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Persimmon the big winner in first tranche of Kickstart 2

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:10:00 GMT

The Homes & Communities Agency has announced details of the first schemes it will fund under round two of its controversial Kickstart programme, with Persimmon Homes winning public money for the most number of schemes.

Plan for new Brighton play centre unveiled

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:59:00 GMT

Local practice Morgan Cann Architects is behind the design for a new children’s play centre in Brighton.

Uni campus wins environmental award

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:57:00 GMT

A university campus design by GWP Architecture has won a BREEAM Award.

Design competition for Northern Ireland homes

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:14:00 GMT

A design competition to build 70 energy efficient homes has been launched in Northern Ireland.

Hospital win for Penoyre & Prasad

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:52:00 GMT

Penoyre & Prasad has been picked to design a new hospital in Welwyn Garden City.

Scots design body looking for new boss

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:56:00 GMT

Architecture & Design Scotland is on the hunt for a new chief executive following the resignation of Sebastian Tombs last summer.

US architects Bruce Graham and Raimund Abraham die

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:10:00 GMT

The architect behind the Sears Tower in Chicago, at the time of its completion in 1973 the tallest building in the world, died last weekend.

New University Centre in Grimsby unveiled by Ryder Architecture

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:08:00 GMT

Ryder Architecture has unveiled images of its £25 million University Centre for higher education organization the Grimsby Institute in South Humberside.

Chile practice Elemental scoops Brit Insurance Design Award

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:15:00 GMT

Elemental’s Monterrey housing development has beaten the likes of David Chipperfield, Tony Fretton, Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid to scoop the architecture category in the 2010 Brit Insurance Design Awards.

Glass buildings are set to become ‘pariahs’

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:33:00 GMT

Days may be numbered for showcases such as Foster’s Gherkin, warns Cambridge expert

Chiswick blossoms

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:39:00 GMT

Visitors to Chiswick House & Gardens in west London are enjoying the first signs of spring at Caruso St John’s newly opened £1.8 million café

Prince’s barracks remarks ‘ignorant’

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:47:00 GMT

A letter from Prince Charles which described Richard Rogers’ designs for Chelsea Barracks as “brutalist” and helped thwart the landmark development was condemned as ignorant and dangerous this week

Mather Oxford plan fails to win over EH

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:52:00 GMT

Watchdog speaks out over proposed demolition in Keble campus scheme

EH demands action over Lubetkin health centre

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:56:00 GMT

English Heritage has written to the owner of Lubetkin’s threatened Finsbury Health Centre demanding a meeting to discuss its worsening state of repair

Environment key to shaping university’s £1.2m design centre

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:04:00 GMT

Work has started on Niall McLaughlin Architects’ £1.2 million Centre for Design at Cranfield University in Bedford

HCA sees scores for Kickstart rocket

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:09:00 GMT

Kickstart-funded housing developments given low Building for Life scores by Cabe were reassessed for the Homes & Communities Agency and subsequently scored far higher

City farm to go on site of van Egeraat scheme

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:14:00 GMT

A “pop up” city farm is to be created on the site of Erick van Egeraat’s multi-billion-pound masterplan to regenerate east London’s Canning Town and Custom House, which starts in 2012

Bad reception at the Beeb

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:19:00 GMT

The NAO’s scathing report on the corporation’s building projects may offer short-term schadenfreude to certain architects — but what are the longer-term consequences for the profession

This week's ups & downs

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:58:00 GMT

Hot and not

Court battle over Exhibition Road looms

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:05:00 GMT

The charity Guide Dogs has been given permission to apply for a judicial review of Dixon Jones’ Exhibition Road scheme.

Home emissions plan welcomed

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:23:00 GMT

The RIBA and the UK Green Building Council have welcomed the government’s latest strategy to reduce household energy emissions.

Marsh plants seeds of Meadows

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:26:00 GMT

Nottingham-based practice Marsh Grochowski has revealed images of its £8 million 38-home sustainable housing development for developer Blueprint.

New cladding competition launched for Guy's Hospital

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:56:00 GMT

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London has launched its second architectural competition in less than a month, seeking expressions of interest for a £21 million cladding project.

