All articles by Elizabeth Hopkirk – Page 241
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NewsWest Ham wins battle for the Olympic Stadium
West Ham United has been named as the preferred bidder to take over the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 games, it was announced today.The Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) unanimously chose the premiership football club’s bid over rival club Tottenham’s, which involved demolishing the Populous-designed stadium and replacing it with ...
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NewsHigh Court rules that axing BSF was unlawful
Michael Gove’s decision to stop funding later-stage schools was “an abuse of power”
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NewsBIG wins Greenland National Gallery competition
Bjarke Ingels’ practice BIG has won the job of designing the new National Gallery of Greenland in the country’s capital Nuuk.
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NewsFoster & Partners completes first stage of Abu Dhabi souk
Foster & Partners has completed a new central market for Abu Dhabi on one of the oldest sites in the city centre
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NewsHopkins wins planning for ultra-green WWF headquarters
Hopkins Architects has won planning for a sustainable UK HQ for the conservation body in Surrey.
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NewsWest Ham's stadium 'win' is branded pure speculation
The Olympic Park Legacy Company has denied reports that West Ham’s bid for Populous’s 2012 stadium has already won its backing – before tomorrow’s crunch board meeting.
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NewsSOM’s €1bn Nato HQ triggers cost outcry
A row has broken out over the cost of SOM’s new headquarters building for Nato in Brussels.
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NewsWilford's Tbilisi embassy may mark end of an era
Michael Wilford’s £17 million British Embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, has opened, becoming perhaps the last of the Foreign Office’s grands projets.
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NewsFrank Gehry's 'cloud' under threat
Frank Gehry’s £86 million plans for a “cloud of glass” contemporary art gallery in Paris have hit a stumbling block after its building permit was cancelled.
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NewsRetirement home lifeline for architects
Architects will be able to pick up work if care home provider Anchor is successful in its hunt for sites for 1,100 new retirement properties across the south of England.
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NewsHeneghan Peng submits Greenwich University plans
Heneghan Peng Architects has submitted its £76 million plans for the University of Greenwich’s new library and school of architecture and construction in the London World Heritage Site.
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NewsWalthamstow Station gets green flag despite warnings
Cabe’s advice that an east London borough demand a higher-quality station redevelopment has been ignored by local councillors who approved the £20 million plans.
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NewsZaha Hadid designs Rock and Shell villas for Croatia
Zaha Hadid Architects has designed two prototype villas for a new golf and spa resort on the Croatian coast overlooking Dubrovnik.
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NewsWorking abroad: Allies & Morrison
Bob Allies on how his practice has almost inadvertently found itself expanding overseas.
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NewsLDA Design's revamp of Burgess Park gets go-ahead
Planners have approved LDA Design’s £6 million scheme to give a major south London park a new identity.The firm won a competition in November 2009 with its “ambitious but achievable” plans to inject new life into Burgess Park in Southwark.These included removing unnecessary roads, improving the entrances and the boundary ...
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NewsTom Dixon's Royal Academy restaurant opens
Tom Dixon and his Design Research Studio have created a new interior for the restaurant at the Royal Academy, in London’s Piccadilly.
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NewsJTP engages locals to draw up Indonesian resort masterplan
John Thompson & Partners is developing a sustainable masterplan for a 250ha eco-tourism resort on the Indonesian island of Lombok
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NewsArchitects start work on prefab school templates
Government looks to slash time and construction costs through standardised designs
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NewsRIAI chases Ireland’s 300 illicit architects
More than 300 people are trading illegally as architects in Ireland, according to a recent audit
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NewsBDP colleagues launch tributes to Joanna Yeates
Annual design prize to be set up in landscape architect’s memory