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Amin Taha and Block selected in 'global 40 Under 40'
5-Oct-2007AJ 40 Under 40 startlets Amin Taha Architects and Block Architecture are the only British practices to be named in Spanish architecture magazine Scalae's
Zaha completes the circle on Madrid's campus of justice
4-Oct-2007Zaha Hadid has joined the list of big-name British architects working on Madrid's Campus of Justice after winning the contest to design the new Civil Courts building at the centre of the scheme.
Ready, set, go for Olympic Park as plans win the green light
2-Oct-2007The blueprint for the new 2012 Olympic Park cleared its final hurdle after two huge planning applications were given the thumbs up by London's top brass yesterday (1 October).
Rumours of Leach Rhodes Walker sale are kiboshed
1-Oct-2007Deeply troubled property company Erinaceous Group has denied it intends to sell off architectural arm Leach Rhodes Walker (LRW), despite rumours of a break-up.
Ex-BP chief Lord Browne joins Foster + Partners
28-Sep-2007Foster + Partners has claimed it has pulled off a 'real coup'
Foster unveils extension to the Nou Camp - Europe's largest stadium
24-Sep-2007These are the first images of Foster & Partners' proposed revamp and extension of Barcelona FC's world-famous Nou Camp stadium.
Relief as Parry's Holburne Museum extension is given more time to secure planning
24-Sep-2007Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) chiefs have given Eric Parry a major boost by allowing the architect more time to push his controversial Holburne Museum extension through planning.
Foster to overhaul Barcelona's famed football arena
21-Sep-2007Norman Foster is to get his hands on yet another world-famous stadium revamp after it emerged his practice has been appointed to overhaul FC Barcelona's massive Nou Camp arena.
Sheppard Robson reaches final two in China
21-Sep-2007No, it's not Rem Koolhaas - this is Sheppard Robson's shortlisted proposal for a 550,000m2 mixed-use development in Hangzhou, China.
Government urged to adopt Building for Life critieria
20-Sep-2007CABE is urging the government to 'embed' the 20 Building for Life criteria within the planning system to stop new housing developments becoming the 'slums of tomorrow'.
... And sues over unpaid fees on Egypt scheme
20-Sep-2007Foster & Partners is heading for a High Court showdown in a row over unpaid fees on a £1 billion development in Egypt.
Masterplanner EDAW makes shock move into architecture
19-Sep-2007International masterplanner EDAW has made a shock move into architecture after taking on two leading architects from Arup.
English Partnerships launches new and improved urban-design manual
19-Sep-2007English Partnerships (EP) has launched its updated urban-design manual, outlining what it regards as the 'key strategies for creating quality places'.
Sarkozy looks to Foster, Rogers and Hadid as he aims to reignite France's architectural scene
18-Sep-2007British starchitects Norman Foster, Richard Rogers and Zaha Hadid have been in talks with French president Nicolas Sarkozy about the revival of Paris' famed 'Grand Projets'.
Prasad demands clarity as Lib Dems unveil zero-carbon targets
18-Sep-2007Newly installed RIBA president Sunand Prasad has urged the Liberal Democrats to back-up their ambitious zero-carbon targets with 'realistic' cost plans.
Cartwright Pickard scoops one of three Living Steel prizes
17-Sep-2007Cartwright Pickard Architects (CPA) has scooped one of the three top prizes in this year's Living Steel International Architecture Competitions - the global contest aimed at inspiring 'innovative' new sustainable housing using steel.
Parry gets over Bath disappointment with Wells school win
17-Sep-2007Eric Parry Architects (EPA) has won the competition to design a new music school for Wells Cathedral School in the centre of Wells, Somerset.
Cooper promises cash incentive for councils who speed up housebuilding
14-Sep-2007A £500 million carrot to encourage councils to speed up housebuilding has been announced by housing minister Yvette Cooper.
Hazel Blears steps in to approve Holder Mathias' Center Parcs scheme
14-Sep-2007Holder Mathias' controversial proposals to build a new Center Parcs village on a green belt site in Bedfordshire have been approved by communities minister Hazel Blears.
Austin-Smith:Lord wins thumbs-up for Manchester tower
14-Sep-2007Austin-Smith:Lord (ASL) has been given the go-ahead for its redesigned high-rise scheme in Store Street, Manchester.
Pringle Richards Sharratt secures cash for Hull History Centre
13-Sep-2007Pringle Richards Sharratt (PRS) will finally be able to start on start with its competition-winning Hull History Centre after landing a £7.7 million handout from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Heneghan Peng's Giant's Causeway visitor centre hits the rocks
13-Sep-2007Heneghan Peng's much-anticipated Giant's Causeway visitor centre has been unexpectedly shelved after the Northern Irish government pulled its funding.
Bill Dunster reveals plans for the UK's largest eco-complex
12-Sep-2007ZEDfactory's Bill Dunster has unveiled plans for a huge, low-carbon apartment block in Wolverhampton, hailed as the largest eco-complex in the country.
Conran usurps Cooper Cromar on Scotland's tallest tower
12-Sep-2007Conran & Partners has been brought into replace Scottish firm Cooper Cromar on the stalled £120 million project to build Scotland's tallest tower.
Glenn Howells' Lime Street tower dropped due to spiralling costs
10-Sep-2007Glenn Howells' 27-storey tower at the gateway to Liverpool's Lime Street station has been ditched due to spiralling costs.
Make is quick to win approval for central London's Middlesex Hospital
10-Sep-2007Ken Shuttleworth's practice Make has won the go-ahead for this ambitious £1 billion overhaul of the former Middlesex Hospital in Fitzrovia, central London, in double quick time.
Birmingham Pathfinder scheme slammed for the second time by CABE
7-Sep-2007A Pathfinder scheme in Birmingham has been slated for the second time by CABE - more than two years after the design watchdog first raised concerns about the project.
Major retrospective on Basil Spence to open in Edinburgh
7-Sep-2007The first major exhibition to cover the entire career of Modernist architect Basil Spence will open its doors to the public next month.
Jestico & Whiles to design Middlehaven's zero-carbon hotel
6-Sep-2007Jestico & Whiles has won the competition to design the flagship, zero-carbon hotel at the heart of the Alsop/Studio Egret West Middlehaven masterplan (pictured).
Atkins' North Liverpool Academy gets under way
6-Sep-2007Work has started on Atkins' new North Liverpool Academy, on the edge of Everton Park.
Hanif Kara among trio of new CABE commissioners
5-Sep-2007Engineer to the stars Hanif Kara (pictured) has been named as one of the three new CABE commissioners unveiled today.
'Ground control to Norman' - Foster's Spaceport designs unveiled
5-Sep-2007Foster & Partners has finally released images of the world's first Spaceport in New Mexico, USA.
Design Engine wins green light for listed-building revamp in Bath
4-Sep-2007Design Engine has succeeded where many others have failed in Bath after winning listed-building consent to revamp engineer Buro Happold's Camden Mill offices.
Plymouth City Council granted an extra month to challenge Civic Centre listing
4-Sep-2007Plymouth City Council has been given an extra month by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) to decide whether to contest the controversial listing of the authority-owned Civic Centre.
Cullinan gets to work in Edinburgh botanic garden
3-Sep-2007Edward Cullinan Architects has started on site with its competition-winning visitor centre scheme for the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh - four years after it first landed the prestigious project.
Plans afoot to build vast pyramid next to Bauhaus
3-Sep-2007The home of Bauhaus - one of the most important sites in Modernist architecture - is gearing up to welcome an unusual monument to the ancients next door.
Sheffield footbridge comp launched
31-Aug-2007A competition has been launched to design a new footbridge over Sheffield's busy Parkway dual carriageway.
Hakes unveils Media Wall for Liverpool, Capital of Culture
31-Aug-2007Hakes Associates has unveiled plans to build Europe's largest media screen wall around Liverpool city centre's down-at-heel St John's and Clayton Square shopping centres.
Olympic Handball Arena shortlist unveiled
30-Aug-2007Seven teams will battle it out to design the London 2012 Olympic Games' Handball Arena, one of the final permanent venues on the Olympic Park.
Austin-Smith:Lord gets to work on Yorkshire warehouse
30-Aug-2007Construction has started on Austin-Smith:Lord's (ASL's) ambitious £15 million revamp of the long-abandoned Grade-II St George's Warehouse opposite Huddersfield train station.
Buschow Henley takes off with airfield hotel
30-Aug-2007London-based practice Buschow Henley has won the competition to design a new hotel, complete with its own control tower, at a private airfield in North Yorkshire.
Urbed bags Leicester regeneration project, ahead of international competition
29-Aug-2007Manchester-based masterplanner Urbed has seen off some of the world's leading urban designers to land a key regeneration project in Leicester.
Rate changes leading to 'tear down rather than pay up' trend
29-Aug-2007New rate changes aimed at encouraging the reuse of empty industrial buildings are leading to a growing number of historic factories simply being demolished.
YRM confirmed as masterplanner behind 'leaked' Heathrow proposals
28-Aug-2007YRM has confirmed that it was the masterplanner behind proposals for Heathrow airport published recently in a tabloid newspaper, which included a new sixth terminal to service a third runway.
Five finalists fight it out to modernise Victorian houses in Bradford
24-Aug-2007The five finalists in the RIBA-organised contest to mastermind the modernisation of two Victorian houses in Manningham, Bradford, have been revealed.
Local firm DKS unveils marketing suite designed for Middlesbrough gateway
24-Aug-2007These are the first images of the competition-winning scheme for the new marketing suite at the gateway to the massive £200 million Middlehaven development in Middlesbrough.
Ireland-to-Scotland bridge plan floated
23-Aug-2007Proposals to build an enormous 33km bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland have been mooted by an Irish policy think tank.
Carey Jones rejected in Barnet
23-Aug-2007Barnet Council has rejected Carey Jones' mixed-use Cricklewood Gate development in north London, claiming the proposed scheme did not integrate with the massive forthcoming regeneration in the area.
Markland plans eco-terraces for grounds of Georgian house
22-Aug-2007Markland Klaschka has submitted plans for this project to build eight eco-friendly homes in the grounds of a Georgian house in Wandsworth, south London.
Broadway Malyan to complete Greenwich Millennium Village masterplan
22-Aug-2007Broadway Malyan has been appointed to complete the final phases of Ralph Erskine's masterplan for the Greenwich Millennium Village.
Central London's Victoria Transport Interchange submitted for planning
22-Aug-2007The much-anticipated Victoria Transport Interchange project in central London, featuring towers designed by Wilkinson Eyre and schemes by Lynch Architects, Allies and Morrison and Benson & Forsyth, has been submitted for planning.
Green light for pared-back Bradford Channel
21-Aug-2007Robinson Design Group's scaled-back and long-awaited Bradford 'Channel' development has cleared its final hurdle after the Government Office for Yorkshire and Humber gave the £350 million canalside development the thumbs up.
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands' church conversion plans put on ice due to cash freeze
21-Aug-2007Lifschutz Davidson Sandliands' (LDS') plans to convert and partially replace the Grade II-listed St George's Presbyterian church in Southwark, south London, have been postponed indefinitely due to a cash crisis.
P&HS Architects plays 'spot the difference' for Yorkshire showground
20-Aug-2007Yorkshire-based practice P&HS Architects has resubmitted almost identical plans to a previously rejected scheme for a £10 million centre of agricultural excellence on Harrogate's Great Yorkshire Showground.
