Architects Journal
March 2010
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Archial set to acquire new firms
Archial Group chief executive Chris Littlemore has told the AJ that the giant is looking to expand despite a 20 per cent slump in profits -
Austin-Smith:Lord unveils People's History Museum overhaul
[FIRST LOOK] Austin-Smith:Lord (ASL) has completed its £12.5 million redevelopment and extension of The People’s History Museum in Manchester -
Caseyfierro unveils Poplar ‘macroplan’
Caseyfierro Architects has drawn up a ‘macroplan’ for the redevelopment of Poplar in east London -
Competitions: Editor's Pick 04.03.10
Crossing the Severn and a football centre of excellence - the inside track on this week’s most promising competitions -
Competitions: Editor's Pick 11.03.10
Reclad Guy’s and St Thomas’ and design a new home for the National Media Museum - the inside track on this week’s most promising competitions -
Council u-turn over Brick Lane arches
Tower Hamlets Council has withdrawn controversial plans to build gates, based on the form of headscarves, at either end of Brick Lane in east London -
Europan faces axe in UK as CABE withdraws backing
The demise of Europan in the UK looks increasingly likely following the news that CABE will not back next year’s contest -
Feilden Clegg Bradley visitor centre opens at Jodrell Bank
[First look + plans] Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ £3 million visitor centre at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, has opened its doors to the public -
Knight and Knippers win Vienna bridge contest
The Anglo-German team of High Wycombe-based Knight Architects and engineering practice Knippers Helbig has won the international competition to design a new footbridge in the centre of Vienna -
KPF completes ‘shimmering’ Paddington Central office block
[FIRST LOOK] KPF has completed this £88 million office block next to Paddington Station in west London -
Lords criticise mandatory sprinklers as bill rumbles on
Controversial legislation to make sprinklers mandatory in all new homes built in England and Wales has received a mixed response in the House of Lords -
New Practices #19: 42 Architects
The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone, either through choice or redundancy -
New Practices #20: Timothy Smith & Jonathan Taylor
The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone, either through choice or redundancy -
Welcome for 'last' BSF cash injection
Architects are in line for a windfall of work following the government’s decision to pump a further £420 million into the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. -
Will Alsop’s new outfit plans car-friendly urban housing
Will Alsop is drawing up plans for a car-friendly, environmentally sound urban housing development in London, and intends to approach Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson for help -
£4m design competition launched for WWII spy base
Bletchley Park is hunting for architects to revamp a series of brick and wooden huts at the historic code breaking museum in Buckinghamshire -
A Conservative fix for a ‘broken’ system
Brian Waters considers the Conservative Party’s green paper on planning, published last week and deciphers what it will mean for architects if the party wins the next general election -
Acoustic wall panels make a splash at school pool
Oulder Hill Community School and Language College have benefited from major refurbishment works and the addition of a new building for Special Educational Needs. -
Adam Khan completes work on New Horizon Youth Centre
[FIRST LOOK] Adam Khan Architects has completed its RIBA competition-winning refurbishment and extension of the New Horizon Youth Centre in King’s Cross, London -
AJ exclusive: Kapoor unveils towering Olympic monument for London
Anish Kapoor and engineer Cecil Balmond have unveiled a 115m-tall monumental structure, which is set to dominate the 2012 Olympic skyline -
AJ100 breakfast: Land Securities poised to ‘restart’ in the City
The development director of Land Securities’ London portfolio Colette O’Shea told the AJ100 Breakfast Club this morning the company would re-launch activity in the City soon -
Allies and Morrison wins approval for Olympic equestrian arena
Allies and Morrison has won planning permission for its 2012 Olympics equestrian arena at Greenwich -
Alucobond Is Setting New Standards With Its Aesthetic, Photovoltaic Facade System
ALUCOBOND®photovoltaic is a new, unique, integrated façade system combining ALUCOBOND® composite panels, having proved their value over the past 40 years with functional, photovoltaic modules. -
Amazing photos: Heatherwick's Shanghai pavilion completes
Stunning images show Thomas Heatherwick’s £25 million ‘Seed Cathedral’ complete on time for the 2010 Shanghai Expo -
Archial rebrands Alsop's former practice
The practice Will Alsop left to join RMJM has been renamed by its owner, architectural giant the Archial Group -
Architect behind Sears Tower dies
Bruce Graham, the man who designed the iconic Sears Tower in Chicago, has died at 84 -
Architects combine with Jewson on ‘design-and-deliver’ homes
A network of energy-conscious architects is being planned to ‘design and deliver’ flat-pack homes across the country -
Architects dismiss Olympic sculpture
Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond’s 2012 Olympics monument has received a cool response from architects, with Ken Shuttleworth describing it as ‘[the] Wembley arch after a design review with King Kong’ -
Architects' Journal seeks sustainability intern
Apply now to gain practical experience as the AJ’s first sustainability intern -
Architects' Journal seeks Sustainability Intern
Apply now to gain practical experience as the AJ’s sustainability intern -
Architects sought for Stoke Town masterplan
Stoke on Trent is seeking architects to masterplan the regeneration of Stoke Town including the development of a 4ha historic pottery site -
Architecture is frozen music... or is it frozen money?
