All articles by Andrea Klettner – Page 73
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NewsBroadgate plans only attract two objections
Just two people have objected to Make’s proposal for a huge new banking headquarters in London’s Broadgate, paving the way for the scheme to win planning permission.
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NewsStudents invited to design John Peel arts centre
RIBA competition winner will work with Martindales Architects on Suffolk project
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NewsWelsh School of Architecture completes sustainability centre
A new centre to test sustainable building products has opened at Tata Steel’s site in Shotton, north Wales.Designed by the Welsh School of Architecture, the £6.5 million Sustainable Building Envelope Centre (SBEC) will be used to test and monitor new integrated heating, energy and ventilation systems on the fabric of ...
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NewsMake's Broadgate scheme up for approval
The City of London’s planning officers have paved the way for the approval of Make’s proposals for British Land to build a new headquarters for Swiss bank UBS.In a report prepared for the planning and transportation committee it said the building “would represent a striking and eye-catching addition to the ...
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NewsDeputy mayor of London Simon Milton dies
Mayor Boris Johnson pays tribute to “wonderful colleague and friend” who was in charge of planning
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NewsPlanning approval for John Lyall's Chatham scheme
Regeneration scheme for Kent seaside town worth £25 million gets go-ahead
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NewsChipperfield's Neues Museum wins Mies van der Rohe Award
David Chipperfield’s revamp of the Neues Museum in Berlin has won the 2011 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – the Mies van der Rohe Award.The project beat competition from Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel, Belgian practice MDMA, Paris-based Bernard Tschumi and Dutch company Koen van Velsen to win the prestigious ...
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NewsGovernment backs new engineering prize
The government is backing plans to introduce a new engineering award, worth up to £1 million for the winner.Science minister David Willetts said he supported plans for the prize, which he believes could reach the prestige of the Nobel prizes awarded annually for fields including physics and medicine.The prize would ...
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NewsCapita Symonds to axe 40 from architecture team
Public service cuts are thought to be main cause as firm shuts its Clerkenwell studio
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NewsGreen light for black house in Hertfordshire
Stephen Davy Peter Smith Architects receives planning consent for zinc-clad dwelling
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NewsBuilders back government’s zero-carbon turnaround
Housebuilders have clashed with environmentalists over the government’s decision to water down standards for zero-carbon homes.
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NewsTP Bennett to oversee Sea Containers House revamp
Fourteen-storey Thames-side block could be turned into luxury hotel
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NewsFuture secured for Haworth Tompkins' Liverpool Everyman theatre revamp
Haworth Tompkins’ redevelopment of the Everyman & Playhouse theatre in Liverpool is set to go ahead following a cash injection from the European Region Development Fund (ERDF).The ERDF granted £5.9 million towards the £28 million project which will see the demolition of the existing theatre and the construction of a ...
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NewsGreen light for Space Group Architects' Westminster scheme
Space Group Architects has received planning permission for a mixed-use development in the London borough of Westminster.The four-storey building, based at Vauxhall Bridge Road near Victoria Station, sits just outside a conservation area and will be clad in basalt lavastone.It will provide retail space over two floors, with offices above ...
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NewsMinister 'surprised' by WWF quitting Zero Carbon Taskforce
Environmental charity quit after government watered down zero carbon definition
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NewsKPF's Paris tower revamp completes
Construction work has completed on the refurbishment of the “First Tower” in the La Defense business district in Paris, making it the tallest office block in France.KPF and French practice SRA Architectes designed the €300 million revamp of the building, which saw its height raised from 155m to 230m through ...
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NewsMies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House goes Lego
German modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe has had his masterpiece Farnsworth House immortalised in Lego
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NewsReed speaks out over RIBA chief executive ousting reports
RIBA president Ruth Reed has refused to deny reports that she made a failed bid to oust chief executive Harry Rich at a board meeting earlier this year.
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NewsNew architecture school head for Birmingham City University
Ex-student and acting deputy head Kevin Singh appointed to role