All articles by Heidi Ancell
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NewsHeneghan Peng shortlisted for Manchester masterplan
Dublin-based practice Heneghan Peng is in the running against KPF, BDP and Arup Design to masterplan an 8ha site in central Manchester.
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NewsNetwork Rail supports Smithfield
The battle over London’s Smithfield Market took a new twist this week after Network Rail failed to back the City of London’s assertion that the General Market building needs to be demolished in order to replace unsafe railway tunnels below.
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NewsDelays mean Alsop pavilion at Headingley misses Ashes
A proposed £17 million cricket pavilion designed by Will Alsop for Headingley Carnegie cricket stadium in Leeds will not be ready for next year’s Ashes series following a series of delays and design changes.
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NewsAaron Betsky to curate Venice Biennale
Aaron Betsky has been appointed director of the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. Betsky, director of the Cincinnati Art Museum in the United States and former director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute of Rotterdam, will curate the festival on the theme “Architecture Beyond Building”. The eleventh international architecture exhibition will include ...
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NewsFerguson blasts KPF's "gargantuan" Smithfield plans
Former RIBA president George Ferguson has thrown his weight behind English Heritage’s objections to the redevelopment of Smithfield Market.Giving evidence on Wednesday at the public inquiry into KPF's controversial scheme, Ferguson blasted proposals to demolish the General Market building and replace it with a structure he described as “gargantuan” in ...
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NewsFoster’s fails to win round Ealing tower opponents
Foster & Partners has failed to convince English Heritage and local residents to back plans for a controversial suburban skyscraper after altering its designs.
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NewsMacCormac Jamieson Prichard reveals loss
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard operated at a loss last year following its sacking from the flagship BBC Broadcasting House project.Accounts posted with Companies House reveal the practice made a loss of £329,699 in the year to March 2007 — a drop of 130% from the previous year when it made a ...
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NewsFoster changes to proposed Ealing skyscraper fail to win over critics
Foster & Partners has failed to convince English Heritage and local residents to back plans for a controversial suburban skyscraper, despite altering its designs.It emerged this week that the practice had amended its plans for the 40-storey “penny whistle” tower in Ealing following strong criticism by the heritage body.But despite ...
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NewsEnglish Heritage accuses Smithfield opponent of "character assassination"
Quango's London director criticises questioning of public inquiry witness Eric Reynolds
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NewsArchitecture minister defends dropping of Stonehenge visitor centre
Denton Corker Marshall's £65 million proposal was "unviable" Margaret Hodge tells MPs
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NewsFlorida school board rejects McAslan’s ‘illegal’ design
RMJM usurps winning entry for Rudolph’s Riverview High School
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NewsTate extension nets 50m
The government has announced a £50 million contribution to Herzog & de Meuron’s extension at Tate Modern, which it claimed will boost Britain’s cultural offering in the run-up to the Olympics. Speaking at Tate Modern on Wednesday morning, culture secretary James Purnell said the capital funds — part of the ...
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NewsO'Donnell & Tuomey's Photographers Gallery wins planning - images
Celebrated Dublin architect O’Donnell & Tuomey has received planning permission for its new £16 million building for the Photographers Gallery in London.The six storey building, to be located in the heart of Soho off Oxford Street, will provide exhibition space, an online resource centre, education areas, a bookshop and a ...
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NewsFarrell to be Gateway design champion
£35 million scheme to improve area’s natural and urban environment
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NewsRIBA blasts Arb appeal process as ‘inadequate’
The RIBA has dismissed Arb’s proposals to let architects challenge its decisions, calling them “woefully inadequate”
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NewsRIBA blasts Arb review panel plans
Proposals by Arb to allow architects to challenge its decisions have been dismissed as “woefully inadequate” by the RIBA.Arb chief executive Alison Carr had claimed that the third party review panel would provide a check on the regulator and was evidence of Arb’s “open and transparent” approach (News 31 August).But ...
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AnalysisHas English Heritage lost its way?
As the public inquiry into the redevelopment of Smithfield market kicks off, is it time to review the adviser’s role, asks Heidi Ancell
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NewsGovernment calls for anti-terror design
The government has called on architects to help “design out” the terrorist threat to crowded places such as shopping halls and sports stadiums.A report published by security minister Admiral Lord West today identified stations, nightclubs and theatres as the building types that will need to be designed with anti-terror measures ...
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NewsAdjaye among seven shortlisted for Olympic Park’s Eton Manor site
Adjaye Associates and Stanton Williams are among seven practices shortlisted by the Olympic Development Authority for a cluster of venues in the north of the Olympic Park.Firms on the shortlist, which also includes Bennetts Associates, David Morley Architects, Opus International Consultants, S&P with Nord, and Sports Concepts, will compete to ...