Council recruits leading architect to ensure HS2 meets expectations
SOLIHULL Council has recruited a leading British architect in a bid to ensure the new HS2 line and interchange meets the borough’s high expectations. Sadie Morgan, [...]
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Architects sought as Stoke ramps up City of Culture bid
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has announced an architectural contest for two major buildings in support of a bid to become the UK’s City of Culture 2021. The authority said [...]
SimpsonHaugh wins go-ahead for another Manchester skyscraper
SimpsonHaugh and Partners has won planning permission for a regeneration scheme – including a 51-storey tower – on the former Granada studios site in Manchester. The [...]
Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery Wins 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize for The Best Building of The Year
Newport Street Gallery, the conversion of almost an entire street of listed industrial buildings in south London into a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst’s [...]
RIBA holds contest for landmark wall ‘to rival Angel of the North’
The RIBA has announced an open international design competition for a ‘dramatic and inspirational’ roadside structure to be known as The Wall of Answered Prayer The [...]
North East architect practice Gradon Architecture celebrates expansion success
Ambitious North East architect practice Gradon Architecture is celebrating a successful first year in Northern Ireland by growing its team. Gradon Architecture, based in [...]
Avery Associates proposes rival vision for pedestrianising Oxford Street
Bryan Avery of Avery Associates has proposed an alternative to Sadiq Khan’s plans to pedestrianise Oxford Street – by creating an ‘overpass’ rather than rerouting the [...]
For sale: Zaha Hadid’s 2007 Serpentine Pavilion by auction house Sotherby’s
Zaha Hadid’s sculpture – created for the 2007 Serpentine summer party – has been temporarily installed at Chatsworth House by auction house Sotherby’s The pavilion, [...]
Construction starts on the Atkins-designed masterplan to transform Rabat
Construction has started on the Wessal Bouregreg project, a visionary scheme to transform the cultural and social landscape of Morocco’s capital, Rabat. Atkins designed the [...]
Stephen Lawrence Prize shortlist is announced by RIBA
Ash Sakula and Sarah Wigglesworth have been shortlisted for this year’s Stephen Lawrence Prize. Coffey Architects, winner of BD’s YAYA award in 2012, Feilden Clegg [...]
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