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Niall McLaughlin's contest-winning college chapel completes

12-Apr-2013
Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed this £2 million chapel for Ripon Theological College in Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire
At last: work finally starts on MUMA's contest-winning Whitworth Gallery revamp

26-Nov-2012
Construction has started on the £12 million overhaul of Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery - more than three years after MUMA won the RIBA-backed competition
Works nears completion on Fielden Clegg Bradley's Worcester library

17-Feb-2012
Construction has nearly finished on Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ £40 million golden library and history centre in Worcester
Hoskins' Shetland showstopper delayed again

31-Jan-2012
The opening of Gareth Hoskins Architects’ long-running waterfront cinema and music venue in Lerwick, Shetland has been put back again
'Incredibly disappointed' Wilkinson Eyre dropped by Tesco

28-Nov-2011
Wilkinson Eyre has attacked retail giant Tesco after being ditched on a contentious superstore scheme in Sheringham, north Norfolk
Project update: Yeang's £300m Great Ormond Street extension

2-Jun-2011
These are the latest shots of eco-architect Ken Yeang’s first scheme in the UK, the £300 million extension to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH), has started construction
Steven Holl unveils Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh designs

17-Sep-2010
New York-based practice Steven Holl has submitted his competition-winning proposals for phase one of The Glasgow School of Art re-development
Whitehall job bagged by Allies and Morrison

9-Sep-2010
Allies and Morrison has beaten Feilden Clegg Bradley, HOK and Feilden + Mawson to win the contest to remodel the Old Home Office Courtyard of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office headquarters in Whitehall.
Leeds' Trinity Quarter springs back to life

21-Jul-2010
Developer Land Securities has said work will restart on its much-delayed £590 million Trinity Quarter next month (August 2010)
Judge throws out Doon Street tower challenge

25-May-2010
A man who claims he will be living in the shadow of Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ proposed 43-storey Doon Street tower at London’s Waterloo should have complained earlier, a High Court judge has ruled.
Benson & Forsyth wins go-ahead for Finsbury Park 'twin towers'

13-Apr-2010
Benson & Forsyth has won planning permission for a ‘five-year regeneration project’ in Islington, north London, which includes two new skyscrapers
Demolition of post-modern RMJM gem angers local architects

25-Feb-2010
Architects have reacted angrily to the demolition of RMJM’s 1985 Balfour Stewart House office block in Edinburgh to make way for a 72-home housing scheme by Archial Architects
Glenn Howells' £50m Elisabeth House gets green light

16-Feb-2010
Glenn Howells Architects’ competition-winning scheme for One St Peter’s Square in Manchester has won approval from planning officials
Rubber stamp for Stride Treglown's rejigged Liverpool scheme

20-Jan-2010
Stride Treglown has bagged planning permission these £45 million halls of residence for the University of Liverpool
Caruso St John misses out in contest for Swedish media HQ

4-Jan-2010
Danish practice Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter has beaten Caruso St John in the competition to design a new head office for media company Gota Media in Kalmar, Sweden
Hopkins reveals latest images of Brent Civic Centre plans

17-Dec-2009
This is the latest visualisation of Hopkins Architects’ competition-winning designs for the new Brent Civic Centre next to Wembley Stadium, North London
Denham refuses to call in Commonwealth Institute plans

15-Dec-2009
The Secretary of State John Denham has said he does not intend to launch a public inquiry into OMA’s plans for the former Commonwealth Institute
Hodge lists 1960s Birkin Haward's family home

11-Dec-2009
Architecture Minister Margaret Hodge has decided to grant a Grade II-listing to Birkin Haward’s (1912-2002) family home in Ipswich
Blackpool says 'I do' for dRMM's Chapel of Love

13-Nov-2009
Blackpool Council has approved this new wedding venue under the shadow of the resort’s famous tower
Mayor gives go ahead to Foster's Bishop's Place

5-Nov-2009
Foster + Partners’ Bishop’s Place scheme has been given the green light by the Mayor of London
Outrage: Gropius buildings bulldozed in Chicago

28-Oct-2009
IN PICTURES: Work has begun on demolishing Chicago’s empty Michael Reese Hospital, featuring eight buildings by Bauhaus pioneer Walter Gropius
Gap House wins the Manser Medal 2009

19-Oct-2009
A narrow terraced house in West London by Pitman Tozer Architects has won this year’s Manser Medal in association with the Rooflight Company
Secretary of State blocks Allies and Morrison's £1bn Waterloo Towers

12-Oct-2009
The government has rejected the controversial £1 billion Three Sisters tower scheme on London’s South Bank
Five things to do today: 9 October

9-Oct-2009
Shortlist for the Abbey Green competition - Brick Lane Curry Festival - Moctezuma: Aztec Ruler - Lost an Earring - Broadway Market
Sauerbruch Hutton and Arup win Finnish zero carbon contest

5-Oct-2009
Sauerbruch Hutton, with London-based Arup, Experientia and Galley Eco Capital, has won an international contest to design a prototype block within Finland’s first carbon-neutral district
First peek at David Adjaye's new Moscow School of Management

2-Oct-2009
Work is nearing completion on Adjaye Associates new Moscow School of Management in Skolkovo
OMI Architects win lottery funding for church pods

2-Oct-2009
[FIRST LOOK + PROJECT DATA] The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) is to give £3.3 million to convert Bolton’s Grade II*-listed All Souls’ Church into a new community centre
Rogers re-invents Oxley Woods in the City

2-Oct-2009
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners is to bring the prefabricated timber construction techniques used on its award-winning Oxley Woods housing scheme, Milton Keynes to inner city London
CZWG replaces Assael on Southampton cultural scheme

1-Oct-2009
This is the first image of CZWG’s proposed mixed-use cultural scheme for Grosvenor in Southampton
Alsop shock: 'Art career was ruse, I'm off to RMJM'

1-Oct-2009
Will Alsop has revealed that his retirement to focus on painting was a smokescreen to conceal a move away from Archial
MUMA wins Whitworth Gallery contest

30-Sep-2009
Victory in competition to revamp and extend Manchester’s Whitworth Art Gallery after process that attracted 130 practices
Planning inspector backs Keith Williams' Vauxhall Tower

30-Sep-2009
[IMAGES + PLANS] Keith Williams Architects has finally been given the go-ahead for its first tower - this 24-storey office and apartment block in Black Prince Road, South London
Southend Pier restoration and new train station by Saville Jones Architects

