Architects Journal
July 2010

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AAVA tries again with Deptford revival

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] Emerging young London practice AAVA is to resubmit plans for the £4 million redevelopment of a rundown site next to Deptford Bridge Station in south-east London
BSF review by Tesco/Dixons team sparks design quality fears

Fears are growing that the 700 projects that survived the Building Schools of the Future (BSF) cull last week (AJ 08.07.10) could be dumbed down by the newly appointed capital review team
CABE to ‘refocus with fewer resources’

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will consider how CABE could ‘consolidate its functions’ in a review of public bodies launched last Monday (26 July)
EH rethinks listing for doomed Plymouth building

English Heritage (EH) is to reconsider whether to list a 1952 NAAFI building in Plymouth’s city centre, even though it is already being pulled down
Hit the bottom

Everyone who shed a tear over the scheduled flattening of Owen Luder’s Get Carter car park in Gateshead, and then cheered when demolition was halted in March, had better look for another hanky
New Practices #34: Brunskill Design 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 #35: Ström 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 #37: William Smalley

The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone, either through choice or redundancy
Pop-up café reappears atop London multi-storey car park

This is Frank’s Café, a temporary rooftop pavilion in Peckham, south-east London
Rubbish adventure

Hats off to Michael Pawlyn, director of Exploration Architecture, whose 60ft catamaran made from recycled plastic bottles successfully crossed the Pacific Ocean, arriving in Sydney last weekend
‘Localism can, and does, improve the quality of the built environment’

In this personal account of urban regeneration in south London, Rory Olcayto juxtaposes a top-down development in Elephant and Castle with ground-up localism in Peckham
21st Century Homes for Edinburgh

The City of Edinburgh Council is on the hunt for an architect-led design team to manage a £200 million housebuilding programme
3A Composites introduces distinctive visual identity

Following the introduction of its name a few months ago, the leading supplier of composites materials, 3A Composites today has launched a comprehensive new corporate identity, including a dynamic logo and a visual identity concept.
3DReid reveals Edinburgh Primark plans

3DReid has submitted plans for a new 22,000m² flagship store for Primark on Edinburgh’s famous Princes Street
A journey into deep epic space with the Masters of the Quangoverse

Ian Martin decides the coalition has gone too far
AEW wins £500K over unpaid Liverpool museum fees

AEW Architects has been awarded £500,000 following a dispute with the Museum of Liverpool over unpaid fees on its £72 million waterfront project
AF launches Stratford kiosks competition

The Architecture Foundation has launched an international design competition for a series of permanent kiosks at Meridian Square, Stratford
AJ exclusive: Clay country eco-town contest winners

[FIRST LOOK] The AJ can reveal the six winners in the competition to design the first wave of housing for the Mid-Cornwall Clay Country eco-town
Alsop Sparch bags planning for Thames-side hotel

Alsop Sparch has landed planning permission for its £250 million Puddle Dock hotel scheme on the north bank of the River Thames close to Blackfriars Station in London
Anderson Bell Christie unveils Glasgow health centre

[FIRST LOOK + PROJECT DATA] Anderson Bell Christie Architects has revealed the first images of its recently completed community health centre in Greater Glasgow, Scotland
Angela Brady elected RIBA President

Angela Brady has won the RIBA Presidential election and is now set to become the second woman to take on the role
Apology for Charles over Barracks row

The property tycoon who sued the Qatari royal family over the collapse of the Chelsea Barracks development has ‘unreservedly apologised’ to Prince Charles for dragging him into the High Court battle.
ARB plans to scrap controversial PII form

The Architects’ Registration Board (ARB ) is proposing to scrap its contentious professional indemnity insurance (PII) ‘tick box’ form
Architectural Association School

The Architectural Association (AA) ‘builds audiences for experimentation
Architecture returns to Hull

Hull now has a new architecture school, seven years after the original Hull School of Architecture was shipped out to Lincoln
Architecture: The fightback starts here

In the wake of the slaughter of BSF and mounting redundancies, we must show the public how essential architects are, saysChristine Murray
Art and inspiration: From Constable to Kandinsky

Fresh minds, not princely interference, are needed to build a new ‘classic architecture’, says Ian Ritchie
Arup and Grimshaw reveal huge wind turbine

Arup and Grimshaw have unveiled images of their design for a new breed of 10 megawatt wind turbines
Aspiring architects win trip to Shanghai

The winners of this year’s Architecture for Everyone programme, organised by the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust and RMJM, have been revealed
At risk: Recession blights historic architecture

