All articles by Elizabeth Hopkirk – Page 265
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NewsScape Design to create major new public square
Landscape architect Scape Design Associates has been appointed to create a new public square in a major west London shopping area after beating off shortlisted rivals Gillespies and Burns & Nice.
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NewsInnovative park shelters unveiled in Hertfordshire
Unique park shelters created by multi-disciplinary firms Superblue and Haring Woods Associates are to be installed in three Hertfordshire parks.
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NewsAedas scoops top prize at Partnerships for Schools’ in-house awards
A school designed by Aedas Architects for Leicester’s Building Schools for the Future programme has won the Grand Prix in the Excellence in BSF Awards 2009.
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News£3m Australian gum tree memorial completed
Queensland practices m3architecture and Brian Hooper Architect have completed a £3 million memorial for a gum tree that played an important part in Australia’s history.
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NewsMaking the case at Copenhagen
Architects and other built environment professionals will travel to Copenhagen to urge world leaders to recognise the sector’s untapped role in tackling climate change
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NewsCouncil backs Levete's News International scheme
Tower Hamlets Council approved Amanda Levete’s redevelopment of News International’s Wapping headquarters last night.
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NewsReview panel to assess eco-town designs
Cabe has set up a review panel to provide expert advice on the quality of designs for the government’s proposed eco-towns.
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NewsCouncil backs Populous's Bristol stadium
Populous’s £90 million stadium for Bristol City Football Club has been approved by the city council despite the rejection of an associated housing project intended to help finance the scheme.
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NewsCouncil rejects Make masterplan for Southall Gasworks site
Councillors have rejected Make’s masterplan for a 33ha mixed-use scheme on the old gasworks site in Southall, west London, voting against the advice of their planning officers.
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NewsAndrew Doolan shortlist announced
Eleven projects have been shortlisted from 28 entries for British architecture’s richest prize, the Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award.
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NewsPostcards champion Manchester buildings
Some of Manchester’s most distinctive 20th-century buildings have been turned into postcards by campaigners determined to protect the city’s modern heritage
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NewsHamiltons founder retires as chairman
Tim Hamilton has retired as chairman of Hamiltons, the practice he founded in 1966.
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NewsWorks starts on grassy pavilion
Work has begun on Earle Architects’ £1 million grass-covered pavilion (pictured) in the grounds of a south London school.
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NewsLevitt Bernstein's Kilburn housing development opens
Levitt Bernstein's £19 million affordable housing development in north London was opened today by Richard McCarthy, director general for planning and housing at the Department for Communities and Local Government.
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NewsHull projects triumph in Yorkshire RIBA awards
Wright & Wright’s Hull Truck Theatre has swept the board at this year’s RIBA Yorkshire White Rose Awards, picking up three prizes.
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NewsMetropolitan Workshop and Vardaal-Lunde win Norwegian design competition
Metropolitan Workshop and Arkitektkontoret Vardaal-Lunde have won an invited competition to design a 30,000sq m conference centre, hotel and office complex in Bergen, Norway.
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NewsP&HS wins go-ahead for South Yorkshire health centres
Architect P&HS has won planning permission for two health and community centres near Barnsley in South Yorkshire.
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NewsMurphy fury after Haymarket scheme rejected
Richard Murphy has lashed out at the Scottish government for rejecting his controversial 17-storey hotel and office complex in Edinburgh.
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NewsYoung firms vie to revive derelict Rogers site
British Land asks young architects to find uses for the City’s abandoned ‘cheese grater’ tower
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NewsBFI snubs Chipperfield over film and TV centre
Stirling Prize winner told to ‘move on’ as fresh competition is proposed