All UK articles – Page 961
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NewsCroydon contest will transform A212 ‘canyon’
An international competition to transform Croydon’s “canyon” – the A212 – will launch on Friday.
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NewsGreen light for TP Bennett's O2 HQ
The TP Bennett-designed O2 UK headquarters in Slough, Berkshire has been granted planning permission.
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Pressure on Arb mounts as Tories raise questions
The Conservative Party has stepped up the pressure on Arb by tabling a series of questions to the government about the organisation’s spending habits and running costs.
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NewsCabe design review slams Aukett Fitzroy Robinson’s £450m Birmingham Eastside Locks masterplan
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson’s £450 million masterplan for the Eastside Locks area of Birmingham has been slammed by Cabe, which says it has “fundamental” concerns about the proposal.
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NewsAccordia wins the Stirling Prize
Accordia in Cambridge by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington has won the 2008 Stirling Prize.
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NewsRogers’ east London Wood Wharf masterplan wins outline planning consent
Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners’ Wood Wharf masterplan for the Isle of Dogs in east London has won outline planning approval.
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NewsRIAS announces Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award shortlist
The 2008 shortlist for the Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award, which is given by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, has been announced.
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Candy buys Noho Square development from Icelandic bank
Christian Candy has stepped in to save Make’s £200 million Noho Square scheme from potential collapse after its major backer, Icelandic bank Kaupthing, was nationalised and its UK arm put into administration this week.
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NewsSoho hotel to get 1930s refurb
Celebrity haunt and art deco masterpiece, the Regent Palace Hotel in London’s Soho, is being converted into a mixed-use development, with its bars and restaurants refurbished to their original state by Donald Insall Associates.
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Welsh Assembly should use architects to cut CO2
The Design Commission for Wales has called on the Welsh Assembly to use architects to help address the country’s carbon reduction and house-building agenda.
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NewsEH lists its top 20 heritage projects
Liverpool’s Bluecoat arts centre, King’s Cross Central in London and Sheffield’s Park Hill have been named in an English Heritage list of England’s 20 best conservation-led developments.
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NewsBath adds a black splash
Bath & North East Somerset Council has granted planning for Mitchell Taylor Workshop’s complementary health clinic and martial arts centre in Bath city centre.
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NewsAHMM’s Saatchi gallery opens
The new AHMM-designed Saatchi Gallery in the listed Duke of York’s Headquarters building in Chelsea opened to the public on Thursday.
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Hopkins’ exemplary aim for WWF
Hopkins Architects is to design a UK headquarters for conservation body WWF-UK in Surrey that aims to be an exemplar of sustainable design.
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Book a table for BD awards
BD will celebrate the crème de la crème of UK architecture at the annual Architect of the Year Awards on 30 October at Park Lane’s London Hilton.
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NewsLords call for design to be at heart of planning bill
Design quality must be placed at the heart of the new planning bill, peers in the House of Lords demanded this week.
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NewsSt Patrick’s bold plans
RMJM, in collaboration with Irish practice Taylor Architects, has submitted plans for a £40 million redevelopment of St Patrick’s College, the education department at Dublin City University.
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Foster, Rogers join NT campaign
A campaign to save John Vanbrugh’s grade I listed masterpiece, Seaton Delaval Hall, has been boosted by support from Richard Rogers and Norman Foster.
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Eyre and Wilkinson devolve control
Wilkinson Eyre founders Jim Eyre and Chris Wilkinson have transferred company control and substantial shareholdings to the firm’s board of directors as part of a “succession strategy” for the future.
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NewsTower inquiry dubious over mayor’s opposition
Planning inspector gives hope to South Bank schemes’ prospects