All articles by Elizabeth Hopkirk – Page 238
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NewsApollo Architects' Sendai houses survive Japan earthquake
Satoshi Kurosaki of Tokyo-based Apollo Architects has confirmed the two family houses he completed recently in Sendai have survived the earthquake.Lift, finished in the last few weeks, is in a residential district of central Sendai. It is a wooden house on a tight plot, which veers up at the front ...
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NewsArchitects urged not to pull out of Japan
Radiation fears prompt many to leave country following earthquake
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NewsBIG wins international timber housing competition
BIG beats 25 rivals to design and construct wooden multi-storey residential buildings in Finland
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Makin reveals plans for £15.5 million hotel in Hull
Regeneration scheme could be part-funded by government
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Candy man goes to Treasury to lead Battersea Power Station redevelopment
Battersea Power Station developer Treasury Holdings has head-hunted the man in charge of One Hyde Park for Candy & Candy.
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NewsSafdie Architects' Artscience Museum opens in Singapore
Safdie Architects’ Artscience Museum has opened in Singapore. It features 10 curved “petals” or “fingers” containing the 21 galleries, which are naturally lit from apertures in the finger tips illuminating the sculptural interior wall forms.The tallest rises 60m above the 4,000sq m “pond” beside which the 6,000sq m museum stands.The ...
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Chichester barracks housing development wins planning
London practice Working Group has won detailed planning permission for a 252-home development on the former Roussillon Barracks site in Chichester, West Sussex.Preparatory work on the project, led by sustainable developer Zero C in partnership with the Homes & Communities Agency (HCA), will begin this month, with construction due to ...
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NewsKoolhaas's OMA to be subject of major UK exhibition
London’s Barbican Art Gallery to host exhibition on OMA and its research unit AMO
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NewsNikken Sekkei staff tell of their earthquake fears
Staff at Nikken Sekkei’s Tokyo headquarters have told how they feared for their lives as the worst earthquake in 130 years wreaked devastation across the north of Japan.
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NewsStudio Weave unveils floating cinema
Je Ahn and Maria Smith reveal first picture of ODA ’pavilion’
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NewsBFLS wins planning for controversial west London office development
Hammersmith Grove scheme approved despite local objections
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Old walls 'three times more energy-efficient than previously thought'
Inaccurate figures could lead to damaging and unnecessary interventions, warns SPAB
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NewsThe word on the Croisette
Terry Farrell, Michael Squire, Andrew Pryke, David Lawrence, Phil Doyle and Gavin Elliott on their experience of this year’s Mipim
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Blogs"The days of ostentatious bling are over"
To the Mipim Virgin the parties still seem indulgent, but with missing hosts and cautious investors the days of bling are over
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NewsForeign Office Architects reveal John Lewis plans
Foreign Office Architects has released CGIs of how a John Lewis department store in its New Street Station development in Birmingham will look.
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NewsAtkins' Azerbajini project gets underway
Work has started on site on Baku White City, a 221ha regeneration project by Atkins, Foster & Partners and US practice F&A Architects in the Azerbijani capital.
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NewsCycle to Cannes success for riders
The annual C2C event has smashed its target of raising £1 million for charity.
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NewsListing immunity boost for Glenn Howells' Paradise Circus
Scheme will go ahead at expense of brutalist library