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ORMS bags BCO 'best of best'

5-Oct-2007
London-based ORMS has won the British Council of Offices’ (BCO) Best of Best prize for its ISG headquarters scheme in Aldgate, London.
Stirling finalist Chipperfield attacked over Pisa scheme

5-Oct-2007
On the eve of the Stirling Prize, a scheme in Pisa by finalist David Chipperfield has been attacked by conservationists
London 2012 Olympic Stadium begins to take shape

1-Oct-2007
New details of the £500 million London 2012 Olympic Stadium have been revealed, almost a year after HOK Sport was appointed as architect of the scheme.
Urban Splash releases remaining ‘Tutti Frutti’ Street plots for sale

1-Oct-2007
The remaining six plots in Urban Splash’s ‘Tutti Frutti’ terraced street development in Manchester’s New Islington area are up for sale.
America’s Cup Building is bookie’s favourite for Stirling

28-Sep-2007
With just one week to go before the Stirling Prize is awarded, bookie William Hill has placed David Chipperfield’s America’s Cup building as the favourite.
Urban Splash selects designs for its ‘Tutti Frutti’ Street in New Islington

28-Sep-2007
Urban Splash has selected 20 designs for its ‘Tutti Frutti’ terraced street in New Islington, Manchester.
NHS seeks architect for hospital's Brutalist tower

24-Sep-2007
The NHS is on the hunt for an architect to transform the infamous Brutalist tower of Guy's Hospital in London into an 'architecturally iconic' building.
2012 Olympics Athletes' Village masterplan unveiled

21-Sep-2007
Lend Lease and partners First Base and East Thames have unveiled their masterplan for the £2 billion Athletes' Village at Stratford City.
Richard Murphy Architects wins mixed-use development at Jesus College, Cambridge

21-Sep-2007
Richard Murphy Architects has won a competition to build a new auditorium, hotel, sports facilities and research institute at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Heatherwick and Adams Kara Taylor in Shanghai pavilion win

21-Sep-2007
The Heatherwick and Adams Kara Taylor team has won the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's competition to design the British Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo.
Hadid joins art luminaries in funding appeal to government

20-Sep-2007
Zaha Hadid is among a host of British fashion, architecture and design stars who have issued a direct appeal to the government not to cut funding to the arts.
A first for CABE as watchdog takes a look at public-realm proposal

20-Sep-2007
For the first time in its history CABE has carried out a review of a public-realm document.
McAslan on the shortlist to save Rudolph's Riverview

19-Sep-2007
Five architect-led teams have been shortlisted to draw up plans to save Paul Rudolph's Riverview High School in Sarasota, Florida.
Donald Trump's golf resort plans land on the fairway

14-Sep-2007
Billionaire Donald Trump's plans for the controversial Balmedie golf resort in Aberdeen, Scotland, have been recommended for approval.
Liverpool ordered to show how it will keep its World Heritage Status

14-Sep-2007
Unesco has ordered Liverpool to draw up a protection plan detailing how the city will retain its World Heritage Site (WHS) status.
Design team sought for arts college revamp in the south-west

13-Sep-2007
Somerset College of Arts and Technology has released a massive £45 million OJEU notice to realise the second phase of its redevelopment masterplan.
Self-build pioneer Brian Richardson dies, aged 80

13-Sep-2007
Pioneering architect and self-build advocate Brian Richardson has died peacefully aged 80 at his home in the Wye Valley.
Home Office Design Review Panel suspended

12-Sep-2007
Only two years after its formation the Home Office's Design Review Panel (HODRP) has been frozen and its future is 'undecided', the AJ has learned.
BBLB Architects wins green light for Stratford-upon-Avon gateway scheme

12-Sep-2007
BBLB Architects' £45 million scheme to redevelop a strategic site at the gateway to Stratford-upon-Avon has been given the go-ahead.
Artlab Architects wins planning for limeworks conversion

11-Sep-2007
Artlab Architects has gained planning and change-of-use permission for a former limeworks in Faversham, Kent.
Woods Bagot updates Lutyens' Grosvenor House Apartments

11-Sep-2007
Woods Bagot has been appointed to convert the Edwin Lutyens-designed Grosvenor House Apartments in Park Lane, central London.
Formation to build on The Office's Slough site

10-Sep-2007
Formation Architects has received planning permission for this landmark building on the site made famous by Ricky Gervais' comedy series The Office.
Hetreed Ross' eco-house finally wins planning

7-Sep-2007
An environmentally-friendly house in Bath designed by Hetreed Ross Architects (HRA) has finally received planning permission four years after plans were first submitted.
Pierre d'Avoine to remodel 1960s house in Greenwich

7-Sep-2007
Pierre d'Avoine Architects has received planning permission for this house in Westgrove Lane, Greenwich.
David Morley Architects' bio-sciences laboratory starts on site

6-Sep-2007
David Morley Architects has started work on this £12.7 million health, exercise and bio-sciences laboratory for Loughborough University.
Richard Murphy hotel aims to give Edinburgh a 'shot in the arm'

6-Sep-2007
Edinburgh-based Richard Murphy Architects has unveiled these plans for a 16-storey hotel in the heart of the city's £200 million Haymarket development.
RIBA Special Awards shortlists revealed

6-Sep-2007
Some of the UK's most groundbreaking new buildings have been shortlisted for the RIBA Special Awards.
Newsnight presenter backs Malcolm Fraser ballet project

5-Sep-2007
The BBC's Newsnight presenter Kirsty Wark has launched a £1 million appeal to help finalise a new home for Scottish Ballet designed by Malcolm Fraser Architects (MFA).
Foster wins an Aga Khan Award for Architecture