We all know what architecture is, yet its numerous definitions fall short of the mark, says Louis Hellman -
Arctic monkeying with Clegg and Prasad
Architects and artists wait impatiently for Ian McEwan’s new novel, Solar, in which he lampoons various creative types who joined him on a 2005 global warming fact-finding trip to the Arctic -
Aukett + Heese reveals new Sheraton Hotel in Berlin
[FIRST LOOK] Aukett + Heese, the German arm of Aukett Fitzroy Robinson (AFR), has unveiled its proposed new Sheraton hotel in Berlin -
Award-winning architect fined for professional misconduct
The Architects Registration Board has found Julian Marsh of Nottingham-based Marsh Grochkowski Architects guilty of unacceptable professional conduct and fined him £1,000 -
Bali 2010: Marine Research Centre in Indonesia
Arquitectum invites candidates worldwide to enter an open architecture competition, ‘BALI 2010’, for the design of a submarine research laboratory -
Bennetts bags planning for £30million Marble Arch House
Bennetts Associates has won planning permission for a landmark 10,000 m² mixed-use scheme on Edgware Road, west London -
Bennetts unveils new public space at City Road basin
Bennetts Associates has completed this £5 million public space scheme in Islington, London -
Big practices' fears overshadow grass-root optimism says RIBA
The UK’s largest practices remain uncertain about their future, according to the latest monthly results of the RIBA’s Future Trends survey -
Brave New City London - see the future in film
Panellists including Paul Morrell, Peter Guthrie and Martin Powell will use video clips to paint their vision for future sustainable development at ISSUES’ flagship panel event Brave New City London -
BREEAM Awards - 16 of the best sustainable designs rewarded
Holder Mathias, Stride Treglown, Chetwoods and White Design all bagged top marks in the 2010 BREEAM Awards last night (3 March) -
Breeam rated excellent Defra building installs Velfac windows
VELFAC windows have been installed at the DEFRA-owned Dragonfly House in Norwich, rated as Excellent by BREEAM for its demonstration of the highest environmental construction standards. -
British Council Offices, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia by British Council in-house architects
The British Council has moved into these new 550m² offices in central Addis Ababa, Ethiopia designed by the British Council’s own in-house architects -
British High Commission, Abuja Nigeria: RIBA Stage D to completion
Provision of planned maintenance for new offices and amenities at the British High Commission, Abuja, Nigeria -
Broadcasting Place, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Broadcasting Place in Leeds responds to both the surrounding geology and the cityscape, says Rob Gregory. Photography by Will Pryce -
Budget 2010: good news for small practices
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has vowed to increase the number of government contracts given to smaller firms in today’s Budget Statement to the House of Commons -
Building Schools for the Future: the CABE gold standard
Why have so few schools achieved the CABE gold standard? And what impact is CABE’s increased influence having on the design quality of schools? -
Byker, Ralph and me: BDP's Tony McGuirk on Ralph Erskine's Byker Wall
A new photographic study on the residents of Tyneside’s Byker prompts BDP chairman Tony McGuirk to reflect on his time working on Ralph Erskine’s historic housing scheme -
CABE demands 'elegance' from KPF’s One Crown Place
The government’s design watchdog has criticised the ‘over-articulated’ elevations on KPF’s One Crown Place scheme and called on the designers to make it more elegant -
CABE ignored as Limehouse tower approved
A 16-storey hotel tower designed by Studio BG in Limehouse, near Canary Wharf has been approved by Tower Hamlets Council – against CABE’s advice -
CABE to pay for itself? Hadn't heard that one...
