All UK articles – Page 958
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NewsAdjaye is chairman of the boards
Work on this prefabricated house in east London, designed by David Adjaye, is almost complete.
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ACA attacks chartered scheme
The Association of Consultant Architects has attacked the RIBA’s plan to launch its controversial Chartered Practice scheme, to be launched in the summer.
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£4 million for seafront revamp
The Northwest Regional Development Agency has approved £4 million of funding for phase two of Blackpool’s Central Seafront redevelopment, masterplanned by Edaw.
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NewsUrban golf enthusiast dies at 34
Friends have paid tribute to Jeremy “Jez” Feakes, a director of architecture practice Unit 20, remembering his “drive, intelligence, zest and sense of fun”. Feakes died earlier this week aged 34 after a fall at his studio.
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Fat wins its first work for Liverpool
Fat has beaten competition from Marks Barfield, Page & Park and Hawkins Brown to design a new building within Liverpool’s £900 million Paradise Street retail development.
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NewsRIBA fails to promote us to public, say members
Largest ever survey of the profession calls on the institute to campaign harder on key issues
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NewsLand deal gives Trinity Quarter green light
Scottish Parliament architect EMBT will see its second major project in the UK built after a land deal was finally struck for a Leeds shopping centre site that has been in limbo for most of the last decade.
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NewsIvor Cunningham
Ivor Cunningham (pictured), the architect and landscape architect best known for his Mallard Place housing scheme in Twickenham, has died aged 78.
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Your direct line to Prince Charles
Next month’s Think07 sustainability and regeneration conference is inviting architects to submit suggestions for climate change pledges to be presented to Prince Charles during his video address to delegates on May 1.
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New CDM guidelines in force
New safety regulations for the construction industry will come into force tomorrow, despite the Tories’ efforts to derail them.
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Library seen as new cash cow
The RIBA has revealed plans to open up its greatest treasures to the public through digitising the bulk of its 4 million-strong archive and by making access to its library free of charge to everyone.
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ODA masterplan ‘robust’ — Cabe
Cabe has given broad support to the Olympic Delivery Authority’s planning application for its Olympic Games masterplan.
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NewsPublic buildings get energy rating
Public buildings from the House of Commons to local libraries are to get energy ratings similar to those used on fridges.
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NewsManta ray bridge glides into Dublin
This slender structure spanning Dublin’s Royal Canal is Future Systems’ Luas Bridge in the city’s docklands.
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Booming hotel sector set to rocket
Architects working in the hotel sector have been boosted by a new report predicting rapid growth in the UK market.
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Blackpool’s regeneration hopes look up
Regeneration task force launched as Lords reject casino decision
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Welsh architects’ green proposals
The Royal Society of Architects in Wales this week launched its first architecture manifesto, 21 Actions for a Better Wales, to influence candidates for the Welsh Assembly election on May 3.
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Architect fined over Legionnaires
An investigation into the UK’s worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease, which killed seven people in the summer of 2002, has found a catalogue of mistakes by officials at Barrow Borough Council in Cumbria.
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NewsEdinburgh scheme approved
Controversial plans by Gareth Hoskins and Comprehensive Design Architects for this redevelopment in the Edinburgh world heritage site have been approved.
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£3 million helps colliery refurb
English Heritage has given £3 million to help refurbish and secure the future of buildings at Stoke-On-Trent’s historic Chatterley Whitfield Colliery.