The recession is making it harder to protect the UK’s most at-risk historic buildings, English Heritage has warned
Bankside Urban Forest Weekend: Urban Orchard

[LFA RECOMMENDED] 2 July - 4 July, Union Street
Bartlett team to teach masterplanning to China

A team from the UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment has been chosen to teach city masterplanning in China’s Hunan province
Bauman Lyons unveils Hebden Bridge town hall plans

[FIRST LOOK] Detailed redevelopment proposals by Bauman Lyons for Hebden Bridge’s town hall have been submitted by Hebden Bridge Community Association (HBCA)
BDP wins Nanjing Medical University competition

BDP has seen off French Pritzker Prize-winning architect Christian de Portzamparc to win the international contest to design a new building for Nanjing Medical University
BEI-Teesside by Heatherwick Studio

Sustainability in Practice: Waste-to-energy processing plants
BFLS unveils office for ‘difficult’ site in heart of the City

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] Bogle Flanagan Lawrence Silver (BFLS) has unveiled designs for this 19,944m² 15-storey office scheme at 43 Fetter Lane in the City of London
'Blood Railway' bags inaugural Foster + Partners award

A scheme for an underground blood distribution network has won the Architectural Association’s first ever Foster + Partners Prize for Sustainability and Infrastructure
Boffo becomes new chair of London Region

Italian-born architect Paola Boffo has become the new chair of the troubled RIBA London Region
Brady vows to make architects integral to the Big Society

Angela Brady, future president of the RIBA, has vowed to make the institute more outward-looking and position architects at the heart of the coalition government’s Big Society plans
Breaking news: RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist unveiled

A trio of projects by smaller practices has been named alongside a clutch of big-money cultural schemes designed by Zaha Hadid, David Chipperfield and Rick Mather on this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist
Brisac Gonzalez wins opera house contest

Brisac Gonzalez together with Oslo-based Space Group and CF Møller have scooped a prestigious contest to design a new opera house in Kristiansund, Norway
Brussels Courthouse ideas contest

The Belgian Buildings Agency has launched an international ideas contest for the Brussels Court House and surrounding Poelaert Square
BSF cuts: ‘This is a dark day for the industry’

As 700 school-building projects are stopped, architects give Merlin Fulcher their reactions to the government’s decision to end the £55 billion BSF programme
BSF cuts: 700 projects doomed as £5 billion axe falls

The government is expected to effectively scrap the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme, cutting £5 billion from its budget
BSF Cuts: cancelled schools cost £160m

The cost to councils of the Government cancelling school rebuilding projects has been placed at £160 million, it has been disclosed
BSF cuts: First reaction and analysis

Politicians, architects and industry experts respond to the cancellation of the BSF school-building programme
BSF cuts: Full list of affected schools

All Building Schools for the Future projects that had not reached ‘financial close’ will be scrapped and a further 123 academy schemes would be ‘reviewed’. Check out the impact on schools within each local authority with this comprehensive list
BSF cuts: Gove apologises as more schools scrapped

Education secretary Michael Gove has apologised to 10 schools affected by mistakes in a government document, which made them believe they were exempt from the scrapping of the £55 billion BSF programme
BSF cuts: Gove to face Commons

Education Secretary Michael Gove will today face a grilling in the Commons, as local authorities reveal they may sue over BSF cuts
BSF cuts: Job cuts ‘inevitable’

The government’s decision to end the £55 billion Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme could trigger a wave of job losses for education-sector architects, with more than 1,000 redundancies predicted
BSF cuts: Ministers 'warned about school list errors'

Ministers ignored officials’ advice not to publish an error-strewn list of scrapped school building projects before it could be double-checked, a quango boss has said
BSF cuts: Partnerships for Schools faces axe

The government’s BSF delivery body could be scrapped following last week’s bungled announcement over BSF
Canterbury School of Architecture at the University for the Creative Arts

Canterbury shares a campus with a flourishing art college founded by the artist Sidney Cooper in 1882
Charity abandons Hampton Court scheme

Care home charity the Royal Star & Garter has pulled out of Allies & Morrison’s controversial scheme to redevelop Hampton Court station, south-west London
Chris Dyson bags planning for revamp of 1960s block

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] Chris Dyson Architects has won planning permission for the refurbishment of a 1960s apartment block in Putney, south-west London
Coalition planning polices to face scrutiny

Two separate inquiries will take place in Parliament to look at the impact of the Government’s new-look planning policies, it has been revealed.
Competitions: Editor's Pick, 15.07.10

