All Practices a-d articles – Page 5
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Technical
Environmental Resource Centre, Ebbw Vale, Wales
A site that was once Europe’s largest steelworks is reclaimed by nature in Design Research Unit Wales’s innovative scheme.
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News
Archial and Woods Bagot both appoint joint MDs
Two major architectural practices, Archial and Woods Bagot, have rejigged their management teams and appointed joint managing directors
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Inspirations
Michál Cohen’s inspiration: Hellerup School
Michál Cohen of Walters & Cohen Architects explains why this Copenhagen school, built only eight years ago, transformed her notions of what a school could be like, and tells how she has fared trying to introduce its ideas to British clients
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Building Study
Waterloo Place charette
As part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture, five practices were invited to devise ideas for Waterloo Place. Here are the results.
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Technical
Twilly Springs house by Diamond Architects
A new-build green oak frame joins an original 17th century elm timber rafters to create a contemporary house with historic roots
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News
AHMM disputes breach claim
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has said it will “vigorously defend” a legal claim made by Wickham van Eyck that it breached a joint venture agreement the pair struck in order to bid for a job at Amsterdam University.
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News
Guide Dogs halt legal challenge against Exhibition Road scheme
The legal challenge against Dixon Jones’ £25 million Exhibition Road scheme has been “put on ice”.
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Building Study
Chiswick House café by Caruso St John
The initial formality of Caruso St John’s café for the newly restored gardens of Chiswick House soon gives way to something more complex and mysterious
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News
Conran’s to work for free in bid to save Saltdean lido
Conran & Partners has thrown its weight behind a community campaign to save one of the finest lidos in the country from the “wrecking ball”
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News
AOC’s red-brick school extension
AOC has won planning permission for a 734sq m extension and refurbishment of a secondary school for students with autistic spectrum disorders in south London
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News
Chipperfield takes heritage prize
David Chipperfield Architects’ Neues Museum has been awarded the Grand Prix of the European Heritage Awards 2010.
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News
DRMM puts a fresh stamp on Oxford’s exhibition space
DRMM’s trademark cross-laminated timber panels have transformed an old loading yard into a new 155sq m exhibition and entrance space for Modern Art Oxford
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Technical
Allies & Morrison’s St Andrew’s masterplan
Bricks take centre stage at the £130 million St Andrew’s scheme in east London
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News
Six shortlisted to reclad St Thomas' Hospital tower
AHMM, Grimshaw and Hopkins are among six teams shortlisted for a second RIBA competition for Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
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News
Stirling judging panel announced
The judges for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize have been announced
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Archive Titles
Spending cuts put culture projects in jeopardy
If “there’s no money left” in the Treasury coffers will anyone in the new government stand up to defend the Tate Modern extension or the Stonehenge Visitors Centre just two of the projects that rely heavily on public funding but whose future could be at risk under tough new austerity ...
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News
Aukett says losses less severe than expected
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson has said that first half losses will be better than expected.
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News
Scottish Enterprise insists on an 'international winner'
The RIAS has accused the public backers of a controversial Aberdeen scheme of freezing out Scottish design talent.
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Review
Buschow Henley on urban housing
Simon Henley and Ken Rorrison of Buschow Henley discuss two London housing schemes that embrace Arcadian landscape in unlikely urban settings
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News
Broadway Malyan £100m Edinburgh flats scheme rejected
Edinburgh Council has refused Broadway Malyan’s £100 million scheme to build over 700 flats on a brownfield site in the city.