All articles by Andrea Klettner – Page 75
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NewsJailed architect has sentence reduced
A disgraced architect who conned a family into spending £6,500 on work he never carried out has had his prison sentence reduced at the Court of Appeal in London.Workington-based Richard John Lindsay, 64, was jailed for nearly four years at Carlisle Crown Court last November, after pleading guilty to one ...
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NewsGreen light for Glenn Howells' racket club revamp
£10 million project approved by Birmingham planners
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NewsMetropol Parasol in Seville nears completion
J Mayer H Architects’ redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnacion in Seville, Spain, is set to be fully complete next month.Metropol Parasol, as the project is known, is set to become the new urban centre in the medieval quarter of the city, containing an archaeological museum, a farmers market, ...
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NewsRIBA launches Conservation Register
The RIBA has launched a Conservation Register of architects specialising in work in the heritage sector.Designed as a tool for those commissioning work on heritage buildings, the register offers three levels of membership allowing young practices to gain the necessary skills in working on historic buildings.RIBA president Ruth Reed said: ...
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NewsAdam Khan's floating visitor centre launched in Lancashire
Adam Khan Architects’ floating visitor centre at Brockholes nature reserve in Lancashire is due to be floated for the first time.The practice won the £8.6 million project following an RIBA competition for the reserve, where it will also oversee masterplanning activities.Project manager Ian Selby said the floating process itself, which ...
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NewsStudio Meda triumphs in Bankside bike shed competition
Atmos Studio and Quinn Architecture lose out
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NewsListing dispute ignites battle over Broadgate
Developer applies for immunity as EH considers 1980s buildings
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NewsRIBA row sends legal bill soaring
Last year’s London Region dispute proves pricey for the RIBA.
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NewsCouncil approves AHMM's Southwark Tower
AHMM has received planning permission to build a 20-storey tower in south London.The 89m-high development, Blackfriars Road, sits on a site at the south end of Blackfriars Bridge, and was approved by the planning committee of Southwark Council.The 17,600sq m office building for Great Portland Estates will be wrapped in ...
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NewsCouncil backs Holl's Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow City Council’s planning committee has approved plans for Stephen Holl Architects’ new Glasgow School of Art building.The first phase of the £50 million scheme, designed with local practice JM Architects, is for a five-storey building opposite Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s building for the school.Holl said: “We are very pleased with ...
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NewsArchitects invited to design Joan Littlewood memorial in Stratford
Newham Council has launched a competition to create a memorial to the “mother of modern theatre” Joan Littlewood.The memorial will stand outside the Theatre Royal Stratford East and is part of the £14 million improvement works to the east London area’s public realm, alongside Studio Egret West’s sculpture The Shoal.Judges, ...
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NewsParadise Circus scheme forces Birmingham music school move
The Birmingham Conservatoire has vowed it will move to a new home after Glenn Howell’s £500 million Paradise Circus scheme cleared its final hurdle.The conservatoire’s current home at Paradise Place sits on the proposed site of the scheme for developer Argent. Earlier this month the government granted John Madin’s Birmingham ...
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NewsDanish bathing triumph for JDS Architects
Belgian practice JDS Architects has won first prize in a competition to design Faaborg Harbour Bath in the south of Fyn, Denmark.
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NewsDecision imminent on Stephen Holl’s Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow City Council’s planning committee is expected to approve Stephen Holl Architects’ proposals for the new Glasgow School of Art building when it meets tomorrow (Tuesday) .The £50 million scheme, designed with local practice JM Architects, is for a five-storey building opposite Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s building for the school.A report ...
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NewsBDP launches sponsored cycle ride in memory of Jo Yeates
BDP has launched “Cycle for Jo”, a charity cycle ride, where employees from BDP studios all over the world will ride in relay teams between studio locations.The ride, which starts on May 6 at BDP’s London office, has been organised in memory of murdered landscape architect Joanna Yeates, who worked ...
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NewsGrimshaw power plant 'exemplary' says Cabe
Design watchdog praises Suffolk waste-to-energy facility proposal
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NewsCabe slams Chapman Taylor's Liverpool Waters masterplan
Chapman Taylor’s proposed £5.5 billion regeneration of the Liverpool Docks has been criticised by Cabe for being “generic” and “not organised or expressed in a meaningful way”.In its report the quango said 1.3 million sq m project, known as Liverpool Waters, “does not provide confidence that a high quality scheme ...
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NewsArchitect sought to restore House Mill in east London
The River Lea Tidal Mill Trust is seeking an architect to work on the restoration and development of its grade I listed House Mill in east London.The £2.65 million project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, will see the restoration of the mill, installing renewable energy sources and providing education ...