The redevelopment of Whitehaven Marina in Cumbria, Edinburgh’s £200 million home-building programme and a refurbishment project for Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust; the editor’s pick of this week’s top competitions
Competitions: Editor's Pick, 22.07.10

Information kiosks for the Olympic Games, a refurbishment project for The Winchester Project and a design competition run by Mykon; the editor’s pick of this week’s top competitions
Competitions: Editor's Pick, 29.07.10

Refurbishment project at the Victoria and Albert Museum, an ideas contest for the Brussels Courthouse and a photography competition run by Zumtobel; the editor’s pick of this week’s top competitions
Concrete blocks and green alternatives

Sandy Patience looks at products less harmful to the environment than traditional concrete blocks
Contest: design the Olympic torch

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and the Design Council are looking for teams of designers to create the torches for the 2012 London Games
Costs: Colour and Texture

With estimating you need to take the textured with the smooth - but at least with a little help you might get it finished. Here, Neil Barnett, resource cost services manager of BCIS, the Building Cost Information Service of the RICS, provides the latest sample cost breakdowns for applied finishes, textures and colours.
Costs: Kitchens and Bathrooms

Looking to spend a penny on a WC? Here, Neil Barnett, resource cost services manager at BCIS, the Building Cost Information Service of the RICS, provides cost breakdowns for kitchen and bathroom fittings.
Councils to set own planning fees

The government has revealed proposals to allow local authorities to charge what they want for handling planning applications
Cullinan completes visitor centre for Edinburgh’s botanic gardens

These are the first pictures of Edward Cullinan Architects’ John Hope Gateway visitor centre at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE)
Cuts: £25m swimming pool refurb scheme put on ice

Sports minister Hugh Robertson has axed a planned £25 million swimming pool refurbishment scheme, underlining the reality of the Treasury’s 25 per cent departmental budget cuts programme.
Cuts: Funds withdrawn for eco-schools

The government has axed funding for the UK’s first zero-carbon school projects
Death knell for PRP's Queen's Market plans as developer pulls out

St Modwen has withdrawn its £100 million investment proposal for the redevelopment of Queen’s Market, London
Design a Roof: A home for Boris

The winner of the Monier Redland/AJ Design a Roof competition imagines a home for London mayor Boris Johnson atop St Paul’s
Design Engine scoops Charterhouse School contest

Design Engine has won the competition to build a new chemistry block at Charterhouse School, Surrey
Design review hit as CABE suffers 20% cut

The department for Communities and Local Government (CLG) has confirmed it is cutting CABE’s budget by 20 per cent - a loss of £1.3 million
Devida - Advanced engineered wood flooring from Devida: Tilo Hobo veneer floor

TIlo Hobo veneer floor is a clever alternative to more traditional types of wood flooring, using wood veneer to create flooring from natural, renewable materials that is economical and environmentally friendly.
Digital voyages

Astragal stumbled upon a team of workers combing through the archives in the basement of AJ Towers
DOS Architects win Nigerian church contest

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] London-based DOS Architects has won the competition to design a $14million church in Lagos, Nigeria
Double blow: Simpson’s Loggia rejected again

John Simpson Architects’ loggia proposal for Kensington Palace in west London has been denied planning permission for the second time
DSDHA and Kevin McCloud to redevelop hospital site

Television presenter Kevin McCloud’s development company HAB and DSDHA have been chosen to develop a former hospital site in Cashes Green, Stroud
Dunshaughlin Pastoral Centre, County Meath, Ireland, by McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects

McGarry Ní Éanaigh Architects’ Dunshaughlin Pastoral Centre is a vibrant heart for a recession-struck Irish community, says Rory Olcayto.Photography by Richard Hatch
Eco Energy Park by Buckley Gray Yeoman

Sustainability in Practice: Waste-to-energy processing plants
Ecophon - Sound solution for students

Refectories are often the hub of a building and should be pleasant and comfortable places where people can go to catch up over a cup of coffee.
Ecophon - Walkergate Hospital

Cleanliness throughout the medical environment has become more important than ever before. While much attention may focus on floors or bathrooms, Ecophon Limited is emphatic that ceilings cannot be ignored by designers if the highest levels of cleanliness in all aspects of the building are to be maintained.
EH demands Liverpool Waters scale back

The £5.5 billion plans for Liverpool Waters have sparked concerns that could the city’s World Heritage Site status could be put in jeopardy
EPR submits Hoxton Hotel scheme for Waterloo

