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Brandon Street by Metaphorm Architects

Trio of Heygate Estate housing relocation schemes complete

8-Feb-2012 | By Richard Waite

The latest wave of Southwark’s innovative Heygate Estate housing relocation schemes completed last month

The so-called Jubilee Bridge by One-World Design and Expedition Engineering - model

Ambitious plans for new London footbridge revealed

8-Feb-2012 | By Richard Waite

Recently founded One-World Design has unveiled plans for a new £20 million footbridge next to the Chelsea Railway Bridge in London

The new home for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow

Revealed: new home for Royal Scottish National Orchestra

7-Feb-2012 | By Richard Waite

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) has revealed of plans to move to a new £14million home next to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Macaulay Road, Clapham, by Assael Architecture

Green light for Assael's office-to-home scheme in Clapham

7-Feb-2012 | By Simon Hogg

Assael Architecture has won planning consent for this £6 million scheme in Clapham, South London

Pie co-founders: Fran Balaam & Michael Corr

Pie wins Irish town plan

7-Feb-2012

Emerging practice Pie Architecture has won the open competition to masterplan the overhaul of the existing Station House and the space around itin the town of Carlingford, southern Ireland

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Contentious Middlesex Hospital revamp wins planning

3-Feb-2012

Plans for a major mixed-use development by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Sheppard Robson on the site of the former Middlesex Hospital have been granted permission by Westminster City Council

Marsh Lane sports facilities by mae architects - massing models development

Revealed: mae scores Olympic fringe hat-trick

3-Feb-2012 | By Richard Waite

Housing specialist mæ architects has bagged planning permission for a trio of projects to revamp rundown sporting facilities in east London

The International Quarter (TIQ), a new £1.3 billion commercial district in Stratford City, London E20.

Design team named for Olympic International Quarter

3-Feb-2012 | By Richard Waite

BDP, Gensler, Pringle Brandon Drew, TP Bennett and Woods Bagot have been chosen to design the new £1.3 billion commercial district on the edge of the Olympic Park in Stratford City

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First look at Bell Phillips' east London housing retrofit

2-Feb-2012 | By Richard Waite

Bell Phillips Architects has released these photos of its £8.5 million, RIBA competition-winning retrofit of a housing estate in Plaistow, east London

RAW's house for a deep-sea diver at Camusdarach Sands, Morar, Scotland

Raw wins go-ahead for rural gem

2-Feb-2012 | By Richard Waite

Emerging London-based practice Raw Architecture Workshop has won planning for this 150m2 home on an ‘exposed, steeply sloping’ site at Camusdarach Sands, Morar, Scotland

New Court, Rothschild Bank headquarters, London, by OMAPhilippe_Ruault

New Court, Rothschild Bank headquarters, London, by OMA

2-Feb-2012 | By Rory Olcayto

Visible?/?invisible, public?/?private, iconic?/?bland: OMA’s Rothschild Bank is simultaneously contradictory, but pulls it off, writes Rory Olcayto

Phase 1 - 'The Copse' has a biodiverse courtyard and a running track

Greengate residential development, Salford, by White Arkitekter

2-Feb-2012 | By Felix Mara

Social housing When Salford wanted healthy lifestyle housing, Swedish practice White Arkitekter was well equipped for the challenge, writes Felix Mara

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The International Quarter (TIQ), a new £1.3 billion commercial district in Stratford City, London E20.

Design team named for Olympic International Quarter

3-Feb-2012 | By Richard Waite

BDP, Gensler, Pringle Brandon Drew, TP Bennett and Woods Bagot have been chosen to design the new £1.3 billion commercial district on the edge of the Olympic Park in Stratford City

More Office Buildings

Lynch Architects' mixed-use scheme in Victoria, London

Lynch scoops planning for Victoria library

18-Jan-2012 | By

Lynch Architects has won planning permission for a 9,798m² scheme featuring a library, 35 affordable houses and office space in Victoria, London

More Educational Buildings: primary schools, secondary schools and universities

Brandon Street by Metaphorm Architects

Trio of Heygate Estate housing relocation schemes complete

8-Feb-2012 | By Richard Waite

The latest wave of Southwark’s innovative Heygate Estate housing relocation schemes completed last month

More Residential Buildings

The new home for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow

Revealed: new home for Royal Scottish National Orchestra

7-Feb-2012 | By Richard Waite

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) has revealed of plans to move to a new £14million home next to Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

CULTURAL BUILDINGS MENU: BUILDING STUDIES OF MUSEUMS, ART GALLERIES AND OPERA HOUSES

Regional Centre for Teaching, Trauma and Tertiary Care (3Ts), Brighton, by BDP

BDP's Royal Sussex County Hospital plan given all-clear

1-Feb-2012 | By Simon Hogg

Brighton and Hove City Council is ‘minded to grant planning permission’ for the redevelopment of Sussex County Hospital – the largest ever application from BDP’s planning team

More health buildings

Marsh Lane sports facilities by mae architects - massing models development

Revealed: mae scores Olympic fringe hat-trick

3-Feb-2012 | By Richard Waite

Housing specialist mæ architects has bagged planning permission for a trio of projects to revamp rundown sporting facilities in east London

Sporting Venues

AHMM's victorious Willsden Green scheme

AHMM wins retendered Willesden Green contest

27-Jan-2012 | By Richard Waite

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) and Architecture 519 have won the re-tendered contest to design the Willesden Green Cultural Centre redevelopment in Brent, north London

More Public Services

Pie co-founders: Fran Balaam & Michael Corr

Pie wins Irish town plan

7-Feb-2012

Emerging practice Pie Architecture has won the open competition to masterplan the overhaul of the existing Station House and the space around itin the town of Carlingford, southern Ireland

Masterplanning

McLaren Production Centre by Foster + Partners

First shots of Foster's second McLaren showstopper

18-Nov-2011 | By Richard Waite

[First look] Foster + Partners’ McLaren production centre, the second building designed by the practice for the car manufacturer, has been offically opened today [17 November]

More Industrial Buildings

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Fletcher Crane unveils church hall plans

19-Jan-2012 | By Richard Waite

Emerging practice Fletcher Crane Architects has revealed these plans for a new £450,000 community hall in Teddington, south-west London

More Religious Buildings

Stiff and Trevillion Architects' mixed-use retail and offices scheme on Sloane Street in west London

Stiff and Trevillion scoops planning for Chelsea offices

5-Jan-2012 | By

[First look + plans + project data] Stiff and Trevillion Architects has won planning permission for this 13,500m² mixed-use retail and offices scheme on Sloane Street in west London

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