Architects Journal
September 2007

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... And sues over unpaid fees on Egypt scheme

Foster & Partners is heading for a High Court showdown in a row over unpaid fees on a £1 billion development in Egypt.
2012 Olympics Athletes' Village masterplan unveiled

Lend Lease and partners First Base and East Thames have unveiled their masterplan for the £2 billion Athletes' Village at Stratford City.
A first for CABE as watchdog takes a look at public-realm proposal

For the first time in its history CABE has carried out a review of a public-realm document.
Adjaye, Benoy and Foster team up on huge Kuala Lumpur 'suburban city'

A team of architectural big hitters, including Adjaye Associates, Benoy, and Foster & Partners, is creating a 'suburban city' twice the size of London's Covent Garden in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Aedas maintains strong financial position despite dip in profits

Aedas Architects has recorded yet another strong financial year, despite its pre-tax profits dropping by 8 per cent.
America’s Cup Building is bookie’s favourite for Stirling

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.
'Aquatic villages' proposed for Scotland's River Clyde

Floating homes could become a prominent fixture along the River Clyde in Scotland, if new proposals by a Scottish designer are adopted.
Artlab Architects wins planning for limeworks conversion

Artlab Architects has gained planning and change-of-use permission for a former limeworks in Faversham, Kent.
Atkins' North Liverpool Academy gets under way

Work has started on Atkins' new North Liverpool Academy, on the edge of Everton Park.
Austin-Smith:Lord wins thumbs-up for Manchester tower

Austin-Smith:Lord (ASL) has been given the go-ahead for its redesigned high-rise scheme in Store Street, Manchester.
BACA reveals plans for extreme-sports complex in Newham

London-based BACA Architects has unveiled these images of a surf centre and extreme sports complex, part of the £1.5 billion redevelopment of Silvertown Quays in Newham, east London.
BBLB Architects wins green light for Stratford-upon-Avon gateway scheme

BBLB Architects' £45 million scheme to redevelop a strategic site at the gateway to Stratford-upon-Avon has been given the go-ahead.
BDP's Glasgow Buchanan Galleries extension needs more work, says Scottish watchdog

Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS) has refused to back BDP's proposals for its extension to Glasgow's Buchanan Galleries.
Berman Guedes Stretton to renovate listed Regency villa

Berman Guedes Stretton (BGS) has been appointed to renovate Grove House, a listed Regency villa in Iffley Turn, Oxford.
Bill Dunster reveals plans for the UK's largest eco-complex

ZEDfactory's Bill Dunster has unveiled plans for a huge, low-carbon apartment block in Wolverhampton, hailed as the largest eco-complex in the country.
Birmingham Pathfinder scheme slammed for the second time by CABE

A Pathfinder scheme in Birmingham has been slated for the second time by CABE - more than two years after the design watchdog first raised concerns about the project.
CABE praises Make's Southall Gasworks scheme

CABE has given a glowing review to Make Architects' Southall Gasworks scheme in Ealing, west London.
Cartwright Pickard scoops one of three Living Steel prizes

Cartwright Pickard Architects (CPA) has scooped one of the three top prizes in this year's Living Steel International Architecture Competitions - the global contest aimed at inspiring 'innovative' new sustainable housing using steel.
Charities ask architects and developers to help homeless people over Christmas

Architecture for Humanity (A4H) and charity Crisis Over Christmas (Crisis) are once again on the look-out for buildings to provide centres for homeless people over the festive season.
Chipperfield wins international Pisa hospital comp

David Chipperfield Architects has won an international competition to redevelop the University Hospital of Santa Chiara in Pisa, Italy.
Chipperfield's Iowa library starts to crack up

More than 28 panes of glass have cracked on the exterior of David Chipperfield Architects' Lubetkin Prize-shortlisted Des Moines Public Library in Iowa, USA.
Conran usurps Cooper Cromar on Scotland's tallest tower

Conran & Partners has been brought into replace Scottish firm Cooper Cromar on the stalled £120 million project to build Scotland's tallest tower.
Cooper promises cash incentive for councils who speed up housebuilding

A £500 million carrot to encourage councils to speed up housebuilding has been announced by housing minister Yvette Cooper.
Cullinan gets to work in Edinburgh botanic garden