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] EPR Architects has submitted a planning application for this Hoxton Hotel scheme opposite the Old Vic theatre at Waterloo, London
Farewell to a jazz architecture legend, hello to a mighty hangover

Ian Martin explores some Portable Dystopia
Farshid Moussavi's shiny new Cleveland gallery nears completion

Construction work has nearly finished on Farshid Moussavi Architecture’s new home for The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA)
Fire chief criticises timber frames

The growing use of timber-frame construction in high rise buildings has been criticised by the chairman of the London Fire Authority
First Look: AHMM's W4 and W5 in central London

Westminster City Council has approved plans for Allford Hall Monaghan Morris’ W4 and W5 South plans in London’s West End
First timers hit by ARB fee shake-up

The Architects Registration Board is instating a new fee structure which will mean higher fees for first time applicants
Forget X-Factor planning: Architects know best

Architects need to regain their professional status or risk losing ground to ‘local experts’, says Christine Murray
Formroom's Everton FC development approved

Everton Football Club has won planning permission for a £9 million retail and administration development at Goodison Park.
Foster’s £225 million overhauled Boston museum opens

[FIRST LOOK] The wraps are off Foster + Partners’ new wing and courtyard for the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston, US
Funding cuts: 'End of a golden age' warns Bennetts

The architect of the new Shakespeare theatre in Stratford has warned that government cuts could mark the end of great public architectural projects in Britain
Future vision of London's West End unveiled

Central London’s New West End Company (NWEC) has revealed images of how the busy shopping area could look by 2020
Gensler unveils American Bond museum scheme

Gensler has revealed its plans for a US Museum of Bond vehicles and espionage in Momence, Illinois
Get Carter car park comes down

Owen Luder has made a final visit to his iconic Gateshead multi-storey car park - made famous in the film Get Carter
GKD - Africa’s first media facade lets Tripoli shine bright

Harmonically integrated into the North African architecture, the Tripoli International Congress Hall by Tabanlioglu Architects creates a special aura with its 350 sqm Mediamesh®-façade.
Go ahead for £1.5bn Elephant and Castle regeneration

Ambitious plans for the transformation of Elephant and Castle have taken a huge leap forward after Southwark Council sewed up an historic deal with Olympic Village developer Lend Lease
Gove accused of fifth BSF list blunder

Education Secretary Michael Gove has faced a grilling in the Commons over his handling of the decision to axe Labour’s £55 billion school building programme
Government admits construction stats were too optimistic

The government has admitted its optimistic growth statistics were wrong as new figures reveal the value of construction projects fell one per cent this year
Green light set for Dexter Moren's Barking hotel

Barking and Dagenham Borough Council is expected to approve this sail-shaped 22-storey hotel by Dexter Moren next Thursday (12 August)
Grimshaw bags Suffolk waste plant job

Grimshaw has landed the contract to design a new energy-from-waste facility in Suffolk
Growing concern over immigration policy

Both the RIBA and the Association of Consultant Architects (ACA) have questioned government plans to bring immigration levels backs to 1990s levels
Gum crime

London mayor Boris Johnson convened a chewing-gum summit last week to jumpstart an attack on the gum litter estimated to cost the capital up to £10 million annually.
Günter Behnisch (1922-2010)

The legacy of Günter Behnisch includes landmark projects such as the German Parliament, says Matthew Wells
Gunter Behnisch, Munich Olympics architect, dies

Gunter Behnisch, the architect behind the groundbreaking tent-like roof of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games’ main stadium, has died aged 88
HAT Projects' Jerwood Gallery opens doors

Emerging outfit HAT Projects has taken the wraps off its £4 million Jerwood Gallery in Hastings.
Haworth Tompkins wins Everyman Theatre go-ahead

Haworth Tompkins has bagged planning permission for its £28million Everyman and Playhouse Theatre redevelopment in Liverpool just weeks after the regional development agency withdrew its £2.4 million backing for the project
HCA and Mayor rescue 500 stalled London homes

The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) and the Mayor of London have given affordable housing a boost by announcing a £50 million cash injection for 16 mothballed schemes across the capital
HCA cuts: Lucky Kickstart schemes revealed

The Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) has listed which Kickstart projects will receive funding following a £390 million cash boost
Highacres House outbuilding, South Oxon by Duncan Foster Architects

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] Surbiton-based Duncan Foster Architects has won planning permission for this house in the grounds of an existing property in Chinnor, South Oxfordshire
Holcim launches $2m sustainability awards