Cyclists gear up for Cannes ride

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:17:00 GMT

Riders participating in Cycle To Cannes, the annual sponsored bicycle ride to Mipim, have reached the last leg of fundraising before the ride starts next Thursday.

Bomber memorial design on show

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:21:00 GMT

Liam O’Connor has unveiled his design for a £3 million memorial in London’s Green Park to the 55,573 men of the Bomber Command air crew who died during the Second World War.

Strong shortlist for new Design Museum

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:46:00 GMT

Tony Fretton, Stanton Williams, David Chipperfield, John Pawson, Caruso St John, Haworth Tompkins and Dutch firm Claus en Kaan are in the race to create a new home for the Design Museum inside London’s former Commonwealth Institute building.

Aberdeen graduates visualise controversial City Square project

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:36:00 GMT

A group of young graduates have created a series of visualisations of how the controversial £140 million redevelopment of Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens could look.

OMA partner quits to set up new practice

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:25:00 GMT

OMA partner Ole Scheeren has confirmed he is leaving the practice to set up his own practice.

Science Museum set to launch £25 million design competition

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:40:00 GMT

The Science Museum will launch an international design competition for a £25 million new set of galleries this autumn.

Fretton associate forms new practice

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:47:00 GMT

Sandy Rendel, an associate at Tony Fretton Architects, has announced that he is to set up a new London-based Sandy Rendel Architects.

Broadway Malyan’s eyes on Guide Dogs prize

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:06:00 GMT

Work has begun on Broadway Malyan’s design for a new national breeding centre for the charity Guide Dogs

Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands trys again in Streatham

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:11:00 GMT

Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has submitted fresh plans to redevelop a former bowling alley and nightclub in south London.

Chiswick blossoms

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:39:00 GMT

Visitors to Chiswick House & Gardens in west London are enjoying the first signs of spring at Caruso St John’s newly opened £1.8 million café

Wilkinson Eyre's New Bodleian awaits chapter and verse

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:32:00 GMT

Wilkinson Eyre has unveiled its plans for the £78 million restoration of the New Bodleian library building in Oxford.

Libeskind's Dublin Canal Theatre completes

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:29:00 GMT

Daniel Libeskind's €75 million (£68 million) Grand Canal Theatre project in Dublin has completed, with the grand opening of the new 2000-seat venue due to take place in a fortnight.

Cartwright Pickard's Wakefield office block gets go-ahead

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:42:00 GMT

A new council office development designed by Cartwright Pickard Architects has been given the green light by council planners in West Yorkshire.

WAM's new Dutch hotel

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:56:00 GMT

Dutch practice WAM Architecten is behind the design of new hotel in the town of Zaandam.

Rivington bold-as-brass Hackney school extension wins consent

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:09:00 GMT

Rivington Street Studio has won planning permission for the £6 million extension and refurbishment of a school in Hackney, east London

Fresh images of New Covent Garden revamp unveiled

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:40:00 GMT

Fresh images of the redevelopment of New Covent Garden market, by Foster & Partners and Neil Tomlinson Architects, have been unveiled.

Lee Boyd Architects' community hub wins planning

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:04:00 GMT

Edinburgh based practice Lee Boyd Architects has won planning permission for a £3 million community hub in Gorebridge, Scotland.

Nouvel's Abu Dhabi Louvre foundations laid

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:01:00 GMT

Piling work has started on Jean Nouvel's Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi.

Howells' Cambridge Fire Station secures funding

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:51:00 GMT

Glenn Howells’ plans to redevelop Cambridge Fire Station have taken a step forward with two property firms agreeing terms to fund the project

Brisac Gonzalez tackles Paris site to win consent for sports centre

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:21:00 GMT

Brisac Gonzalez has won planning consent for its competition-winning design for the new £6.5 million Pajol Sports Centre in Paris

Napper's Northumberland media centre design revealed

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:51:00 GMT

Napper Architects has drawn up plans for a £3.5 million media centre at a school in Northumberland.

Japanese practice wins competition to design Zurich Airport mixed-use scheme

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:29:00 GMT

Japanese architects Riken Yamamoto & Field Shop have beaten 90 practices including Zaha Hadid Architects to design a 200,000sq m mixed-use building at Zurich Airport.

