All articles by Dave Rogers – Page 28
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NewsListing hopes dashed for Redcar Library
Architecture minister John Penrose has ignored advice from English Heritage and refused listing for ABK’s Redcar Central Library paving the way for the 1970s building to be torn down.
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NewsBuildings 'should display energy ratings'
The UK Green Building Council has said all non-residential buildings should have their A-G energy rating on public display to encourage landlords to bring up to scratch those premises lagging behind.The ratings would provide an at-a-glance indicator and detailed technical information on the energy performance of a building, it said.The ...
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NewsAdam's Warrington country house approved
Robert Adam’s practice Adam Architecture has won planning for a new country house in Cheshire.Called Massey Hall, the 2,700sq m design on the eastern edge of Warrington will replace a disused 19th century house, while Manchester firm Barnes Walker will restore the house’s surrounding parkland which was designed by Victorian ...
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NewsBWP's woodland homes scheme wins planning
A scheme by Surrey practice BWP Architects to build two new homes in the middle of Hampshire woodland have been approved by local planners.East Hampshire District Council’s decision means work on the site at Four Marks can now progress. The homes are surrounded by protected trees whose Root Protection Zones ...
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NewsBusiness chiefs attack coalition's airport strategy
Gensler boss joins others saying government needs to rethink policy
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NewsRIBA orders members to pay students minimum wage
RIBA president Ruth Reed says practices need to take responsibility for paying students properly.
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NewsPractices benefit from philanthropist's millions
Vivien Duffield hands out £8.2 million for cultural projects.
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NewsCabe set to sell advice overseas
Quango to tell foreign governments how to set up design watchdogs
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NewsRIBA Trust rises from the ashes
The RIBA Trust has been reborn and renamed the British Architectural Board.
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NewsCompetition to be held for £140m Aberdeen scheme
An international competition is to be held for a design to replace a planned scheme by Brisac Gonzalez in the middle of Aberdeen.
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NewsBasil Spence honoured by blue plaque
Coventry Cathedral designer Basil Spence has been honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque unveiled this morning (Wednesday) at his former home and office in north London.Spence, who died in 1976, was commissioned to design a new cathedral after the existing one was destroyed by German bombers during the second ...
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NewsWandsworth hopeful of reviving more axed BSF schools
Wandsworth Council in south-west London is hoping to revive building schemes for two more schools axed under the BSF programme following a reprieve for two schools by AHMM and BDP.Work on the £70 million deal to rebuild Southfields Community College by BDP and AHMM’s Burntwood Secondary School will begin next ...
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NewsPlasticine model of future city needs new home
A model depicting how a city may look in the future, made entirely of plasticine, needs a new home because its creator no longer has room for it.
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AnalysisArchitects seek shelter in London
While the housing market is showing signs of revival in the capital, elsewhere it remains stagnant with a constrained mortgage market and fears over localism two of the main inhibitors
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NewsLipton says Make’s City scheme is ‘the worst’
Original Broadgate developer Stuart Lipton has said Make’s proposals to replace the current buildings are the worst he has seen in the City of London for two decades.
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NewsMorrison family sinks £8 million into RMJM
Refinancing deal aimed at securing “robust financial position”
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NewsAedas boss says London office needs 'to do better'
Firm plans to buy design-led practice to win big jobs in capital