Swiss cement and aggregate supplier Holcim, parent company of UK-based Aggregate Industries, has launched its global sustainable design awards with categories for both professionals and students
Holmes reveals new secondary school for Erskine

Glasgow-based architects Holmes has submitted plans for this 1400-pupil school in Erskine, Renfrewshire
Howells bags sporting double

Glenn Howells Architects (GHA) has landed the project to redevelop Newbury Racecourse as well as the £11 million overhaul of Edgbaston Priory Tennis Club
Igloo: 'Architects need to find conviction again’

Andrea Klettner meets Igloo, the ‘sustainable urban developer’ keen to provide opportunities for young, risk-taking architects and looking to kickstart ground-up local regeneration
Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, refurbishment and new build

The Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust requires an architect with healthcare experience for a building and capital works programme at its Charing Cross, Hammersmith and St Mary’s sites
In pictures: Jean Nouvel's Serpentine Pavilion

[FIRST LOOK] This year’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, designed by French starchitect Jean Nouvel, opens to the public this Saturday (10 July)
Industry crash drives Irish architects to seek work in UK

Almost a third of Ireland’s architects and engineers have left the country following the collapse of its construction industry, with many seeking work in the UK
Information kiosks, Olympic site, Stratford

The Architecture Foundation has launched a Newham Council-backed international design competition for a series of permanent Olympics information kiosks at Meridian Square in Stratford, east London
Insulated Daylighting

One of Europe’s latest projects to use innovative Nanogel® aerogel is the three storey Pearse Street Primary Care Centre recently opened in Dublin, designed by architects A&D Wejchert & Partners. The airtight Kalwall+ Nanogel daylighting system diffuses natural daylight, without shadows or glare or solar control.
Insulated Daylighting

One of Europe’s latest projects to use innovative Nanogel® aerogel is the three storey Pearse Street Primary Care Centre recently opened in Dublin, designed by architects A&D Wejchert & Partners. The airtight Kalwall+ Nanogel daylighting system diffuses natural daylight, without shadows or glare or solar control.
Iranian embassy proposals anger residents

Plans for a new Iranian Embassy in Kensington have provoked controversy among local residents who are calling on the Prince of Wales to intervene
Jersey Waste to Energy by Hopkins (concept design to planning) and EPR Architects

Sustainability in Practice: Waste-to-energy processing plants
John Porter Doors Joins the Performance Timber Products Group

John Porter Doors Limited, a privately owned specialist manufacturer of quality timber commercial doors, doorsets and associated joinery products, has been acquired by The Performance Timber Products Group Limited (PTP).
Kalzip’s perfect for flat roofs

Kalzip’s new flat roofing system guide explains why high performance aluminium standing seam roofs are a robust and cost-effective solution for all new build and refurbishment applications.
Khan Shatyr Entertainment Centre, Kazakhstan by Foster + Partners

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] The world’s tallest tensile structure, the Khan Shatyr Entertainment Center in Kazakhstan by Foster + Partners has officially opened its doors
Koolhaas wins Lifetime Achievement award at Venice Biennale

Rem Koolhaas has been named the winner of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the board of the Venice Architecture Biennale
KPF reboots Holborn Viaduct office scheme

Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has finally revealed images of its 60 Holborn Viaduct scheme in central London
Land Architecture People's home truths: what the clients saw

An immaculately presented exhibition takes an anthropological approach to examining the client’s story behind the architectural process. James Pallister meets its makers
Leaderflush Shapland: Plasform® post-formed doors for University of Strathclyde

Specialist environments call for specialist designs. When specifying materials for the construction of sensitive areas in industrial environments such as pharmaceutical areas, laboratories, clean rooms, food processing units and high tech industries, the need for doorsets that contribute to a contamination-free environment has never been greater.
Leeds School of Architecture, Landscape and Design

Once a production line for robotic draughtsman, the school is creaking through a minor revolution started by Gary Hornsby and Bridget Hansford in 2008
LFA 2010: Make do and build

Table tennis in scrapyards, theatre in playgrounds and a makeshift mentality: Crystal Bennes reviews London Festival of Architecture 2010
Libeskind to add to his Jewish Museum in Berlin

The Jewish Museum in Berlin is to get an extension designed by its original architect Daniel Libeskind, it has been confirmed
London 2012 Olympics: two years to go

With exactly two years to go until the launch of the Games, these are the latest shots of progress on the London 2012 Olympics site
London Library, by Haworth Tompkins Architects

