All articles by Will Hurst – Page 19
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NewsAlsop pod part of new digital tour of Thames
The RIBA has unveiled a temporary pod by Will Alsop as part of a new multi-media summer exhibition in London along the River Thames.
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NewsGovernment announces £1.7bn housing boost
Housing minister John Healey today announced funding to build 11,200 new homes, which he claimed would create 20,000 jobs in the building industry.
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NewsOlympics sponsorship shuts out small firms
Appointments branded a stitch-up after 2012 ‘work in kind’ deals
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NewsPrince and SPAB – offending foreword revealed
The controversial views on restoration put forward by Prince Charles which led him to fall out with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings were today revealed.
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RIBA's choice of Stirling sponsor 'undermines UK firms'
Outcry as Chinese visualisation company Crystal is picked as a sponsor of Stirling Prize
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NewsArchitects on winning Newham bid will have to fight to stay on project
Six architects who have worked on developer Bouygues’ successful bid to regenerate east London’s Canning Town will have to fight to remain on the project.
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NewsLondon Olympics stadium design could change again
Designs for the London 2012 Olympic Stadium could be altered at the last minute amid a major change of plan for the venue in legacy mode.
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NewsFeilden Clegg Bradley’s Brighton academy goes on show
Designs by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio for a new £28 million academy in Brighton have gone on public display ahead of a planning application this summer.
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Only 13 colleges to receive cash following Learning & Skills Council fiasco
Just 13 of 180 college projects will be bailed out following the Learning & Skills Council rebuilding debacle, the organisation has announced.
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NewsAnger as Crossrail chief questions value of design
Alsop, Ritchie and MacCormac point to Jubilee Line Extension’s legacy
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NewsNew Robin Hood Gardens residents survey challenges demolition
Council and Homes & Communities Agency committed to bulldozing estate as Twentieth Century Society pledges new fight
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NewsRobin Hood Gardens exhibition will keep up pressure to save estate
The Twentieth Century Society has pledged to keep up efforts to save Robin Hood Gardens from demolition with the launch of a new exhibition at the RIBA.
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NewsArchitecture minister lays into unacceptable condition of West End theatres
Architecture minister Barbara Follett has attacked the state of London’s historic theatres
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NewsChelsea Barracks developer draws up new shortlist
Call for boycott of new competition after Rogers sacking is branded ‘undemocratic’
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Grimshaw and Atkins to design Crossrail fixtures and fittings
Atkins is to join forces with Grimshaw Architects after winning the contract to ensure standardisation of fixtures and fittings across a series of new stations planned on London’s massive Crossrail scheme.
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Schools programme a ‘tall order’ for government, say MPs
The government’s programme to redevelop England’s schools buildings has been beset by over-optimism and will struggle to deliver all schools on deadline, MPs have claimed.
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NewsRescue plan for Viñoly’s Colchester arts centre
A rescue plan to save Rafael Viñoly’s troubled Colchester visual arts centre was unveiled this week in a move that will see the project delivered up to three years late.
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News2012 media centre design changes win Cabe over
Last minute alternations to the design of the Olympic media centre have finally won Cabe’s support.
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NewsMayor’s proposals to increase London’s viewing corridors would further restrict tall buildings
Mayor of London Boris Johnson today unveiled plans to further limit tall buildings in the capital by widening protected viewing corridors and in some cases doubling them.
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NewsSimon Jenkins launches all-out attack on architects
Columnist and National Trust chairman Simon Jenkins has launched a vitriolic attack on the architectural profession claiming the debate sparked by Prince Charles in 1984 has “never died”.