Hodder's Cumbria pool faces wrecking ball as no new owner comes forward
20-Aug-2007The future of Hodder Associates' Berners Pool in Cumbria has been cast into serious doubt after the council admitted there have been no suitable bids to take over the building.
Abuja High Commission office under way at last
20-Aug-2007The troubled project to design a new British High Commission office in the Nigerian capital of Abuja is back on track - just months after the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) was told there was no cash to fund the scheme.
CZWG tightens its grip on Vaux Brewery site
9-Aug-2007CZWG's grip on the hotly disputed Vaux Brewery site in Sunderland is looking increasingly firm after a second government inspector found against a rival bid for the plot by supermarket giant Tesco.
Urban Splash seeks architect to overhaul Weston-super-Mare pier
9-Aug-2007Urban Splash has launched an unusual international competition to find an architect to mastermind the transformation of a Victorian pier in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.
Future plans for Commonwealth Institute take shape
8-Aug-2007Kensington and Chelsea Council has thrown its weight behind a conservation-led approach to the proposed overhaul of Holland Park's Commonwealth Institute - allaying any lingering fears the Grade-II* building could be demolished.
London Fire Brigade HQ to be transformed by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
8-Aug-2007Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands (LDS) has landed the prize project to redevelop the London Fire Brigade's headquarters building on Albert Embankment, south of the River Thames into a mixed-use development.
Hamiltons Architects behind 'opulent' new home in Kensington
7-Aug-2007The AJ can reveal that Hamiltons Architects are the brains behind the headline-grabbing plans by a city tycoon to convert a former four-star hotel in Kensington into an 'opulent' new home.
Rogers Stirk Harbour bags London medical centre
7-Aug-2007Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners (RSHP) has been appointed to design a new medical centre in White City, west London.
Glasgow residents battle Keppie plans to demolish garage
6-Aug-2007Keppie Design is facing a battle against local campaigners, and potentially Historic Scotland, over its plans to demolish and replace an historic Grade-B listed garage building in Glasgow's West End.
International stars and young British pretenders fight it out in Preston
6-Aug-2007Practices from New York, Hamburg and Rotterdam have been shortlisted alongside a brace of the UK's hottest up-and-coming firms in the RIBA-organised competition to design a new office block in Preston.
Carey Jones is on song with Sheffield Soundhouse
3-Aug-2007Carey Jones has been given the thumbs up for this music practice and studio facility, called the Soundhouse, for students at the University of Sheffield.
Pathfinder recruits Ian Simpson
3-Aug-2007Ian Simpson, best known for his massive glass skyscrapers, has been brought into to help oversee a contentious Pathfinder project in Greater Manchester.
Foster's Spaceport plans finally take off
2-Aug-2007Norman Foster's dream of building the world's first commercial Spaceport finally looks to have come true.
Carmody Groarke bags Sheffield Festival Centre
2-Aug-2007Carmody Groarke has won the competition to design Sheffield's new Festival Centre.
Government rejects 3DReid's 'alien' pumping station
1-Aug-2007The Secretary of State has put the kibosh on 3DReid's £200 million proposed water-treatment plant for Brighton and Hove, branding the scheme 'alien' and incongruous with the landscape.
99-year-old Niemeyer asked to design new capital for Angola
1-Aug-2007Modernist legend Oscar Niemeyer has been asked to a new capital city in Africa, repeating his feat of masterplanning the Brazilian capital of Brasília.
New twist for Le Corbusier's Chandigarh masterwork
31-Jul-2007Le Corbusier's unrealised Governor's Palace, the missing link in his masterplan for Chandigarh, India, finally looks set to be built - but not as originally intended.
Rocket test pad explosion leaves Foster hanging in the balance over Spaceport designs
30-Jul-2007The unveiling of the winning design in the international contest to design the world's first Spaceport has been indefinitely postponed after a fatal rocket test pad explosion in California last Thursday (26 July).
Farrell kept waiting in Founder's Place public inquiry
30-Jul-2007The outcome of the public inquiry into Terry Farrell's rejected Founder's Place scheme for Guy's and St Thomas' in south London has been put back because of its possible impact on key London views.
Shed KM submits 'digital village' plans for Liverpool's Littlewoods Pools
30-Jul-2007Shed KM has submitted plans to transform the former Littlewoods Pools building in Liverpool into a new 'digital village'.
Broadway Malyan shortlisted for Liverpool tall tower
27-Jul-2007Broadway Malyan has been named as one of four practices shortlisted to design a new 60-storey tower on an island in Liverpool's Princes Half Tide Dock.
Architect sought for new Manchester Airport air-traffic control tower
27-Jul-2007A competition has been launched to find an architect to design the new air-traffic control (ATC) tower at Manchester Airport.
Eric Parry's rejection in Bath could mean curtains for Holburne Museum
26-Jul-2007The wheels have come off Eric Parry Architects' controversial plans to extend Bath's Grade I-listed Holburne Museum of Art after the local council's planning committee unexpectedly voted against the scheme.
Simpson wins the go-ahead for Blackfriars skyscraper
26-Jul-2007Ian Simpson has finally won the green light for his contentious One Blackfriars tower, south of the River Thames - after the scheme spent years on the drawing board.
Parry's Bath museum extension looks set for approval despite opposition
25-Jul-2007Eric Parry Architects' controversial extension to Bath's Grade I-listed Holburne Museum of Art looks set to be given the thumbs-up by the narrowest of margins.
... While the practice's Royal Military Academy overhaul continues run of good luck
25-Jul-2007John McAslan & Partners has won the green light for its £35 million overhaul of the historic Royal Military Academy in Woolwich, south-east London.
Bartlett student scoops 3DReid student award
25-Jul-2007Bartlett starlet Sara Shafiei has won 3DReid's student prize, beating 'Best of Show' projects from seven other architecture schools.
Stride Treglown to add to Letchworth Garden City
20-Jul-2007Bristol-based Stride Treglown has won the international competition to design a new swathe of housing in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire.
RIBA looks to extend course validation worldwide
20-Jul-2007The RIBA is in talks with the International Union of Architects (UIA) over plans to validate every architecture course in the world.
Industrial photographer Bernd Becher dies, aged 75
19-Jul-2007Bernd Becher, the renowned photographer of industrial architecture, has died aged 75.
Zaha forced to improve sustainability of Olympic Aquatics Centre
19-Jul-2007Zaha Hadid has been forced to come up with alternative proposals for the roof of her controversial London 2012 Aquatics Centre, in a bid to ease fears over the scheme's sustainability.
Progress at last for Benson & Forsyth's Swansea art gallery overhaul
18-Jul-2007Benson & Forsyth is finally on the verge of submitting plans to redevelop the famous Glynn Vivian art gallery in Swansea.
Robert Adam goes on the attack as 'style police' council looks set to reject his Basingstoke tower
17-Jul-2007Robert Adam has likened the Basingstoke Council to 'style police' over its handling of the practice's traditional-looking skyscraper proposals in the town.
Atkins denies that troubled Metronet will prove costly
17-Jul-2007Global giant Atkins has denied that the financial turmoil surrounding engineering group Metronet will have any impact on its architectural arm - the UK's fourth largest practice.
Failing secondary schools down to design, says study
16-Jul-2007A new study has pointed the finger at architects for failing secondary schools - not teachers.
Livingstone unveils London View Management Framework
16-Jul-2007London Mayor Ken Livingstone has unveiled his latest measure to help protect views of the capital's most famous landmarks.
Pressure mounts to overturn Plymouth Civic Centre listing
13-Jul-2007Pressure is mounting on the government and English Heritage (EH) to overturn its contentious decision to list Plymouth's 1961 Civic Centre.
Zaha makes shortlist for US art museum
13-Jul-2007Zaha Hadid is the only UK-based architect named on a stellar shortlist battling it out to design a new art museum for the Michigan State University (MSU).
Leach Rhodes Walker aims high with Liverpool's tallest tower
12-Jul-2007Leach Rhodes Walker (LRW) has unveiled plans to build the tallest tower in Liverpool.
Gaggle of starchitects vie for Sheffield New Retail Quarter
12-Jul-2007Developer Hammerson has unveiled an all-star cast of architects, including Foreign Office Architects and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, to work on its New Retail Quarter (NRQ) in Sheffield.
Zaha's Serpentine Pavilion unveiled
11-Jul-2007These are the first photographs of Zaha Hadid's stand-in Serpentine Gallery pavilion, which opens for an exclusive fundraising event tonight.
Tories table early day motion in bid to save Architecture Week
11-Jul-2007MPs have tabled an early day motion (EDM) in a bid to save Architecture Week, following the Arts Council's decision to pull its funding for next year's event.
First look at reborn Les Halles
10-Jul-2007The first images of the long-awaited overhaul of Paris's much-maligned underground shopping centre, Les Halles, have been released to the AJ.
Space Solutions eyes further growth after buyout
10-Jul-2007Burgeoning Scottish practice Space Solutions has decided to go it alone after completing a management buyout from parent company the Chess Group.
Detailed plans submitted for Urban Splash's Park Hill revamp
9-Jul-2007Urban Splash has submitted detailed plans for its proposed revamp of the Brutalist 1960s Park Hill housing estate in Sheffield.
McAslan launches Canterbury regeneration scheme
9-Jul-2007John McAslan & Partners has unveiled its proposals to redevelop the rundown 10ha Wincheap estate on the edge of Canterbury, Kent.
Danes win permission for replacement for over-budget Rogers Glasgow bridge
6-Jul-2007Danish firm Dissing & Weitling has finally been awarded planning permission for its bridge over the River Clyde in Glasgow - a replacement for Richard Rogers' over-budget U-shaped proposals - ditched early last year.
Hopkins' Hostry gets go-ahead at Norwich Cathedral
6-Jul-2007Hopkins Architects has been given the green light for its second major scheme at Norwich Cathedral - a new education, exhibition and choir-school building.
Allies and Morrison's Diane Haigh takes over CABE role
5-Jul-2007Allies and Morrison director Diane Haigh has been appointed to take over from Selina Mason as CABE's director of architecture and design review.
Squire tower 'too tall' for Old Street
5-Jul-2007A 39-storey skyscraper by Squire and Partners on the edge of the City of London has been rejected by planners for being too tall.
Cumbrian castle to put on a performance
5-Jul-2007An international search is under way to find an architect to design a new movable stage and performance space to sit within the ruins of Egremont Castle in Cumbria.
Architecture Week scrapped after Arts Council pulls funding
5-Jul-2007Next year's Architecture Week has been cancelled after the Arts Council withdrew its quarter of a million pound funding for the national architectural festival.
KSS finally wins green light for Greenwich housing development
4-Jul-2007KSS Design Group has finally been given the go-ahead for this £25 million residential-led scheme within the Greenwich Maritime World Heritage site - at the third time of asking.
Sprunt scoops new playground for Urban Splash
4-Jul-2007London-based practice Sprunt has won the competition to design a new playground in Altrincham's John Leigh Park for developer Urban Splash.
Bond Bryan's victorious Newcastle University plan wins green light
3-Jul-2007Bond Bryan's competition-winning proposals for a new 8,000m2 student and administration building for Newcastle University have been given the thumbs-up by the city council.
Prescott ignored advisers to approve Broadway Malyan skyscraper
2-Jul-2007Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott ignored his own advisers when he controversially approved Broadway Malyan's Vauxhall Tower, it has emerged.
Foster aims to join fellow starchitects on Abu Dhabi's 'culture island'
2-Jul-2007Foster & Partners could be about to join the growing Who's Who of architecture working on the Saadiyat Island cultural district in Abu Dhabi.