4-Sep-2007
Foster & Partners has bagged an Aga Khan Award for Architecture for its Petronas University of Technology building in Malaysia.
Gillespies to give 'much-needed lift' to Peckham

4-Sep-2007
Striking new images of a scheme drawn up by Gillespies to create a modern public realm in the heart of Peckham town centre in south-east London have been revealed.
Berman Guedes Stretton to renovate listed Regency villa

4-Sep-2007
Berman Guedes Stretton (BGS) has been appointed to renovate Grove House, a listed Regency villa in Iffley Turn, Oxford.
Exhibition takes the viewer inside the mind of Will Alsop

4-Sep-2007
A new art exhibition featuring the 'bizarre inner workings of Will Alsop's mind' is to open at the jgallery in Northampton.
Zaha Hadid ranked Britain's third most powerful woman

3-Sep-2007
Zaha Hadid has been named as Britain's third most powerful women after the Queen and Clara Furse - the boss of the London Stock Exchange
We won't 'do an SMC' says Capita Architecture boss

3-Sep-2007
The boss of Capita Architecture (CA) has pledged that the firm - an arm of construction services behemoth Capita Group - will avoid the financial pitfalls that have beset SMC group.
Developer confirms plans for floating homes in Preston

31-Aug-2007
Preston City Council is considering a proposal for a series of floating homes as part of its £800 million Riverworks project.
Larsen plans 'ambitious' diamond tower for Dublin

31-Aug-2007
Danish starchitect Henning Larsen has unveiled plans for a 37-storey diamond-shaped tower in Ballsbridge, Dublin.
Pick Everard acquires Derby-based Rothera Goodwin

30-Aug-2007
Architectural and engineering practice Pick Everard has snapped up Derby-based practice Rothera Goodwin.
Chinese eco-village reported to be crumbling

29-Aug-2007
An eco-friendly model village in China hailed by officials as a model for environmentally friendly living is in danger of failing.
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands finally wins green light for South Bank tower scheme

29-Aug-2007
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands' (LDS) Doon Street scheme on London's South Bank has finally been given the go-ahead.
UK Green Building Council announces plans to slash carbon emissions from existing buildings

16-Aug-2007
The UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) has announced plans to introduce construction guidelines to cut carbon emissions from existing buildings.
Capita to recreate its Wales Millennium Centre - in China

16-Aug-2007
Capita Architecture has signed a deal to replicate its Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) thousands of miles away in Chongqing, China.
'We are still key to Arcadia' claims HKR, despite Foster role

16-Aug-2007
HKR Architects claims it still has a central role on the Arcadia shopping centre scheme in West London, after Foster & Partners took over the design of a landmark tower on the site.
Blackwall Reach development framework jumps first hurdle

16-Aug-2007
Tower Hamlets Council (THC) has given the green light to the Blackwall Reach draft development framework, paving the way for the south-east London area's regeneration.
Planners recommend Olympic Park designs for approval

16-Aug-2007
Designs for the 100ha Olympic Park in Stratford have been recommended for approval by planners.
Niall McLaughlin Architects to design one of the King's Cross masterplan's first new buildings

16-Aug-2007
Niall McLaughlin Architects (NMA) has won a competition by developer Argent to design one of the first new buildings for the massive King's Cross redevelopment scheme in central London.
Denial over renovation work to Hadid's first built scheme

15-Aug-2007
Furniture designer and manufacturer Vitra has denied that its Zaha Hadid-designed fire station in Weil am Rhein, Germany, is undergoing major renovation works.
Hamiltons Architects to design new facilities for Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama

14-Aug-2007
Hamiltons Architects has been appointed by the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD), Cardiff, to design new performance, rehearsal and teaching facilities.
Irish Architecture Foundation appoints new director

14-Aug-2007
The Irish Architecture Foundation (IAF) has announced the appointment of Nathalie Weadick as its new director.
Birmingham Symphony Hall designer Russell Johnson dies

13-Aug-2007
Renowned theatre designer Russell Johnson, the man behind Birmingham's Symphony Hall, has died at the age of 83.
Olympic legacy masterplanner sought for east London

10-Aug-2007
The London Development Agency (LDA) is seeking a masterplanner to transform east London following the 2012 Olympic Games.
European Urban Architecture enters semi-subterranean house for planning

10-Aug-2007
London-based European Urban Architecture (EUA), with Asphaltic Developments, has applied for planning permission for this semi-subterranean three-bedroom house in Hampstead, north London.
Exhibition to reveal radical plans for Scotland's Central Belt

10-Aug-2007
Four radical design proposals for the future of Scotland's 'Central Belt' are to be revealed in a new exhibition.
Olympic Village architects revealed - 47 practices selected for site

9-Aug-2007
The list of 47 architects who will work on the 2012 Olympic Games' Athletes' Village has been revealed.
Big-hitters Aukett Fitzroy Robinson and SMC in merger talks

8-Aug-2007
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson (AFR) is in discussions with the troubled SMC Group about a possible merger of the two companies.
S&P's Corby pool to be built under Design and Build Contract

8-Aug-2007
S&P Architects' £19.8 million Corby-East Midlands International Pool is to be realised with news that a contractor has been awarded the Design and Build contract for the scheme.
Benson & Forsyth's Watford health campus - featuring football ground - goes for planning

8-Aug-2007
Benson & Forsyth's masterplan for the £1 billion Watford Health Campus scheme in west Watford has been submitted for planning.
Munkenbeck & Marshall and Finch Forman dive into Soho baths scheme

7-Aug-2007
Munkenbeck & Marshall and Finch Forman have won the go-ahead for a £25 million scheme to redevelop the Marshall Street Baths in London's Soho.
Heatherwick operates on London hospital entrance

