All articles by David Rogers – Page 118
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NewsGrant Shapps calls for more self built homes
Housing minister Grant Shapps has said he wants to make self building a mainstream housing option and has set up a working group to see how this can be done.Shapps is hoping to make it easier for people to raise finance to build their own homes and wants more land ...
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NewsBDP finalises Jo Yeates charity cycle ride
Event will have covered 1,500 miles when it finishes
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NewsHaworth Tompkins' Canning Town proposals in for planning
A masterplan drawn up by Aecom and Haworth Tompkins Architects has been submitted to the Thames Gateway Development Corporation.
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NewsMcAslan, BDP, Feilden Clegg battle for Manchester awards
More than 50 practices have been shortlisted for the Manchester Society of Architects Design Awards.
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NewsLocal architect sticks up for condemned Norwich office block
An RIBA Award-winning Norwich architect has leapt to the defence of a condemned 1960s office block dubbed the city’s ugliest building.
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NewsRMJM could lose Gazprom Tower
RMJM’s involvement with what would be Europe’s tallest tower is in doubt after Gazprom, the energy firm building it, said it was now talking to other practices about the work.The firm won the contract for the 455m-high tower in St Petersburg in December 2006.But the plans attracted criticism from conservationists ...
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NewsConstruction worries overshadow economy's growth
Fall of 4.7% in output is the biggest for two years
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NewsArb suspends architect who 'intimidated' his clients
Michael Phillips hired heavies to recover disputed debt
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NewsNew sculpture planned for Olympic Park
Italian artist Monica Bonvicini has designed a new piece of public art due to be installed in the northern part of the Olympic Park in east London.The permanent piece will comprise three 9m-tall letters which form the word “run” and will be built on the plaza of the Handball Arena.It ...
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NewsAssociated Architects' Birmingham campus building approved
Birmingham planners have approved a new campus building for Birmingham City University by local firm Associated Architects.The scheme in the Eastside area of the city is part of a £180 million redevelopment being planned by the university, and will house its art and design departments.Running across 18,300sq m, the five-storey ...
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NewsHopkins in race to build Gulf outpost for top school
The firm founded by Sherborne School old boy Michael Hopkins is one of six on the shortlist to build a new Sherborne for ex-pats and locals in Qatar.
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NewsOlympics team to train at Archial venue
A new swimming and diving complex in Plymouth, designed by Archial, will be used by the Canadian diving team prior to next summer’s Olympics.Once completed, the £46 million Life Centre will feature a 50 x 25m swimming pool and a 25 x 16m diving pool along with sports halls, dance ...
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NewsBristol practice wins OK for Clevedon Pier work
Bristol practice O’Leary Goss Architects has been given planning permission to turn a derelict grade II listed hotel at Clevedon, Somerset, into apartments and to build a new visitor centre at a neighbouring pier.Grade I listed Clevedon Pier was built in 1869, with the hotel put up to cater for ...
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NewsUS Architecture Billings Index remains in the black
Signs of recovery - but some practices just hanging on
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NewsCoalition increases number of PFI schemes
The coalition government will sign off more PFI projects this year than in the previous two years, despite both the Tories and Liberal Democrats criticising them before the 2010 election.According to a Channel 4 News, chancellor George Osborne will sign off 40 projects this year compared to 38 in 2009 ...
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NewsGlancey likens modernism critic Roger Scruton to Alf Garnett
Philosopher turns into comic character when “faced with buildings he finds incomprehensible”
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