30-Sep-2009
[FIRST LOOK + PLANS + PROJECT DATA] Saville Jones Architects has completed the £2.25 million revamp of Southend-on-Sea Pier – the world’s longest – after it burnt down in 2005
Health Design & Technology Institute at Coventry University by Associated Architects

29-Sep-2009
[FIRST LOOK + PROJECT DATA] These are the first images of Associated Architects’ new £5.2 million health design facility for Coventry University
British Embassy, Qatar, by Jordan + Bateman Architects

29-Sep-2009
[FIRST LOOK + PROJECT DATA] These are the latest pictures of Jordan + Bateman’s £7.5 million British Embassy in Doha, Qatar
Amin Taha bags unusual Hackney quartet

28-Sep-2009
Amin Taha Architects has won permission for three residential blocks and a community arts centre, all in Cor-Ten, within a stone’s throw from London Fields, East London
AJ Exclusive: the reasons why English Heritage backed Commonwealth Institute plans

28-Sep-2009
English Heritage (EH) has claimed it ‘would have been irresponsible to turn away’ OMA’s controversial Commonwealth Institute plans
Fire destroys Wakefield's international showpiece

28-Sep-2009
Aqua-scape, a sculpture by award-winning Japanese designer and architect Ryumei Fujiki has been burned down while on display at Beam, the Wakefield-based architecture centre
LSC confirms cash for final two college schemes

25-Sep-2009
Walker Simpson Architects’ £27.5 million Manchester College scheme (pictured) and a new £42.8 million combined campus by RMJM in Skelmersdale, have received funding boosts from the Learning and Skills Council (LSC).
BREAKING NEWS: ARB freezes retention fee

25-Sep-2009
The Architects’ Registration Board (ARB) has voted to keep its annual retention fee for 2010 at £86
Learning Link, Bradford Grammar School by Halliday Clark

25-Sep-2009
[FIRST LOOK + PROJECT DATA] Halliday Clark has submitted these proposals for a new extension and link bridge at Bradford Grammar School
Careyjones' victory spells end for Bradford Odeon

25-Sep-2009
The much-loved Odeon cinema in Bradford will be bulldozed to make way for a controversial Careyjones office and leisure scheme
RIBA launch 'independent' review of ARB

24-Sep-2009
The RIBA has launched its own review of the Architects Registration Board (ARB) to look at the ‘future of regulation and registration of the architects’ profession’
Stern drops out of Chelsea Barracks running as full teams revealed

24-Sep-2009
American Robert AM Stern has withdrawn from the contest to masterplan the controversial Chelsea Barracks site, but a raft of new names have been added by the 10 teams still vying for the project
Alison Brooks bags largest project to date with Northampton win

24-Sep-2009
Striling-Prize winner Alison Brooks Architects has scooped the RIBA contest to oversee the 15- to 20-year redevelopment of The University of Northampton’s Avenue Campus
Visual and the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, Carlow, Ireland by Terry Pawson Architects

24-Sep-2009
[FIRST LOOK + PROJECT DATA] Terry Pawson’s recently completed contemporary arts centre and theatre in Carlow, Ireland, opens to the public this Saturday (26 September)
Hamiltons ace to go it alone with new firm

23-Sep-2009
Robin Partington, the man who pushed Hamiltons to become the seventh largest practice in the UK, is to set up his own firm
Optimism faltering according to RIBA Future Trends survey

23-Sep-2009
Hopes of a quick end to the recession are fading, according to the latest figures released by the RIBA
The KPF 'breakaway five' unveil new practice name

23-Sep-2009
Five former partners of Kohn Pedersen Fox’s (KPF) London office, who walked away following a failed management buyout, have re-emerged as PLP Architecture
'Outspoken' Hodge back as architecture minister

22-Sep-2009
Margaret Hodge is to return to her role as architecture minister, replacing Barbara Follett
Liberal Democrats would scrap regional development agencies

22-Sep-2009
The Liberal Democrats have announced plans to scrap both regional development agencies (RDA) and the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC) if they win the next General Election.
Muirhead Tower, University of Birmingham by Associated Architects

21-Sep-2009
[FIRST LOOK] Associated Architects has completed the £25 million overhaul of the University of Birmingham’s landmark 1970s Muirhead Tower
Richard Rogers steps down as Boris Johnson's design advisor

18-Sep-2009
Richard Rogers has announced he is to walk away from his roles as deputy chair of the Mayor of London‘s design advisory panel and Great Spaces panel
Wilkinson Eyre finishes Bath 'busometer'

18-Sep-2009
Wilkinson Eyre has completed its controversial transport interchange in Bath
Corporate Village, Mriehel, Malta by Architecture Project

18-Sep-2009
[FIRST LOOK] London and Malta-based practice Architecture Project has revealed images of a new ‘corporate village’ in Mriehel, west of the Maltese capital Valetta
AJ Exclusive: Duggan Morris wins Sefton Waterworks contest

18-Sep-2009
London’s Duggan Morris Architects has won the international contest to design a £250,000 canalside pavilion to the north of Liverpool.
Night shelter for the homeless, Derby by Evans Vettori

17-Sep-2009
[FIRST LOOK] Matlock-based Evans Vettori has completed this night shelter, emergency accommodation and assessment centre in Green Lane, Derby
RIBA and Archaos demand minimum pay for working students

16-Sep-2009
The RIBA and Archaos, the national architecture student society, is calling on the profession to introduce minimum pay and conditions for the employment of students.
AJ exclusive: Niall McLaughlin wins college chapel contest

16-Sep-2009
Niall McLaughlin Architects has won the RIBA competition to design a new college chapel in Oxfordshire, seeing off an impressive shortlist including Massimiliano Fuksas and Ushida Findlay Architects
Top names leave KPF after failed buyout

16-Sep-2009
Kohn Pedersen Fox’s (KPF) London office has parted with its five partners following an unsuccessful management buyout
AJ exclusive: Former RIBA president Sunand Prasad answers your questions

16-Sep-2009
After officially stepping down as the RIBA’s figurehead earlier the month, Sunand Prasad answers your questions about working for free, education and diversity in the profession
Survey: 9 out of 10 say 'quality buildings make them happier'

16-Sep-2009
Better quality buildings and public spaces improve the quality of life for nine out of ten people, according to new research
Chipperfield's Hepworth Gallery opening put back - again