The Conservatives have been taken aback by reports suggesting the party was intending to make CABE entirely self-funding if it won the forthcoming election -
CABE: waste and power plant designs are a ‘sea of mediocrity’
Heatherwick Studio’s £150 million BEI-Teesside power station, which received planning approval this week, stands out in a ‘sea of mediocrity’, says CABE -
Careyjones' twisting tower completes Granary Wharf 're-birth'
[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] Work has completed on this 21-storey ‘twisting cylinder’ in Leeds by careyjones architects -
Caruso St John wins go-ahead for Tate Britain revamp
Westminster City Council has approved plans by Caruso St John for a £45 million redevelopment of the Tate Britain gallery at Millbank, central London -
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, by Ash Sakula Architects
With careful reorganisation and the salvaging of details hidden in the building fabric, Ash Sakula Architects has given Chapter Arts Centre the home it deserves, says Rory Olcayto. Photography by Andy Haslam -
Charade or facade, it doesn’t matter as long as you have the front
Ian Martin experiments with Affordable Poverty and an illusory bourgeois hinterland -
Chipperfield lands Tchaikovsky Theatre contest
David Chipperfield Architects has won the competition to re-design the Tchaikovsky Theatre in Perm, Russia -
ColladoCollins hits back at CABE over 'incoherent' £160 million Tesco plan
A ‘frustrated’ ColladoCollins has retaliated following a stinging attack by CABE on the practice’s proposals for a £160 million Tesco-led development in Bromley-by Bow, east London -
Commercial carpet tiles
[Sustainable products] With huge amounts of used carpets going to landfill, companies must commit to re-use, says Sandy Patience -
Competitions: Editor's Pick 18.03.10
Chichester Festival Theatre and the masterplanning of Hounslow - the inside track on this week’s most promising competitions -
Competitions: Editor's Pick 25.03.10
Redevelopment of Nottingham’s Eastside and a new European Commission building in Luxembourg – the inside track on this week’s most promising competitions -
Competitions: Editor's Pick 25:03:10
Redevelopment of Nottingham’s Eastside and a new European Commission building in Luxembourg - the inside track on this week’s most promising competitions. -
Competitions: Editor's Pick, 15.04.10
A new indoor swimming pool for Dartmouth and three masterplans for Thames Valley Housing - the insider’s guide to what’s hot this week -
Conservation: Stoke Newington Town Hall
Hawkins\Brown has unified Stoke Newington Town Hall with both sensitivity and panache -
Contest to 'make safe' Scottish Parliament launched
A search has begun for an architect to design security upgrades to Enric Miralles and RMJM’s Stirling Prize-winning Scottish Parliament at Holyrood -
Crash and Brum in Cannes
Best media quotation of the MIPIM week appeared in the Birmingham Post and came from Glenn Howells, Midlands champion from Stourbridge -
Demolished Euston Arch set for comeback
Campaigners are celebrating ‘a breakthrough’ in the battle to resurrect the world-famous Euston Arch following the government’s announcement to create a new super-station at Euston -
Diller Scofidio + Renfro work in the shadow of the High Line
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the practice behind Manhattan’s High Line project (pictured), is working on an intriguing project next to the former train line, which it turned into an urban park. -
Don’t let car parks ruin school design, says CABE
CABE, has warned that while the standard of new school buildings is rapidly improving, the design of school grounds is not keeping pace -
Doubts raised over Barcelona/London Olympic legacy link
Concerns have been raised about whether the east London Borough of Newham can learn lessons from its new mentor, Barcelona – the RIBA Gold Medal-winning city behind the highly successful 1992 Olympics -
Ecophon’s Architectural S-Line Tile
Ashton Sixth Form College in Ashton-Under-Lyne is always striving to update its facilities. The building, designed by A-Cube Architects, includes a new learning centre and library. -
Ecophon’s Architectural S-Line Tile
Ashton Sixth Form College in Ashton-Under-Lyne is always striving to update its facilities. The building, designed by A-Cube Architects, includes a new learning centre and library. -
Edinburgh City Council investigated over Caltongate
The European Commission is investigating whether Edinburgh City Council broke procurement rules on its controversial Caltongate development -
Elmgreen School, West Norwood, London, by Scott Brownrigg
Despite a ‘could do better’ report from CABE, the client and pupils of Scott Brownrigg’s new Elmgreen School seem happy enough. Rory Olcayto visits the parent-promoted school in south London -