Edward Cullinan Architects has started on site with its competition-winning visitor centre scheme for the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh - four years after it first landed the prestigious project.
David Morley Architects' bio-sciences laboratory starts on site

David Morley Architects has started work on this £12.7 million health, exercise and bio-sciences laboratory for Loughborough University.
Design Engine wins green light for listed-building revamp in Bath

Design Engine has succeeded where many others have failed in Bath after winning listed-building consent to revamp engineer Buro Happold's Camden Mill offices.
Design team sought for arts college revamp in the south-west

Somerset College of Arts and Technology has released a massive £45 million OJEU notice to realise the second phase of its redevelopment masterplan.
Donald Trump's golf resort plans land on the fairway

Billionaire Donald Trump's plans for the controversial Balmedie golf resort in Aberdeen, Scotland, have been recommended for approval.
Each BSF bid 'costs the same as a new primary school'

The 'ludicrously' expensive Building Schools for the Future (BSF) procurement process costs the equivalent of a new primary school per bid, a leading schools specialist has claimed.
EDAW aims for evolution in Worthing

EDAW has revealed the latest stage of its Worthing masterplan, which aims to regenerate the West Sussex town over the next 15 to 20 years.
English Partnerships launches new and improved urban-design manual

English Partnerships (EP) has launched its updated urban-design manual, outlining what it regards as the 'key strategies for creating quality places'.
EU Commission pledges to liven up Brussels

An international competition to reinvigorate the 'sterile' European Quarter in Brussels has been launched by the EU Commission.
Ex-BP chief Lord Browne joins Foster + Partners

Foster + Partners has claimed it has pulled off a ‘real coup’
Exhibition takes the viewer inside the mind of Will Alsop

A new art exhibition featuring the 'bizarre inner workings of Will Alsop's mind' is to open at the jgallery in Northampton.
Formation to build on The Office's Slough site

Formation Architects has received planning permission for this landmark building on the site made famous by Ricky Gervais' comedy series The Office.
Foster bags huge Singapore eco-quarter scheme

Foster & Partners has won an international competition to design an entire mixed-use district in Singapore.
Foster goes back to Yale to design new school of management campus...

Foster & Partners has won an international competition to design the new Yale school of management campus in the USA.
Foster to create gigantic carbon-neutral regeneration zone in Libya

Foster & Partners' plan to transform Libya's Green Mountain region into one of the world's largest carbon-neutral regeneration zones has been unveiled by the son of Libyan president Colonel Gaddafi.
Foster to overhaul Barcelona's famed football arena

Norman Foster is to get his hands on yet another world-famous stadium revamp after it emerged his practice has been appointed to overhaul FC Barcelona's massive Nou Camp arena.
Foster unveils extension to the Nou Camp - Europe's largest stadium

These are the first images of Foster & Partners' proposed revamp and extension of Barcelona FC's world-famous Nou Camp stadium.
Foster wins an Aga Khan Award for Architecture

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

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.
Glenn Howells' Lime Street tower dropped due to spiralling costs

Glenn Howells' 27-storey tower at the gateway to Liverpool's Lime Street station has been ditched due to spiralling costs.
Government urged to adopt Building for Life critieria

CABE is urging the government to 'embed' the 20 Building for Life criteria within the planning system to stop new housing developments becoming the 'slums of tomorrow'.
Green Cities bags RIBA comp to overhaul pair of Victorian houses in Bradford

Young Manchester-based practice Green Cities has won the RIBA competition to mastermind the modernisation of two Victorian houses in Manningham, Bradford.
'Ground control to Norman' - Foster's Spaceport designs unveiled

Foster & Partners has finally released images of the world's first Spaceport in New Mexico, USA.
Hadid joins art luminaries in funding appeal to government

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.
Hanif Kara among trio of new CABE commissioners

Engineer to the stars Hanif Kara (pictured) has been named as one of the three new CABE commissioners unveiled today.
Hawtree hopes to land on the fairway with Donald Trump golf-course design

Golf-course architect Hawtree has been picked to design billionaire Donald Trump's controversial Balmedie course in Aberdeen, Scotland
Hazel Blears steps in to approve Holder Mathias' Center Parcs scheme

Holder Mathias' controversial proposals to build a new Center Parcs village on a green belt site in Bedfordshire have been approved by communities minister Hazel Blears.
Heatherwick and Adams Kara Taylor in Shanghai pavilion win