RIBA calls for annual housebuilding target to jump 50 per cent
2-Jul-2007The RIBA is planning an attack on government housing targets by calling for at least 50 per cent more homes to be built every year.
Purcell Miller Tritton buys South West-based Niall Phillips Architects
29-Jun-2007Following a two-year courtship, Purcell Miller Tritton has acquired South West-based practice Niall Phillips Architects for an undisclosed sum.
Penoyre & Prasad in the running for new Bath University arts complex
29-Jun-2007Penoyre & Prasad - practice of the RIBA's president elect, Sunand Prasad - has been named on the shortlist in the competition to design the University of Bath's new arts complex at its Claverton Down campus.
Future Systems' Prague library likened to 'outer-space computer speaker'
29-Jun-2007A hi-fi speaker company has pointed out the remarkable similarity of Future Systems' controversial Prague library scheme to one of its products.
Chippo unveils redesigned Berlin Museum Island scheme
28-Jun-2007David Chipperfield has revealed its redesigned proposals for a new entrance and gallery building on Berlin's Museum Island.
Furore over 'baffling' Plymouth listing
28-Jun-2007A bitter spat has broken out in Plymouth between the local council and English Heritage (EH) over the 'baffling' decision to list the city's 1961 Civic Centre.
Austin-Smith:Lord aims higher with redesigned Manchester skyscraper
27-Jun-2007Austin-Smith:Lord (ASL) has released images of its redesigned - and five storeys taller - high-rise scheme in Store Street, Manchester.
Selfridges denies that Ito's flagship Glasgow store has been resurrected
26-Jun-2007Selfridges has denied it is finally pressing ahead with long-forgotten plans to build a new store in Glasgow designed by Toyo Ito - which would be the Japanese star's first building in the UK.
Third time unlucky for Arca as CABE attacks Salford scheme
26-Jun-2007Arca has achieved an unwelcome hat-trick after CABE condemned the practice's high-rise scheme in Salford's Exchange Greengate area for a third time.
RIAS chief executive resigns from her post
25-Jun-2007The chief executive of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), Mary Wrenn, is to step down due to 'personal reasons'.
Liverpool Council to investigate contentious Pathfinder scheme
22-Jun-2007Further cracks appear to be opening in the Government's controversial Pathfinder housing initiative, after it emerged Liverpool City Council was to launch its own inquiry into the programme.
TP Bennett wins planning battle over Mitcham development
21-Jun-2007TP Bennett has won its battle with south London's Merton Council over its plans to build a new £50 million mixed-use development on the soon-to-be demolished Windmill Trading Estate, Mitcham.
MBLA unveils 'sustainable' east Manchester housing scheme
21-Jun-2007MBLA has released the first image of a new 400-home scheme overlooking the Ashton Canal in Clayton, east Manchester.
Nouvel beats Chippo in Spanish harbour competition -
20-Jun-2007Jean Nouvel has pipped David Chipperfield in the competition to redesign Vigo harbour in north-west Spain.
RMJM strides back onto scene with giant US merger
19-Jun-2007Scottish giant RMJM has merged with Hillier, one of America's largest practices, to create a new global architectural behemoth.
Winner announced for King's Cross youth centre comp
19-Jun-2007Former Caruso St John associate Adam Khan has won the high-profile competition to redesign the New Horizon Youth Centre in King's Cross, London.
First look at Chipperfield's Margate gallery
19-Jun-2007David Chipperfield Architects has released the first images of the replacement for Snøhetta and Spence Associates' doomed Turner Contemporary art gallery in Margate.
Peter Cook receives knighthood
18-Jun-2007Archigram founder, architect and teacher Peter Cook (photographed here in 1986) has been unexpectedly knighted alongside cricketer Ian Botham and controversial author Salman Rushdie.
Jowell defies English Heritage to save Lonsdale Cinema
18-Jun-2007Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has saved Carlisle's Lonsdale Cinema from demolition by controversially listing the Art Deco 1930s building.
Practices struggle with 'convoluted' ODA competition notices
13-Jun-2007The Olympic Delivery Authority's (ODA) design contest notices are so 'convoluted, incomprehensible and obscure' that the majority of architects have been put off entering.
Preston's bus station wins reprieve from the wrecking ball
8-Jun-2007The ongoing saga surrounding Preston's doomed Brutalist 1970s bus station has taken yet another twist after it emerged the building has been given a six-year reprieve.
Reid and 3D announce merger
8-Jun-2007Architectural heavyweight Reid Architecture is to merge with fellow big hitter 3D Architects, it has been revealed today.
New competition to transform infamous Belfast prison
7-Jun-2007A contest has been launched to find an architect-led team to design a new International Centre for Conflict Transformation (ICCT) at the infamous former Maze/Long Kesh prison in Belfast.
Urban Splash finally reveals New Islington footbridge victor
7-Jun-2007Urban Splash has finally named Gollifer Langston Architects as the winner of its New Islington footbridge competition.
Foster's Spaceport dream begins to take off
6-Jun-2007Norman Foster's dreams of designing the world's first Spaceport in New Mexico, USA are still alive after it was revealed that his practice is one of three teams shortlisted to take the scheme forward.
Parry's museum extension plan causes heated battle in Bath
5-Jun-2007Eric Parry Architects has become embroiled in a firestorm over its controversial plans to build an extension to Bath's Grade I-listed Holburne Museum.
Architect wanted for memorial to commemorate 7 July bomb victims - image
5-Jun-2007A call has been put out to find an architect to design a memorial for the victims of the 7 July London bomb blasts.
Edaw and Studio Egret West design entire 'urban quarter' for Manchester
4-Jun-2007Edaw and Studio Egret West's massive Holt Town Waterfront development on the edge of Manchester city centre has been submitted for planning.
Liverpool University seeks architectural horse-whisperers
4-Jun-2007The University of Liverpool has launched an unusual competition to find an architect to design a new horse-related research and performance facility - including an equine colic centre.
Simpson backs Brunswick heir
31-May-2007Studio Egret West (SEW) has landed the project to design a replacement for Ian Simpson's doomed Brunswick Quay skyscraper scheme in Liverpool.
Second-time-lucky for Carey Jones and Make in Wandsworth
29-May-2007Carey Jones and Make have been given the go-ahead - at the second attempt - for their controversial Riverside Quarter scheme in Wandsworth.
Local practices in competition to overhaul Sheffield Festival Centre
29-May-2007A gaggle of local practices has been shortlisted in the RIBA competition to redesign and extend the Sheffield Festival Centre.
Contest launched to revamp Aberdeen's Marischal College - image
29-May-2007A competition has been launched to find an architect-led team to overhaul Aberdeen's Grade A-listed Marischal College - Britain's largest granite building.
Sandy Wilson's Pallant House extension scoops Gulbenkian Prize
25-May-2007Sandy Wilson's last major project, Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, has won the £100,000 Gulbenkian prize just a week or so after his death.
English Heritage finally names new chairman
25-May-2007After months of delays and uncertainty English Heritage has finally unveiled Sandy Bruce-Lockhart as its new chairman.
Foster reveals high-end Spanish winery - images
24-May-2007Foster & Partners has unveiled these images of its first ever winery - the Faustino Winery in the wine-making region of Ribera del Duero, 150km north of Madrid.
Carey Jones to build big in Bolton
23-May-2007Carey Jones has bagged itself a massive £200 million mixed-use project in Bolton.
Cambridgeshire Modernist library to be razed - images
23-May-2007CPMG has been granted the go-ahead to knock down and replace Huntingdon Library, Cambridgeshire - described by angry objectors to the scheme as the town's 'best piece of Modernism'.
Carey Jones' Liverpool development wins green light despite CABE objections
22-May-2007Carey Jones has been given the go-ahead for its controversial redevelopment of the former International Garden Festival site in Liverpool, despite CABE's claims that the scheme was 'flawed' and 'unacceptable'.
Restoration work's timber supports 'saved the Cutty Sark'
21-May-2007The Cutty Sark has been saved from catastrophic damage in a raging blaze thanks to its timber supports, the architect behind the restoration project has claimed.
Bennetts finally wins green light for City office scheme
21-May-2007Bennetts Associates has won the go-ahead for its redesigned 64-74 Mark Lane office scheme in the City of London.
First three Landmark Wales competition winners revealed
21-May-2007Ian Ritchie, Marks Barfield and Tonkin Liu have scooped the first three Landmark Wales projects.
Government blocks Allies and Morrison's Brighton tower -
18-May-2007Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly has blocked Allies and Morrison's Beetham Tower scheme in Brighton.
Heritage projects face 'catastrophe' due to Olympics cash drain
18-May-2007The Olympic-fund drain could have a catastrophic effect on major heritage projects, especially in the North of England, it has been claimed in the House of Lords.
Development poses threat to Eero Saarinen's Bell Laboratories
18-May-2007Fears are growing for the future of Eero Saarinen's world-famous and much-photographed Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey.
FCO scheme in Abuja put on hold
17-May-2007The competition to design the new British High Commission office in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, has been put on hold after the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) was told there was no cash to fund the project.
Yorkshire's Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson named on Olympic Media Centre shortlist
16-May-2007Sheffield-based practice Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson is the surprise name on the shortlist to design the new media centre at the heart of London 2012 Olympic Games
Carmody Groarke helps Gormley with famous 'fog box'
16-May-2007A key installation in sculptor Antony Gormley's major London retrospective has been part-designed by emerging talents Carmody Groarke, the AJ can reveal.
Designer sought to overhaul 'trainspotting Mecca' Crewe Station
16-May-2007A competition has been launched to find an architect to overhaul Crewe Station - one of the most famous railway junctions in the world.
Pardey unveils Littlehampton riverside scheme
15-May-2007John Pardey Architects has unveiled its proposed new riverside housing scheme in Littlehampton, West Sussex.
Keith Williams chases yet more work in Scandinavia
15-May-2007Scandinavia's ongoing love affair with Keith Williams Architects continues to blossom after the London-based firm was named on yet another competition shortlist - this time in Norway.
Zaha to redesign and expand long-awaited Hoxton scheme
15-May-2007Zaha Hadid's mixed-use scheme in Hoxton Square, east London, is set for yet another redesign.
TP Bennett wins green light for 'hidden house' - image
11-May-2007TP Bennett Architects has finally been given the green light, following an appeal to the Secretary of State, for this 'hidden house' in a conservation area in West London.
CABE launches a broadside against Atkins' Olympic marina plans
11-May-2007CABE has laid into Atkins' Osprey Quay marina plans in Weymouth, Dorset - seen as key to the success of the 2012 Olympic Sailing Centre.
Reid and Sports Concepts unveil 2014 Commonwealth Games plans - images
11-May-2007Sport Concepts and Reid Architecture have unveiled their plans for a new National Indoor Sports Arena (NISA), velodrome and badminton stadium as part of Glasgow's 2014 Commonwealth Games bid.
Panama masterplan is 'real-life SimCity' for Atkins
10-May-2007Atkins' London office has been given the chance 'to play SimCity for real' after being picked to design the masterplan for the massive new Panama City development.
AFL 'on pause' as new firm drafted in to redesign Liverpool stadium
10-May-2007Atherden Fuller Leng's (AFL) role in the design of Liverpool Football Club's long-awaited new home is looking increasingly uncertain.