7-Aug-2007
The entrance to Guy's Hospital near London Bridge has been transformed by a £2 million facelift by Thomas Heatherwick.
Foster joins coterie of starchitects in Turkey

6-Aug-2007
Foster & Partners is among a raft of architecture's most renowned practices who have been signed up to design a vast tourist resort in Turkey.
Austin-Smith:Lord gets in the spirit with Scottish distillery

6-Aug-2007
Austin-Smith: Lord (ASL) has applied for planning permission for this £40 million distillery in Roseisle, Scotland.
Urban Splash seeks architects to work in Stoke-on-Trent

3-Aug-2007
Urban Splash has been appointed to develop City Waterside in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire under a scheme which will entail the development of a winning Europan 9 entry.
Olympic contract up for grabs

2-Aug-2007
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is set to release the tender for the design contract for the Eton Manor training quarter in east London.
Insite Environments tops competition for Tinsley cooling towers site

1-Aug-2007
Insite Environments has won the Open Ideas competition for the Tinsley cooling towers site in Sheffield.
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris wins Ghanaian scheme

1-Aug-2007
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) has won its first commission outside Europe in a competition to design a mixed-use scheme in Accra, Ghana.
Energy Performance Certificates 'go live' as Home Information Packs come in

1-Aug-2007
Home Information Packs (HIPs) have today become mandatory on sales of properties with four or more bedrooms.
Safety fears compound pressure to delist Plymouth Civic Centre

31-Jul-2007
Plymouth's much maligned Grade II-listed Civic Centre is at the centre of a safety storm after council officials warned that its heavy concrete cladding was in danger of falling off.
RMJM and Taylor Architects unveil new engineering school for Ireland

30-Jul-2007
RMJM and Ireland-based Taylor Architects have released these images of their 60 million euro (£40 million) engineering school for the National University of Ireland (NUI) in Galway.
Rogers lauded in parents at work survey, but Foster has some catching up to do

30-Jul-2007
Rogers Stirk Harbour (RSH) and Fosters & Partners have appeared at opposite ends of the spectrum in a new survey into maternity and paternity packages in UK businesses.
Watchdogs warm to tall buildings

27-Jul-2007
CABE and English Heritage (EH) have announced a shift in policy that means 'the principle of a tall building may be acceptable at outline planning consent'.
BACA to build floating village in the Netherlands

27-Jul-2007
London-based architect BACA has been appointed to create a mini-village of floating and flood-resistant homes in the Netherlands.
... While William Hill sets the odds with no expert advice

26-Jul-2007
Bookmaker William Hill has admitted that 'not a single architect' is involved in its process to determine the odds for the shortlist of the Stirling Prize.
Call for masterplan to overhaul 'squalid' central London area

26-Jul-2007
Design for London (DfL), is calling for architects to deliver a masterplan for central London's St Giles Circus.
Double shortlisting for Chipperfield as Stirling contenders revealed...

25-Jul-2007
David Chipperfield Architects has stolen a march on its rivals in the race to win the 2007 Stirling Prize - with two of its schemes making it on to this year's shortlist.
Rogers, Howells and Allies and Morrison win the chance to work in Elephant and Castle

25-Jul-2007
Rogers Stirk Harbour, Glenn Howells and Allies and Morrison are among the practices who will be working on the redevelopment of south London's Elephant and Castle.
McAslan's Birmingham New Street scheme receives funding boost...

25-Jul-2007
John McAslan & Partners' Birmingham New Street scheme has received a huge boost with news that the government has approved the first £128 million stage of the project.
See the dramatic St Pancras hotel fire

25-Jul-2007
These striking images show the extent of the fire which broke out yesterday (24 July) at George Gilbert Scott's iconic Midland Grand Hotel, next to London's St Pancras station.
Porphyrios resubmits plans for mixed-use scheme in north London

24-Jul-2007
Porphyrios Associates has resubmitted plans for this mixed-use scheme off Holloway Road, north London, for developer First Base.
... While, in a less controversial move, Chippo also goes for planning in City of London

24-Jul-2007
David Chipperfield has submitted these plans for the redevelopment of Seal House on Swan Lane in the heart of the City of London.
S333 to masterplan mixed-use urban quarter for Plymouth

23-Jul-2007
S333 Architecture & Urbanism has beaten FLACQ and MacCreanor Lavington to bag the contract to deliver a masterplan for Derriford, north Plymouth.
... As fire also hits David Morley's Lister Mills

23-Jul-2007
Fire crews were rushed to David Morley Architects' (DMA) Lister Mills scheme in Bradford after a blaze broke out at the Urban Splash construction site late last Friday night.
Historic Scotland lists three Womersley buildings

20-Jul-2007
Three buildings by Scottish Modernist architect Peter Womersley have been listed by Historic Scotland.
Rolfe Judd's Tabard Square wins Housing Design Awards

20-Jul-2007
Rolfe Judd has won the 2007 Housing Design Awards with its Tabard Square scheme in central London.
Livingstone attacks 'barmy' Health and Safety Executive over planning guidance

19-Jul-2007
London Mayor Ken Livingstone has described the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as 'barmy bureaucrats' and warned that its proposals to change planning advice could lead to the scraping of up to 16,000 new homes.
Spence Associates and Expedition Engineering in bitter row over bridge design

19-Jul-2007
A war of words has broken out between Spence Associates and Expedition Engineering over who designed the proposed £15 million North Shore footbridge in Co Durham.
M3 bags first work in Ireland with Waterford City scheme

18-Jul-2007
London-based M3 Architects and Cork's Coughlan DeKeyser Associates (CDA) have been appointed to design a large mixed-use development in Waterford City, Republic of Ireland.
Gordon Carey is new president of the British Council for Offices

