Architects Journal
Damian Arnold
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CABE at 10: is it doing too much?
11-Sep-2009
Once a guerrilla operator, now to some ‘unfocused and overstretched’, the architecture commission faces doubts over its effectiveness as it celebrates its first decade -
Over half of council towers pose a fire risk
17-Jul-2009
More than half of Britain’s thousands of local authority tower blocks pose a similar fire risk to the one in Camberwell, south London, where a blaze killed six people earlier this month, according to a highly-respected local authority housing expert -
RMJM completes Glasgow NOAH scheme
10-Jul-2009
RMJM’s redevelopment of Park House, a 1960s office building, into 51 homes has been completed -
Sunbeams Music Trust centre, Penrith by Napper Architects
10-Jul-2009
FIRST LOOK: Napper Architects has gained planning permission for a £1.5 million music therapy centre, set in the glorious Lake District countryside near Penrith, Cumbria, for the Sunbeams Music Trust -
A gateway to China’s mountains
9-Jul-2009
This is Sutherland Hussey’s newly completed canopied entrance to a ski resort in Xiling, China -
Who killed the eco-town?
25-Jun-2009
How Gordon Brown’s vision for 10 carbon-neutral towns met its demise. Damian Arnold investigates -
AJ100 interview: Andy von Bradsky, PRP
28-May-2009
‘Housing was the first sector into recession and it could be first out’ -
AJ100 interview: Rob Firth, Capita
28-May-2009
‘We have very good public sector projects in the pipeline’ -
AJ100 interview: Peter Drummond, BDP
28-May-2009
‘We very much like India as a place’ -
AJ100: How we’ll beat the crunch
28-May-2009
The UK’s top 100 practices tell Damian Arnold how they are retooling their practices for an expected - and highly anticipated - economic upturn -
AJ100 interview: Mouzhan Majidi, Foster & Partners
28-May-2009
‘Things are not as bad as we thought’ -
AJ100 interview: Keith Clarke, Atkins
28-May-2009
‘We’re not trying to be all things to all people anymore’ -
David Medd (1917-2009)
7-May-2009
David Medd, one of the leading school architects in post-war Britain, died on 7 April 2009, aged 91 -
Architects wanted down under
17-Apr-2009
Australian states to sponsor working visa applications from UK architects -
CABE and London deputy mayor join Chelsea Barracks row
16-Apr-2009
The controversy over Richard Rogers’ proposed redevelopment of London’s Chelsea Barracks rumbled on this week, as SAVE Britain’s Heritage and CABE became the latest organisations to wade into the classicism versus modernism debate -
Hull theatre makes its debut
16-Apr-2009
The Hull Truck Theatre Company will open the doors of its new £13.8 million Wright & Wright-designed theatre on 23 April – William Shakespeare’s 445th birthday -
Waterloo IMAX not due for 'carve up' says South Bank Employer’s Group
15-Apr-2009
The South Bank Employers’ Group (SBEG) has hit back at claims by Bryan Avery, the designer of the IMAX cinema in London’s Waterloo, that its plans to revamp the cinema would ruin his original design -
Moxon's 'Hedgehog for Preston' gets approval
9-Apr-2009
A 3,700m² office building in Preston known as ‘the hedgehog’, due to its thicket of aluminium fins, has received planning permission -
Primary interests
12-Mar-2009
The government’s huge investment programme for primary schools could mean a wealth of opportunities for smaller practices. Damian Arnold reports -
Rogers stalls at Ground Zero
5-Mar-2009
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ scheme for a 71-storey tower at the World Trade Centre site in New York has stalled, it emerged this week, as the practice announced plans for 35 redundancies -
HCA saves five housing projects
5-Mar-2009
The Homes and Communities Agency throws ailing London schemes a £135 million lifeline in the first phase of a major housing rescue package -
35 jobs to go at Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
2-Mar-2009
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has confirmed that 35 jobs are to go at the practice as the economic downturn gathers momentum -
Cash prize on offer at RA summer show
27-Feb-2009
Bovis Lend Lease, in partnership with the AJ, will once again award £10,000 for the best submission to the Architecture Room at the 2009 Royal Academy of Arts (RA) Summer Exhibition -
Can the HCA save the housing sector?
27-Feb-2009
The HCA is set to map out a rescue plan for fatally stalled housing schemes. Damian Arnold reports on what this means for architects -
One year reprieve for Robin Hood Gardens
5-Feb-2009
The controversial redevelopment of the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate has been delayed by at least a year, a source at Tower Hamlets Council has confirmed -
Local authority housing projects could save jobs
5-Feb-2009
Plans to give local authorities the power to develop hundreds of thousands of council houses over the next few years were hailed this week as a lifeline for the UK’s struggling architecture profession -
Foster's Yale project put on hold
4-Feb-2009
Foster + Partners’ landmark business school for the prestigious American university has become yet another victim of the credit crunch -
Jersey firms: no to UK rivals
22-Jan-2009
Architects on the Channel Island have admitted fears for their livelihood as UK practices continue to win island projects -
LSC funding delay results in jobs fear
22-Jan-2009
Concerns over jobs in education practices have emerged after a £2.3 billion capital programme by the Learning and Skills Council was delayed by three months -
Exhibition Road scheme in line for £10 million
19-Jan-2009
Dixon Jones’s radical public space scheme is likely to go ahead after Boris Johnson proposes £10 million in funding -
Leicester may adopt Vesely's Cambridge course
15-Jan-2009
Dalibor Vesely’s celebrated but now defunct history and philosophy of architecture course is set to resurface at Leicester’s De Montfort University -
Report: self-builds could save your job
15-Jan-2009
Reports claim that government could save thousands of architectural jobs by boosting the self-build housing sector -
Jan Kaplicky (1937 - 2009)
15-Jan-2009
The world-renowned Czech architect and founder of Future Systems - who designed Lord’s media centre and Birmingham Selfridges - has died -
BSF threatened by investment shortage
15-Jan-2009
Government urged to provide direct funding for school-building programme -
Darling moves into Abu Dhabi
14-Jan-2009
Darling Associates will open a new office in the Middle East next month -
SEW wins Enfield commission
12-Jan-2009
Studio Egret West has been appointed to carry out 'place shaping' in Enfield, London -
Tate Modern extension revised
9-Jan-2009
Herzog & de Meuron has submitted a new planning application for its Tate Modern extension
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