All articles by Elizabeth Hopkirk – Page 258
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NewsChetwoods offers students and new architects free London work space
Chetwood Associates is opening up its offices to students and newly qualified architects who need a London base as they try to establish themselves.
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NewsArchitect to row from Big Ben to Eiffel Tower
Architect Andrew Jones is attempting to row 480 miles from Big Ben to the Eiffel Tower – down the Thames, across the English Channel and up the Seine.
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NewsAedas school wins Manchester Society of Architects’ design awards
Aedas has won the Manchester Society of Architects’ 2010 design awards with a small primary school in the shadow of the Blackpool Tower.
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NewsAngela Brady set to run for RIBA presidency
Angela Brady is making a bid to become RIBA president, becoming the first person to publicly throw their hat into the ring.
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NewsRIBA/ICE bursary award winners named
Two architecture graduates and a civil engineer have won this year’s RIBA/ICE Bursary Awards for projects based in Kenya and an English seaside resort.
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NewsPurcell Miller Tritton wins Dickens museum job
Purcell Miller Tritton has won the contract to carry out a £2.7 million refurbishment and expansion of the Charles Dickens Museum in central London.
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National Gallery announces architecture festival events
The National Gallery has announced a series of events to coincide with the London Festival of Architecture, including an architectural guided tour and a talk on the controversial Sainsbury Wing.
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NewsCountryside appoints new boss
Countryside Properties has appointed Andrew Carr-Locke as executive chairman, following the death of the firm’s founder Alan Cherry.
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Conference to discuss new housing standards
Architects will have the chance to discuss the impact of new minimum standards for housing with some of the key people responsible for delivering homes in London at a half-day conference on May 17.
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NewsBennetts’ Amsterdam hotel is topped out
Bennetts Associates’ first project outside the UK, the City Inn Amsterdam, has been topped out.
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NewsFoster is the only architect in Sunday Times Rich List
Norman Foster has slipped down the Sunday Times Rich List for the second year running.
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NewsBFI launches competition for new film centre
The British Film Institute has launched an international competition for an architect to design its new headquarters and film centre on the South Bank.
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NewsIndia asks Cardiff man to design new temple
A British architect has been commissioned to design a Hindu temple in India in a style not used for more than 700 years.
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NewsRIBA says press is to blame for low pay row
The RIBA has been criticised for attempting to pin blame on the press for the huge row raging over low wages in the profession
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NewsSix triumph in American Institute of Architects’ UK awards
Projects by David Chipperfield, Niall McLaughlin and AHMM and have all won Excellence in Design awards from the UK chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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NewsStudio E wins Queen’s Award for Enterprise
Studio E Architects has won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, becoming only the fourth architectural practice ever to receive it.
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Stanton Williams to design King’s Cross Square
Stanton Williams has won the international competition to design what will become one of London’s biggest public squares, in front of King’s Cross Station in London.
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NewsScottish design watchdog names new review panel
Gareth Hoskins, Ewan Anderson, Gordon Murray and Keith Brownlie are among the 28 architects, engineers and planners on Architecture & Design Scotland’s new design review panel.
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NewsScotland’s Kickstart ‘will waste public cash’
Scotland’s answer to Kickstart, the £130 million National Housing Trust initiative, is set to pay for more poor quality homes on the taxpayer, one of the country’s leading architects has predicted
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NewsFretton to exhibit at Venice Biennale
Architect Tony Fretton and artist and designer Mark Pimlott are among a handful of leading figures chosen by Venice Biennale curator Kazuyo Sejima to exhibit their work there this summer