All UK articles – Page 960
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NewsCouncil backs Everton stadium scheme for Kirkby
Knowsley Council has approved Broadway Malyan’s controversial scheme in Kirkby for a new 50,000-seat stadium for Everton FC, and an adjacent retail development led by Tesco.
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Competition launched to design public square for King's Cross station
Camden Council and Network Rail have launched an RIBA competition to design a new public square at King’s Cross in central London.
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NewsThree shortlisted for RIBA's Lubetkin Prize
Three architects have been shortlisted for RIBA’s Lubetkin prize for the most outstanding work of architecture outside the UK and the European Union by an RIBA member.
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NewsLondon mayor set to ditch Rogers as adviser
London mayor Boris Johnson has indicated that Labour peer Richard Rogers is unlikely to continue as the city’s adviser on architecture and urbanism under his administration.Speaking at City Hall on Wednesday, Johnson said: “I’ll certainly be maintaining the role of an adviser on architecture or urbanism, but you’ll have to ...
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NewsLe Corbusier's Ronchamp chapel stirs passions online
An online war is pitting some of the biggest names in world architecture against each other in a bid to influence the French Minister of Culture over the future of Le Corbusier’s world famous Ronchamp chapel.
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NewsEIB takes quantum leap
The European Union’s international financing arm, The European Investment Bank, will this week unveil its new 10-storey headquarters in Kirchberg, Luxembourg, designed by German architect Ingenhoven.
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NewsLiving Steel shortlist announced
British architects make up three of the 12 teams shortlisted for Living Steel’s third International Architecture Competition for Sustainable Housing.
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BSF boosted by new design director role
The role of design within the government’s £45 billion Building Schools for the Future programme is set to be boosted thanks to a raft of reforms including a powerful new architect role within delivery body Partnerships for Schools.
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NewsRitchie hits out at Southwark Council over Potter’s Field
Ian Ritchie has spoken out against Southwark Council’s decision to engage a new architect for Potter’s Field.
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News2012 Velodrome set to ditch timber roof
Hopes that the London 2012 Olympics might be a beacon for the use of sustainable wood could be dashed after it emerged that the Hopkins-designed Velodrome is set to boast a steel roof rather than a timber one as originally planned.
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NewsIOC gives London 2012 preparation “clean bill of health”
Preparations for London 2012 were given a clean bill of health yesterday at the end of a three-day visit by an international team of Olympic inspectors.
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NewsWait pays off for new-build scheme
After four years of trying, David Nossiter Architects has won planning consent for a new-build timber and glass house on a prominent corner of Honor Oak conservation area in south-east London.
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NewsCaruso St John and dRMM among seven architects picked to join 2012 Athletes Village team
Seven leading architects have been appointed to join the team designing the £2 billion London Athletes Village amid a renewed focus on design quality.As the International Olympic Committee visited the capital to check on 2012 progress this week, Athletes Village developer Lend Lease announced it had appointed de Rijke Marsh ...
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NewsLipton warns that London's planning sector is over-reliant on Australians
Developer and former Cabe chairman Stuart Lipton has warned MPs that London’s planning sector is over reliant on short-term agency staff from Australia — a situation he claimed is creating a “stop-go” development culture.Speaking at a Parliamentary debate on Monday hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Built Environment Group, Lipton ...
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NewsClearance to start on BDP’s university campus site
BDP has revealed the first images of its Newport city centre campus for the University of Wales, which will sit on the banks of the River Usk.
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NewsCambridge gets little bit of Malmö
A residential scheme for Cambridge (above) by HTA Architects has won planning permission after an appeal.
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NewsChildren’s building blocks
Sarah Wigglesworth Architects has revealed images of its £925,000 Heathfield Children’s Centre & Nursery School in Richmond upon Thames.
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NewsMinister U-turns on Giant’s Causeway
A dramatic U-turn by Northern Ireland environment minister Arlene Foster this week cleared the way for Heneghan Peng’s Giant’s Causeway visitor centre.
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NewsRosy future for Syrian kids’ centre
Henning Larsen Architects and landscape architect Martha Schwartz Partners have won an international competition for a children’s “discovery centre” and public park in Damascus, Syria, a country where 40% of the population is under the age of 16.
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NewsChester tower in landmark refurb
McCormick Architecture has won full planning for a mixed-use scheme in Chester which includes refurbishing the city’s tallest building — the grade II listed, 51m-high Lead Shot Tower, empty since 1986.