Over 114 years, the London Library had become a labyrinth of conjoined buildings and ill-judged add-ons. Haworth Tompkins Architects has restored its former glories while bringing clarity to the institution, says Crystal Bennes. Photography by Philip Vile
London Metropolitan Department of Architecture

Under the thoughtful leadership of Robert Mull, the London Metropolitan University department of architecture is one of the most grounded schools in the capital, consistently producing students with both robust pragmatism and acute sensitivity to the complexities of the city
Longest bench in Britain comes to Littlehampton

The seaside town of Littlehampton can now add what claims to be ‘the longest bench in Britain’ to its list of attractions
Louis de Soisson's WGC house up for grabs

The former home of Welwyn Garden City founder and architect, Louis de Soissons, is now up for sale with a £1.35 million price tag
Make bags planning for huge Wembley housing plans

Brent Council has approved plans for 1,300 new homes, a community park and shopping street next to Wembley Stadium designed by Make
Make behind new £340 million Broadgate tower for UBS

The AJ understands Make is designing the new £340 million headquarters for Swiss bank UBS at Broadgate in the City of London
Malcolm Fraser wins people's vote at Scottish Housing Expo

A larch-clad house by Malcolm Fraser Architects has been crowned the ‘people’s favourite home’ by visitors to the Scottish Housing Expo near Inverness
Milton Keynes listing marks 'sea change' in ministerial attitude

New architecture minister John Penrose has listed the Milton Keynes shopping centre and upheld the listing of two other controversial post-war buildings
Minister backs Hopkins' revised Greenwich plans

The Secretary of State Eric Pickles has rubberstamped Hopkins’ reworked proposals for the regeneration of Greenwich Market
MJP wins green light for Jersey quarry scheme

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] MJP Architects and Axis Mason Architects have been given the go-ahead for this 196-flat development on the site of a former quarry in St Helier, Jersey
MMU plans go ahead despite funding cuts

Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) is pushing ahead with plans to build the John McAslan + Partners-designed Birley Fields campus in Hulme, despite losing funding from the North West Development Agency (NWDA)
Mykon design competition

Interior design and architectural panel manufacturer Mykon has invited UK students to take part in a design competition using its products
New Apple Store opens at Covent Garden Piazza

San Francisco-based practice Bohlin Cywinski Jackson has restored a Grade II-listed building in London’s Covent Garden for retail giant Apple
New homes to be carbon free by 2016

Housing Minster Grant Shapps has announced a radical review of building regulations to ensure that all new homes are carbon free by 2016
New Practice #33: Feilden Fowles

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 #36: Raw Architecture Workshop

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 York 'Blue Network' design competition

The ONE PRIZE open competition seeks design ideas for New York City’s ‘Blue Network’ water transport system and also for the city’s ‘Clean Tech Expo’ which will take place in 2014
No sign of minimum design standards in 'free school' bill

Calls for minimum design standards in the new Academies Bill, which is being rushed through parliament, have fallen on deaf ears
Norman Foster quits Lords over non-resident status

Lord Foster of Thames Bank has given up his seat in the House of Lords in order to hold on to his non-resident tax status, it was revealed today
Olympic Aquatics Centre could go over budget

The Olympic Delivery Authority has warned that the Zaha Hadid’s 2012 Aquatics Centre could run over budget next year if the project is to be finished on time
Paradise Park living wall scrapped

Islington Council has scrapped plans to rebuild the defective living wall on DSDHA’s Paradise Park Children’s Centre in north London
Penfold Review: Non-planning consents must be simplified

The Penfold Review - set up to tackle problems facing businesses - has made a series of recommendations for encouraging development and growth, simplifying the planning and consents environment and cutting red tape
Penoyre & Prasad's £11 million Isle of Dogs housing approved

Penoyre & Prasad’s competition-winning scheme for a new 56-home development on the Isle of Dogs has been given the green light by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Pipers Building, Folkestone, by Guy Hollaway Architects

[FIRST LOOK] Shepway District Council recently approved proposals for the transformation of the old Pipers building on Tontine Street, Folkestone, and the neighbouring Istanbul Kebab shop
Practices battle for £450m PFI hospital

BDP and Sheppard Robson are among six practices on design teams bidding for the redevelopment of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in Liverpool
Refurbishment of Cast Courts, Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum needs an architect to mastermind the refurbishment of its Cast Courts, which house its collection of plaster cast reproductions
Revealed: first phase of Man City expansion

