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RIBA report reveals shocking cost of bidding on Official Journal tenders
Public procurement processes are costing UK architectural practices £40 million a year, according to a ground-breaking survey by the RIBA
Small firms in Olympic legacy bidding
Muf architecture/art and Karakusevic Carson among the smaller practices linked with major house builders in Chobham Manor tender race
Scotland consults on architecture policy
The Scottish government is launching an ‘open dialogue’ consultation on its new architecture policy
Make replaces PLP on Rathbone Place
Make has replaced PLP on the high-profile redevelopment of Royal Mail’s Rathbone Place depot in central London
Architecture Foundation launches floating cinema design competition
[PQQ’s should be returned by 26 June] The Architecture Foundation and UP Projects are seeking practices to work on a floating cinema project in east London
Wilkinson Eyre pledges to battle after RAF funding blow
Wilkinson Eyre has vowed to fight on after the Heritage Lottery Fund rejected a bid for a cash grant towards its proposed £30 million ‘landmark’ to house the Royal Air Force Museum’s Battle of Britain collection
Grimshaw scoops Tirana boulevard contest
Grimshaw has beaten fellow finalist, Dubai-based studio DAR, to win the competition to masterplan the central boulevard of Albania’s capital, Tirana.
5plus victorious on problematic east London plot
Manchester and London-based 5plus Architects has won planning permission for this £30 million hotel-led scheme in the south Shoreditch Conservation Area
'Go to Canada now!', says Ingenium supremo
UK architects have been urged to make the most of the Canadian market while it remains strong.
Kensington and Chelsea rolls out cultural placemaking strategy
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London has vowed to place culture and creative industries at the forefront of future development in the borough
Government hints at huge state-funded housing and infrastructure drive
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has revealed the government is planning a ‘massive’ state-funded housing and infrastructure drive
New practice: Peter Morris 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
Five months of US growth ends with April fall
US architecture workloads fell last month, dampening hopes of a recovery.
Louise Harrison: ‘Judges love hand-drawing’
Louise Harrison, of new architecture ‘dating agency’ designed2win, defends the competition process and the dangers of ignoring the rules
Bristol relaunches architecture centre
The Architecture Centre in Bristol has been relaunched following a major overhaul of its Harbourside home and the arrival of a new programme manager and centre head
The Hellman Files
This cartoon is from the AJ for 01.06.06, when the Labour government attempted to de-list the empty Grade II Commonwealth Institute so it could be sold. Happily they were foiled.
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The Diary of an Anonymous Architect #10
The latest in an ongoing series about the day-to-day travails of an experienced and embattled practitioner. This week: the president
Recycled steel
So much has been written about the like-it or vehemently loathe-it ArcelorMittal Orbit in the Olympic Park
Caught green-handed
DSDHA’s Paradise Park Children’s Centre’s infamous green wall, which dried up in 2009, is green again – or at least, it’s been rendered green
Silent night
NORD’s Olympic Substation won the Non-Residential Building category at Wienerberger’s Brick Awards last week, with founder Alan Pert in Vienna to pick up the gong
Shuttleworth plot afoot
Ken Shuttleworth’s proposals for a huge, silver-clad block at Broadgate, which was likened to a behemothesque Bakelite radio, caused something of an uproar last year
Apologies for absence
It was standing room only at the book launch of Architecture for Humanity founder Cameron Sinclair’s Design Like You Give a Damn 2 in Shoreditch, London, last week, which doubled up with Architecture for Humanity’s ‘Ideas on a postcard, please’ event