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.
Heneghan Peng's Giant's Causeway visitor centre hits the rocks

Heneghan Peng's much-anticipated Giant's Causeway visitor centre has been unexpectedly shelved after the Northern Irish government pulled its funding.
Herzog and de Meuron among Japanese art award winners

Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and British sculptor Tony Cragg are among the five laureates named for this year's Praemium Imperiale, the Japanese award for the arts.
Hetreed Ross' eco-house finally wins planning

An environmentally-friendly house in Bath designed by Hetreed Ross Architects (HRA) has finally received planning permission four years after plans were first submitted.
HKR to mastermind redevelopment of Salford brewery building

HKR Architects has won a high-profile contest to mastermind the redevelopment of the famous Brown Bros Building, a former warehouse and brewery, in Salford.
Home Office Design Review Panel suspended

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.
Jestico & Whiles to design Middlehaven's zero-carbon hotel

Jestico & Whiles has won the competition to design the flagship, zero-carbon hotel at the heart of the Alsop/Studio Egret West Middlehaven masterplan (pictured).
John Dobson's Gateshead church to get long-awaited overhaul

After a 16-year wait, a derelict church in Gateshead designed by 19th-century Neo-Classicist architect John Dobson finally looks set to be redeveloped.
Lawray to build subterranean sports hall for Foxtons tycoon

Plans for a huge, privately owned subterranean sports complex built beneath a seven-storey Grade II-listed west London mansion have been revealed.
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ south London tower is called in

Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ Doon Street tower in south London has been called in by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears.
Liverpool ordered to show how it will keep its World Heritage Status

Unesco has ordered Liverpool to draw up a protection plan detailing how the city will retain its World Heritage Site (WHS) status.
Livingstone threatens first Compulsory Purchase Order

London Mayor Ken Livingstone has threatened to hit Southwark Council with his first ever Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) over council-owned land.
Major retrospective on Basil Spence to open in Edinburgh

The first major exhibition to cover the entire career of Modernist architect Basil Spence will open its doors to the public next month.
Make is quick to win approval for central London's Middlesex Hospital

Ken Shuttleworth's practice Make has won the go-ahead for this ambitious £1 billion overhaul of the former Middlesex Hospital in Fitzrovia, central London, in double quick time.
Make to dress up clothing firm HQ in Germany

Make Architects has won an international competition to design a signature HQ building for EDC - a division of global fashion house Esprit - in Ratingen, Germany.
Masterplanner EDAW makes shock move into architecture

International masterplanner EDAW has made a shock move into architecture after taking on two leading architects from Arup.
McAslan on the shortlist to save Rudolph's Riverview

Five architect-led teams have been shortlisted to draw up plans to save Paul Rudolph's Riverview High School in Sarasota, Florida.
New guide to give Design for London more sway over capital's housing

Design for London (DfL) is to have unparalleled influence over London's new housing when it publishes its Housing Design Guide in January 2008, Mayor Ken Livingstone has revealed.
Newsnight presenter backs Malcolm Fraser ballet project

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).
NHS seeks architect for hospital's Brutalist tower

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.
Parliamentary committee tackles the nitty-gritty of building three million new houses by 2020

A cross-party parliamentary committee has launched a public inquiry into how the UK will deliver the three million homes promised by the government by 2020.
Parry gets over Bath disappointment with Wells school win

Eric Parry Architects (EPA) has won the competition to design a new music school for Wells Cathedral School in the centre of Wells, Somerset.
Partnerships for Schools to review troubled BSF procurement process

Partnerships for Schools (PfS), the organisation behind the government's ambitious Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative, has officially announced its review of the programme's heavily criticised procurement process.
Paticas 'Stairway to Heaven' war memorial back on track

Paticas Architecture's Bethnal Green tube station memorial, honouring the 173 people who lost their lives there during World War II, looks back on track.
Pierre d'Avoine to remodel 1960s house in Greenwich

Pierre d'Avoine Architects has received planning permission for this house in Westgrove Lane, Greenwich.
Plans afoot to build vast pyramid next to Bauhaus

The home of Bauhaus - one of the most important sites in Modernist architecture - is gearing up to welcome an unusual monument to the ancients next door.
Plymouth City Council granted an extra month to challenge Civic Centre listing

