All articles by Dave Rogers – Page 44
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NewsNo let-up as HOK slashes UK staff
Architects are continuing to haemorrhage staff, with the fourth biggest firm in the world the latest to cut UK jobs, despite growing evidence of green shoots of recovery in other areas of construction
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Government to set minimum design standards for all public buildings
The government is setting minimum design standards for every public building in the country.
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Alsop and Wilkinson lead calls for Prince Charles speech boycott
A group of leading architects are calling on their peers to boycott tomorrow night’s lecture at the RIBA by Prince Charles.
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NewsODA’s green credentials marred by use of plastic
The sustainability group monitoring the 2012 Olympic Games building process has given the Olympic Delivery Authority’s green credentials the thumbs-up — but warned it must sharpen up its act on using plastics.
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News£13 million HCA bailout for Clapham Park scheme
The Homes & Communities Agency has announced it is bailing out two more cash-strapped schemes in a boost to architects including Levitt Bernstein and BDP.
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NewsAukett chief takes pay cut as practice plans lay-offs
The chief executive of Aukett Fitzroy Robinson is taking a pay cut of more than £30,000 as the firm prepares to make at least 20 redundancies.Nicholas Thompson said his 20% drop in wages from this month was part of a wider attempt to save money which will see pay cuts ...
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NewsSnohetta wins Mies van der Rohe Award
This year’s Mies van der Rohe Award has been won by Norwegian firm Snohetta for its design for the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet in Oslo.
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NewsNorman Foster's recession-defying super yacht launched
A credit crunch-defying ‘super yacht’ designed by Norman Foster has been launched at the Italian port of La Spezia.
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Aukett Fitzroy Robinson set to lay off staff after predicting a loss
One of the two dedicated architectural practices listed on the London Stock Exchange has said it will be making redundancies because of bigger than expected losses when it publishes its interim results in June.
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Budget gives £600m boost to slump-hit housing sector
Homes & Communities Agency to bail out struggling schemes after chancellor’s windfall
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NewsFirm marks colleague’s death with ‘ghost bike’
The colleagues of an architectural assistant killed by a lorry at a notorious central London junction paid an emotional tribute to her this week by placing a “ghost bike” at the scene of her death
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NewsRIBA president disappointed by Budget
RIBA president Sunand Prasad has complained that this week’s Budget represents a disappointment for construction compared with the multi-billion rescue given to the banking sector.
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Bristol Council picks consortium to refurbish six schools
Walters & Cohen and Batterham Matthews are among the architects who will redevelop six Bristol schools as part of a £100 million Building Schools for the Future deal.
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Tributes paid to architectural assistant killed in cycling accident
Tributes have been paid to the Metropolitan Workshop architectural assistant killed on her bike at a London roundabout earlier this month.
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NewsLeading architects protest over prince's interference in Rogers scheme
Some of the world’s leading architects have publicly called on Prince Charles to stop meddling in the planning process for Richard Rogers’ controversial Chelsea Barracks scheme in west London.
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NewsHCA sets up developer panel to help spend £17bn
A new “super panel” of developers is being set up by the Homes & Communities Agency to help it spend hundreds of millions of pounds on building residential and mixed-use schemes in the next three years
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NewsGreen light for Studio Egret West's Clapham One scheme
Studio Egret West announced a brace of deals this week after schemes in London and Kent received the all clear from council planners.
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20% of Adams Kara Taylor staff facing redundancy
Up to 20% of staff at engineer Adams Kara Taylor are facing the axe, the firm admitted today.
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Aedas, BDP in the running for Crossrail design contract
Four firms are competing for one of the first architectural contracts to be let under the huge Crossrail design framework.
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Aedas team wins slice of £280m BSF project
A team featuring Aedas has pipped a rival consortium featuring Nicholas Hare to work on a £280 million BSF project in the West Midlands.