All UK articles – Page 956
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Stansted expansion goes on site
Construction of the £40 million Stansted Airport extension began this week.
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History hard to live with, say emergency services
The listings system is preventing emergency services from delivering their services effectively, it was claimed this week.
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NewsMilton Keynes drops flagship marina plans
Major clients reject award winning architects for key site because designs are too ‘up in the sky’
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NewsLighthouse debut at Offsite show
Lighthouse, a Sheppard Robson-designed scheme billed as the “first net zero carbon house”, will be unveiled at the Building Research Establishment’s Offsite 2007 exhibition in June.
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NewsChapman Taylor sets sail in Portsmouth
Chapman Taylor’s designs for the £350 million Northern Quarter development in Portsmouth’s city centre have been unveiled as part of a major public consultation.
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Jewish Community Centre designer chosen
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has won the competition to design London’s Jewish Community Centre, ahead of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Foreign Office Architects and Rafael Viñoly Architects.
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NewsCapita Symonds’ new MD is Goring
Multidisciplinary giant Capita Symonds has appointed Jonathan Goring as its new managing director, replacing Bill Dye, who returns to Capita Group PLC.
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NewsCCA’s monkey business
Work has begun on this £4.5 million chimpanzee enclosure at Edinburgh Zoo by Cooper Cromar Architects.
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NewsEleven vie for civic building title
A total of 11 buildings across the UK have been shortlisted for the 2007 Scala civic building of the year.
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Quality prize for Seacole building
Associated Architects’ Seacole building at the University of Central England has received a Built in Quality award from Birmingham City Council.
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NewsSpace Craft and Urban Splash win Bristol design
Space Craft Architects is to design Urban Splash’s second development in Bristol.
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NewsHouse of Human Rights embraces bold design
This dramatic design by Wilkinson Eyre Architects is for a new Amnesty International building in Milan.
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Viñoly and Piano at BCO meeting
Rafael Viñoly and Renzo Piano are to head a panel of architects discussing trends in office design at the British Council for Offices’ annual conference in New York.
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NewsGarden suburb must stay basement-free
Plans to alter houses at west London’s Bedford Park — the nation’s earliest garden suburb — have been rejected in a landmark ruling by the Planning Inspectorate.
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Public wants space not style, architects told
Over-design is creating public spaces that people don’t want to use, warns top think-tank
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Save to appeal on Supreme Court
Save Britain’s Heritage has requested permission to appeal against the judicial review which ruled in favour of converting Westminster’s grade II* listed Middlesex Guildhall into a new Supreme Court (News March 30).
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NewsHeritage cash aids Castle refit
Feilden Clegg Bradley’s project to restore Taunton Castle and turn it into the Museum of Somerset has won £4.8 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Lib Dems advocate ‘energy mortgages’
The Liberal Democrats have set out stringent proposals to cut domestic carbon emissions through refurbishment, after taking advice from the RIBA.
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NewsGrosvenor defends Paradise St
Developer blames tight timescales for Liverpool scheme’s £140m loss