18-Jul-2007
Gordon Carey, co-founder of Carey Jones architects, has been appointed president of the British Council for Offices (BCO) for 2007-8.
BDP to create new 'affordable' homes in south London

17-Jul-2007
BDP is working up plans that will see the creation of 488 new homes just off south London's Old Kent Road.
Austin-Smith:Lord turns to the archives

17-Jul-2007
Austin-Smith:Lord (ASL) has drawn up these designs for a building to house Cumbria County Council's archives in Carlisle.
Kahn's Roosevelt memorial edges closer to completion

16-Jul-2007
Louis Kahn’s posthumous memorial to Franklin D Roosevelt - the 32nd US president who died in 1945 - may finally be completed, 34 years after it was designed.
Five practices in joint bid for Shanghai World Expo's British pavilion

16-Jul-2007
Five of the UK's top 'up-and-coming' practices have teamed up with John McAslan & Partners (JMP) to create a joint entry for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.
Heritage of Le Corbusier's Indian city being 'sold off'

13-Jul-2007
Scholars have warned that the Le Corbusier-designed city of Chandigarh in north-west India is being stripped of its heritage.
Austin-Smith:Lord wins go-ahead for new Guildford Civic Hall

12-Jul-2007
Austin-Smith:Lord has obtained planning consent for this £16 million scheme to replace Guildford's Civic Hall.
Chipperfield dropped from Hampstead scheme despite Section 106

12-Jul-2007
David Chipperfield Architects has been dropped from a £15 million scheme in north London, despite a Section 106 agreement which apparently guaranteed the firm's continued involvement in the project.
Viñoly's 'Walkie Talkie' tower given the all-clear

10-Jul-2007
Rafael Viñoly's hugely controversial 'Walkie Talkie' tower in the City of London has finally won the go-ahead.
Report slams Olympic legacy mode

10-Jul-2007
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that the design of the 2012 Olympic Games may fail in its legacy mode.
RIBA brings Outline Plan of Work up to date

10-Jul-2007
RIBA has updated its Outline Plan of Work (OPW) in a move 'to reflect current terminologies and procurement methods'.
AOC wins battle for Royal Armouries

5-Jul-2007
AOC has bagged an RIBA competition to design the new ‘street’ area and entrance to the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds.
Pringle blasts UK housing standards

4-Jul-2007
Jack Pringle has urged architects to embrace housing design and labelled the UK's current housing standards as a 'disgrace'.
Feilden Clegg Bradley plans huge Hampshire development

4-Jul-2007
Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB) has obtained outline planning consent for a massive mixed-use development in Hampshire.
Karakusevic Carson gets down to business in Barking

4-Jul-2007
Karakusevic Carson Architects (KCA) has been appointed to design a 12-storey business centre in east London's Barking.
Barton Willmore to create botanical garden in the Arabian desert

3-Jul-2007
Barton Willmore has seen off HOK to win the international design competition to create a $170 million (£84 million) botanical garden in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Designer sought to replace south London estate

3-Jul-2007
The Peabody Trust is seeking an architect for a £90 million scheme to overhaul the Clapham Estate in south-west London.
Morgan McDonnell wins approval for Edinburgh Old Town regeneration

2-Jul-2007
Morgan McDonnell has received planning approval for a £23 million scheme to regenerate part of Edinburgh's Old Town.
Team wanted to revamp Scottish National Portrait Gallery

2-Jul-2007
The Scottish Executive has announced a £12.5 million plan to 're-invent' Edinburgh's Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
More bad news for Zaha as Transport Museum faces uncertain future

29-Jun-2007
Zaha Hadid will today learn the fate of her troubled Transport Museum scheme in Glasgow, just a day after she discovered that her City Casino project in Basel, Switzerland had been torpedoed by Basel residents, 62 per cent of which voted to reject the scheme ( Zaha misses out on Swiss casino jackpot ).
Zaha misses out on Swiss casino jackpot

28-Jun-2007
Plans for a Zaha Hadid-designed casino in Basel, Switzerland, have been torpedoed after local residents voted to ditch the scheme.
Prince Charles leaps to the rescue of the Adam brothers' Dumfries House

28-Jun-2007
Dumfries House, one of the Adam brothers' most important buildings, has been saved for the nation - along with its revered collection of 18th-century furniture.
East to create strategic 'vision' for Acton Town

28-Jun-2007
East has been appointed by Ealing Council to draw up a strategic 'vision and development framework' for Acton Town, west London.
- While conservationists attack decision not to list Liverpool

27-Jun-2007
The chairman of the Liverpool Preservation Trust has attacked Unesco's decision not to put Liverpool on its World Heritage 'in danger' list.
Tower of London and Westminster avoid World Heritage 'risk list'...

26-Jun-2007
The Tower of London and Westminster will not be put on the World Heritage Committee's 'danger list', Unesco has said.
East brings larch-clad extension to Kent school

26-Jun-2007
Architectural practice East has been granted planning permission for this competition-winning proposal for a new building and classroom extension for Sussex Road Primary School in Tonbridge, Kent.
London's Old Baltic Exchange to be rebuilt in Estonia

26-Jun-2007
The City of London's Old Baltic Exchange, destroyed by an IRA bomb in 1992, is to rise from the rubble 1,000 miles away in Estonia.
Arup reveals pioneering 'Gordon Brown green town'

25-Jun-2007
Arup Urban Design has unveiled its masterplan for Northstowe in Cambridgeshire, the first of Gordon Brown's five proposed eco-towns.
Grimshaw wins 2007 Lubetkin Prize

22-Jun-2007
Grimshaw Architects has won the 2007 Lubetkin Prize for its Southern Cross Station in Melbourne, Australia.
Competition for Cheltenham gallery extension launched