SMC Gower gobbles up sister practice SMC DTR:UK
9-May-2007SMC Gower Architects has snaffled its sister practice - and fellow Leeds-based firm - SMC DTR:UK, to become the largest architectural practice in Yorkshire.
de Rijke Marsh Morgan pioneers tall timber towers in Norway - images
9-May-2007These are the first images of de Rijke Marsh Morgan (dRMM)'s three timber towers in Norway - thought to be the tallest wooden buildings in the world.
Marks Barfield shortlisted for 'landmark' bus station
9-May-2007Marks Barfield has been named on a six-strong shortlist in the competition to design a new 'landmark' bus station in Chatham, Kent.
Fire guts Hodder's future home - image
8-May-2007Hodder Associates' dreams of moving into Manchester's up-and-coming Northern Quarter went up in smoke last week (Monday 30 April) after a massive blaze gutted its future home.
KPF withdraws second Smithfield proposal, leaving it with one last chance
8-May-2007The saga surrounding Kohn Pedersen Fox's (KPF) controversial plans for Smithfield Market in central London have taken yet another twist.
Grimshaw beats Zaha to Miami Science Museum
4-May-2007Grimshaw has pipped Zaha Hadid into second place and snatched victory in the high-profile competition to design the new £140 million Miami Science Museum in the USA.
Spaceport competition blasts off
4-May-2007The much-anticipated competition to find an architect to design the world's first spaceport has been officially launched.
Parry to extend Grade I-listed Bath museum - image
3-May-2007Eric Parry Architects has revealed the first image of its new extension to the Grade I-listed Holburne Museum of Art in Bath.
Is Blackpool killing off its super-casino bid with a big wheel?
3-May-2007Eyebrows have been raised over new plans for a new London Eye-style wheel in Blackpool - on the site of the town's proposed super-casino.
ODA promises 'Olympic design to match the great Expos of the past'
2-May-2007London 2012 Olympics design guru Ricky Burdett has promised London a series of temporary venues to rival the great Expos of the past.
Todd Architects reveals replacement for DLA's Leeds scheme - image
2-May-2007Belfast-based Todd Architects has submitted its 14-storey City Square House scheme, billed as the largest speculative office building in Leeds, for planning.
First tranche of Rogers' Homes for the Future is built
2-May-2007Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners has completed its first swathe of 19 Homes of the Future - the practice's interpretation of the government's '£60,000 House'.
Scotland's Part L comes into force
1-May-2007Scotland's version of England and Wales' Part L energy-conservation Building Regulation has come into force today (1 May).
Bond Bryan buzzes ahead with building designed for bees - images
1-May-2007Bond Bryan has been given the go-ahead for an unusual environmental research building in Sheffield - the first in the country with specially designed 'bee holes' in its exterior walls.
TP Bennett to overhaul National Audit Office's Art Deco HQ
30-Apr-2007TP Bennett has been appointed to carry out the £35 million overhaul of the National Audit Office's Art Deco headquarters in central London.
Brewster Bye wins thumbs-up for Leeds city-centre scheme - images
30-Apr-2007Leeds City Council has approved this £150 million development by Brewster Bye Architects for a derelict site on the edge of Leeds city centre.
Berlin's 'bürgers' find Chippo's Museum Island scheme hard to digest
27-Apr-2007David Chipperfield Architects' gateway proposals for Berlin's Museum Island are coming in for increasing criticism from local pressure groups.
Robinson's Bradford scheme finally wins go-ahead - image
27-Apr-2007Robinson Design Group's scaled-back £350 million Bradford 'Channel' development has finally been given the go-ahead by Bradford City Council.
Page and Park wins Park Circus green light after epic Glasgow planning battle - images
26-Apr-2007Page and Park Architects has finally been given the green light for one of the most controversial development proposals in Glasgow's history.
Bath University launches arts complex competition
26-Apr-2007The University of Bath has launched a competition to find an architect to design a new arts complex for its Claverton Down campus.
McChesney's prototype landscape to be rolled out across Middlesbrough
25-Apr-2007Ian McChesney has scooped first prize in the RIBA contest to design a new 'prototype' landscape which could be rolled out across Middlesbrough.
Wright & Wright to redesign Shakespeare's school - images
25-Apr-2007Wright & Wright Architects has won the competition to redesign the King Edward VI School in Stratford-on-Avon - the school where Shakespeare was taught.
Foster saves Commonwealth Institute from demolition - by turning it into flats
24-Apr-2007Norman Foster is to convert The Commonwealth Institute in west London into luxury flats as part of a new £150 million development.
Howells goes up 18 storeys with new Bradford tower proposals - image
24-Apr-2007Glenn Howells Architects has submitted its redesigned Citygate project in Bradford - which now features a 38-storey residential tower - for planning.
Proctor and Matthews wins green light for Rochdale HMR area - images
23-Apr-2007Proctor and Matthews Architects has won planning permission for this 85-home development in one of the controversial Housing Market Renewal (HMR) Pathfinder areas in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
Rare Art Deco pool is given category A listing - image
20-Apr-2007A rare Art Deco outdoor pool which has been closed for more than a decade has been given the highest listing protection status available in Scotland.
Farrell takes the stand over rejected Founder's Place scheme - image
19-Apr-2007The planning inquiry into Terry Farrell's rejected Founder's Place scheme for Guy's and St Thomas' Charity, which started on Tuesday (17.04.07), has kicked off in earnest with Terry Farrell giving evidence.
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands lands new Jewish Community Centre
19-Apr-2007Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands has seen off an impressive shortlist to win the competition to design the new Jewish Community Centre (JCC) in Hampstead, north London.
Foster faces space race re-entry
19-Apr-2007Foster and Partners has drawn up concept plans for a commercial spaceport in New Mexico, USA.
Sheppard Robson confirms velodrome collaboration with Olympic gold medallist
18-Apr-2007Sheppard Robson has confirmed it is working with Olympic cycling gold medallist Chris Boardman on its competition entry for the London 2012 velodrome.
Zaha misses out as Nouvel walks away with new Orchestre de Paris home - images
18-Apr-2007Zaha Hadid has narrowly missed out on another major cultural project after Jean Nouvel walked off with the high-profile contest to design a new orchestra hall in Paris.
TV reception fears over Allies and Morrison's planned City of London tower
17-Apr-2007The City of London looks set to give the thumbs up to Allies and Morrison's 100 Bishopsgate skyscraper scheme when it comes before the authority's planning committee next Monday (23 April).
Norman Foster scholarship finally awarded
17-Apr-2007The inaugural winner of the long-awaited RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship has been announced.
Space Craft and Feilden Clegg Bradley among Medway competition finalists
16-Apr-2007Space Craft Architects and Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB) have been named on the four-strong shortlist in the contest to develop the first phase of the contentious 34ha Rochester Riverside site in Kent.
Grimshaw reveals new Eden Project extension - image
16-Apr-2007Grimshaw has released this image of a proposed new extension to its award-winning and hugely popular Eden Project in Cornwall.
Make submits 'white gold' office block for planning - images
13-Apr-2007Make has submitted a planning application for this 152,400m2 office scheme on the banks of the River Clyde at Broomielaw, Glasgow.
LDA to masterplan redevelopment on Isle of Wight
12-Apr-2007LDA Design has won another key waterfront project - masterplanning the redevelopment of the former West Medina Mills site in the Isle of Wight.
PRP reveals plan for historic Cardington Airfield - image
12-Apr-2007PRP has unveiled these plans to build more than 400 homes and a new park on the historic Cardington Airfield site, next to a pair of Grade II-listed airship sheds.
Ando triumphs over Zaha in Venice head-to-head
12-Apr-2007Zaha Hadid has lost out to fellow international star Tadao Ando in the high-profile battle to design a new gallery in Venice.
Fire-ravaged Allerton Castle reopens at last
11-Apr-2007Allerton Castle, one of the most important Gothic Revival stately homes in Britain, which was gutted by fire in January 2005, has finally reopened to the public.
War of words after CABE pans Liverpool housing development
11-Apr-2007The team behind a proposed housing development on Liverpool's former International Garden Festival site has become embroiled in a war of words with CABE after the design watchdog branded the scheme 'unacceptable.'
Alsop unveils altered designs for Yonkers scheme - images
11-Apr-2007Will Alsop has unveiled his latest, and much-changed, designs for the proposed overhaul of a derelict power-station in the city of Yonkers, New York.
Michael Trentham wins green light for wedge-shaped home - images
10-Apr-2007Michael Trentham Architects has won the go-ahead for this one-bedroom house on a tight plot in the Telegraph Hill conservation area of Brockley, south-east London.
Chimp house starts on site - image
10-Apr-2007Work has begun on Cooper Cromar Architects' £4.5 million chimpanzee house at Edinburgh Zoo.
Howells unveils revolving tower
5-Apr-2007Glenn Howells Architects has submitted these proposals for the world's first revolving residential tower for planning.
Viñoly to masterplan Battersea Power Station
4-Apr-2007Rafael Viñoly has seen off Norman Foster and SOM to win the high-profile contest to masterplan Battersea Power Station in London.
Future Systems wins in Dublin with 'sea creature' bridge - images
4-Apr-2007Future Systems has been chosen to design this new bridge for trams over Dublin's Royal Canal.
Allies and Morrison gets a second chance in Nigeria with high commission comp
4-Apr-2007The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has announced the final shortlist in the high-profile competition to design the new British High Commission office in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
Turner Contemporary costs battle heads towards settlement
3-Apr-2007The legal battle surrounding the wasted costs on the doomed Snøhetta and Spence Associates' Turner Contemporary Centre project in Margate looks to be heading towards an out-of-court mediation.
DLA proposes 'New West Quarter' in Dewsbury - images
3-Apr-2007DLA Architecture has released the first images of the proposed 'New West Quarter' in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
Keith Williams' run of success continues in Denmark
2-Apr-2007Keith Williams Architects continues to prosper in 2007 after the practice was yet again shortlisted, this time to design a new museum in Denmark.
RTKL is part of Blackpool redevelopment team - image
2-Apr-2007A team including RTKL has been chosen to masterplan the new £285 million redevelopment of the Talbot Gateway area around Blackpool's North station.
Make wins planning for neighbour to ARB and RIBA - image
2-Apr-2007Make has won permission to increase the height of a prime mixed-use development overlooking the RIBA headquarters in London's fashionable Marylebone.
Feilden Clegg Bradley appeals against Mildmay refusal - images
2-Apr-2007Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB) is appealing against the refusal last year of its ambitious Mildmay Urban Village (MUV) 'supportive housing' project.
Cameron in last-minute bid against new construction regs
30-Mar-2007Conservative leader David Cameron has made a last ditch bid to stop the 'onerous' Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM 2007) just days before they are due to come into force.
First glimpse of new Serpentine Pavilion - image
30-Mar-2007The AJ has uncovered the first details and images of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (see above for an artist's impression of the new pavilion).
ODA dismisses claims over Hadid's Aquatic Centre as 'pure' speculation' - image
30-Mar-2007The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has branded claims that building contractors are unwilling to take on Zaha Hadid's Aquatic Centre project as 'pure speculation'.
- And bags first scheme in his home country of Italy - images
29-Mar-2007On the day of his momentous Pritzker Prize victory, the AJ can exclusively reveal images of Richard Rogers' first scheme in his home country, Italy.
-And speaks to the AJ
28-Mar-2007Richard Waite caught up with the victorious Richard Rogers to discuss his Pritzker Prize win and his plans for the future.
-And speaks to the AJ
28-Mar-2007Richard Waite caught up with the victorious Richard Rogers to discuss his Pritzker Prize win and his plans for the future.
Rogers wins Pritzker...