14-Sep-2009
David Chipperfield Architect‘s much-anticipated Hepworth Gallery will not open until Spring 2011 at the earliest - three years after first scheduled
'Increasing appetite for commercial sector' report reveals

11-Sep-2009
Investors are beginning to show an interest in the commercial real estate market again after total property returns moved into positive territory for the first time in two years during July.
Stonehenge Visitor Centre, Wiltshire, by Denton Corker Marshall

11-Sep-2009
[First look] These are the first sketches of the proposed new £25 million Stonehenge visitor centre by Denton Corker Marshall (DCM).
Video: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners ' Bodegas Protos Winery

11-Sep-2009
Take a tour of RSH+P’s Stirling-Prize shortlisted Bodegas Protos winery, in Valladolid, Spain
Heneghan Peng bag Greenwich school of architecture

11-Sep-2009
Ireland’s Heneghan Peng has seen off an impressive shortlist, including David Chipperfield and Rafael Viñoly, to win the contest to design the University of Greenwich’s new £60 million school of architecture
Atkins sees off Gehry to land Glasgow College jackpot

10-Sep-2009
A team led by the UK’s largest practice Atkins has walked off with the bumper £300 million project to design a new college supercampus in Glasgow
After four years, Spence and Tecniker's Wear bridge finally gets go-ahead

10-Sep-2009
Spence Associates and Techniker’s Wear Bridge in Sunderland passed a major milestone last night following a key decision to take the scheme through to detailed planning .
Plug pulled on new Part G after last ditch EU intervention

10-Sep-2009
The new Part G building regulations on sanitation and water efficiency have been put back by at least seven months following an 11th hour move from the EU
AJ Special: RIBA announces Special Awards finalists

10-Sep-2009
The RIBA has today unveiled the shortlists for its special awards, which will be presented at the Stirling Prize ceremony in London on 17 October.
Sliding House, Suffolk, by dRMM

10-Sep-2009
This telescopic house by dRMM has been shortlisted for this year’s (2009) Manser Medal, sponsored by The Rooflight Company
House at Piper’s End, Hertfordshire, by Niall McLaughlin Architects

10-Sep-2009
This replacement for an old farmhouse by Niall McLaughlin is among the five finalists for this year’s (2009) Manser Medal, sponsored by The Rooflight Company
Gap House, West London, by Pitman Tozer Architects

10-Sep-2009
This ultra-thin house in Bayswater by Pitman Tozer Architects has been shortlisted for this year’s (2009) Manser Medal, sponsored by The Rooflight Company
Block 3, Tarling Estate Regeneration, London, by S333 in association with Stock Woolstencroft

10-Sep-2009
This mainly four-storey residential block by S333 in East London is among the finalists for this year’s Manser Medal, sponsored by The Rooflight Company
London practices hit in computer piracy swoop

10-Sep-2009
Architects across London have been caught out following a two-month clampdown by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) on pirated software in the capital.
House in Highgate Cemetery, North London, by Eldridge Smerin

9-Sep-2009
This stunning house by Eldridge Smerin has been shortlisted for this year’s (2009) Manser Medal, sponsored by The Rooflight Company
Brown hands out cash for 2,000 new council homes

9-Sep-2009
A £127 million pot of government funding has been made available for English local authorities to build 2,000 new council houses, the Prime Minister has announced.
Derby College campus by Maber Architects

9-Sep-2009
[First look] Maber Architects has completed its £48 million revamp and extension of Derby College’s vocational campus
Nightingale cast-offs set up new studio

7-Sep-2009
Two former directors of Nightingale Associates have set up on their own after being let go following the closure of four of the healthcare giant’s 12 UK offices
Capita shows off 'Quietest building in World'

7-Sep-2009
A vibration-free science ‘quiet lab’ designed by Capita Architecture is to open at Bristol University
HOK let go key director in further staff cull

4-Sep-2009
HOK has laid off James Berry – the director who took charge of the company’s large round of redundancies earlier this year
'London's suburbs could take half a million new homes', says LDA

3-Sep-2009
The London Development Agency has opened the door to a potential goldmine of work for architects by claiming the capital’s suburbs have space for another 500,000 homes
Profession pans 'EasyCouncil' two-speed planning proposals

2-Sep-2009
Plans by Barnet Council to introduce a faster planning process for applicants who pay more have been condemned by architects, planners and consultants
Trump's £1 billion golf course passes legal test

2-Sep-2009
A legal challenge from a pensioner whose home is under threat from a luxury golf resort designed by Gareth Hoskins for US business tycoon Donald Trump has failed
Police and protesters clash over RMJM's Gazprom tower

1-Sep-2009
Attempts by Russian energy giant Gazprom to build a 394m-tall UK-designed skyscraper in St Petersburg are being fought every inch of the way by protesters in the city
AJ exclusive: Wilkinson Eyre scoops Worthing Pool contest

1-Sep-2009
Wilkinson Eyre has seen off an impressive shortlist to win the RIBA-run competition to design the new Worthing swimming pool
'Don't develop until we get in', say Tories

1-Sep-2009
The Conservative Party has told Tory councils and MPs to delay any ‘major’ developments until it comes into power, according to reports at the weekend
Pazhou Exhibition Centre, Guanghzou, China by Aedas

27-Aug-2009
[First Look] Aedas has unveiled its proposals for a new 57,700 sq m exhibition centre in Pazhou, Guangzhou, China
Revealed: Leaked images of Mackintosh shortlist

27-Aug-2009
The AJ has obtained these drawings and images submitted by the six finalists in the competition to design a new £50 million building for the Glasgow School of Art
Ruth Reed: ‘I want to start a dialogue’

27-Aug-2009
Education and communication are high on the agenda for incoming RIBA president Ruth Reed
Ruth Reed answers questions posed by AJ online readers

27-Aug-2009
The incoming president answers questions on the quality of education, fees and the RIBA being ‘London-centric’
Listed: Rare 1960s mural saved from demolition

21-Aug-2009
A 1962 mural in Salford known as The Tree of Knowledge has been spared after it was given a last minute Grade II-listing
Rice University in Houston, Texas by Hopkins Architects

20-Aug-2009
[FIRST LOOK] Hopkins Architects has completed the first phase of its North College redevelopment for the Rice University in Houston
Foster posts £16 million loss – but turnover is up

