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Rogers joins campaign to save steel bungalows

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:55:00 GMT

Leading architects and developers including Richard Rogers, Ron Arad, Glenn Howells and Peter Palumbo have joined a campaign to save two rare 1970s bungalows in north London by architects Robin Spence and Robin Webster

AOC takes a concrete approach to updating the Edwardian semi

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT

AOC has completed work on a £420,000 project to overhaul an Edwardian semi-detached family home in Golders Green, north-west London

Wisdom of Solomon

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:29:00 GMT

The King Solomon Academy, by Ian Ritchie Architects, has been re-established on a site formerly occupied by North Westminster Community School in London. It incorporates existing grade II* listed buildings by Leonard Manasseh built in 1959-60

Mipim hopes overseas projects will lure 18,000

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:35:00 GMT

Attendance set to match last year’s as property fair takes industry’s pulse

Wind turbines being installed in Elephant & Castle Strata tower

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:00 GMT

Work to install three wind turbines at a huge new Hamiltons-designed tower in south London is due to be completed next week

London practice pays £5.71 an hour

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:01:00 GMT

A London architect is offering short-term staff an hourly rate of just £5.71 — below the minimum wage of £5.80

Amin Taha loses fees to fraudster

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:05:00 GMT

Amin Taha Architects has revealed it is £60,000 out of pocket after falling victim to one of the most wanted fraudsters in the country

Parliament to grill HCA boss over Kickstart

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:16:00 GMT

BD’s Come Clean on Kickstart campaign scored a political coup this week as the communities & local government select committee announced it would grill the government and the Homes & Communities Agency on the matter, while the shadow housing...

Agency could veto Howells’ M5 services

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:20:00 GMT

Glenn Howells’ groundbreaking motorway service station proposal for the M5 could be vetoed by the Highways Agency over fears it will become a tourist destination in its own right

Aukett’s staff take £750,000 salary cut

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:27:00 GMT

A drastic round of salary cuts at Aukett Fitzroy Robinson is expected to save the firm more than £750,000 this year — around 5% of the firm’s business

Hare’s curved roof is set to hit a high note

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:31:00 GMT

Work starts on site next month on Nicholas Hare’s workshop in Essex for the Royal Opera House’s backstage team

RIBA’s student hardship fund is set to run dry

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:24:00 GMT

Record number of applications means institute will turn down people in genuine need

This week's ups & downs

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:31:00 GMT

Hot and not

Cabe drops backing for Europan

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:22:00 GMT

Cabe, which has facilitated the Europan competition in the UK for the last six years, has announced it will not be backing Europan 11

Sustainable housing competition

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:20:00 GMT

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

Devon and Hampshire eco-towns sites added

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:03:00 GMT

Housing minister John Healey has added sites in Devon and Hampshire to the nine local authorities already on a list to develop second-wave eco-towns.

BDP opens new office in Abu Dhabi

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:05:00 GMT

BDP has opened up an office in Abu Dhabi after partnering with local design practice SYNA.

Architect of Bromley-by-Bow Tesco scheme goes back to the drawing board

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:17:00 GMT

Collado Collins has been sent back to the drawing board by client Tesco after Cabe savaged its plans for a regeneration project in Bromley-by-Bow.

YRM wins Sizewell contract

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:21:00 GMT

YRM has won its second major scheme in the country’s growing nuclear sector with a deal to masterplan EDF Energy’s site at Sizewell in Suffolk.

Danish firm wins International Criminal Court contract despite coming second in competition

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:39:00 GMT

Danish architect Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won the contract to build the new €190 million headquarters for the International Criminal Court in The Hague, despite coming second in the competition for the project.

Second Heron tower rises from the City

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:49:00 GMT

Work has started on The Heron, David Walker and RHWL Architects’ residential tower in the City of London.

HCA and Cabe close ranks over Kickstart – but chairman admits shock over standards

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:51:00 GMT

Cabe and the Homes & Communities Agency have insisted they still have a well functioning relationship amid the row over Kickstart design standards.

Cabe savages Tesco-led development in Bow

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:42:00 GMT

Collado Collins’ scheme for a major supermarket-led regeneration project in east London has been attacked by Cabe.

Thames Gateway home numbers fall short

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:51:00 GMT

Only around a third of the new homes promised under the government’s flagship Thames Gateway scheme have been built as the project passes its half-way mark.