28-Mar-2007Richard Rogers has won the most prestigious accolade in architecture - the Pritzker Prize.
ARB hits bogus architect with £1,000 fine
28-Mar-2007A bogus 'architect' from Surrey has been forced to cough up more than £4,000 after being found guilty of misuse of title.
Despite opposition, Tate Modern extension wins the go-ahead
28-Mar-2007Objectors to Herzog & de Meuron's proposed Tate Modern extension have failed to stop the £165 million scheme - dubbed the 'misshapen pyramid' - winning the official go-ahead.
Architect loses appeal against ARB incompetence prosecution
27-Mar-2007North London-based architect Senka Vranicki has failed in a High Court bid to overturn a judgment of 'serious professional incompetence' issued by the ARB's Professional Conduct Committee (PCC).
Ungers rumoured to be among Pritzker shortlist - image
27-Mar-2007German architect OM Ungers is understood to be among a raft of big names shortlisted for this year's Pritzker Prize, announced on Thursday.
Foster revs up with Spanish Motor City sports centre - image
26-Mar-2007Foster and Partners' international bandwagon shows no sign of slowing down after the practice won the high-profile contest to design a new 'carbon neutral' Motor City sports centre in Spain.
Urbed and Adjaye unite to design Bury neighbourhood - images
23-Mar-2007A team including regeneration expert Urbed, David Adjaye, Stephenson Bell and Maurice Shapero has won the competition to mastermind the new Radcliffe Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood (SUN) in Bury, Greater Manchester.
London Underground blocks 'Stairway to Heaven' war memorial - images
23-Mar-2007London Underground (LU) is continuing to oppose proposals to build a Blitz Memorial over the entrance to Bethnal Green tube station, even though the scheme has now won planning permission.
OMA takes its unique skyscraper vision to Singapore - image
22-Mar-2007The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has added another zany scheme to his growing portfolio of unusual skyscrapers, with this 153m-tall apartment block in Singapore.
Brown Budget not green enough, says RIBA
21-Mar-2007The RIBA has attacked Chancellor Gordon Brown's much-hailed 'green' Budget for not being green enough.
Studio Egret West to overhaul Manchester suburb - images
21-Mar-2007Studio Egret West (SEW) has unveiled plans for an ambitious regeneration of Manchester's run-down Ancoats suburb.
Bond Bryan unveils central London college to replace Ron Herron building - images
21-Mar-2007Bond Bryan Architects has revealed images of is new Westminster Kingsway College scheme for central London, after bulldozers moved in to flatten the existing late 1950s Ron Herron-designed building on the site.
Sheppard Robson denies it left Chapel Wharf due to practice shortcomings
21-Mar-2007Sheppard Robson has hit back at claims it did not have the resources to carry out the Chapel Wharf scheme in Manchester, after being replaced on the controversial high-rise project.
Glenn Howells reveals affordable housing for south London - image
21-Mar-2007Glenn Howells Architects has submitted these designs for a new nine-storey housing project in south-east London for planning.
Grimshaw unveils new Paddington proposals after redesign - image
20-Mar-2007Grimshaw has revealed its redesigned proposals for the 'triangle' site close to its controversial - and now-abandoned - Fourth Span scheme at Paddington Station.
McChesney walks away from Landmark Wales comp
20-Mar-2007Ian McChesney has walked away from the Landmark Wales competition, claiming that he is 'over-committed' to other projects.
Levitt Bernstein bags HQ for Jewish charity
19-Mar-2007Levitt Bernstein has won the high-profile competition to design the new north London flagship headquarters building for charity Jewish Care.
Bond Bryan gets thumbs-up for extension to its own offices - image
19-Mar-2007Sheffield-based practice Bond Bryan Architects has been given the green light for this extension to its own offices, a former church in Crookes.
Trio of practices to work on mammoth MoD scheme 'which will dwarf 2012 Olympics'
16-Mar-2007The AJ has uncovered the names of the architects working on the titanic St Athan Defence Training Academy project - a £16 billion development which, it is rumoured, will dwarf the scale of London's Olympics programme.
Foster reveals yet more work in St Petersburg - image
16-Mar-2007Foster and Partners has unveiled yet another high-profile city-centre scheme for Russia at this year's international property fair in MIPIM - this time a new riverside 'destination' in St Petersburg.
Ferguson blasts CABE over Viñoly tower backing
15-Mar-2007Former RIBA president George Ferguson has launched an astonishing attack on CABE's design-review process - and in particular its decision to back Rafael Viñoly's controversial 'Walkie-Talkie' tower in the City of London.
Farrell unveils vast Coventry masterplan - image
14-Mar-2007Terry Farrell unveiled his ambitious masterplan for the regeneration of an 8ha site around Coventry Station at a mock CABE design review at MIPIM this morning.
Massive north London regeneration to spark multiple competitions
13-Mar-2007The developers behind the massive Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration project in north London have promised a glut of new architectural competitions to find the designers to take the project forward.
Gustafson Porter market-square revamp to finally open - image
12-Mar-2007Gustafson Porter's troubled Old Market Square revamp in Nottingham looks set to be officially unveiled by the end of this month.
Make unveils huge Croydon tower scheme - images
9-Mar-2007MAKE has revealed the first images of its huge four-tower scheme in the heart of Croydon, south London.
Leeds masterplan developer hopes to meet interested architects at MIPIM
9-Mar-2007The developer behind the massive Terry Farrell-led Eastgate proposals in Leeds city centre has put out an extraordinary call for architects - with the promise of work on its £700 million flagship project.
Keith Williams gets to work on another theatre - images
9-Mar-2007Keith Williams has been handed yet another theatre project after winning the concept design competition for the proposed revamp and extension of the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, Kent.
Government backs down over delisting plan
8-Mar-2007The government has made a dramatic U-turn over plans for legislation which could have threatened the listing system and led to the demolition of a raft of architectural gems.
Architect prosecuted for 'ignoring ARB'
8-Mar-2007An architect from Islington, North London has been fined £1,000 for repeatedly ignoring letters from the ARB.
Chippo and Rogers fight it out on all-star British Museum shortlist
7-Mar-2007David Chipperfield and Richard Rogers have been named among the six all-star finalists in the competition to mastermind the £80 million revamp of the British Museum's special exhibition space.
RIBA denies it is looking at 'ARB alternatives'
7-Mar-2007The RIBA has poured cold water on rumours it is looking at new consumer-protection bills as alternative regulation mechanisms to the ARB
Softroom named on British Museum shortlist - image
7-Mar-2007Up-and-coming practice Softroom has been named on an impressive eight-strong list of practices vying to land a series of high-profile projects at the British Museum.
Balmond will not work on Serpentine Pavilion
7-Mar-2007Engineer to the stars Cecil Balmond will not be involved in the design of this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, despite working on five of the six previous showcase schemes.
Austin-Smith:Lord unveils planned Manchester skyscraper - images
6-Mar-2007Austin-Smith:Lord has unveiled these images of a proposed 30-storey skyscraper scheme on the north-eastern edge of Manchester city centre.
Taylor Young designs housing next to Pugin masterpiece - image
5-Mar-2007North West practice Taylor Young has been picked to mastermind a new housing development next to Manchester's Grade II*-listed Gorton Monastery - the city's self-proclaimed 'answer to the Taj Mahal'.
Future Systems wins its first-ever Czech scheme - image
5-Mar-2007Future Systems has won the international competition to design the new £46 million National Library in the Czech Republic capital of Prague.
Xsite Architecture bags key scheme in Middlesbrough regeneration - images
2-Mar-2007Newcastle-based practice Xsite Architecture has been given the go-ahead for the new centrepiece of the DigitalCity development in Middlesbrough.
Keith Williams Architects shortlisted for Norway cultural centre comp
2-Mar-2007Keith Williams Architects has been named as the only British practice on a four-strong shortlist in the competition to design a new cultural centre in Norway.
... While Farrell reveals new canal system to meet 2012 construction transport needs - image
2-Mar-2007Terry Farrell has unveiled the first images of a new canal project which could help reduce heavy traffic on roads during the construction of London's 2012 Olympic Games.
Further calls for historic building VAT exemption lead to online petition
1-Mar-2007The government is again being urged to reconsider its position regarding VAT on repairs to historic buildings - this time through an online petition to Downing Street.
Zaha and Ando go head-to-head in Venice
28-Feb-2007Zaha Hadid and Japanese starchitect Tadao Ando have found themselves on rival sides in the battle to design a new gallery in Venice.
Approval for Squire and Parters' Manchester office means farewell for Art Deco cinema - images
28-Feb-2007Squire and Partners has won the go-ahead for this office block in Manchester's Oxford Road, ending the hopes of campaigners battling to save an abandoned 1930s cinema on the site.
Foster reveals new Duisburg plans - images
28-Feb-2007Norman Foster has unveiled the first images of his latest project in Duisburg - a massive inner-city masterplan for the German metropolis.
Llewelyn Davies Yeang's Iraq plans hit by lethal bomb attack
27-Feb-2007Llewelyn Davies Yeang (LDY) has admitted that the future of its masterplan for the holy city of Najaf in Iraq is uncertain after a bomb attack on the Iraqi ministry backing the project.
Alsop wins green light for new Salford tower - images
27-Feb-2007Will Alsop's recent foray into the world of skyscrapers appears to be gathering momentum following the news he has won the go-ahead for this 26-storey tower in Salford, Greater Manchester.
Livingstone's zero-carbon pledge 'nearly impossible to meet'
26-Feb-2007London Mayor Ken Livingstone's pledge to build a zero-carbon development in each of London's 32 boroughs by 2010 looks increasingly likely to fail.
Whitelaw Turkington bags Huddersfield square scheme - images
23-Feb-2007Landscape architect Whitelaw Turkington has landed the prize project to redesign St George's Square in Huddersfield after the practice was named as the undisputed winner in a public vote.
Conran to overhaul historic Greenwich Pier - images
23-Feb-2007Conran & Partners has won the go-ahead for a £6 million redevelopment of the historic Greenwich pier in south-east London, next to the National Maritime Museum and the famous Cutty Sark.
MJP to build new cancer care unit - images
22-Feb-2007Richard MacCormac has become the latest starchitect to be given the go-ahead for a new Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre.
Make gets to work at Nottingham University - images
22-Feb-2007Make's Jubilee Campus expansion project for Nottingham University has started on site.
Search launched for Shanghai Expo UK pavilion design team
21-Feb-2007The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has launched the search for a team to design and construct the UK's pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo in 2010.
Turner Centre Mark II follows in footsteps of predecessor - image
21-Feb-2007Promises about the cost of the new Turner Centre Mark II in Margate have been left in tatters after it emerged that the replacement for Snøhetta and Spence's original designs has already rocketed over budget.
Councillors 'should stay out of pre-planning or risk legal strife'
20-Feb-2007New government guidance encouraging councillors to become more involved with pre-planning increases the chances of potential legal challenges, an important local authority body has warned.
Studio Egret West among possible successors to Simpson at Brunswick
20-Feb-2007Studio Egret West (SEW) has been named on a four-strong shortlist to replace Ian Simpson on the doomed Brunswick Quay scheme in Liverpool, the AJ can exclusively reveal.
RMJM to design York City Council HQ
19-Feb-2007York City Council has appointed RMJM to design a huge new £35 million headquarters in the heart of the contentious Hungate development.
Another win for Softroom with Merseyside bridge
19-Feb-2007Softroom Architects has pulled off yet another high-profile competition win by scooping the contest to design a new footbridge over the Leeds-Liverpool Canal in Bootle, Merseyside.
