All articles by Elizabeth Hopkirk – Page 266
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NewsRIBA guide under fire for omitting fee graphs
The RIBA has been forced to defend its latest A Client’s Guide to Engaging an Architect after several members criticised its decision to remove fee charts
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NewsAnonymous Swedish competition draws big names
Caruso St John, BIG and Tadao Anso are among five architectural teams invited to enter a competition to design a new crematorium at Stockholm’s famous Woodland Cemetery.
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NewsThree on shortlist to revitalise Hammersmith's public square
Gillespies, Burns & Nice and Scape Design Associates have all submitted designs for a competition to create a new £1 million public square in a run-down part of west London.
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NewsWorks by Foster, Rogers and Hadid to be auctioned for charity
Works by top architects are to go under the hammer to raise money for built environment charity Article 25, which designs and builds schools, health centres and homes for some of the poorest people on earth.
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NewsStudents invited to participate in 2010 London Festival of Architecture
The brief for the International Architecture Student Festival 2010 has been announced by the London Festival of Architecture.
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Olympic delivery chiefs grilled over 'City banker' salaries
Olympic delivery chiefs have been forced to defend their “City banker” salaries and bonuses during a grilling by the London Assembly.
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RIBA removes percentage fee graph from Client’s Guide
The RIBA has written to members to explain why it has removed the percentage fee graph from the 2010 version of the Client’s Guide to Engaging an Architect.
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NewsBenn to address architects on climate change
Environment Secretary Hilary Benn is to give a speech on climate change at the RIBA next Wednesday, October 28.
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NewsTwo left in the running for Burgess Park redesign
LDA Design and Gillespies are competing for a £6 million competition to redesign a major park in south London.
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NewsJohn Thompson scores £700million Aberdeen masterplan
John Thompson & Partners have been commissioned to come up with a detailed masterplan for a 1,500-acre development in Aberdeen.
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NewsNouvel attends topping out of One New Change
Jean Nouvel has made a flying visit to the UK to attend the topping-out ceremony of One New Change, his 52,000sq m office and retail development beside St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
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NewsPublic prefers traditional architecture, suggests poll
The RIBA-affiliated Traditional Architecture Group has rallied to support Robert Adam after he launched a broadside against the Stirling Prize for favouring modernist buildings
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NewsTreasury agrees to fund Tate Modern, British Museum and BFI buildings
Tate Modern, the British Museum and the BFI are to get their extensions after all, the government will announce today.
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Job prospects still in doubt despite increase predictions
The spectre of job losses continues to hang over the profession despite practices predicting an increase in private housing and commercial work, the latest RIBA Future Trends survey shows.
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NewsReed vows to fight for students and women
RIBA president speaks out over inequalities of the recession
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Norman Foster establishes Yale professorship in his name
FOA's Zaera-Polo to be the first Norman R Foster visiting professor at the American university
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NewsLondon tower blocks at ‘high risk’ of fire
More than 100 social housing tower blocks in London are at even greater risk of fire ripping through them than Lakanal House in Camberwell, where six people died in July.
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Follett steps down from parliament
Former architecture minister Barbara Follett is stepping down as an MP.