22-Jun-2007
The RIBA has announced the launch of an international competition for the design of an extension to Cheltenham's Art Gallery and Museum.
Developers under the spotlight in 'land-banking' probe

22-Jun-2007
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has announced an investigation into land-banking, and why it takes so long to develop plots already earmarked for housing.
gm & ad goes for planning with Glasgow community centre

21-Jun-2007
gm & ad has submitted this £13.5 million community care and office scheme in Drumoyne, south-west Glasgow, for planning.
Pitches sought in tent contest

21-Jun-2007
'Emerging architects and designers' are being sought to enter a £10,000 competition to design a tent.
Design contest is 'last chance to save Rudolph school'

21-Jun-2007
A new international design competition is the 'one chance' left to save the Riverview School in Sarasota, Florida - one of Paul Rudolph's most high-profile buildings - it has been claimed.
Monasteries feel the effect as Darwin house World Heritage application postponed

20-Jun-2007
The withdrawal of an application to make Charles Darwin's former home a World Heritage Site (WHS) has meant that an application by the Twin Monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow in the North East will also be delayed.
Aedas designs school in the shadow of Blackpool Tower

20-Jun-2007
Aedas has submitted plans for this £4.5 million three-storey school in the heart of Blackpool town centre.
Barton Willmore and Watson Bertram & Fell win go-ahead for zero-carbon house

19-Jun-2007
Barton Willmore and Watson Bertram & Fell (WBF) have obtained planning permission for this zero-carbon house in Falfield, South Gloucestershire.
BDP to produce new vision for Gatwick Diamond

19-Jun-2007
BDP has been called in by Crawley Borough Council to produce a 'vision and action plan' for Manor Royal Estate - a run down commercial zone to the south of Gatwick Airport.
Tribunal gives go-ahead to Cambridge fire station

18-Jun-2007
This controversial Glenn Howells scheme for a new fire station in Cambridge has finally got the green light after a tribunal overruled a council decision to reject the project.
Design team sought for Forty Hall revamp

18-Jun-2007
The London Borough of Enfield is seeking an architect-led team for the £6 million revamp of the Grade I-listed Forty Hall and its Grade II-listed gardens.
Date announced for Elephant and Castle developer decision

15-Jun-2007
Southwark Council has announced that the decision as to which consortia will develop its massive Elephant and Castle regeneration scheme will be made on 24 July.
Newham design review panel calls for architects

15-Jun-2007
The London Borough of Newham has put out a call for architects, urban designers and landscape architects to join a new design review panel.
Oracle's surprise cash offer leaves partygoers high and dry

15-Jun-2007
Six hundred guests to a launch party for a Richard Hywel Evans (RHE) scheme were left high and dry when the entire development was snapped up for £25 million on the eve of the party.
Waugh Thistleton challenges dRMM over world's 'tallest timber tower'

14-Jun-2007
Waugh Thistleton has claimed that it is to build the world's tallest timber residential building in Hackney, north London.
Luder's Trinity Square faces demolition

14-Jun-2007
The Twentieth Century Society (C20) has lost its battle to save one of Britain's most famous Brutalist masterpieces from the demolition ball.
Pringle in secret talks with minister over the ARB's role

14-Jun-2007
A letter leaked to the AJ has revealed the outgoing president of the RIBA, Jack Pringle, has been engaged in secret talks with the government about 'possible amendments' to the 1997 Architects Act.
Gaunt Francis follows Inskip & Jenkins with Lutyens overhaul

13-Jun-2007
Gaunt Francis Architects has been appointed to 'significantly redesign' the interior of one of Lutyens' most famous buildings - Britannic House in Finsbury Circus, central London.
Foster goes from strength to strength as profits soar...

13-Jun-2007
Foster & Partners has released an extraordinary set of year-end figures that will send shockwaves through the industry and go someway to explain private-equity group 3i's keenness to invest in the practice ('Turbo-charged' Foster signs investment deal).
Simpson's Tower Bridge scheme goes in for planning

12-Jun-2007
Ian Simpson's south London Chambers Wharf scheme - on one of the last brownfield sites on the Thames - has been submitted for planning.
Foster & Partners plans 'cut-diamond' observation tower in Siberia

12-Jun-2007
Foster & Partners has unveiled designs for a mixed-use observation tower in Russia's oil-rich but inhospitable Siberian Khanty-Mansi region.
CAMRA aims to raise a glass to well-designed pubs

12-Jun-2007
The Campaign for Real Ale, (CAMRA) has teamed up with English Heritage and the Victorian Society to find the UK's most 'exceptionally designed pubs'.
Reid aims to overhaul Lancaster city centre

12-Jun-2007
Reid Architecture has submitted outline planning for this £100 million scheme that it is hoped will rejuvenate Lancaster city centre.
Assael's tower to join Grade II* Wallis House in Brentford redevelopment

11-Jun-2007
Assael Architects has released the first image of this landmark tower - the centrepiece of the £160 million Great West Quarter project in Brentford, west London.
Assael's tower to join Grade II* Wallis House in Brentford redevelopment

11-Jun-2007
Assael Architects has released the first image of this landmark tower - the centrepiece of the £160 million Great West Quarter project in Brentford, west London.
Avanti to 'lift' London's run-down Kilburn

11-Jun-2007
Avanti Architects has received the thumbs-up for the £15 million regeneration and redevelopment of part of north London's run-down Kilburn High Road.
Olympic Games Athletes' Village inundated with entries

8-Jun-2007
A staggering 500 online registrations have been received from architects vying for a role on the 2012 Olympic Games' largest contract - the Athletes' Village.
Stride Treglown submits Bristol Temple Quay scheme for planning

8-Jun-2007
Stride Treglown, the largest practice in the South West, has submitted this office scheme in Bristol for planning, as part of the city's massive Temple Quay development.
Top practices battle it out for Hereford 'retail quarter'