Olympic Park Legacy Company bolsters management team

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:55:00 GMT

Three new members have been appointed to the Olympic Park Legacy Company’s executive management team.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wisdom of Solomon

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:29:00 GMT

Feilden Clegg Bradley's Jodrell Bank visitor centre

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:26:00 GMT

Planners at Cheshire East Council are examining designs by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios to build a new visitor centre at Manchester University’s Jodrell Bank Observatory.

Glasgow firm scoops Loch Ness visitor centre competition

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:36:00 GMT

Cameron Webster Architects has won a £2.3 million competition to design a visitor centre for Loch Ness.

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

Just can’t stop — Pringles and the aquatics centre

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Word reaches Boots that people living near the Olympic Park are divided over the nickname for Zaha Hadid’s aquatics centre

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

Danish firm wins International Criminal Court contract despite coming second in competition

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:39:00 GMT

BDP opens new office in Abu Dhabi

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:05:00 GMT

BDP has opened up an office in Abu Dhabi after partnering with local design practice SYNA.

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.

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.

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.

Olympic Park Legacy Company bolsters management team

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:55:00 GMT

Three new members have been appointed to the Olympic Park Legacy Company’s executive management team.

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.

Rogers joins campaign to save steel bungalows

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:55:00 GMT

AOC takes a concrete approach to updating the Edwardian semi

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:00:00 GMT

AOC has completed work on a £420,000 project to overhaul an Edwardian semi-detached family home in Golders Green, north-west London

Mipim hopes overseas projects will lure 18,000

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:35:00 GMT

Attendance set to match last year’s as property fair takes industry’s pulse

Wind turbines being installed in Elephant & Castle Strata tower

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:57:00 GMT

Work to install three wind turbines at a huge new Hamiltons-designed tower in south London is due to be completed next week

London practice pays £5.71 an hour

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:01:00 GMT

A London architect is offering short-term staff an hourly rate of just £5.71 — below the minimum wage of £5.80

Amin Taha loses fees to fraudster

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:05:00 GMT

Amin Taha Architects has revealed it is £60,000 out of pocket after falling victim to one of the most wanted fraudsters in the country

Parliament to grill HCA boss over Kickstart

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:16:00 GMT

Agency could veto Howells’ M5 services

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:20:00 GMT

Glenn Howells’ groundbreaking motorway service station proposal for the M5 could be vetoed by the Highways Agency over fears it will become a tourist destination in its own right

Aukett’s staff take £750,000 salary cut

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:27:00 GMT

A drastic round of salary cuts at Aukett Fitzroy Robinson is expected to save the firm more than £750,000 this year — around 5% of the firm’s business

Hare’s curved roof is set to hit a high note

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:31:00 GMT

Work starts on site next month on Nicholas Hare’s workshop in Essex for the Royal Opera House’s backstage team

RIBA’s student hardship fund is set to run dry

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:24:00 GMT

Record number of applications means institute will turn down people in genuine need

This week's ups & downs

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:31:00 GMT

Hot and not

Cabe drops backing for Europan

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:22:00 GMT

Cabe, which has facilitated the Europan competition in the UK for the last six years, has announced it will not be backing Europan 11

Sustainable housing competition

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:20:00 GMT

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

Devon and Hampshire eco-towns sites added

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:03:00 GMT

Housing minister John Healey has added sites in Devon and Hampshire to the nine local authorities already on a list to develop second-wave eco-towns.

Architect of Bromley-by-Bow Tesco scheme goes back to the drawing board

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:17:00 GMT

Collado Collins has been sent back to the drawing board by client Tesco after Cabe savaged its plans for a regeneration project in Bromley-by-Bow.

YRM wins Sizewell contract

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:21:00 GMT

YRM has won its second major scheme in the country’s growing nuclear sector with a deal to masterplan EDF Energy’s site at Sizewell in Suffolk.

Olympic Park Legacy Company bolsters management team

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:55:00 GMT

Three new members have been appointed to the Olympic Park Legacy Company’s executive management team.

Second Heron tower rises from the City

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:49:00 GMT

Work has started on The Heron, David Walker and RHWL Architects’ residential tower in the City of London.

HCA and Cabe close ranks over Kickstart – but chairman admits shock over standards

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:51:00 GMT

Cabe and the Homes & Communities Agency have insisted they still have a well functioning relationship amid the row over Kickstart design standards.

Cabe savages Tesco-led development in Bow

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:42:00 GMT

Collado Collins’ scheme for a major supermarket-led regeneration project in east London has been attacked by Cabe.

Thames Gateway home numbers fall short

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:51:00 GMT

Only around a third of the new homes promised under the government’s flagship Thames Gateway scheme have been built as the project passes its half-way mark.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.