateway remains on track (video)
The development of the Thames Gateway will not fall behind schedule because of the impending recession, housing minister Margaret Beckett has insisted.
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Gareth Hoskins Architects wins Hadrian’s Wall competition
Gareth Hoskins has won the controversial competition to design a major new visitor centre at Hadrian’s Wall.
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NewsMoh Architects wins RIBA contest for Urban Splash’s Walsall waterfront regeneration
Vienna-based Moh Architects has won the RIBA competition to design a new waterfront project in Walsall for Urban Splash.
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Killian Pretty review calls for streamlining of planning system
The government's latest planning review, published today, has called for an overhaul of the system to save up to £300 million and reduce red tape.
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Cabe urges Oxford University to ditch Vinoly's masterplan for Radcliffe Infirmary scheme
Cabe has laid into a new framework document for a site at Oxford University developed from a previous masterplan by Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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NewsSeven shortlisted for Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre refurb
Seven practices, including AHMM and Studio 3, have been shortlisted for the competition to refurbish and update the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool.
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Public row over Conran & Partners’ Sheffield tower
A bitter public row has broken out over Sheffield’s £67 million St Paul’s Tower designed by Conran & Partners, in a dispute between developer and council that could leave the residential building unfinished.
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NewsUK firms on shortlist for 2012 venue conversions
British architects including Lifschutz Davidson Sandlilands, Flacq, Hawkins Brown and David Morley Architects have made it onto a shortlist for one of the last major slices of 2012 Olympic work — a contract worth £350 million to convert existing venues.
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Pylons removed from 2012 site
Work has begun on the removal of 52 pylons that dominate the site for London’s Olympic Park between Hackney and West Ham.
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Work begins on £30m academy
Work has begun on a £30 million further education building in Bristol by local firm AWW.
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BBC seeks workspace architects
The BBC has issued a notice calling for architects to design the workspaces for its flagship building, Broadcasting House in central London. Sheppard Robson, current architect on the project, is doing some of the fit-out as part of its contract with builder Bovis. The workspace architect would work directly with ...
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NewsArchitects strike out over New Forest rejections
Architects exasperated at the “draconian” planning policies of the New Forest Park Authority have set up their own mock design review panel in protest over plans to further tighten development control rules.
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Entry call for school awards
Architects have been invited to enter next year’s British Council for School Environments’ Industry Awards.
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Tories decry likely axing of heritage bill
Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has laid into the government’s policy on heritage following BD’s report that the bill was likely to be dropped from next month’s Queen’s Speech.
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NewsPawson’s sunken storey stays in keeping with Battersea skyline
Terry Pawson Architects has submitted this “low-key” three-home scheme in Battersea, south-west London, for planning.