7-Jun-2007
Terry Farrell and Partners, Holder Mathias, Benoy and Allies and Morrison are four of the big-name practices to have made it to a seven-strong shortlist vying to design a new retail centre for Hereford.
Bishop blasts 'identikit' Olympic bridges

7-Jun-2007
Design for London director Peter Bishop has attacked the Olympic Delivery Authority's (ODA's) proposal to use a single Arup design as the template for all but one of the 2012 Olympic Park's bridges.
Architect behind Wales Millennium Centre turns set designer

6-Jun-2007
The architect behind the Wales Millennium Centre (WMC) in Cardiff, Jonathan Adams, has turned set designer for a spectacular new show that held its opening night in the WMC.
Markland Klaschka named among Belfast arts centre competitors

6-Jun-2007
Up-and-coming London practice Markland Klaschka has been named on the shortlist in the competition to design the £16 million successor to the Old Museum Arts Centre (OMAC) in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter.
Douglas Wallace's Bow Street Magistrates' Court goes for planning

6-Jun-2007
Douglas Wallace Architects has submitted these designs for the complete overhaul of one of London's most famous buildings - the Grade II-listed Bow Street Magistrates' Court and Police Station.
Clash Architects unveils new art centre - images

5-Jun-2007
Clash Architects has revealed these images for a new art facility for people with learning disabilities, in the heart of Derbyshire.
ECD gives Canning Town block a solar recharge - images

5-Jun-2007
ECD Architects has won the go-ahead to revamp an ailing 1960s tower block in Canning Town, East London, by cladding it with thousands of photovoltaic panels.
English Heritage agrees to demolition of Second World War landmark

4-Jun-2007
English Heritage has agreed to the demolition of the Grade II-listed former Royal Observer Corps' headquarters in Winchester.
Architect cleared of 'unauthorised alteration' charge

4-Jun-2007
A judge has cleared a Beverley-based architect of accusations of carrying out an 'unauthorised alteration' of a listed building in Wansford, East Yorkshire.
Dexter Moren provides for birds and bats with Westminster flats

1-Jun-2007
Dexter Moren Architects (DMA) has won planning permission to redevelop part of central London's Westminster with this new apartment block.
- While Farrell reveals its gateway scheme for the city

1-Jun-2007
Terry Farrell & Partners has released these images of its designs for developer George Wimpey's Ouseburn gateway scheme in Newcastle.
Urban Initiatives plans pioneering Expo in Newcastle...

1-Jun-2007
Urban Initiatives is to submit plans for a new £380 million Expo - the first of its kind in the UK - which will transform the 'problematic' Scotswood area of Newcastle.
Olympics bosses call for 'world's best architects' to design Athletes' Village

31-May-2007
The consortium building the £2 billion Athletes' Village for the 2012 London Olympics has called on 'the world's most talented architects' to pitch for what is one of the Games' most high-profile contracts.
Urban Splash unveils shortlisted schemes for Manchester playground - images

30-May-2007
Manchester-based developer Urban Splash has unveiled these three shortlisted schemes for a new playground in Altrincham's John Leigh Park.
Simpson has designs on luxury hotel in Glasgow - images

30-May-2007
Ian Simpson has submitted for planning these designs for an ultra-luxurious £125 million landmark hotel in the centre of Glasgow.
McHugh Stoppard wins planning for 'five-star' care home - images

30-May-2007
McHugh Stoppard Architecture has received planning consent from Liverpool City Council for this striking 'older people's' care home for developer Greenacres.
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands cuts back South Bank tower scheme

29-May-2007
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands (LDS) has revealed these images of its hacked-back Doon Street tower scheme on London's South Bank.
Allies and Morrison unveils long-awaited Royal Festival Hall revamp

29-May-2007
Allies and Morrison's two-year, £100 million revamp of London's Grade I-listed Royal Festival Hall (RFH) on the South Bank has finally been unveiled.
Stephenson Bell wins planning for Cheshire home - images

29-May-2007
Stephenson Bell has received planning permission for this £1.3 million contemporary house in the heart of the Cheshire countryside.
Fire rips through Europe's tallest freestanding structure

25-May-2007
A fire has broken out at Europe's tallest freestanding structure - the Ostankino Television Tower in Moscow.
SMC misses out on AJ100 top spot

24-May-2007
The SMC Group's dominance of the UK architecture scene has failed to translate to the AJ100 (AJ 24.05.07), with the firm beaten into second place in this year's rankings by BDP.
Competition for Preston office block announced

23-May-2007
The RIBA Competitions Office has taken the unusual step of announcing a contest for the design of an office building.
CZWG redesigns Bournemouth casino amid political ding-dong - images

23-May-2007
CZWG has unveiled these images of its amended Bournemouth Pavilion Casino, which has found itself at the heart of a heated row between Liberal Democrats and Tories on the city council.
Reid to leave its footprint on Manchester

22-May-2007
Reid Architecture's plans for a £70 million mixed-use scheme in a run-down part of Manchester city centre have been approved.
Health and Safety fears are stifling creative design, claims CABE

22-May-2007
CABE has issued a scathing attack on England's 'claim culture', which it said was stifling design and creating bland and standardised public spaces.
Armstrong Burton looks to win out in Bedford despite CABE criticism

21-May-2007
Armstrong Burton Architect's (ABA's) £20 million Riverside Square scheme in Bedford looks likely to get the go-ahead despite an earlier savaging by CABE (CABE savages Armstrong Burton's Bedford scheme).
BDP's overhauled Hale Village receives outline planning consent

21-May-2007
BDP's controversial £400 million Hale Village scheme in Lee Valley, north-east London, has been given outline planning consent.
Penson reveals mixed-use scheme for south London