Studio 4's teenage treatment centre completes

Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:46:00 GMT

London based practice Studio 4 has completed work on Simmons House, a clinical treatment centre for teenagers at St Luke’s psychiatric hospital in Muswell Hill, London.

Feilden Clegg Bradley goes for gold in Worcester

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:10:00 GMT

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has released pictures of its £60 million Worcester University Library & History Centre, which is progressing despite the government axe falling on university capital budgets

Paradise in Birmingham

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:48:00 GMT

Consultation began this week on an urban masterplan for Birmingham by Glenn Howells Architects.

Scott Tallon Walker unveils pictures of Bedford school

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:14:00 GMT

Scott Tallon Walker Architects has unveiled pictures of its completed £1.5 million St Thomas More Catholic Upper School activity centre in Bedford.

Turley Associates to redevelop former home of the Chocolate Orange

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:50:00 GMT

A scheme by masterplanner Turley Associates to turn the former home of the Terry’s Chocolate factory in York into a mixed-use scheme has been given the green light by city planners – despite Cabe objections.

Will Stirling feel the Neues?

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Chinese visualisation firm Crystal, sponsor of the London Olympics, won’t be sponsoring this year’s Stirling Prize

Very wound up

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

News that the practice headed by Richard Seifert’s son John has been wound up by the tax- man might come as a relief to news editors everywhere

Text assured

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Architects fired from projects by text message will be heartened to read that the boot is now on the other foot

US architects Bruce Graham and Raimund Abraham die

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:10:00 GMT

The architect behind the Sears Tower in Chicago, at the time of its completion in 1973 the tallest building in the world, died last weekend.

Science Museum set to launch £25 million design competition

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:40:00 GMT

The Science Museum will launch an international design competition for a £25 million new set of galleries this autumn.

OMA partner quits to set up new practice

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:25:00 GMT

OMA partner Ole Scheeren has confirmed he is leaving the practice to set up his own practice.

AIA billings index drops again

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:18:00 GMT

Architecture billings in the US have taken another tumble, with the American Institute of Architect’s billing index falling three points in January.

London's US Embassy: The other designs

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:09:00 GMT

The American Embassy has revealed images of all four of the shortlisted schemes for its new home in Battersea, after naming the scheme by Philadelphia based Kieran Timberlake as the winner of the $1 billion project.

Zaha Hadid reveals designs for Jordanian cultural centre (flythrough)

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:02:00 GMT

Zaha Hadid has drawn up plans for a showpiece performing arts and cultural centre in the Jordanian capital of Amman.

Kieran Timberlake to design new US Embassy

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:48:00 GMT

Philadelphia-based practice Kieran Timberlake has won the competition to design Britain’s new US Embassy.

Libeskind defends Dresden design

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:01:00 GMT

Daniel Libeskind has defended his controversial design for the extension of the Dresden Military Museum in Germany, following criticism over the design’s unpopularity among the public.

SANAA's Rolex Learning Centre opens

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:55:00 GMT

SANAA’s Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland, has opened.

Foreign Office sharply criticised over embassy buildings

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:58:00 GMT

A new report by the National Audit Office has condemned the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for wasting millions of pounds on its embassy buildings.

Olympics may fail to regenerate east London, report warns

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:42:00 GMT

The 2012 Olympics may not leave its promised legacy of regeneration in east London, a report warned today.

ODA reveals £21m increase in Olympics costs

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:33:00 GMT

The Olympic Delivery Authority has revealed a £21 million increase in the anticipated final cost of the delivery of the 2012 Olympics.

Persimmon the big winner in first tranche of Kickstart 2

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:10:00 GMT

Plan for new Brighton play centre unveiled

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:59:00 GMT

Local practice Morgan Cann Architects is behind the design for a new children’s play centre in Brighton.

Uni campus wins environmental award

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:57:00 GMT

A university campus design by GWP Architecture has won a BREEAM Award.

Design competition for Northern Ireland homes

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:14:00 GMT

A design competition to build 70 energy efficient homes has been launched in Northern Ireland.

Hospital win for Penoyre & Prasad

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:52:00 GMT

Penoyre & Prasad has been picked to design a new hospital in Welwyn Garden City.