End for FLACQ as practice joins Arup Associates
London-based FLACQ has agreed to join Arup Associates (AA), spelling the end for the five-year old practice -
English Heritage supports Viñoly’s Battersea Power Station plans
Rafael Viñoly’s redevelopment of Battersea Power Station has landed the crucial backing of English Heritage -
Eric Parry and Wilkinson Eyre take top prizes in Civic Trust Awards 2010
The winners of the Civic Trust Awards 2010 have been unveiled, with top awards going to Eric Parry Architects for its transformation of St Martin-in-the-Fields, and to Wilkinson Eyre for its Paradise Street Pedestrian Bridge -
Everything you wanted to know about District Heating but were afraid to ask
A new publication from heat transfer specialists, Alfa Laval, sets out to de-mystify the topic of District Heating (DH) by explaining the terminology, examining the history and setting out the prospects for its increased use in the UK. -
Farrell draws up plans to make Euston a ‘super-station’
Terry Farrell is drawing up a blueprint to redevelop Euston Station as a London ‘super-station’, as part of the proposed High Speed 2 (HS2) rail link to Birmingham -
Farrell on London: ‘The big problem is getting some cohesion’
In his first interview since becoming design advisor to mayor Boris Johnson, Terry Farrell talks to Merlin Fulcher about gaps in London’s planning, localism and the death of the Thames Estuary Airport -
Farrell unveils tallest tower by UK architect
Terry Farrell + Partners has revealed the latest image of KingKey Tower, the tallest skyscraper in the world designed by a UK architect -
Football-training ground and centre of excellence
Conwy County Borough Council needs architects to work on an indoor football-training ground and centre of excellence -
Future Flower, Widnes, by Tonkin Liu
[FIRST LOOK + PROJECT DATA + PLANS] London-based Tonkin Liu has completed this 14m-tall metallic flower on the banks of the River Mersey in Widnes -
Future-proof school design: integrated ICT
Architects need to provide ‘agile’ designs for schools that can respond to rapid changes in information and communication technology -
Gatwick Airport, Framework Agreement
Architects sought to be part of three-year framework as part of Gatwick Airport capital improvement programme -
German-designed bubble to tour London parks
[FIRST LOOK] German architecture and art collaboration Raumlabor-Berlin has unveiled its designs for a touring, ‘translucent’, temporary pavilion -
Giant dragon to tower over Wales
An art dealer is hoping to build a giant Welsh dragon statue in a bid to raise money for a cancer charity -
Green light for Jubilee Gardens as Olympic viewing venue
[FIRST LOOK] West 8’s revised Jubilee Gardens scheme is to become a viewing venue for the 2012 Olympic Games thanks to a £1.5million cash injection from the Greater London Authority (GLA) -
Green light for Pardey's Hurst House
[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] John Pardey Architects has bagged planning permission for this L-shaped, four-bedroom house in Buckinghamshire -
Greenshoots? Gradual decline in projects shelved
The amount of construction projects being put on hold is markedly down on this time last year, according to industry monitor Glenigan -
Hadid's Aquatic centre filled
[FIRST LOOK] Zaha Hadid’s London 2012 Aquatics Centre has been filled with 10 million litres of water during trials of the new Olympic pools -
Hand made clay roof tiles from Sahtas Terracotta
‘Ashbury County’ hand made clay roof tiles from Sahtas Terracotta, developed to give the aesthetic of traditional old weathered tiles for any rural location. Ideal for new build, restoration or renovation, complete with a wide range of fittings and backed up by a 30 year guarantee. -
Harris Partnership to start on £50m regeneration scheme in Halifax
Building developer Gregory Projects is set to start work on a £50 million regeneration scheme in Halifax, including a cinema and retail complex by the Harris Partnership -
HCA seeks your views on new design standards
The Homes and Communities Agency’s (HCA) consultation is seeking opinions from the public on its new design standards -
Heneghan Peng's Giant's Causeway scheme finally opens doors
Heneghan Peng’s £18.5 million Giant’s Causeway visitor centre scheme has opened to the public – almost seven years after the practice originally landed the project -
High-speed travel has become a very slow business
The UK rail network may be advancing, but it lacks the pace and glory of the good old days, says David Jenkins -
Hitch Mylius hm77
Kazuko Okamoto’s hm77 ‘Cake’ seating for Hitch Mylius is a simple, inventive and playful seat unit that combines and links to form interesting crystalline forms. -
House extension, Swansea Bay by Hyde & Hyde Architects