Plymouth City Council has been given an extra month by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to decide whether to contest the controversial listing of the authority-owned Civic Centre.
Prasad demands clarity as Lib Dems unveil zero-carbon targets

Newly installed RIBA president Sunand Prasad has urged the Liberal Democrats to back-up their ambitious zero-carbon targets with 'realistic' cost plans.
Prime Minister doubles his 'Brown Town' pledge

Gordon Brown has announced that he will double an earlier pledge to build five new 'eco-towns'.
Pringle Richards Sharratt secures cash for Hull History Centre

Pringle Richards Sharratt (PRS) will finally be able to start on start with its competition-winning Hull History Centre after landing a £7.7 million handout from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
PRP's Jericho scheme comes up against CABE's wall of opposition

CABE has accused PRP Architects of 'lack of thought' over its Jericho Canalside scheme in Oxfordshire and ordered the controversial development back to the drawing board.
Relaxation of ARB registration rules could lead to higher premiums, claim insurers

Brussels' plans to relax rules on non-UK EU citizens registering with ARB could lead to higher insurance premiums for practices, say insurers.
Relief as Parry's Holburne Museum extension is given more time to secure planning

Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) chiefs have given Eric Parry a major boost by allowing the architect more time to push his controversial Holburne Museum extension through planning.
RIBA Special Awards shortlists revealed

Some of the UK's most groundbreaking new buildings have been shortlisted for the RIBA Special Awards.
RIBA to host Stephen Lawrence memorial lecture

The RIBA will again be hosting this year's Stephen Lawrence Annual Memorial Lecture tomorrow (13 September), at its Portland Place headquarters.
Richard Murphy Architects wins mixed-use development at Jesus College, Cambridge

Richard Murphy Architects has won a competition to build a new auditorium, hotel, sports facilities and research institute at Jesus College, Cambridge.
Richard Murphy hotel aims to give Edinburgh a 'shot in the arm'

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.
RMJM tower could see St Petersburg lose its World Heritage status

RMJM's Gazprom Tower scheme in St Petersburg, Russia, could become responsible for the city losing its World Heritage status.
Rogers wins green light for Elephant and Castle skyscraper

Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners (RSHP) has been given the go-ahead for its 44-storey tower in Elephant and Castle, south-east London.
Sarkozy looks to Foster, Rogers and Hadid as he aims to reignite France's architectural scene

British starchitects Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Zaha Hadid have been in talks with French president Nicolas Sarkozy about the revival of Paris' famed 'Grand Projets'.
Self-build pioneer Brian Richardson dies, aged 80

Pioneering architect and self-build advocate Brian Richardson has died peacefully aged 80 at his home in the Wye Valley.
Sheppard Robson reaches final two in China

No, it's not Rem Koolhaas - this is Sheppard Robson's shortlisted proposal for a 550,000m2 mixed-use development in Hangzhou, China.
Simpson cuts down Southwark skyscraper for the second time

Ian Simpson's controversial One Blackfriars Road tower in Southwark, south London, has been chopped down in height once again, from 52 to 47 storeys.
Skills shortage threatens sustainable development, says report

England is facing a crippling shortage of urban designers, architects and planners within sustainable development, says the Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC).
Stock market woes bring further delays to Renzo's Shard

Renzo Piano's London Bridge Shard skyscraper is believed to have been hit by more delays due to funding difficulties.
Tories take RIBA advice on planning reform to combat climate change

A slew of RIBA initiatives aimed at streamlining planning, stimulating energy efficiency and encouraging green travel have been stitched into a new Conservative Party report on tackling climate change.
Urban Splash selects designs for its ‘Tutti Frutti’ Street in New Islington

Urban Splash has selected 20 designs for its ‘Tutti Frutti’ terraced street in New Islington, Manchester.
Watchdog says Donald Trump's £1 billion golf course proposals should not be allowed to tee off

New York billionaire Donald Trump's proposals for a £1 billion golf resort in Scotland have come under fire once again, this time from Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS).
We won't 'do an SMC' says Capita Architecture boss

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.
Woods Bagot updates Lutyens' Grosvenor House Apartments

Woods Bagot has been appointed to convert the Edwin Lutyens-designed Grosvenor House Apartments in Park Lane, central London.
Zaha Hadid ranked Britain's third most powerful woman

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

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