All articles by Anna Winston – Page 42
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NewsCamprubi Architects' new Spanish hotel
Spanish practice Camprubi I Santacana Arquitectes has completed work on a new hotel for the town of Monroyo, Spain.
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NewsMackintosh attracts stellar list of entrants
Rogers, Hadid and MVRDV among 150 vying to design new Glasgow School of Art building
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NewsBaths voted UK's most seductive building in RIBA poll
The Roman Baths in Bath have been voted the UK’s “most seductive building” in the RIBA’s Construction for Seduction poll.
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Sarkozy announces £31 billion budget for Paris transformation
French president Nicholas Sarkozy has unveiled a Euro35 billion (£31bn) budget for the Greater Paris project, which will transform the city’s urban masterplan with new transport links, green spaces and skyscrapers.
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Deluge of entries expected for Glasgow School of Art competition
A competition to design a new building for the Glasgow School of Art has attracted unprecedented levels of interest, with the organiser predicting possible success for a young practice.
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Scottish watchdog could be more like Cabe
The Scottish government has published a report on watchdog Architecture & Design Scotland which proposes a “significant restructuring of the organisation”.
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NewsOlympic site hope for Skylon bid
Campaigners behind a plan to recreate Powell & Moya’s iconic Skylon structure have entered into negotiations to find a site for the project in the 2012 Olympic park in Stratford, east London.
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NewsRojkind Arquitectos and BIG win Tamayo museum competition
Mexican practice Rojkind Arquitectos and Danish practice BIG has won a competition to design a new 3,500 sq m branch of the Tamayo Museum on the outskirts of Atizapan, Mexico.
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NewsNew flu resource centre designs
Multi-disciplinary firm Morgan Professional Services has revealed images of its £12 million UK stem cell bank and influenza resource centre in South Mimms, Hertfordshire.
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NewsFoster lost £80m in last year, according to Rich List
Norman Foster has lost £80 million in the last year, according to this year’s Sunday Times Rich List which sees Foster – the only architect to appear on the list this year –placed 333rd and worth an estimated £170 million.
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NewsGround Zero towers face 20 year delay, says report
Richard Rogers and Norman Foster’s towers for New York’s Ground Zero site may not be completed for another 20 years, according to a leaked report commissioned by the city’s Port Authority
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NewsBudget’s college bailout is “derisory”, architects claim
The architectural community has reacted with disappointment at the government’s decision to allocate a further £300 million to the Learning & Skills Council’s struggling Building Colleges for the Future programme, saying it is far too little.
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Foster & Partners to design Saudi Arabia rail stations
Foster & Partners has been appointed to design four stations for the new high speed rail line that will link the cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia.
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Signs of recovery in AIA billings index
After months of record falls, the American Institute of Architects' billing index, which is seen as an economic indicator of future US construction activity, is showing signs of recovery for the industry.
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NewsLatitude wins go-ahead for revamp of King’s Cross Lighthouse Building
Latitude Architects has won planning permission from Camden Council for a £13 million internal reconstruction of the grade II listed Lighthouse Building in King’s Cross, London.
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NewsOMA’s Prada Transformer completes first revolution
Construction work has finished on the Prada Transformer, a travelling art exhibition structure designed by Rem Koolhaas for fashion behemoth Prada.
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NewsPeter Zumthor’s Devon holiday house will be his first UK project
This year’s Pritzker prize winner Peter Zumthor is designing his first project in the UK, a residential building in Devon which will be part of the forthcoming Living Architecture project.
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NewsArchitecture minister Follett lists two 20th Century buildings
Barbara Follett lists school and railway station at Grade II.
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News3DReid and Sports Concepts wins go-ahead for Commonwealth Games buildings
3DReid and Sports Concepts have won planning permission from Glasgow City Council for the main stadium and velodrome for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
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NewsZaha Hadid and Ben Van Berkel unveil new pavilions for Chicago's Millennium Park
Zaha Hadid and UNStudio’s Ben Van Berkel have designed two new pavilions for Chicago’s Millennium nPark to mark the 100 year anniversary of the Burnham Plan.