[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] Hyde + Hyde Architects has completed this basement extension to a four-storey house overlooking Swansea Bay -
Housing quango appoints new head of design
Jane Briginshaw, architect and former design director at Partnerships for Schools, has been appointed head of design and sustainability at the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) -
Huge cash boost for Wilkinson Eyre’s Titanic museum
Wilkinson Eyre has won £4.5 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for its Titanic museum scheme at Southampton -
Hullabaloo in Barangaroo
Elizabeth Farrelly, professor of architecture at the University of Sydney, has emerged as the most prominent critic of Richard Rogers’ plans for a £3.5 billion regeneration of the Barangaroo area of Sydney -
Irish big hitter Murray Ó'Laoire goes bust
Murray Ó’Laoire Architects (MÓLA) has plunged into liquidation, blaming a lack of work and a raft of unpaid bills -
Jean Monnet 2 Building of the European Commission, Luxembourg
The European Commission is looking to select an architectural team for the project of planning an administrative building in Luxembourg -
Jean Nouvel to design 2010 Serpentine Pavilion
[FIRST LOOK] Jean Nouvel was today (23 March) confirmed as designer for this year’s summer pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery, London -
Jesus' father was an architect, scholar claims
A new book by a London-based author has questioned the long-held biblical translation that Joseph, Jesus’ father, was a carpenter -
Jonathan Woolf's Painted House
In his dramatic intervention to two 1940s semis, Jonathan Woolf highlights suburbia’s disjunction between familiar facade and hidden interiors, writes Irina Davidovici -
Junckers Takes Flight
Junckers solid hardwood floors have been widely used in airports all over the world, including Heathrow, Copenhagen, Manchester and Bergen. -
Kapoor’s Orbit grounds hopes for Skylon
Anish Kapoor’s ‘Orbit’ monument has officially killed off plans to re-build the 1951 Skylon on the Olympic site -
Kickstart Round 2: Full details
Around 5,700 partially-built, affordable homes stalled by the recession are to be put back on track with an £83 million government programme -
Labour win best for architects, but poll gives Conservatives lead
The construction industry would benefit most from a Labour win at the forthcoming general election but the majority of architects will vote Conservative, according to a new survey of architects -
LDA Design reveals images of 5,000 home Meridian Water proposals
The AJ can reveal the first images of LDA Design masterplan for the massive 82ha Meridian Water development in Enfield, north London -
'Linking the Lands': Severn crossing competition
RIBA South West, the Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW) and the Institution of Civil Engineers in the South West have teamed up for an ideas competition and exhibition highlighting the potential of a third crossing of the Severn -
London Borough of Southwark, architects and lead consultants framework agreement
Tenders for architects and lead consultants are sought from experienced consultants to supplement the contracting authority’s in-house resources and / or to provide specialist advice -
London’s highest viewing platform to cap Pinnacle
KPF’s Pinnacle skyscraper will boast London’s highest viewing platform when it opens in 2013, following a re-design of the 288m-tall tower -
Luder's Get Carter car park saved from bulldozers - for now
The demolition of Owen Luder’s Get Carter car park in Gateshead, which began in March 2009, has now officially stopped -
Making Space 2010
An international design award promoting innovation, creativity and sustainability for children and young people aged 0-18 -
Masdar on hold as Fosters re-plans
Foster + Partners’ Masdar City is being re-designed following a high-level ‘development strategy review’ of the huge £15 billion zero-carbon development in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) -
MIPIM 2010: As it happened
The AJ’s live blog from Europe’s biggest property fair – experience the sun-soaked La Croisette promenade, ‘property’ bunker, ‘illegal’ non-bunker action and the late night parties with MIPIM veterans, virgins and voyeurs -
Mipim's Michelin stars
The usual ‘Cycle to Cannes’ charity event took place to general approbation. But there are moves afoot to launch a parallel event for the exercise-challenged -
Morrell champions retrofit over eco-towns
The government’s construction tsar has hit out at current proposals for eco-towns and feed-in-tariffs – though he insists he supports the programmes in principle -
Moxon Architects unveils St Helens bridge
Moxon Architects has released images of its pedestrian and cycle bridge linking the St Helens Rugby League stadium with the centre of the Merseyside town -
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada, by OMA