20-Aug-2009
Foster + Partners has made a pre-tax loss of £16.1 million, according to the company’s results for the year to April 2009
New Commonwealth Institute plans: ‘little has changed’ claim objectors

20-Aug-2009
The ‘scaled-down’ proposals for the redevelopment of the 1962 Commonwealth Institute have been met with derision from conservation groups and objectors.
PMT lands Lewis Carroll wonderjob

19-Aug-2009
Purcell Miller Tritton (PMT) has won the commission to design the new Lewis Carroll interpretation centre in Daresbury, Cheshire.
Beauty or Beast: Cesar Pelli's One Park West Liverpool

18-Aug-2009
Later today (19 August), Cesar Pelli’s 17-storey ‘flagship’ residential building at the heart of the Stirling-shortlisted Liverpool One masterplan will be given a group hug
New stadiums hurt club fortunes, says Arsene Wenger

18-Aug-2009
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has linked the building of a new stadium and a slump in fortunes on the football pitch
Quinlan Terry faces court again

14-Aug-2009
Neo-classical architect Quinlan Terry is embroiled in yet another legal battle after being accused of making a tunnel collapse.
Hadid misses out as final five for Whitworth Gallery named

13-Aug-2009
Zaha Hadid, Dixon Jones and Feilden Clegg Bradley have all failed to make it onto the final shortlist in the contest to revamp and extend the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester
Brits in line for Baghdad bonanza

11-Aug-2009
Teams led by Broadway Malyan and Woods Bagot have been named on a seven strong shortlist to design $30 billion of new housing in Baghdad
CABE's latest figures - design review numbers drop

10-Aug-2009
The number of schemes submitted to CABE for design review has dropped for the first time in the commission’s 10 year history
Video: Sheppard Robson's engineering laboratory for the University of Liverpool

30-Jul-2009
Sheppard Robson has completed this ‘luminous chameleon’ for the University of Liverpool
A chat with a Dunlop doppelganger

30-Jul-2009
‘Excuse me, haven’t I seen you before?’
Architects vie for £1bn windfall

30-Jul-2009
Minister names 270 housing schemes shortlisted for Kickstart cash
Double blow for youngest RIBA winner

30-Jul-2009
One of the youngest architects to win an RIBA contest has not been paid for 18 months’ design work on a new footbridge which has now been shelved.
Hills Place office, London by Amanda Levete Architects

30-Jul-2009
Work is nearing completion on this 1,300m2 office extension by Amanda Levete Architects behind an existing six-storey block on Oxford Street, London
Make's Waterfront spectacular

30-Jul-2009
Make Architecture’s largest residential scheme to date is complete: the 302-flat Grosvenor Waterside scheme for St James Urban Living, next to London’s Victoria station
Leeds architecture students face huge fee hike

29-Jul-2009
Fees for architecture students at Leeds Metropolitan University are to balloon by 65 per cent from next year
Sheffield announces hotly contested architects' panel

28-Jul-2009
A gaggle of both established and emerging practices has been selected by Sheffield City Council for its new architect and urban design panels
AJ survey: Green shoots or another year of misery?

27-Jul-2009
Have your say in the AJ’s latest State of the Profession survey
Plans finally submitted for controversial Bradford Odeon site

26-Jul-2009
Carey Jones will today (27 July) lodge plans with Bradford City Council to redevelop the site of the city’s 1930s Odeon cinema - three years after winning the original design contest
New urban quarter, Killesberg Hill, Stuttgart, by David Chipperfield Architects

24-Jul-2009
First look: David Chipperfield has unveiled images of a new housing block next to Stuttgart’s famous 1920s Weissenhof Estate
Fears of ‘double-dip’ recession as more projects are put on hold

23-Jul-2009
Number of building projects shelved increases for second month in a row
Fretton's gallery bookies' frontrunner for RIBA Stirling Prize 2009

23-Jul-2009
Bookie William Hill has named Tony Fretton Architects’ Fuglsang Kustmuseum as its early favourite for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize, sponsored by the AJ
Video: Amenity Space's pop-up park in Leeds

22-Jul-2009
London-based duo Amenity Space has created this temporary public art installation-come-park on a ‘forgotten’ plot in Leeds
Stage set for new Globe rehearsal studios

21-Jul-2009
Construction has started on the new £6 million Globe Education and Rehearsal Centre, in Southwark, for the Shakespeare Globe Trust
OSA arched-tent for Norwich festival shelved

20-Jul-2009
The Office of Subversive Architecture’s (OSA) temporary pavilion for the Contemporary Art Norwich Festival has been mothballed following problems with a subcontractor
Museum of Liverpool by 3XN and AEW Architects

19-Jul-2009
These are the latest shots of the Museum of Liverpool, which is nearing completion on the city’s historic waterfront
First look: Rogers returns to the USA

17-Jul-2009
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has completed this $71 million (£44 million) office extension in Washington – Richard Rogers’ first built project in the USA for more than 25 years
Walk-out threat over hot schools

16-Jul-2009
Teachers are threatening to walk out of three newly built schools in Bradford due to overheating problems, which have seen temperatures rise to over 35°C, causing three pupils to faint
Video: Park at heart of Alsop's Bradford plan finally wins funding

15-Jul-2009
A £24.4 million water-themed park at the centre of Will Alsop’s masterplan to partially flood Bradford city centre has been handed a cash lifeline
Beijing 'bird's nest' stadium wins coveted Lubetkin Prize

15-Jul-2009
Herzog and de Meuron’s ‘bird’s nest’ National Stadium in Beijing has been named the best building outside Europe by the RIBA
First look: Capita Symonds' jet fighter-shaped building

13-Jul-2009
Capita Symonds has completed this ‘fighter jet-inspired’ reception building at aerospace giants BAE Systems’ manufacturing plant in Samlesbury, Lancashire
Redcar competition winner named. At last....