18-May-2007
Penson Architects has unveiled its £1.5 million scheme for Radius Shipping on the Old Kent Road, south London.
Campaigners lobby Putin over 'immediate' threat to Moscow's buildings

18-May-2007
A report into the mass destruction of Moscow's historic buildings has warned that there is an 'immediate, extensive and overwhelming threat' to the city's architecture.
Kaplicky goes to Czech senate to defend controversial Prague library

17-May-2007
Jan Kaplicky, whose Future Systems studio is designing the National Library in Prague, has visited the Czech senate to defend the scheme, which has come under attack from no less a figure than Czech president Václav Klaus.
David Walker's Barbican tower scheme rejected

17-May-2007
David Walker Architects' (DWA) controversial scheme for Milton Court - the only part of London's Barbican Centre not to be listed - has been sent back to the drawing board by City planners.
Sentence deferred for professional misconduct architect

16-May-2007
An architect has been given six months to 'address quality-control issues' after pleading guilty to charges of professional misconduct at an ARB hearing.
British Library designer Colin St John Wilson dies aged 85

16-May-2007
One of the most influential figures in British architecture, Colin St John Wilson, the man behind the British Library, has died.
Benson & Forsyth to rework Watford FC's stadium in health campus plan

15-May-2007
Benson & Forsyth has unveiled a masterplan for the mammoth £1 billion Watford Health Campus scheme in west Watford.
Pellings sued over fire-risk fears

15-May-2007
Housing association London & Quadrant Group (L&Q) is suing architect and planner Pellings in a £2.5 million legal battle.
PM-in-waiting promises eco-friendly 'Brown Towns'

15-May-2007
Gordon Brown has pledged to build five new 'eco-towns' should he become the next Prime Minister.
Libeskind and Hadid both pull up a chair - images

15-May-2007
Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid have taken a temporary break from creating iconic buildings and are sitting pretty after unveiling these chair designs.
Obituary: Vilhelm Wohlert 1920-2007

15-May-2007
The Danish architect Vilhelm Wohlert, who designed the world famous Louisiana Museum of Art with his friend Jørgen Bo, has died.
CZWG's Vaux Brewery win to be challenged in High Court

11-May-2007
The bitter and protracted battle between Sunderland Arc and Tesco to develop the Vaux Brewery site in Sunderland has taken yet another twist.
Corstorphine and Wright accepts out-of-court settlement in legal battle with contractor

11-May-2007
London-based practice Corstorphine and Wright has accepted an 'undisclosed sum' from contractor Birse Build in an out-of-court settlement that ends a long-running legal spat between the firms.
'Turbo-charged' Foster signs investment deal

10-May-2007
After months of speculation Norman Foster has finally signed a deal with private-equity group 3i for the sale of a minority stake in his firm Foster & Partners.
Austin-Smith:Lord stays on Manchester museum - and submits new proposals

10-May-2007
Austin-Smith:Lord (ASL) has put this revised scheme for the landmark People's History Museum in Manchester in for planning, following a year of doubt and confusion as to whether the firm would even stay on the project.
Birmingham seeks starchitect to design city skyscraper

10-May-2007
Birmingham Council has said an 'architect of international repute' is likely to be appointed to an ambitious 40-storey skyscraper scheme in the city.
New ODA boss is former Network Rail chief exec

9-May-2007
Former Network Rail chief executive John Armitt has been appointed as the chair of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA).
CABE finally backs KPF's City of London skyscraper

9-May-2007
Kohn Pedersen Fox's (KPF) Pinnacle Tower in the heart of the City of London has received the blessing of CABE following a third review by the architectural watchdog.
Berman Guedes Stretton adds to Oxford's 'ivory towers' - image

9-May-2007
Berman Guedes Stretton (BGS) has received planning consent for this £3 million scheme to provide a new garden lecture theatre at Queen's College, Oxford.
CZWG puts £10 million library before planners - images

8-May-2007
Piers Gough's practice CZWG is submitting this £10 million Canada Water library scheme to planners, having already received outline planning permission for a masterplan for the east London area.
Foster unveils world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste city - images

8-May-2007
Foster & Partners has revealed these images of its masterplan for the world's first zero-carbon, zero-waste city in Abu Dhabi.
Alsop, Gough and Featherstone join sustainable house designers in the countryside - images

8-May-2007
Will Alsop, Piers Gough and Sarah Featherstone have signed up to a scheme to each design a £500,000 house for developer Jeremy Paxton's Lower Mill Estate in Gloucestershire.
ODA seeks Olympic footbridge designer

8-May-2007
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) is launching a design competition for a footbridge in the centre of the Olympic Park in east London.
Selina Mason leaves CABE to join the ODA

4-May-2007
Selina Mason has stepped down from her position as CABE's director of architecture and design review to become the Olympic Delivery Authority's (ODA) deputy head of design.
Renzo reveals plans for Italy's tallest tower - images

4-May-2007
The AJ can exclusively reveal these engineering plans for Renzo Piano's beefed-up Intesa Sanpaolo Bank (ISB) Tower project in Turin, northern Italy - which when complete will be Italy's tallest skyscraper.
Brisac Gonzalez wins Scottish arts centre comp

3-May-2007
Brisac Gonzalez Architects has won a competition to build a £10 million contemporary arts centre of 'international importance' in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Thames Gateway regeneration steams ahead as Silvertown wins planning - images

2-May-2007
The £1.5 billion regeneration of east London's Silvertown Quays, which includes an aquarium by Terry Farrell, has received planning consent.
Grade I-listed Welsh castle saved from ruin - image

2-May-2007
Acumen Architects is drawing up plans to bring north Wales' dilapidated Grade I-listed Gwrych Castle back to life, including the addition of two new contemporary structures.
KKA Architects plans UK's first floating homes for Liverpool - images