[FIRST LOOK] The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), has won the competition for a 12,000m² expansion to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ) -
Museum of the Second World War, Gdansk
Architects have until the end of today (26 March) to register for the international contest to design the new Second World War museum in Gdansk, Poland -
My anarchist friends have very fragmented views about architecture
Ian Martin rebadges Old Stepney, deploying double bluff and doublethink -
NAO questions value of £5 billion regeneration cash
The National Audit Office has questioned the value added to English regions by the £5 billion spent on regeneration projects over the past decade -
National Media Museum seeks architect for London home
Bradford’s National Media Museum has launched the search for architects to work on the design of its London Galleries Project - planned to open in 2012 -
New Civic Centre competition, Miami
ARQUITECTUM invites the world’s architects to participate in an International architecture competition to design a new civic centre for Miami -
New name for traditionalist Robert Adam
Classical practice Robert Adam Architects has become the latest outfit to re-brand and will now be known as ADAM Architecture -
New Practices #17: Studio Meda
The seventeenth in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone, either through choice or redundancy -
New Practices #18: Pippa Nissen Studio
The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone, either through choice or redundancy -
New Practices #21: Ben Adams Architects
The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone, either through choice or redundancy -
NHS Campus Framework Agreement, Epsom, Surrey
NHS seek architects to provide replacement accomodation suitable for those with learning difficulties for current residents of its Epsom Campus -
Nick Willson bags planning for Kent house
[FIRST LOOK + PROJECT DATA] Nick Willson Architects has won planning permission for this four-bedroom private house in Tunbridge, Kent -
Nightingales put up for sale
Healthcare expert Nightingale Associates could be sold by parent company Tribal following a widescale review of operations -
Nottingham Eastside, Tesco-anchored mixed use project
Retail giant Tesco is inviting architects to submit proposals for a regeneration opportunity in the heart of Nottingham’s Eastside -
Nouvel reveals new National Museum of Qatar plans
[FIRST LOOK] Hot on the heels of winning this year’s Serpentine Pavilion commission, Jean Nouvel has revealed these images of his proposed new National Museum of Qatar (NMQ) -
Number of Irish architecture students plummets
The property crash in Ireland has been blamed for a slump in the numbers of university architecture course applications -
Nursing Home in Fjardarbyggd, Iceland
On behalf of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Security, The State Trading Centre in Iceland extends an open invitation to a design competition for the Nursing Home in Fjardarbyggd at Eskifjordur -
Olympic Park Legacy Company bags ownership of LDA Olympic Park Land
[EXCLUSIVE IMAGES] London Mayor Boris Johnson today announced the official transfer of London development Agency owned Olympic Park land to the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) -
Open House shifts to Open City
Architectural education organisation Open House is changing its name to Open City -
Oxford Brookes University boathouse, Wallingford by Spratleys
[FIRST LOOK + PROJECT DATA + PLANS] Construction will start next month on this £1.2 million boathouse for Oxford Brookes University designed by Spratley Studios -
Partington captures £120m Hamiltons' project
Ex-Hamiltons design figurehead Robin Partington has snaffled up the £120 million Park House scheme from his former employers -
Paul Sandby at the RA - A British view of the land
Paul Sandby’s watercolours helped shape the 18th-century vision of Britain. As a show of his life’s work opens at the Royal Academy, Colin Amery introduces the artist -
People's History Museum springs a leak
Just days before its reopening last month, the People’s History Museum in Manchester suffered a minor blip – a small leak -
Peter Malpass on Byker: From the Archive
Peter Malpass’ essay reappraising the Byker Wall redevelopment from the May 1979 issue Architects’ Journal -
Pickles approves Allies and Morrison’s £4.5bn Cricklewood scheme
Communites secretary Eric Pickles has given full backing to Allies and Morrison’s contentious Brent Cross and Cricklewood scheme -
Planning extension victory for FCBS' Kirkstall Forge masterplan
[FIRST LOOK] The developer behind Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS) much-anticipated proposals for Kirkstall Forge in Leeds has won a lengthy extension to its planning permission -
Populous completes World Cup stadium