The first part of Manchester City FC’s stadium redevelopment is set to go ahead with the creation of a Fan Zone, drawn up by BDP
Revealed: replacement for doomed Hoe Centre

The AJ can reveal the first images of the proposed replacement for the doomed 1952 Hoe Centre in Plymouth
Revealed: van Heyningen and Haward's Thames Gateway centres

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS] London-based van Heyningen and Haward has landed planning permission for a new visitor centre for the Essex Wildlife Trust
Revealed: Winner and runner-up schemes in the 36 The Calls contest

The Citu-backed competition to design a riverside building between some historic former warehouses in Leeds challenged entrants to re-shape a car-park site, says Richard Waite
RIBA Competition: Whitehaven Marina

The RIBA has launched a design contest for a £10 million mixed-use development at Whitehaven Marina, Cumbria
RIBA joins 30-strong anti-localism planning policy alliance

An alliance of national bodies, including the RIBA, has hit out at the coalition’s proposed reform of the planning system and the scrapping of regional policies
RIBA survey supports bleak outlook

Architects are increasingly pessimistic about future workloads despite a continued fall in those claiming dole
Richard Haut’s EU tenders, 29.07.10

Richard Haut rounds up European opportunities. This week: Five leads, including the redesign of the Cross-Channel Terminal building in Calais, France, and a refurbishment project for the Karolinska Institute in Sweden
Richard Murphy reveals Perth theatre overhaul plans

Edinburgh-based Richard Murphy Architects has submitted plans to overhaul the 1900 Perth theatre, Scotland
Ritchie outraged at Bermondsey station changes

Architect Ian Ritchie has slammed tube bosses for removing seating he designed for Bermondsey Station, south-east London
Rogers supports Meier's scheme for Rowan Atkinson

Richard Rogers is backing Rowan Atkinson’s controversial plans to build a Richard Meier-designed house in rural south Oxfordshire
Ryder completes £22 million Carmel College

[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + PROJECT DATA] These are the first images of Ryder Architecture’s recently completed £22 million new build project for Carmel College at St Helens, Merseyside
School of Architecture and Construction, University of Greenwich

Photographs from this year’s University of Greenwich student show, the student show ran from 4 to 12 June
School of the Built Environment, Northumbria University

Photographs from Northumbria University’s 2010 end-of-year show
Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment

Photographs from this year’s end-of-year show, at Scott Sutherland School, Aberdeen
Scramble on for new World Heritage Sites

Nearly 40 historic environments are pitching for UNESCO World Heritage Site status
Sea Change projects to go ahead despite cuts

CABE’s seaside regeneration programme is still set to continue, despite government enforced cuts to its budget
Shanghai Expo 2010: As it happens

Experience the highlights, humidity and hype from the Shanghai Expo 2010 world trade fair. Hear from, among others, the 14-strong RIBA delegation as it enjoys the pavilions of different nations and also tries to find some work…
Shapps: Eco-towns funding halved

Funding for the eco-towns programme has been cut by 50 per cent, housing minister Grant Shapps has told councils
Shuttleworth calls again for end to 'glass binge'

Ken Shuttleworth has repeated calls made six years ago to stop the continuing glazing gorge, saying the ‘glass binge is over’
Social housing sinks as HCA cuts bite

Architects working on social housing projects have been savaged by government cuts, as starts on site are down 40 per cent on this time last year
'Soviet' home-build targets dropped

Financial incentives for councils that support house-building will be introduced as a matter of priority, communities secretary Eric Pickles has promised
Squire and Partners replaces Alsop on Millwall scheme

Millwall FC has brought in Squire and Partners to replace Will Alsop on the redevelopment of its ground - and the area immediately surrounding it - in south London
Stirling Prize shortlist: the judges' comments

Read exclusively the full judges’ citations for all six schemes vying for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2010
Stirling Prize: Chipperfield's odds slashed as punters back Neues

Bookmaker William Hill has slashed the odds of David Chipperfield winning this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize after a flurry of punters waged money on the architect’s shortlisted Neues Museum in Berlin
Strata - Fasten Seat Belts for Landing!