2-May-2007
Liverpool-based KKA Architects is the practice behind these striking designs for Peel Holdings' ambitious plans to float 26 luxury homes in the city's Princes Dock basin.
Foster's first London skyscraper sold in massive lease-back deal

1-May-2007
Norman Foster's first major London tower, 8 Canada Square, which sits in the heart of London's Canary Wharf, has been sold for a whopping £1.09 billion.
MBLA hits back at critics after controversial Lancaster scheme wins consent - image

1-May-2007
MBLA, the practice behind this contentious £4.5 million residential development on the eastern edge of Lancaster, has hit back at critics who have panned the scheme.
'Value-engineering' sparks funding fears at 3XN's Liverpool scheme

30-Apr-2007
Funds set aside for the interior of 3XN's controversial £50 million Museum of Liverpool, on the city's Fourth Grace site, are being siphoned off to pay for the building's striking travertine stone facade, it has emerged.
Feilden Clegg Bradley waits for funding as theatre wins go-ahead - images

30-Apr-2007
Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB) has been given the green light for this £6.5 million scheme for the Oxford Youth Theatre on Magdalen Road, Oxford.
Developer still backing Viñoly's Walkie Talkie tower - despite cost

27-Apr-2007
The man leading Land Securities' troubled development of Rafael Viñoly's 'Walkie Talkie' tower in the City of London has revealed that the scheme has so far cost £19 million, and is still without a start date in sight.
Grimshaw wins planning for Bournemouth Winter Gardens - images

26-Apr-2007
Grimshaw has been given the go-ahead for the £22 million Winter Gardens project in Bournemouth, Dorset.
ESA wins planning for office scheme in south London - images

26-Apr-2007
ESA Architects has won planning permission for this £5 million scheme on Timber Mill Way in Clapham, south London.
Call for clarity after kitchen copyright row

26-Apr-2007
A West Yorkshire-based architecture practice has settled out of court with a renowned furniture designer following allegations that it copied one of the firm's designs.
Practices hope to inflate interest in architecture with 'bouncy buildings' - images

25-Apr-2007
Sergison Bates, Peter Cook and AOC have signed up to a wacky scheme to encourage interest in architecture through the creation of 'bouncy buildings'.
Campaigners save listed King's Cross buildings - for now

25-Apr-2007
Campaigners vying to save the Stanley Buildings North in King's Cross, London are celebrating after a significant climb-down by developer Argent.
Falconer Chester Hall finally wins planning for Liverpool tower scheme

25-Apr-2007
Liverpool-based practice Falconer Chester Hall (FCH) has won the green-light for a scaled-down version of its original skyscraper scheme close to the city's famous Lime Street Station.
Milton Court faces threat to famous footbridges

24-Apr-2007
Campaigners battling to save Milton Court, part of London's Barbican Centre, have been dealt a blow with news that plans for a lift and staircase - which may replace its famous footbridges - have been approved.
Tony Blair gets on the wrong side of a new set of neighbours

24-Apr-2007
The renovation of Tony Blair's new £3.5 million London home by Northern Irish architect Simon Templeton looks set to get planning despite a clamour of objections from neighbours.
Bennetts wins planning for Royal Shakespeare Theatre overhaul

23-Apr-2007
Bennetts Associates' £53 million planning application for the renovation of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre (RST) in Stratford-upon-Avon has been approved.
Wilkinson Eyre's huge BBC Media City 'not iconic enough'...

23-Apr-2007
The first phase of the £300 million mega BBC Media City project in Salford, Manchester - for which Wilkinson Eyre is lead architect - has come under attack for not being iconic enough.
Capita Percy Thomas school is eco-pioneer

20-Apr-2007
A school in Liverpool designed by Capita Percy Thomas (CPT) is likely to become the template for the government's plan to build 200 carbon-neutral 'eco schools' over the next three years.
UNStudio and 3XN plan Denmark's tallest tower

19-Apr-2007
UNStudio and 3XN have teamed up to create this harbour development scheme in the Danish city of Århus.
Architects join huge Landmark for Wales shortlists - images

19-Apr-2007
Graham Massie, Ian Ritchie and Marks Barfield are among 15 contenders vying to create Wales' own version of Gateshead's The Angel of the North.
BDP aims to create one of UK's largest shopping centres in Glasgow - image

19-Apr-2007
Plans drawn up by BDP to almost double Glasgow's Buchanan Galleries shopping centre have been submitted for outline planning permission.
Simpson to better Beetham with new Manchester skyscraper

18-Apr-2007
The developer behind Ian Simpson's 131m-tall Piccadilly tower in Manchester is pushing for permission to extend the scheme by another 10 storeys.
Livingstone touts Renzo Piano to masterplan 'squalid' London district

18-Apr-2007
Ken Livingstone has said that he is 'happy to issue CPOs' (Compulsory Purchase Orders) to ensure that 'Renzo Piano, or another famous architect working in Britain,' leads the redevelopment of the St Giles area of central London.
RPA submits London 'green' scheme for planning - images

17-Apr-2007
Richard Partington Architects (RPA) has submitted a £10 million planning application for this 'green' scheme in the heart of London's Clerkenwell district.
Brewster Bye and Yoo to design interior of Ian Simpson's 'Lumiere'

17-Apr-2007
Ian Simpson has handed over the entire interior design package of his landmark £225 million 'La Lumiere' scheme in Leeds city centre to local architect Brewster Bye, alongside Philippe Starck's interior design firm, Yoo.
CABE announces new appointments

16-Apr-2007
CABE has announced a raft of new appointments to its design review panel, among them Keith Bradley, senior partner of Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects.

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