[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] Populous’ £200 million stadium in Johannesburg – the venue for the opening and closing matches of this summer’s World Cup – has been completed -
Populous’ Leeds Arena wins approval
Construction of Populous’ £60 million Leeds Arena project will start next Spring after final planning approval was given by the council’s city centre plans panel -
Portuguese starlets bag Teeside planning
Portuguese practice Impromptu Architects has won planning permission for this 50-home, 3.4ha scheme in Stockton-on-Tees -
PPS5 provokes mixed response from architects
Conservationist architects have raised concerns over new planning guidance introduced this month for historic buildings -
Public account watchdog: Olympic budget 'worryingly tight'
The chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has revealed the £9.3 billion budget to deliver the London 2012 Olympics is ‘worryingly tight’ -
RESET Competition: ‘nature in the built environment’
Sustainable building training charity RESET has partnered with Living Roofs, AECB, CIRIA, Forum for the Future and others to launch the Integrated Habitat Design -
Retrofit scheme set for seven million homes challenges architects
The government’s latest drive to make existing UK homes energy-efficient should create years of work for architects – if they seize the opportunities -
Revealed: 'radical' Piccadilly Circus overhaul by Atkins
[FIRST LOOK] Westminster City Council has unveiled these £14 million proposals to revamp Piccadilly Circus -
RIBA Competition : £21m re-cladding scheme for Guy’s & St Thomas
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is seeking expressions of interest for the re-cladding of a 13-storey tower building on the St Thomas’ Hospital site in central London -
RIBA Competition : £21m re-cladding scheme for Guy’s & St Thomas
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is seeking expressions of interest for the re-cladding of a 13-storey tower building on the St Thomas’ Hospital site in central London -
RIBA Competition: Hereford Buttermarket regeneration
Herefordshire council seek architects for the regeneration of Hereford’s historic Buttermarket -
RIBA London enquiry abandoned
The Charity Commission has said it will not proceed with an investigation into alleged ‘irregularities’ in the running of RIBA’s London Region -
Rivington unveils brass
[FIRST LOOK + PROJECT DATA + PLANS] Rivington Street Studio has won the green light for this extension and overhaul of a 1930s primary school in Hackney, east London -
Roof in place on Hopkins’ Olympic velodrome
Hopkins’ double-curved roof structure is now firmly in place on its 6,000 seat velodrome scheme for the 2012 Olympics -
Safety checks for AFL’s Alexandra Tower as cladding 'shatters'
AFL’s Alexandra Tower in Liverpool is to be assessed for safety after a 100 kilo glass window pane fell 21m from the building -
SANAA wins 2010 Pritzker Prize
Japanese firm SANAA has landed the Pritzker Prize, joining the exclusive ranks of architects recognised by the ‘Nobel Prize’ of architecture -
Science Museum to launch £25m design competition
The Science Museum in London is about to launch a search for architects to revamp two of its major permanent collections -
Self-taught graduate aims for chartership
A Scottish graduate could become the UK’s first ever self-taught chartered architect if he wins key backing from the educational establishment later this month -
Share your inspiration and win a Moleskine notebook: Week four winners and new themes
Notebook would like to congratulate this weeks winners of its Moleskine competition, Atelier29 and MikeGusto -
Share your inspiration and win a Moleskine notebook: Week Three winners
Notebook would like to congratulate this weeks winners of its Moleskine competition, CRTL ALT and jsmallernst -
Share your inspiration and win a Moleskine notebook: Week Two winners
Notebook would like to congratulate this weeks Moleskine competition winners, IC Barros and Papitos. -
Shhh, silence please, we’re trying to think about public libraries
Ian Martin experiments with the Bluster Effect -
Skatepark in Falun, Sweden by 42 Architects
[FIRST LOOK] London-based newcomers 42 Architects has won approval for this skatepark in a UNESCO World Heritage in Falun, Sweden -
Small Animal Hospital, Glasgow, by Archial Architects
Archial Architects’ reputation soared when it won the RIAS Andrew Doolan prize for its Small Animal Hospital last year. But is this really Scotland’s best building, or just bad British architecture, asks Rory Olcayto. Photography by Andrew Lee -
Snaps from Milan Furniture Fair 2010
[SLIDESHOW] Pictures from our roving reporter in Milan for its annual furniture fair -
Span-tastic: Heneghan Peng's Olympic footbridge lifted in