13-Jul-2009
Landscape architects Smeeden Foreman and Seven Architecture have won the RIBA-organised contest to mastermind the £30 million overhaul of Redcar seafront in north-east England
Sheppard Robson lands huge airport city deal

9-Jul-2009
Project to masterplan airport city in Nigeria ‘will underpin the practice for years to come’
First look: British practice among finalists for new Basra stadium

3-Jul-2009
London’s Jordan + Bateman is the only UK practice named on the five-strong shortlist in the competition to design a new 65,000 football stadium in Basra, Iraq
New hope for ‘forgotten’ bridge scheme

3-Jul-2009
Regeneration leaders have asked the North West Regional Development Agency to resurrect a stalled canal bridge project
LSC debacle: Funding decision is 'kick in teeth' say firms

2-Jul-2009
None of the further education colleges drawn up by the 20 architects on the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) framework will receive any government funding until 2011.
Fuksas and Ushida Findlay among finalists for Oxfordshire chapel

1-Jul-2009
An intriguing shortlist which includes Ushida Findlay, Niall McLaughlin and Italian starchitect Massimiliano Fuksas has been named in the contest to design a new college chapel in Oxfordshire.
Country house, Flockton, Yorkshire by Architecture2B

29-Jun-2009
FIRST LOOK: Leeds-based Architecture2B has submitted this scheme for planning under the PPS7 ‘contemporary country house’ clause
Northumbria Uni hotshot wins UK's largest student prize

26-Jun-2009
Gavin Lowden from Northumbria University has scooped the £1,500 jackpot in this year’s 3DReid Student Prize
Adjaye, Farrell and FLACQ land £500 million Canning Town scheme

26-Jun-2009
An impressive architectural team led by developer Bouygues has been selected to create a new town centre for Canning Town in east London
Rising damp is a myth, says former RICS chief

26-Jun-2009
Stephen Boniface, former chairman of the construction arm of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), has told the institute’s 40,000 members that ‘true rising damp’ is a myth and chemically injected damp-proof courses (DPC) are ‘a complete waste of money’.
Stadium faces redesign in drastic London Olympic rethink

25-Jun-2009
Despite being nearly a third built, Populous’ ‘temporary’ stadium for the London 2012 Olympics may be redesigned as a permanent, 80,000-capacity venue in latest legacy u-turn
Nicholas Hare wins LSC Excellence Award for college

25-Jun-2009
Nicholas Hare Architects’ ‘beautifully executed’ Joseph Chamberlain College in Birmingham has won this year’s RIBA/LSC Further Education Building Design Excellence Award
Farrell's Greenwich Peninsula 'first' completes

24-Jun-2009
The first office block within London’s ‘newest commercial district’ on the Greenwich Peninsula has opened its doors
uPVC windows are killing Conservation Areas

23-Jun-2009
English Heritage has warned that more than 700 of the nation’s conservation areas are under threat from decay or ‘damaging change’ by, among other things, the use of plastic windows
Leeds Metropolitan School of Architecture

22-Jun-2009
A new approach for Leeds Met - with the help of fashion houses, bicycles and green things in bottles
Britain's Got Architectural Talent - vote for your favourite student

18-Jun-2009
The nation has until next Thursday (25 June) to help pick the finalists in the UK’s largest student prize
CABE to cut network handouts

18-Jun-2009
Architecture Centres fear ‘devastating’ impact of reduction in grant aid
RIBA Future Trends Survey reveals an increasingly optimistic profession

17-Jun-2009
The economic downturn could have bottomed out for architects, according to the latest figures from the RIBA
Latest look: Feilden Clegg Bradley's rusty Leeds landmark

17-Jun-2009
Work is nearing completion on Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio’s new £45 million high-rise for Leeds Metropolitan University
Bartlett unveils government-backed anti-recession programme

17-Jun-2009
The Bartlett School of Architecture has launched a four-pronged ‘recession busting’ initiative to help struggling architects and young practitioners
First look: Sjolander da Cruz's Wolves shelter

16-Jun-2009
Sjolander da Cruz has completed this £75,000 shelter for children at a skate park in Wolverhampton
Foster’s tallest tower in Europe dream comes down to earth

15-Jun-2009
The site of Foster + Partners’ 612m-tall Russia Tower in Moscow – hailed as the highest naturally ventilated skyscraper in the world – is to be used instead as a car park
First look: McAslan's £16 million overhaul for Crouch End landmark

12-Jun-2009
These are the first images of John McAslan + Partners’s proposals to revamp and convert the Grade II*-listed 1930s Hornsey Town Hall into an arts complex
Wilkinson Eyre shows off £150 million Science Museum revamp

11-Jun-2009
London’s Science Museum is to be reborn through a radical overhaul masterminded by Wilkinson Eyre
Spot the architect: LSE student union contenders revealed

11-Jun-2009
The AJ can exclusively reveal the first images of the six shortlisted schemes in the competition for the London School of Economics’ (LSE) new £21.5 million students’ centre
Architecture and the Conservative party

11-Jun-2009
Architects tell the AJ what an elected Tory government would mean for the profession
First look: Chipperfield wins down Mexico way

10-Jun-2009
David Chipperfield Architects is to design a new home for the most important private collection of contemporary art in Latin America
Last chance to enter King's Cross gasometer contest

10-Jun-2009
Architects and designers now have until the end of this week (24 July) to register in the contest to overhaul a Victorian gasometer at King’s Cross.
Platform 5 bags green light for boot-shaped house

9-Jun-2009
Up-and-coming practice Platform 5 Architects has won planning permission for this three-bedroom ‘infill’ house on a super-tight plot in Islington, north London
Arresting development - Aedas reveals new police HQ

8-Jun-2009
These are the first images of the new £64 million Aedas-designed headquarters for the Greater Manchester Police Force
CABE finally happy with Olympic media centre plans

5-Jun-2009
CABE’s Olympic panel has been won over by the designs for London 2012’s media centre following a series of revisions to the scheme
GM + AD bag Australian debut

5-Jun-2009
Glasgow-based GM + AD Architects has landed its first scheme ‘down under’ - the design of the new Glenroy Specialist School, in Melbourne
Living on a film set: Arup reveals Pinewood proposals

4-Jun-2009
Arup has submitted plans for a new mixed-use film set and residential development at Pinewood studios in Buckinghamshire
RIBA pulls plug on PhD fund

4-Jun-2009
Ozolins Studentship withdrawn as more students consider postgrad study
Work begins on Fretton's Copenhagen project

3-Jun-2009
Work has started on this 1,100m2 residential scheme by Tony Fretton Architects, opposite the Marble Church (1749-1894) in Copenhagen.
LSC debacle: Funding decision 'is 'kick in teeth' say firms

2-Jun-2009
None of the further education colleges drawn up by the 20 architects on the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) framework will receive any government funding until 2011
Welsh planners promised cash under ‘recovery ready’ review