RIBA open competition to overhaul 'confusing' Leeds museum entrance - images
16-Feb-2007A new competition has been launched to find an architect to redesign the unfriendly and 'confusing' entrance area to Leeds' Royal Armouries Museum.
Feilden Clegg Bradley replaces Stephenson Bell at North West mill
16-Feb-2007Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects (FCB) has been parachuted in to replace Stephenson Bell on the revamp and expansion of a historic former cotton mill outside Stockport, Cheshire.
Designs sought for observatory on Indian Ocean island
15-Feb-2007An unusual competition has been launched to design an atmospheric observation station on the island of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean (pictured).
Design for Bradford city-centre pool unveiled - image
15-Feb-2007Landscape designer Gillespies has released the first image of its proposed new 'mirror pool' park in the heart of Will Alsop's masterplan for Bradford city centre.
Work finally starts on Restoration winner Victoria Baths
15-Feb-2007After more than three and a half years of waiting, work finally looks set to start on the revamp of Manchester's Victoria Baths - winner of the BBC's first series of historic-buildings-in-peril show Restoration.
LDA scoops Blackpool's waterfront 'People's Playground' scheme - images
14-Feb-2007LDA Design has scooped victory in the international competition to design a new £21 million 'People's Playground' along Blackpool's Central Promenade.
Aedas wins go-ahead for 'ManYoo' towers in Salford - images
13-Feb-2007Aedas has been given the initial thumbs up by Salford Council for this four-tower scheme close to the Lowry Building in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester.
Popularchitecture dreams up mile-high skyscraper for London - images
13-Feb-2007These are the first pictures of an extraordinary concept scheme for a mammoth mile-high tower in London capable of housing more than 100,000 people.
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama seeks new concert hall
12-Feb-2007The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) in Cardiff has launched a search for a design for a new £12 million concert hall.
Make aims for £1 billion overhaul of central London hospital - images
12-Feb-2007Make has submitted plans for its ambitious £1 billion overhaul of the abandoned Middlesex Hospital site in Fitzrovia, central London.
Benoy's St Albans designs face shock rival bid
9-Feb-2007Commercial giant Benoy is coming under increasing pressure to drop its 'monstrous' plans for a key site in St Albans, and is now facing a shock rival bid for the plot.
Another RIBA competition. Another clanger
9-Feb-2007The RIBA's competitions office has blundered for the second time in less than a week after it emerged that drawings in the brief for the New Horizons Youth Centre competition were released with incorrect scales.
1,100 entries whittled down to six in Asplund library competition - images
8-Feb-2007The six anonymous finalists in the hugely popular competition to design an extension toErik Gunnar Asplund's iconic Stockholm Public Library have been unveiled.
1,100 entries whittled down to six in Asplund library competition - images
8-Feb-2007The six anonymous finalists in the hugely popular competition to design an extension toErik Gunnar Asplund's iconic Stockholm Public Library have been unveiled.
Landmark Wales competition shortlist revealed
8-Feb-2007An unusual assortment of architects and artists have been shortlisted for the first three sites in the Landmark Wales competition.
Scale slip-up causes comp chaos
8-Feb-2007A botched competition brief has led unsuspecting architects to design a bridge twice the size it should be and thrown yet another RIBA-organised contest into chaos.
Europan 9 launched with three new development sites
7-Feb-2007The ninth Europan competition, the biennial housing competition for up-and-coming architects, has been officially unveiled.
Sheppard Robson shows its hand with bid to design Manchester super-casino
7-Feb-2007Sheppard Robson has thrown its hat into the ring in the battle to design Manchester's new super-casino.
Carey Jones wins the go-ahead for huge Bury masterplan
6-Feb-2007Carey Jones' huge £70 million Townside Fields masterplan in Bury has been given the initial go-ahead.
CABE ignored as Woods Bagot get go-ahead in Kensington - images
6-Feb-2007Woods Bagot has been given the thumbs-up for this 27-storey tower in west London - even though CABE said the scheme should be 'fundamentally rethought'.
Taylor Young to revamp flood-ravaged Carlisle - images
5-Feb-2007North West practice Taylor Young has unveiled proposals to revamp central Carlisle - two years after the Cumbrian city was devastated by floods.
Haworth Tompkins wins competition for new RCA Battersea site
5-Feb-2007Haworth Tompkins has walked off with first prize in the competition to design a new building for the Royal College of Art (RCA) in Battersea, central London.
Studio Egret West to mastermind brownfield development - image
2-Feb-2007Studio Egret West has been chosen to masterplan the regeneration of a swathe of abandoned former industrial land next to the River Tyne in South Shields.
New York practices take over from Wilford and Dyson in Africa
2-Feb-2007A scheme designed by two up-and-coming New York practices has won the international competition to replace Michael Wilford and Chris Dyson's doomed Museum of Africa project (above).
Sunderland's Vaux Brewery farrago set to be resolved
1-Feb-2007After seven years of uncertainty and delay, a long-awaited decision on the future of the hotly disputed Vaux Brewery site in Sunderland finally looks to be on the cards.
Hadid to build new arts complex in Abu Dhabi - images
1-Feb-2007These are the first images of Zaha Hadid's performing arts centre in Abu Dhabi - the centrepiece of the Solomon R Guggenheim Saadiyat Island cultural district project.
Wrecking ball looms over Preston bus garage
31-Jan-2007The final nail appears to have been hammered into the coffin of the soon-to-be bulldozed Brutalist bus station in Preston.
Make builds on recent success by landing huge Scottish business park
31-Jan-2007Make has continued its recent run of success by landing the commission to design the largest business park in the north of Scotland.
Simpson still not home and dry after Manchester super-casino win - image
30-Jan-2007Ian Simpson could be in line to get his hands on Britain's first super-casino following this morning's surprise announcement that Manchester had been chosen as the location for a Las Vegas-style gambling Mecca.
EPR to stay on London's Peruvian Wharf scheme despite repeated rejections - images
30-Jan-2007EPR Architects will not be kicked off the massive Peruvian Wharf scheme opposite the Millennium Dome even though its proposals have been rejected by the planning inspector, London Mayor Ken Livingstone and Communities Minister Ruth Kelly.
CABE's new tall buildings guidance out for consultation
30-Jan-2007The new draft tall buildings guidance from CABE and English Heritage (EH) has been put out for consultation.
Wind turbines disappear from Palestra roof
29-Jan-2007The wind turbines on top of Will Alsop's Palestra building in Southwark, south London, have been taken down less than five months after being installed.
Levitt Bernstein's Caspar scheme to be demolished - images
29-Jan-2007Levitt Bernstein's troubled pre-fab Caspar housing scheme in Leeds, which has sat empty since being evacuated after high winds in 2005, is to be demolished.
3XN's Museum of Liverpool is revived
26-Jan-2007The future of 3XN's controversial Museum of Liverpool on the city's much-debated Fourth Grace site finally looks to have been secured after a surprise U-turn by the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
'Poundbury mark two' gets under way - images
26-Jan-2007Planners have given the go-ahead for a new traditional-style village in rural Hampshire - a development which has already been dubbed Poundbury Two.
Hadid to design two top-secret London projects
25-Jan-2007It seems Zaha Hadid is about to begin building big in Britain, after it emerged she has been lined-up to design two new projects in London.
Pawson reveals plans to breathe new life into castle - images
25-Jan-2007Terry Pawson has released the first concept images of his proposals to revamp the jaded visitor facilities at Hastings Castle.
Five battle it out to design Middlesbrough road
24-Jan-2007The finalists in the competition to design a new 'prototype' landscape which could be built throughout Middlesbrough have been unveiled.
Anonymous schemes vie for Blackpool playground comp - images
24-Jan-2007These are the first images of the seven shortlisted schemes in the People's Playground contest - part of Blackpool's bid to reinvent its tired Central Promenade.
£1 billion masterplan aims to bring the continental touch to east Manchester - images
23-Jan-2007An ambitious £1 billion proposal to transform the east end of Manchester from 'Coronation Street to Copenhagen' has been given the green light by the city council.
Balmond set to lose 'Nimby' planning battle
23-Jan-2007World-famous engineer Cecil Balmond looks to have been thwarted in his attempts to stop a small residential development next to his Victorian home in Crouch End, north London.
HKR plans tallest skyscraper in Northern Ireland - image
22-Jan-2007HKR Architects has submitted plans for what would be the tallest tower in Northern Ireland.
Designer sought for British consulate in Nigeria
22-Jan-2007A competition has been launched to find an architect to design the new British High Commission office in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
Foster resubmits church after changing design - images
19-Jan-2007Norman Foster's first ever church project is back in for planning after a 'significant' redesign.
Hugh Broughton Architects wins Maidstone competition
19-Jan-2007Hugh Broughton Architects has won the design competition to revamp the Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery in Kent.
CABE warns BDP over London residential scheme
18-Jan-2007CABE has warned BDP that it risks repeating the mistakes of the past unless it revises its plans for a huge residential-led project in the Lee Valley, north-east London.
Feilden Clegg Bradley's Western Riverside finally gets go-ahead - image
18-Jan-2007Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB) founder Keith Bradley has confessed he was 'delighted but exhausted' last night after the practice's controversial Western Riverside in Bath finally won outline planning permission from Bath and North East Somerset Council.
Make branches out with Sherwood Forest competition win - images
18-Jan-2007Ken Shuttleworth's practice, Make, has walked away with victory in the high-profile competition to design a new £50 million visitor centre for Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire.
Simpson 'kicked off Brunswick Tower'
18-Jan-2007Ian Simpson Architects looks to have been dropped by the developer behind the controversial and much-troubled Brunswick Quay skyscraper scheme in Liverpool.
Locals fight to list Letchworth bungalows
17-Jan-2007A group led by a local architect has launched an appeal against a decision not to list an estate of rare 1950s prefab bungalows in Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire.
Foster forced to redesign New York skyscraper
17-Jan-2007Norman Foster's controversial proposals to build a 22-storey tower on top of a historic gallery building in New York have been sent back to the drawing board.
Foster's New York skyscraper 'could change following opposition'
16-Jan-2007The developer behind Norman Foster's controversial 980 Madison Avenue skyscraper in Manhattan has conceded that the scheme could be redesigned to appease growing opposition to the proposals.
NBBJ wins planning for Queen Mary scheme - images
16-Jan-2007NBBJ has been given the green light for this £28 million Biosciences Innovation Centre in east London.
New Olympic culture boss sought for 2012
15-Jan-2007The team behind London's 2012 Olympic Games has launched a search for a new head of culture.
Labour concerns trigger G-MEX overhaul - image
15-Jan-2007Stephenson Bell has been asked to look at a possible overhaul of Manchester's famous G-MEX centre, in the wake of last autumn's Labour Party conference.
Plan in progress to replace legendary Wembley Way - images
12-Jan-2007These are the first images of the replacement for the legendary Wembley Way - the 1970s concrete ramp known to football fans across the globe.
Foster and Rogers go head-to-head in San Francisco
12-Jan-2007Norman Foster and Richard Rogers are battling it out in California in the contest to design San Francisco's tallest building.
Bristol practice forced to cough up £1.4m damages after groundbreaking trial
11-Jan-2007A Bristol-based practice has been ordered to pay almost £1.4 million in damages following a potentially groundbreaking ruling about an architect's duty to its client.
