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Revealed: Serie's BMW Olympic pavilion
Starlet practice Serie Architects has revealed images of its competition-winning design for BMW’s new pavilion in the London 2012 Olympic Park
'There's a tremendous amount of sexism', AJ editor Murray tells BBC's Woman’s Hour
AJ editor Christine Murray hit out at the ‘latent sexism’ in the industry and unequal pay during an interview with Jane Garvey on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour this morning
Design Council CABE still unconvinced by 'weak' £5.5bn Liverpool Waters scheme
Design Council CABE has again criticised Peel Holdings huge £5.5billion Liverpool Waters regeneration scheme, despite revisions to the project’s ‘governing principles’
Zaha Hadid's turnover and profits dip
Profits have fallen by more than 50 per cent at Zaha Hadid Architects, following a series of project cancellations in North Africa last year
Converted shipping container named Londonʼs best office extension
Gundry & Ducker Architects, Carl Turner Architects and Ashton Porter Architects have scooped the top accolades in the NLA’s third annual Don't Move, Improve! competition
Keppie looks for partners to bolster Far East growth
Glasgow-based practice Keppie Design is looking for partners to help it expand into South-east Asia
Construction market dips Down Under
Hopes of a revival in the Australian built environment sector have been dealt twin blows this week.
Design team named for Olympic International Quarter
BDP, Gensler, Pringle Brandon Drew, TP Bennett and Woods Bagot have been chosen to design the new £1.3 billion commercial district on the edge of the Olympic Park in Stratford City
Revealed: mae scores Olympic fringe hat-trick
Housing specialist mæ architects has bagged planning permission for a trio of projects to revamp rundown sporting facilities in east London
Contentious Middlesex Hospital revamp wins planning
Plans for a major mixed-use development by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Sheppard Robson on the site of the former Middlesex Hospital have been granted permission by Westminster City Council
Analysis: The slow re-build of Japan
After the Great East Earthquake and its resulting tsunami hit the coastline of Japan’s Tohoku region in March, architects and engineers were among the first to the opportunity for improved design, communication and recovery in the country’s neglected urban areas, writes Michael Fitzpatrick
New findings: Women in Architecture Survey
Continuing the AJ’s campaign to promote the status of women in architecture, further analysis of the AJ’s survey results reveals a shocking pay gap at director level, writes Christine Murray
Seilern 'positive' about Nigerian market after key win
The head of Studio Seilern Architects has hailed the ‘sophistication’ of the Nigerian market after the practice secured its first scheme in the country
BDP lands huge Zhengdong transport-node masterplan
BDP is hunting for further masterplanning work in China after securing a project to design a 2 million m² district close to new high speed rail infrastructure
Foster + Partners posts huge profits
Foster + Partners has increased its turnover by nearly 19 per cent to £159.27 million and hiked its profits by 13.3 per cent to £49.64 million
Office values struggle as confidence remains low
Germany is the only European country expecting to see an improvement in the value of commercial property in the first three months of this year
David Kester: We need design champions as politicians
Design Council chief executive David Kester has called on policy makers to recognise the value architects and designers bring to the UK
ARB elections: RIBA throws weight behind four candidates
The RIBA has taken the surprise step of publicly urging its members to vote for four candidates, backed by RIBA president Angela Brady, in the upcoming ARB elections
McAslan beats Zaha to London Museum jackpot
John McAslan + Partners has seen off an impressive shortlist, including Zaha Hadid Architects, to win the competition to design the revamp and extension of the Museum of London’s Roman gallery
Raw wins go-ahead for rural gem
Emerging London-based practice Raw Architecture Workshop has won planning for this 150m2 home on an ‘exposed, steeply sloping’ site at Camusdarach Sands, Morar, Scotland
Grimshaw, HOK and Aedas’ shortlisted Chicago Navy Pier schemes revealed
Images showing the five shortlisted schemes competing to revamp Chicago’s 900-metre long Navy Pier amusement attraction have been unveiled
New Practices #98: Upstairs 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
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.
Astragal: our insider with the stories behind the news
BBC picks 1960s high-rise for Olympics news broadcasts
BBC News will deliver its Olympic Games coverage from the roof and the top floors of a condemned Newham council estate
Brazilians plan to resurrect Christ in London
An enormous 9m-tall statue of Jesus – similar to Rio De Janeiro’s famous Christ The Redeemer statue – is planned for Primrose Hill in London
The Invisible man
It’s heartening to hear of high-profile exits motivated more by yearning for a lightness of soul than alarm at the sound of a sinking ship. In a move not beaten since Will Alsop threw it all in to concentrate on his painting, Piers Taylor announced his departure from Mitchell Taylor Workshop with a heartfelt missive about sticking it to the man
De Botton's Livid Architecture
He may seem gentle (big, sad eyes) and kind (the numerous trendy holiday homes he pays trendy architects to design for his Living Architecture programme) …
Reaping the rewards
The life of an RIBA president is not an easy one: long hours tending to presidential business, less time to give to your practice’s projects, the rubbish lift at Portland Place…
Long way round
What was it that former AJ editor Kieran Long once wrote of the 2008 Venice Biennale? ‘Like nerds talking about sex.’