2-Jun-2009
The Welsh Assembly Government is to pump £1.75 million into the country’s planning system, Environment minister Jane Davidson will announce later today as she unveils a wider review of the planning application process
Barge to the future: contest winners unveiled

1-Jun-2009
Architects PCKO and Baca have been named joint winners in the contest to convert five old barges in London into new homes
3DReid unveils Manchester Co-op HQ

1-Jun-2009
3DReid has unveiled its proposed new head office for the Co-operative Group in Manchester
Capita and Arup bag first Crossrail design contracts

1-Jun-2009
Arup/Atkins and Capita Symonds have become the first teams to be handed projects under Crossrail’s design consultant framework
Deadline looms for UK's largest student prize

29-May-2009
Schools of architecture only have until June 12 to enter their ‘best of shows’ to 3DReid’s national student prize
Multi-storey for animals wins Leeds urban wildlife contest

29-May-2009
This hi-rise scheme by Garnett Netherwood Architects has been picked as the winner in the contest to design an inner city habitat for wildlife in Holbeck Urban Village, Leeds
First look: Penson create UK's largest mural

29-May-2009
These are the first pictures of Penson Architects’ £300,000 revamp of Poole’s 40-year-old bus station
Chipperfield museum in Alaska opens

28-May-2009
David Chipperfield Architects’ 8,000m2 extension to Anchorage’s Museum in Alaska will open to the public tomorrow (30 May).
‘Work for free’ poll provokes fierce debate

28-May-2009
Architects and students divided on whether unpaid work placements amount to exploitation
Atkins reaches AJ100 top spot

28-May-2009
End of an era as Atkins replaces BDP as Britain’s biggest practice
AJ100 interview: Gregg Mitchell, Carey Jones

28-May-2009
‘I’d be kidding if I said the crunch hasn’t had an impact - some projects have been shelved’
Wilkinson Eyre axed from Blackfriars twin tower project

27-May-2009
Wilkinson Eyre Architects has been dropped by the developer behind its project on Blackfriars Road - ending a seven-year involvement with the site
Foster returns to Maclaren

26-May-2009
Foster + Partners is to add to its Stirling shortlisted McLaren Technology Centre in Woking
Lock Rennie named as Yorkshire Pavilion winners - at last

22-May-2009
After a six-month wait, Lock Rennie has finally been named as the winner of the ‘Renaissance’ competition to design a portable pavilion for regional development agency Yorkshire Forward (YF)
AJ Special Report: What can be done for jobless students?

21-May-2009
Only a third of this year’s Part 1 and Part 2 architecture students will find year-out work experience
RIBA Stirling Prize judges unveiled

21-May-2009
Designer Thomas Heatherwick (pictured) is among the judges for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize
Students ready to work for free

21-May-2009
‘Desperate’ students unable to gain a placement turn to unpaid work
Brits miss out in Croydon urban design contest

20-May-2009
Teams led by Edward Cullinan Architects and Hawkins\Brown have missed out in the international contest to design a major traffic route through Croydon, south London
Schmidt Hammer Lassen bags Barking thumbs up

19-May-2009
Barking & Dagenham Council has approved a scheme by Danes Schmidt Hammer Lassen for a new Creative Industires Quarter in Barking, east London
Latest look at Renzo Piano's sky-high Shard

19-May-2009
The developers behind the 310m-tall Shard near London Bridge have released new images of a proposed viewing platform 70-storeys above the ground
£12 billion military base for South Wales

19-May-2009
The largest PFI project in the UK, which will dwarf the scale of London’s 2012 Olympics programme, has been submitted for planning
English Heritage rescues Heritage Open Days

18-May-2009
English Heritage has stepped in to save Heritage Open Days from the scrapheap
First look: Arup goes for six in Coventry

18-May-2009
Arup Associates has won planning permission for its hexagon-inspired Engineering and Computing Building for Coventry University
Video: Fernando Torres in Studio Three's Liverpool One pavilion

15-May-2009
Studio Three Architects’ Liverpool One pavilion is looking good as the back drop to this fashion shoot for a Spanish fashion house. And the girl modelling is quite hot too
Local authorities drop heritage specialists

14-May-2009
EH warns that loss of heritage officers could affect regeneration schemes
Construction begins on Terry Pawson opera house

14-May-2009
Work has finally started on Terry Pawson Architects’ 45,000m2 opera house and music theatre in Linz, Austria
Site for Stonehenge visitor centre finally confirmed

13-May-2009
The government has today finally confirmed the new Stonehenge visitor centre, designed by Denton Corker Marshall (DCM), will be built just inside the edge of the world heritage site
Government rolls out design standards

13-May-2009
New minimum design standards laid down for all public buildings in the UK
Architecture Foundation set for new humble home

12-May-2009
The Architecture Foundation (AF) is to move into a new ‘pared down’ home, designed by Carmody Groarke, at the end of the month
EDAW keeps name - but not for long

8-May-2009
Masterplanner EDAW has avoided having to change its name to that of its parent company AECOM – but only for the time being
Graduates face escalating RIBA prices

7-May-2009
The RIBA launched its controversial new ‘associate’ class this week, replacing the ‘graduate’ membership – a move which could mean a rise of up to £166 a year for those who remain only Part 2 qualified
‘Other priorities’ stall Yorkshire pavilion contest

7-May-2009
Yorkshire Forward has placed the high-profile competition to design its new £650,000 ‘flagship’ portable pavilion on hold.
Piercy Conner reveals Flanders courtyard scheme

7-May-2009
London-based Piercy Conner Architects has released this image of its new Belgian scheme
First look: Adjaye and others design new Kielder shelters

7-May-2009
Kielder Water & Forest Park in Northumberland has asked five practices, including Adjaye Associates, to design a series of shelters as part of its arts and architecture programme
Bennetts win 'Whitehall of the North West' project

6-May-2009
Bennetts Associates has landed the prize project of drawing up plans for the new ‘Whitehall of the North West’, in Manchester
Greenwich launch contest for new architecture school building

5-May-2009
The University of Greenwich has launched the search for an architect to design its new £60 million school of architecture and construction building in Greenwich town centre, south London
First look: Hadid heads for Padua biennial

5-May-2009
Zaha Hadid has unveiled her new art installation destined for the fourth International Biennal of Architecture in Padua, Italy
Bartlett offshoot lands Chinese contest