Frei Otto selected for Serpentine Pavilion - images
11-Jan-2007German architect and engineer Frei Otto has been chosen to design this year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
Aedas and Ellis Williams scoop Manchester academies under new funding deal
10-Jan-2007Aedas and Ellis Williams look set to bag up to half a dozen new academy projects in Manchester following the announcement of a groundbreaking deal between the city council and the government.
MAKE and Carey Jones limber up for second go in Wandsworth - image
10-Jan-2007Carey Jones and MAKE Architects are finally expected to resubmit plans for the controversial Wandsworth Riverside Quarter site this week - a year after the design team was sent back to the drawing board (AJ 17.02.2006).
RMJM to build new finance HQ in Dundee - images
9-Jan-2007RMJM has won backing from the Scottish Executive to build a new headquarters in Dundee for finance giant the Alliance Trust.
Feilden Clegg Bradley opens new Cold War museum building - images
9-Jan-2007Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB) has now opened its striking new Cold War museum building at RAF Cosford to the public.
Stanton Williams faces down criticism over Sloane Square
8-Jan-2007Stanton Williams, the architect behind controversial proposals to rework west London's famous Sloane Square, has vowed to battle on despite growing opposition to the plans.
Letchworth goes global with Garden City competition
8-Jan-2007Letchworth, the world-renowned Hertfordshire Garden City, is to launch an international competition to design a new wave of 'affordable and sustainable homes'.
Urban Splash wins cash boost at Park Hill
8-Jan-2007Urban Splash has hurdled a major milestone in its bid to revamp the Grade II*-listed 1960s Park Hill flats in Sheffield city centre.
Liverpool asks for more details of contentious ferry terminal
22-Dec-2006The architect behind the contentious new ferry terminal in front of Liverpool's famous Three Graces has been ordered by concerned city planners to hand over more information about its designs.
Designers sought for Welsh 'landmark gateways'
21-Dec-2006A competition to design three new 'landmark gateways' at key points around Wales has been launched.
Buttress gets go-ahead for Luton heritage project
21-Dec-2006Buttress Fuller Alsop William has been given the go-ahead for its Stockwood Discovery Centre project in Luton after landing a 3.7 million windfall from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF).
Final four selected in Southwark scheme - images
21-Dec-2006Southwark Council has unveiled the last four practices handed social housing projects as part of its 'design experiment' at Elephant and Castle, south London.
CABE pans 'poorly connected' Berkshire housing scheme
20-Dec-2006A massive housing scheme in Wokingham, Berkshire has been panned by CABE for lacking 'vision' and a 'sense of space'.
Caruso St John to rework Tate Britain
20-Dec-2006The Tate has chosen Caruso St John to mastermind the redevelopment of the Tate Britain gallery at Millbank, central London.
More of Paul Rudolph's finest come under threat
19-Dec-2006Fears are mounting in the US for the future of some of Paul Rudolph's finest buildings, following news that another of his homes faces the wrecking ball.
London's Horniman Museum to transform its gardens
19-Dec-2006Efforts by the famous Horniman Museum in south-east London to enhance its design reputation have taken another step forward with news of plans to transform its gardens.
Simpson aims to build Leicester's tallest tower - images
19-Dec-2006King of the skyscrapers Ian Simpson is expecting to win the go-ahead for plans to build the tallest tower in Leicester.
Lottery lifeline for Watts Gallery
18-Dec-2006A rundown grade II-listed Victorian gallery in Surrey, which narrowly missed out on the BBC Restoration Village programme, has been handed a £4.3 million lifeline.
Patel Taylor sweeps aside competitors for Birmingham park
18-Dec-2006Patel Taylor has seen off some of the world's biggest landscape designers to land the Eastside City Park project in Birmingham.
BBC governors approve Salford move
15-Dec-2006The BBC's proposals to move some of its key departments to a new Northern hub in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, have taken a major step forward.
Alan Camp aids Lambeth regeneration with housing scheme - images
15-Dec-2006Alan Camp Architects has won the go-ahead from Lambeth Council for this residential-led development on an empty run-down plot on the corner of Union Road and Clapham Road, south London.
S&P's Brighton ice rink facing more delays
14-Dec-2006S&P Architects' Olympic Ice Rink scheme in Brighton is facing yet more delays after it emerged the long-awaited planning application will not now be submitted until next year.
Lease deal paves way for Wakefield's Hepworth gallery
14-Dec-2006David Chipperfield Architects' proposed Hepworth art gallery scheme in Wakefield looks set finally to start on site after clearing a key stumbling block concerning land ownership.
RIBA reveals plans to improve PFI
13-Dec-2006The RIBA has revealed a detailed battle plan aimed at addressing the 'fundamental problems' with PFI as part of its ongoing drive to reform the much-maligned procurement process.
Stride Treglown set to snap up Manchester firm
13-Dec-2006The largest practice in the South West, Stride Treglown, is on the verge of taking over Manchester-based firm Chapman Robinson, the AJ can reveal.
Livingstone bows to Green Party pressure over Bennetts' Islington scheme
12-Dec-2006The Green Party is putting increasing pressure on London Mayor Ken Livingstone about Bennetts Associates' controversial City Road Basin tower scheme in Islington.
£9 million needed as Wilkinson Eyre's Liverpool arena goes over budget
12-Dec-2006The backers of Wilkinson Eyre's Kings Dock Arena in Liverpool have vowed to plug a £9 million funding gap after it emerged the cost of the waterfront project has massively increased.
Concrete Scottish football stadium listed
11-Dec-2006A 'striking' Brutalist 1960s concrete football stand in Galashiels, Scotland, designed by Peter Womersley, has been given a B-listing by Historic Scotland.
Spence's Sussex arts centre faces an uncertain future
11-Dec-2006The future of Basil Spence's grade II-listed Gardner Arts Centre (GAC) in East Sussex has been thrown into doubt following the news the venue is to close.
Softroom to succeed Pugin in Lancashire - image
8-Dec-2006Up-and-coming practice Softroom has scooped the competition to design a new country house hotel on the site of E W Pugin's now-demolished Croston Hall in Lancashire.
Austin-Smith:Lord to convert historic Middle Eastern fortress - image
8-Dec-2006Austin-Smith:Lord has landed the project to convert the historic Qasr al-Hosn 'white fort' in Abu Dhabi, the emirate's most famous building, into a museum.
Lyall trims tower in bid for Liverpool approval - image
8-Dec-2006John Lyall Architects has shaved almost a third off a tower which forms part of a 'pivotal' mixed-use scheme on Liverpool's waterfront, in a bid to win planning.
Danes succeed Rogers to take on Glasgow bridge - images
7-Dec-2006Danish practice Dissing + Weitling looks set to succeed where Richard Rogers failed with its latest proposals for a new footbridge over the River Clyde in Glasgow.
Foster follows up Kazakh pyramid with the 'broken brolly' - images
7-Dec-2006Norman Foster is returning to Kazakhstan with this massive tent-like building in the country's capital Astana.
Dancers drop Carey Jones
7-Dec-2006Carey Jones has parted company with one of the country's most prestigious arts projects after almost seven years of design work.
Blackpool may be new stage for V&A's theatre museum
6-Dec-2006Blackpool's seemingly unstoppable bid to reinvent itself as the UK's architectural hotspot has taken another leap forward with the revelation that the V&A museum is considering moving its theatrical collection to the resort.
Fretton misses out to Schmidt Hammer Lassen in Denmark - images
6-Dec-2006Tony Fretton has narrowly missed out on winning the international competition to design a 12,000m 2arts scheme in Vejle, south-east Denmark.
International shortlist released in Blackpool's people's playground competition
5-Dec-2006London 2012 Olympics masterplanner EDAW has been named on a seven-strong shortlist in the international competition to design a new 'people's playground' along Blackpool's Central Promenade.
Leach Rhodes Walker wins go-ahead in Manchester thanks to canal homage - images
4-Dec-2006Leach Rhodes Walker has finally won the green light for its Bengal Street development in the Ancoats area of Manchester after almost two years of wrangling with the city's planners.
Foster continues his Russian success with Vladikavkaz scheme - image
4-Dec-2006Norman Foster's architectural march into Russia shows no sign of slowing up following his appointment to design a new cultural centre in Vladikavkaz, in the foothills of the Caucasus mountains.
RMJM sees off a galaxy of architectural stars to scoop huge St Petersburg scheme
1-Dec-2006RMJM has seen off an amazing shortlist featuring some of the biggest names in world architecture to win the controversial Gazprom City skyscraper competition in St Petersburg, Russia.
Douglas and King to extend London Fashion Centre - images
1-Dec-2006Douglas and King has been given the green light for this rooftop extension to the London Fashion Centre in Finsbury Park, north London.
Tower Hamlets rejects Feilden Clegg Bradley's 'social experiment' housing - images
1-Dec-2006Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB) has vowed to battle on to get a massive and potentially groundbreaking 'social experiment' housing project off the ground after it was turned down by Tower Hamlets Council.
Arup's doomed Liverpool garden festival dome set to go at last
30-Nov-2006The former centrepiece of the long-abandoned International Garden Festival in Liverpool site - Arup Associates' domed-exhibition hall - is finally being demolished.
'Submarine' takes RMJM to the US for the first time - images
30-Nov-2006RMJM is set to break into the US with this 19-storey residential scheme in New York's up-and-coming West Chelsea district.
Bauman Lyons lands factory revamp on Leeds home turf - images
29-Nov-2006Bauman Lyons has won a high-profile competition to revamp the historic Tower Works factory site next to Leeds railway station.
Council expects cutting-edge designs for Chatham bus station
29-Nov-2006Medway Council has said it is expecting a glut of cutting-edge proposals in response to a new competition to design a 'landmark' bus station in Chatham, Kent.
Liverpool theatres to be overhauled, but not until city's Capital of Culture title has been and gone
28-Nov-2006A search has been launched to find an architect to mastermind the revamp of two major theatres in Liverpool.
Scottish watchdog raises concerns over Aedas' Dumbarton court scheme
27-Nov-2006Scotland's design watchdog has branded Aedas' proposals to extend and revamp Dumbarton Sheriff Court 'a missed opportunity'.
Viñoly's City of London 'Walkie Talkie' called in
24-Nov-2006Rafael Viñoly's 'Walkie Talkie' skyscraper in Fenchurch Street, central London, has been called in by Ruth Kelly.
Architectural terror group strikes again
24-Nov-2006Architecture's only known terror organisation, the Historic Buildings Liberation Front (HBLF), has launched another attack.
The end is nigh for Fortress House as a new owner for the site emerges
23-Nov-2006The final nail appears to have been hammered into the coffin of English Heritage's former headquarters Fortress House after it emerged that an Irish property investor has won the race to buy the central London building.
Alsop drops the toaster but wins the go-ahead in Middlesbrough
23-Nov-2006Will Alsop's 'eyebrow-raising' masterplan to transform an abandoned waterfront in Middlesbrough could finally become a reality.
Legal action looming following Turner Contemporary debacle
22-Nov-2006The architects behind the doomed Turner Contemporary Centre in Margate, Kent, which was ditched due to ballooning costs, are facing possible legal action from the project's out-of-pocket backers.
RIBA's McAslan bursaries still up for grabs
22-Nov-2006Time is running out for architects wanting to get their hands on a cash handout from the RIBA McAslan Bursary.
Make to build luxury development next to ARB - images
22-Nov-2006Ken Shuttleworth looks set to become more involved with the ARB - by building a new block of luxury flats next to the board's central London office.
Retiring Barratt chief blames planners for housing shortage
21-Nov-2006The outgoing chief executive of Britain's largest housebuilder, Barratt, has hit out at the country's planning system, claiming it is to blame for the lack of homes currently under construction.