Cranes have lifted into place the 50 tonne southern span and the 45 tonne northern span of Heneghan Peng Architects’ footbridge in the heart of the Olympic 2012 site -
Strata integrates wind turbines in 'world first'
Hamiltons’ 148m-tall Strata tower at Elephant & Castle will have its huge 9m blades fitted next week, making it the first building in the world with integrated wind turbines according to its developer -
Studio RHE wins green light for 24-Storey eco-tower for east London
Studio RHE has secured planning permission for its SilverTree residential eco-tower -
Sustainable homes design contest, Carryduff, Northern Ireland
A design contest for approximately 70 mixed social and affordable newbuild dwellings required to meet Code level 5 of the Code for Sustainable Homes -
Sustainable Living with Swistherm from Alumasc
Swistherm External Wall Insulation (EWI) from façade specialists Alumasc, has been chosen for a cutting edge residential project in Wales which has been built to PassivHaus standards, representing the very latest in sustainable building design. -
Tallest residential tower in Wales completes
[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + DATA] Construction work has finally finished on Latitude Architects’ £42 million Meridian Quay development in Swansea Bay, featuring the tallest apartment scheme in Wales -
Taylor leaves as Hopkins reverts to partnership
The talismanic managing director of Hopkins Architects, Bill Taylor has left the practice - just weeks before the company is due to change back to a partnership -
Temporary city farm for Cheesegrater site shelved
A competition-winning scheme to temporarily turn the site of Richard Rogers’ mothballed Leadenhall tower into a city farm has been shelved -
The barren City of London should be opened to nature
British Land’s ‘Cheesegrater’ decision was a missed opportunity to bring life to the City of London, says Piers Taylor -
The forecast from MIPIM: surprisingly sunny
The MIPIM property event in Cannes gives architects hope for the future, reports Chris Brown -
The MIPIM bloggers 2010
Introducing the architects, developers, recruiters and journalists blogging from MIPIM exclusively for the AJ -
The Regs: Eurocodes
Geoff Wilkinson looks at the forthcoming introduction of Structural Eurocodes -
Thumbs up for Sheppard Robson academy in Bolton
The Sheppard Robson-designed Essa Academy, an 8,000m² new school for 900 pupils in the North West, has been given planning permission by Bolton Council -
Two new eco-town sites announced
Government adds areas in Hampshire and Devon to the list for a ‘second wave’ of eco-towns -
UK exclusive: Hadid reveals new Venetian shopping centre
[FIRST LOOK + SECTIONS] Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled this €42 million shopping centre in the seaside resort of Jesolo, north of Venice in Italy -
University of Salford, Masterplan Landscaping
The University of Salford seeks a landscape architect to provide architectural and environmental input into the development of phase one of the approved masterplan and the delivery of all projects that come out of this phase -
Welsh sustainability centre CAT faces huge cash shortfall
The Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Wales is appealing for more than half a million pounds to fix ‘awful’ work by the project contractor -
Wheelabrator Impact Finishers introduces new shot peen finish using an entirely non-ferrous shot
Wheelabrator Impact Finishers, the leading specialist in sub-contract peening services, is pleased to announce its new generation of architectural shot peen finishes – PeenPlus. -
Wilkinson Eyre bags planning for £78 million New Bodleian revamp
Wilkinson Eyre has won planning permission for the overhaul and restoration of Oxford University’s Grade-II listed New Bodleian library building -
Will architects be building schoools in the future?
Any government that cuts BSF spending can expect huge political and legal backlashes, says Ed Dorrell -
Wraps taken off O’Donnell + Tuomey's Photographers’ Gallery
O’Donnell + Tuomey’s new home for The Photographers’ Gallery in the heart of London’s Soho will open next week (19 May) -
Wright and Wright lands AA school masterplan
Wright and Wright Architects has been appointed to masterplan the recently extended Architectural Association School campus in Bedford Square, London -
Young British architects need Europan
CABE’s decision to pull out of Europan is shortsighted and a big blow to young architects, says Michael Cooke -
YRM bags contract for Sizewell C
YRM has been awarded another contract to mastermind a huge nuclear reactor for EDF, this time in Suffolk -
Zaha Hadid included on Stoke bus station shortlist
Zaha Hadid Architects has been named on an impressive six-strong shortlist to design a new £12 million city centre bus station in Stoke
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