1-May-2009
London-based Metamode has won the invited competition to design a new cultural park in China
First look: Richard Wilson's new twist for the LSE

30-Apr-2009
Artist Richard Wilson has won the go-ahead for this artwork on the corner of the London School of Economics (LSE) new academic building
LSC letter damns 100 projects

30-Apr-2009
According to documents seen by the AJ, the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) building programme for further-education colleges only intends to progress projects that will be ready to go on site within three months
Snøhetta scoops prestigious Mies prize

29-Apr-2009
Snøhetta has won this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award for the best building in Europe with its Norwegian National Opera & Ballet house in Oslo
Leeds: Shaping the city - RIBA's new book is little more than a PR push

24-Apr-2009
An uncritical study of the regeneration of Leeds is peppered with unintended irony, says Richard Waite
First look: Glowacka Rennie at the V&A

23-Apr-2009
Glowacka Rennie has completed this £130,000 overhaul of the ladies’ toilets off the Grand Entrance hall at the Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, London
Spending squeeze blamed for Trust’s fall

23-Apr-2009
Heritage industry shocked and saddened by sudden demise of ‘father figure’
Tributes for architect killed in cycling tragedy

20-Apr-2009
Colleagues remember 29-year-old architect killed by 32-tonne cement mixer lorry while cycling in London
First look: Newby's glowing sphere

20-Apr-2009
These are the first pictures of the new Unity Sphere sculpture, designed by Stephen Newby
Shock as Civic Trust folds

20-Apr-2009
The Civic Trust has become the latest victim of the credit crunch after plunging into administration
Boris Johnson eyes further HCA bailout cash

17-Apr-2009
London Mayor Boris Johnson has vowed to win more funding from the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) for a raft of ailing developments across the capital
'Members will spend time with architects,' says Beatrice Fraenkel

16-Apr-2009
The newly elected chair of the ARB talks to Richard Waite about her plans for the board
Sports star faces bailiffs over unpaid bill

16-Apr-2009
World-famous basketball player John Amaechi has pleaded poverty after his charitable foundation failed to pay a £43,000 architect’s bill to design a basketball centre in Bradford
Green light for FOA but no start date in sight

15-Apr-2009
Foreign Office Architects has won the initial green light for its £100 million Watermark WestQuay shopping centre in Southampton
Halliday Clark reveal £80,000 system-built home

8-Apr-2009
Bradford-based architect Halliday Clark has unveiled this £80,000 system-built three-storey house prototype
'Bug death' architect erased from register

8-Apr-2009
The architect at the centre of the UK’s worst outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease has been banned from practising by the Architects Registration Board (ARB)
Xsite Architecture completes Barnard Castle Box of tricks

7-Apr-2009
Newcastle-based practice Xsite Architecture has completed this WiFi and Bluetooth information hub in Barnard Castle, County Durham
Liam O'Connor lands Bomber Command Memorial

6-Apr-2009
Liam O’Connor Architects has seen off the likes of Foster + Partners to win the prize job of designing the new RAF Bomber Command Memorial in London
First look: Mecanoo’s Birmingham library

2-Apr-2009
Dutch practice Mecanoo has released the first images of its proposed £193 million Library of Birmingham
RMJM lays off 60 staff

2-Apr-2009
Practice makes redundancies after announcing hike in pre-tax profits
Reid Jubb Brown wins groundbreaking PPS7 approval

2-Apr-2009
Reid Jubb Brown Architecture has won the first planning permission without an appeal for a scheme under the PPS7 ‘contemporary country house’ clause
Rogers' British Museum extension plans revealed

1-Apr-2009
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) has revealed its long-awaited design for the £135 million extension to the British Museum in London
RIBA retreats on Standard Form of Agreement

30-Mar-2009
The RIBA has made a dramatic U-turn over a key clause in its contentious Standard Form of Agreement (SFA), following a vote at the institute’s council meeting last week
Herzog & de Meuron set for second Tate thumbs up

27-Mar-2009
Herzog & de Meuron’s revised proposals for a 22,494m² extension to the Tate Modern look set to be approved by Southwark Council next Tuesday
New offices for Old Bailey street

27-Mar-2009
Work has nearly completed on this 9,300m2 office block next to the Old Bailey in central London
Survive the recession with planes, trains and automobiles

27-Mar-2009
Plenty of infrastructure work is out there, but it’s tough to find a way in
The fall and (possible) rise of the Centre Point fountains

26-Mar-2009
The Grade-II listed Centre Point fountains may be about to vanish from the nightmarish central London junction, but don’t rule out a reappearance elsewhere
Blears approves Ian Simpson and Wilkinson Eyre skyscrapers

26-Mar-2009
Communities secretary Hazel Blears has given the green light to both Ian Simpson Architects’ 52-storey Mirax-Beetham skyscraper and the neighbouring Wilkinson Eyre twin-tower scheme on Blackfriars Road in Southwark, South London
CF Møller’s Fleetbank House axed

26-Mar-2009
CF Møller’s proposed £102 million overhaul of Fleetbank House, off Fleet Street, central London, has run aground
First look: Will Alsop’s ‘Chips’

26-Mar-2009
The AJ can reveal the first pictures of Alsop Architects’ ‘Chips’ housing scheme in New Islington, Manchester
Herzog & de Meuron feels pinch

26-Mar-2009
Several UK projects have been delayed, including Lord’s Cricket Ground and Portsmouth arena
First look: Mather's Eastbourne gallery

23-Mar-2009
The Towner, Eastbourne’s new art gallery designed by Rick Mather Architects, is set to open its doors to the public next weekend (4 April)
Hakes designs city bridge

20-Mar-2009
This is the first image of Hakes Associates’ proposed footbridge and harbour master’s office in London’s Paddington Basin
LSC and RIBA reveal college design awards shortlist

20-Mar-2009
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and the RIBA, with the AJ as media partner, have announced the shortlist for the Further Education Design Excellence Awards 2009
Major Scottish competition launched

20-Mar-2009
The contest for the £50 million overhaul of Glasgow School of Art’s Garnethill site, one of the most important Scottish projects in decades, launches today (20 March)
Zaha’s Manchester pavilion revealed

20-Mar-2009
Zaha Hadid has exclusively revealed to the AJ the first images of her new performance space for this year’s Manchester International Festival in July
Jamison’s temple