As we all know from the glossy magazine photographs and case study images we all hold dear within our portfolios; the image of an airport portrayed by architects is one of the pristine, cathedral like structure, a scattering of people and floors so clean you would fight for the chance to eat your food from its mirrored surfaces!
Structural engineering: AKT’s role in Heatherwick Studio’s Shanghai Expo pavilion

Heatherwick Studio’s Shanghai Expo pavilion - winner of the Lubetkin Prize - tasked AKT with the engineering of a metaphor
Studio Egret West to design Cambridge United stadium

Studio Egret West and Dipesh Patel of Pattern have been jointly appointed to design a new home for Cambridge United
Swiss Church, Covent Garden, London, by Christ & Gantenbein

[FIRST LOOK] Christ & Gantenbein’s renovation of ‘idiosyncratic’ 1855 church includes a new organ gallery
Technical & Practice: Rainscreen cladding

Llewelyn Davies Yeang’s cladding for the Great Ormond Street Hospital redevelopment project is bespoke but easy to build, says Felix Mara
Ten per cent less is ten per cent more for Architecture’s Big Society

Ian Martin and The Decimators slash epic space emissions
Thames Gateway Power by Race Cottam Associates

Sustainability in Practice: Waste-to-energy processing plants
The BRE must tighten up BREEAM’s standards before exporting them

Transparency is needed for environmental rating systems for green buildings and products, says Hattie Hartman
'The large-scale Lottery-funded cultural project is an endangered species'

Rab Bennetts fears the end of the road for huge cultural projects could lead to the long-term loss of hard-to-replace expertise
The Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, by Ellis Williams Architects

‘Simplicity, sophistication, and one or two surprises’, says Felix Mara. Photography by Hélène Binet.
The problem with student shows

The end-of-year architecture show is euphoric, exuberant, and in need of an overhaul. Jeremy Till considers a ritual that preserves some of architecture’s least appealing aspects
The Stirling shortlist: it's a matter of taste

Interpret the Stirling shortlist any way you like, but it’s all down to whose style you prefer, says Rory Olcayto
Tilo products now available from Devida

The complete tilo® range of wood, cork and linoleum flooring, veneered wall paneling and exterior decking and cladding is now available from Bristol-based Devida Ltd.
Ulf Hackauf: The black and white of green

Ulf Hackauf, principal of MVRDV’s think-tank The Why Factory, explains why his book advocates less hype and more ambition in building the future’s sustainable cities
University of Cambridge School of Architecture

Creative, artistic and energetic work that is artistic while being intellectually disciplined, spatial, tectonic and environmental
Urban design 'makes people fat'

Health and wellbeing must be at the top of the town planning agenda in the future, a leading academic has warned
V&A Boiler House Yard shortlist revealed

The V&A has unveiled a 7-strong shortlist of practices competing to design a new extension to its West Kensington museum in London
Villa Hush Hush, location unknown by Marks Barfield

[FIRST LOOK] London-based practice Marks Barfield has designed this £10 million ‘elevating’ house for an undisclosed site in the south of England
Villages gain right to build homes

Rural communities in England will be able to build homes without planning permission under plans announced by the government
Viñoly’s delayed 'golden banana' gets huge glass facade

Rafael Viñoly’s long-awaited £26 million Colchester Arts Centre is nearing external completion following the installation of a 40 tonne glass facade
Waste-to-energy processing plants

The profession must take this chance to redefine industrial architecture, says Hattie Hartman
Where now for school-building?

The loss of BSF projects will impact on students, teachers and the future economy, says Ty Goddard
Why we should welcome the urban eco-town

The eco-towns of the future might not be rural – and could already be on our doorstep, says Mark Hines
Wilkinson Eyre breaks ground on mixed-use Euston scheme

Wilkinson Eyre and Stephen Marshall Architects’ £50 million North East Quarter project for British Land in North London has started on site
Winch youth and community centre refurbishment

The Winchester Project is commissioning a feasibility study for the refurbishment of The Winch youth and community centre in north-west London
Work finally starts on FCBS' Mildmay scheme in Shoreditch

Construction has started on Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ (FCBS) long-running £26m social housing-led Mildmay Regeneration Project in Shoreditch, east London
Work starts on Bomber Command Memorial

Construction has started on Liam O’Connor Architects’ classical designs for the £5.5 million Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park
World Architecture Festival awards - shortlists revealed

Projects ranging from a prison in Norway to a bamboo house in Costa Rica are among the 236 international projects on this year’s shortlist for the world’s biggest architecture contest - the World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards 2010
You decide: 3DReid Student Prize thrown open to public

Voting has now opened to find the People’s Choice Winner in the annual 3DReid Student Prize, run in association with the AJ
Zumtobel Photography Competition

The Zumtobel Photographic Competition returns for 2010

Architects JournalJuly 2010

Architects Journal
July 2010