Scots design body looking for new boss

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:56:00 GMT

Architecture & Design Scotland is on the hunt for a new chief executive following the resignation of Sebastian Tombs last summer.

New University Centre in Grimsby unveiled by Ryder Architecture

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:08:00 GMT

Ryder Architecture has unveiled images of its £25 million University Centre for higher education organization the Grimsby Institute in South Humberside.

Chile practice Elemental scoops Brit Insurance Design Award

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:15:00 GMT

Glass buildings are set to become ‘pariahs’

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:33:00 GMT

Days may be numbered for showcases such as Foster’s Gherkin, warns Cambridge expert

Prince’s barracks remarks ‘ignorant’

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:47:00 GMT

Mather Oxford plan fails to win over EH

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:52:00 GMT

Watchdog speaks out over proposed demolition in Keble campus scheme

EH demands action over Lubetkin health centre

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:56:00 GMT

English Heritage has written to the owner of Lubetkin’s threatened Finsbury Health Centre demanding a meeting to discuss its worsening state of repair

Environment key to shaping university’s £1.2m design centre

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:04:00 GMT

Work has started on Niall McLaughlin Architects’ £1.2 million Centre for Design at Cranfield University in Bedford

HCA sees scores for Kickstart rocket

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:09:00 GMT

Kickstart-funded housing developments given low Building for Life scores by Cabe were reassessed for the Homes & Communities Agency and subsequently scored far higher

City farm to go on site of van Egeraat scheme

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:14:00 GMT

A “pop up” city farm is to be created on the site of Erick van Egeraat’s multi-billion-pound masterplan to regenerate east London’s Canning Town and Custom House, which starts in 2012

Bad reception at the Beeb

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:19:00 GMT

The NAO’s scathing report on the corporation’s building projects may offer short-term schadenfreude to certain architects — but what are the longer-term consequences for the profession

This week's ups & downs

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:58:00 GMT

Hot and not

Court battle over Exhibition Road looms

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:05:00 GMT

The charity Guide Dogs has been given permission to apply for a judicial review of Dixon Jones’ Exhibition Road scheme.

Home emissions plan welcomed

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:23:00 GMT

The RIBA and the UK Green Building Council have welcomed the government’s latest strategy to reduce household energy emissions.

Marsh plants seeds of Meadows

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:26:00 GMT

Nottingham-based practice Marsh Grochowski has revealed images of its £8 million 38-home sustainable housing development for developer Blueprint.

New cladding competition launched for Guy's Hospital

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:56:00 GMT

Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital in London has launched its second architectural competition in less than a month, seeking expressions of interest for a £21 million cladding project.

Bomber memorial design on show

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:21:00 GMT

Liam O’Connor has unveiled his design for a £3 million memorial in London’s Green Park to the 55,573 men of the Bomber Command air crew who died during the Second World War.

Cyclists gear up for Cannes ride

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:17:00 GMT

Riders participating in Cycle To Cannes, the annual sponsored bicycle ride to Mipim, have reached the last leg of fundraising before the ride starts next Thursday.

Aberdeen graduates visualise controversial City Square project

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:36:00 GMT

A group of young graduates have created a series of visualisations of how the controversial £140 million redevelopment of Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens could look.

Battersea Power Station project threatened by heritage row

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:02:00 GMT

A row has erupted over a little-known pumping station that threatens to derail Rafael Vinoly’s entire £5.5 billion redevelopment of Battersea Power Station.

Strong shortlist for new Design Museum

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:46:00 GMT

Fretton associate forms new practice

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:47:00 GMT

Sandy Rendel, an associate at Tony Fretton Architects, has announced that he is to set up a new London-based Sandy Rendel Architects.

Prince's letter that helped sink Chelsea Barracks plan revealed

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:21:00 GMT

Prince Charles described Richard Rogers’ designs for Chelsea Barracks as “brutalist” in a letter which helped thwart the landmark development.

Prominent 1930s office building refurbished by DLG Architects

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:38:00 GMT

DLG Architects has completed a £3 million renovation of the grade II-listed Sunlight House in Spinningfields, Manchester’s new commercial district.

Planning granted for Robert Adam's Jersey development

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:49:00 GMT

Robert Adam Architects has been granted planning consent for three major new houses in Jersey.