All articles by Will Hurst – Page 35
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‘UK lacks overlay skills for Olympics'
Olympic bosses have questioned the profession's ability to work on £350 million worth of temporary buildings for the 2012 games.
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NewsLivingstone confirms design post
London mayor Ken Livingstone this week confirmed plans to appoint a powerful design director for the capital as part of his vision to make the city a "world leader" in architecture and urban planning.
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NewsAdams and modernists Make friends
He once described modernists as "Martians", but now neo-classicist Robert Adam appears content to work with such aliens, following an extraordinary collaboration with Make.
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Treasury: take whole life costs into account
The Treasury is to usher in a new era of high-quality public buildings by forcing government departments, local authorities and quangos to avoid the cheapest procurement option.
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NewsCabe plans hitlist for ‘crap' design
Cabe is asking the public to nominate buildings and places which should be bulldozed, amid rising frustration inside the watchdog at the "crap" standard of development in the UK.
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NewsTory vision of freedom
Gummer proposes scrapping planning restrictions and building regs to liberate design
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Bonanza of work in Wales
Architects BDP, Nightingale Associates, Aedas, Powell Dobson, HLM and Boyce Rees are in line for a bonanza of health work in Wales after making it onto a £1.7 billion framework agreement being drawn up by Welsh Health Estates.
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Adam's house fails to impress
Robert Adam has been denied planning permission for a controversial country house in a test case of new planning guidance.
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Fuksas wins Mandela project
Massimiliano Fuksas has won one of the largest-ever RIBA competitions, for a £190 million university campus for the Nelson Mandela Institute in Abuja, Nigeria.
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NewsBurdett's big-picture gamble
This year's Venice Architecture Biennale will focus on urbanism rather than buildings.
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Hadid's AF building to be two years late
Zaha Hadid's iconic building for the Architecture Foundation in Southwark, London, will open at least two years late, the foundation admitted this week.
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Biennale cash crisis
Arts Council cuts London Biennale funding amid claims it overshadows Architecture Week
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Design fears as Scotland adopts the Lift system
Scotland is to see its own version of the controversial Lift healthcare procurement system, raising fears over a rise in "generic" design in the sector.
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NewsOlympic design squeeze
Delivery authority indicates that design-and-build will be adopted for stadiums and budgets will be cut
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Arb clash over job advert
Architects elected to the Arb board have clashed with chairman Humphrey Lloyd over the process of appointing a new £100,000-a-year chief executive.
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Rising fees ‘put quality at risk'
The presidents of the RIBA and the RIAS expressed concern this week after architects claimed rocketing contractors' fees were putting design quality at risk.
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Keppie anger as school axes acclaimed courses
Scottish architectural giant Keppie Design has condemned a leading architecture school after it scrapped two acclaimed courses.