19-Mar-2009
Robert Jamison Architects has released these images of a proposed Vedic monastery and temple complex in Northern Ireland
Plunge in numbers makes MIPIM ‘humane’

19-Mar-2009
The number of attendees at last week’s MIPIM, the international property fair held in Cannes, dropped by nearly 40 per cent to 18,000, organisers confirmed
Tuition fee hike could mean 'two-tier education'

18-Mar-2009
Plans to almost double university tuition fees could create a ‘two-tier’ architectural education system in the UK, and delay the improvement of diversity in the profession by years, academics have warned
Northwich Cultural Centre shortlist revealed

18-Mar-2009
The AJ can exclusively reveal images from the five finalists in the contest to design the new Northwich Vision Cultural Centre
RMJM wins green light for East Coast wind farm substation

17-Mar-2009
RMJM has the green light for the substation to transform and distribute electricity from the London Array, the largest proposed offshore wind farm in Europe
pH+ lands Grand Union Canal scheme

17-Mar-2009
Up-and-coming practice pH+ has finally won permission for this mixed-use 40-flat scheme on a derelict industrial site next to the Grand Union Canal in Hackney, East London
'Best stadium in the world' abandoned half-finished

16-Mar-2009
Valencia Football Club’s new stadium has joined the growing ranks of high-profile projects in Spain to hit the buffers
Make wins University of Nottingham project

16-Mar-2009
Make has scooped the contest to design a new £5 million laboratory and office building for The University of Nottingham at its agricultural campus in Sutton Bonington
Wilkinson Eyre unveils Russian ski jump complex

13-Mar-2009
Wilkinson Eyre has revealed these images of a proposed new 300,000m² sports complex and ski jump in the historic Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod
Aedas brings four-day week to UK offices

12-Mar-2009
Global giant Aedas is the latest firm to introduce shorter working hours across its UK offices in an attempt to avoid further job cuts
In pictures: Evans Vettori's Halifax arts centre

12-Mar-2009
Evans Vettori Architects to extend Halifax Chapel Arts Centre
6a architects wins rare PPS7 appeal for ‘landmark’ house

12-Mar-2009
London’s 6a Architects has finally been given the green light for this house in rural Cambridgeshire after winning a planning appeal
Foster unveils design for Western Europe's tallest towers

11-Mar-2009
Foster + Partners reveals plans for Western Europe’s tallest mixed-use towers - to be built in the heart of Paris
EU opens door to VAT cuts on refurbs

11-Mar-2009
Architects are set to benefit from a new European Union (EU) ruling which could see VAT rates on renovation and repairs slashed to just 5 per cent
DSDHA bags Waterloo Square revamp

10-Mar-2009
DSDHA has scooped the contest to overhaul Waterloo City Square in central London
Ian Simpson wins National Wildflower Centre

10-Mar-2009
Ian Simpson Architects has landed the international design competition for a new ‘architecturally striking’ complex at the National Wildflower Centre in Knowsley
MIPIM: So many big names, so little time...

6-Mar-2009
Architecture’s biggest names lined-up to run late-night, non-stop ‘death by powerpoint’
UK-GBC urges code for sustainable buildings

5-Mar-2009
The UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) has unveiled proposals for a new, all-encompassing Code for Sustainable Buildings (CSB)
Boris backtracks on London public spaces

5-Mar-2009
London mayor Boris Johnson has drawn up plans for a new public realm strategy, just months after ditching predecessor Ken Livingstone’s flagship 100 Public Spaces programme
Royal Court win for AHMM

5-Mar-2009
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has landed another key project in Liverpool after winning the contest to overhaul the city’s Grade II-listed Royal Court theatre
DRDH scoops major Norway job

5-Mar-2009
Up-and-coming London firm DRDH Architects has won the international contest to design a 5,500m2 city library and 7,350m2 three-auditorium music hall in Bodø, Norway
Downturn forces Gehry to relax - and fire half his workers

4-Mar-2009
Rogers lays off 20 per cent. Foster lays off 25 per cent. Gehry lays off 50 per cent. That’s a starchitect for you, doing things bigger than anyone else
Architects drop out of best employer list

4-Mar-2009
Only one architects’ firm has made it onto the Sunday Times’ Best 100 Companies to work for – a result branded a ‘shocking indictment’ by a former finalist
Salisbury competition winner announced

4-Mar-2009
Letts Wheeler Architects has won the RIBA competition to transform the Market Square in Salisbury, Wiltshire
£2,500 prize for Colleges on Camera

2-Mar-2009
A national student photography competition aimed at finding the next Julius Schulman has been launched by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS)
Antony Gormley opens Trafalgar plinth invitation

2-Mar-2009
Artist Antony Gormley is looking for 2,400 volunteers to take a turn on the fourth plinth in London’s Trafalgar square
Wembley win for Hopkins Architects

27-Feb-2009
Hopkins Architects has seen off the likes of Make and Sheppard Robson to win the contest to design the new Brent Civic Centre next to Wembley Stadium, North London, the AJ can reveal
V&A to launch competition for Dundee museum

26-Feb-2009
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is set to launch an international competition to design its new £43 million Scottish outpost before the end of the year
Serpentine Pavilion goes to SANAA

23-Feb-2009
This summer’s Serpentine Pavilion in London is to be designed by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of Japanese practice SANAA
'It's a bloodbath': architects savaged by the recession

20-Feb-2009
The architecture profession has been savaged by the recession and there is widespread fear of worse to come, the AJ’s State of the Profession survey has revealed
Arguments for and against the Sandy Wilson delisting decision

19-Feb-2009
The delisting of Colin St John Wilson’s flats in Hereford Square, South Kensington, London, is back in the headlines – and is stirring up an even bigger hornets’ nest this time around
Kaplicky library hopes fade

19-Feb-2009
Jan Kaplicky’s National Library in Prague looks set to remain unbuilt after the only two architects to have worked on the project were released from his former practice Future Systems
Pozner Memorial Fund

19-Feb-2009
The recently set-up Nicholas Pozner Memorial Fund will be holding its inaugural dinner and film night on 28 February at the Architectural Association (AA)
Nightingale opens doorway to Lutyens crypt

18-Feb-2009
Nightingale Associates has completed this £4 million entrance to the Lutyens crypt below Liverpool’s Catholic cathedral

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