Saarinen's New York airport building set to take flight again
21-Nov-2006Eero Saarinen's iconic JFK International Airport building in New York, which has been left to rot for the past five years, is set to be given a new lease of life.
Luxford to convert water tower into home - images
20-Nov-2006Luxford Architects has been given the go-ahead for an unusual scheme to convert a disused steel water tower next to the Greenham Common Airbase, Berkshire, into a three-bedroom house.
World Heritage Status 'will not change planning laws' in Lake District
20-Nov-2006A bid to secure World Heritage status for the Lake District will not lead to tougher planning restrictions in Cumbria, the county council has insisted.
Zaha designs pavilion for art entrepreneur Schachter - images
20-Nov-2006These are the first images of Zaha Hadid's new pavilion for US art wheeler-dealer Kenny Schachter.
Chippo's Berlin museum proposals to become reality thanks to cash handout
20-Nov-2006David Chipperfield Architects' gateway proposals for Berlin's Museum Island finally look set to become reality after being handed an unexpected cash injection.
Alsop pares back plans to flood Bradford city centre
17-Nov-2006Will Alsop has unveiled his latest, redesigned proposals for Bradford city centre.
Government rejects Liverpool tower in shock move
17-Nov-2006Ian Simpson's 51-storey Brunswick Quay tower in Liverpool has been turned down by Ruth Kelly - even though the planning inspector had recommended the scheme should be given the green light.
Sheppard Robson's Cumbria car park wins the go-ahead
16-Nov-2006Sheppard Robson has been given the green light for this unusual three-storey car park in Penrith, Cumbria.
Designer sought for new Middlesbrough landscape
16-Nov-2006A competition to design a new 'prototype' landscape which could be built throughout Middlesbrough has been launched today.
SOM to build Austrian skyscraper - image
15-Nov-2006SOM's London office has won the commission to build a 137m tower in the Austrian countryside.
Simpson's Brunswick looks set for green light
15-Nov-2006The long-awaited outcome of the planning enquiry into Ian Simpson's 51-storey Brunswick Quay tower in Liverpool is set to be revealed.
Sauerbruch Hutton picks up first major UK commission - image
15-Nov-2006Sauerbruch Hutton has won the go-ahead for its first major public project in the UK - part of the on-going redevelopment of a former women's hospital in Sheffield.
Chipperfield joins Copenhagen waterfront shortlist
14-Nov-2006David Chipperfield Architects has become the latest British practice to be preselected for the finals of a major 'open' international competition.
Huge British Museum competition to attract global starchitects
14-Nov-2006The British Museum in central London is set to trigger an architectural feeding frenzy with the unveiling of a massive new competition.
... While Canterbury's Marlowe Theatre seeks proposals for transformation
13-Nov-2006The famous Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, Kent, has launched a search for an architect to mastermind a £24 million overhaul and extension.
Beamish finally appoints competition winner Benson + Forsyth
13-Nov-2006Beamish Museum, in the North East, has ended months of uncertainty over the outcome of its high-profile visitor centre competition by naming Benson + Forsyth as project designer.
RMJM joins international big-hitters on shortlist for mammoth Russian scheme - images
10-Nov-2006These are the first images of the entries into the highly contentious Gazprom City competition in St Petersburg, Russia.
Caruso St John pips Hopkins to Chiswick House scheme
10-Nov-2006Caruso St John has been handed the controversial project to renovate Chiswick House and Gardens in west London.
Morgan Carn plans 'Docklands of the South' for Sussex - images
9-Nov-2006A £140 million scheme to create a so-called 'Docklands of the South' in East Sussex has been submitted by the Morgan Carn Partnership.
SS Great Britain Museum's long-term future in doubt
9-Nov-2006The long-term future of Alec French Architects' award-winning SS Great Britain Museum could be in jeopardy unless a £30 million dockside development is given the green light.
Zaha makes shortlist for New Orleans waterfront
8-Nov-2006Zaha Hadid is the only British-based architect still in the running to transform a 7km-long riverbank plot in New Orleans - part of a multi-billion pound programme to rebuild the hurricane-hit city.
Chair's vote clears Broadway Malyan's Mann Island project
8-Nov-2006Broadway Malyan has finally succeeded in winning the green light for its contentious Mann Island proposals in Liverpool - but only by the narrowest of margins.
Malcolm Fraser finally wins approval for new home for Scottish Ballet - images
7-Nov-2006Malcolm Fraser Architects has finally won the go-ahead for its ambitious £11 million relocation plans for Scottish Ballet after months of negotiations with the planners.
Sheppard Robson to build Edinburgh University stem-cell lab - images
7-Nov-2006Sheppard Robson has won the competition to design the University of Edinburgh's new £35 million centre for regenerative medicine.
'Survivors' staircase' must move for Foster's Ground Zero plans
6-Nov-2006The only surviving piece of the World Trade Center - the Vesey Street staircase - will have to move to make way for Norman Foster's Ground Zero tower proposals.
Up-and-coming 5th Studio wins Cambridge college commission
6-Nov-20065th Studio has won the go-ahead for this new 24-room graduate hostel at St Catharine's College in Cambridge.
Council reveals costs that finished Turner Contemporary Centre - image
6-Nov-2006Kent County Council has released full details of the 'massive cost increases' leading to the demise of Snohetta and Spence's proposed Turner Contemporary Centre in Margate.
Arup wins the go-ahead for Salford rugby league stadium
3-Nov-2006Arup's £130 million Salford Stadium has finally been given the thumbs up after a year-long public enquiry.
Delay looms for McAslan's Birmingham New Street scheme
3-Nov-2006McAslan and Partners' Birmingham New Street scheme is likely to be hit by delays because a government decision on the station's redevelopment will not be made until next summer.
RCA shortlists architects for new sculpture building
3-Nov-2006The shortlist in the competition to design a new sculpture building for the Royal College of Art (RCA) has been unveiled.
Fears grow for Fortress House as potential new buyer emerges
2-Nov-2006Speculation is growing about the future of central London's Fortress House after it emerged landowner Legal & General had received a massive £115 million offer for the former headquarters of English Heritage.
Architecture 2B gets go-ahead for key Leeds scheme - images
1-Nov-2006Architecture 2B has been given the green light for this mixed-use office and residential scheme on a key site opposite the Tetley Brewery headquarters in Leeds.
Star van Egeraat returns to UK with east London masterplan
1-Nov-2006Erick van Egeraat is to make a surprise return to the UK - almost two years after closing his London office.
Alsop asked to come up with new vision for Croydon
31-Oct-2006Will Alsop has been asked to 'do a Barnsley' and come up with an exciting new vision for Croydon town centre in south London.
FOA continues British trans-Atlantic success with US art museum win
31-Oct-2006Foreign Office Architects (FOA) has continued the astonishing British run of form in the US by winning the competition to design Cleveland's new Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).
Shigeru Ban's Pompidou Centre gets under way in Metz
30-Oct-2006Work is about to start on Shigeru Ban's Pompidou Centre in Metz, the competition-winning scheme for the gallery's first outpost outside Paris.
- While DLG converts genuine Georgian chapel into shopping centre
30-Oct-2006DLG Architects has been given the green light for a £3 million conversion of a Grade I-listed Georgian chapel in Bath into a new shopping centre.
No way out as Preston bus station faces wrecking ball
24-Oct-2006Developer Grosvenor has rubbished rumours that it was considering a reprieve for the much-loved Brutalist bus station in Preston.
NCH to overhaul Liverpool council building - images
24-Oct-2006NCH Architects has submitted plans for this £6 million overhaul of a former council building in Liverpool city centre.
Stoke seeks designer to overhaul public realm
23-Oct-2006Stoke-on-Trent City Council has launched a competition to find a design team for the £20 million revamp of the city's public realm.
Future of Fortress House hangs in the balance
23-Oct-2006A decision is imminent on a last-gasp bid to save the former headquarters of English Heritage in central London from demolition.
Huddersfield market hall could get a new lease of life - images
20-Oct-2006Radical new plans for Huddersfield town centre have been welcomed by campaigners battling to save the much-loved 1970s Queensgate market hall.
Scunthorpe picks sports academy designer - images
20-Oct-2006Andrew Wright Associates has won the contest to design a new £13 million sports academy as part of the revamp of Scunthorpe's Central Park.
German heritage boss call for Chippo's 'forgotten' Berlin scheme to get under way
19-Oct-2006One of the biggest names in German art has called on the country's government to kick-start David Chipperfield's forgotten 'gateway' proposals for Berlin's Museum Island.
Council refutes 'threat' to Liverpool's World Heritage Status
18-Oct-2006Council chiefs in Liverpool have hit back at suggestions that the city's World Heritage status is at risk as UNESCO officials have begun a three-day investigation into the impact of controversial new waterfront developments.
Foster finds he is no longer New York's darling as tower runs into criticism
18-Oct-2006Norman Foster's latest skyscraper scheme in New York has met with heated opposition from residents in the affluent Upper East Side area of the city.
Shepheard Epstein Hunter to finish Lasdun's work
17-Oct-2006Shepheard Epstein Hunter (SEH) is to revamp yet another Denys Lasdun building - this time his part-complete Institute of Education in Bloomsbury, north London.
A latest look at Gensler's super-casino for en-vogue Blackpool - images
16-Oct-2006Gensler has unveiled these new images of its proposed £350 million 160,000msq Conference and Casino Quarter in Blackpool.
- A result which leaves the bookies smiling
16-Oct-2006Bookmaker William Hill is rubbing its hands with joy after Richard Rogers walked off with this year's Stirling Prize.
Plans for Fourth Grace to face major World Heritage review
11-Oct-2006The expected approval for Broadway Malyan's Fourth Grace scheme in Liverpool has been put back to allow World Heritage officials to review the plans.
Quartet battles it out to succeed Pugin
10-Oct-2006Four of Britain's most promising young practices have been shortlisted in the competition to design a new country house hotel on the site of E W Pugin's now-demolished Croston Hall in Lancashire.
Herzog & de Meuron scoops Royal Gold Medal...
4-Oct-2006Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has won this year's RIBA Royal Gold Medal.
Students threaten to boycott 'badly designed' new college building
3-Oct-2006Construction students are threatening to boycott Bond Bryan's newly-opened Pagefield Campus in Wigan, claiming the building is 'claustrophobic' and 'badly designed'.
KSS football training centre shown the red card
2-Oct-2006The chair of Enfield Council's planning committee has admitted councillors had 'thrown out the rule book' after knocking back proposals by Tottenham Hotspur FC for an all-new training centre.
Arup report 'shows zero-carbon Olympic village in within reach'
29-Sep-2006A new report by Arup has been seized on by environmentalists, who claim it backs the commercial and practical viability of a 'zero-carbon' Olympic Village.
Moren Gregory wins go-ahead for west London housing scheme - images
29-Sep-2006Moren Gregory has been given the green light for this £4 million housing scheme in Alperton, west London.
Designers sought for 'people's playground' in Blackpool
28-Sep-2006An international design competition has been launched to create a new 'people's playground' along Blackpool's Central Promenade.
Llewelyn Davies Yeang forced to lay off staff as hospital scheme collapses
28-Sep-2006Llewelyn Davies Yeang (LDY) has suffered a major blow following the collapse of the firm's second-largest project.
Regeneration boss plays down Pathfinder legal blow
28-Sep-2006The development director behind the controversial Edge Lane regeneration project in Liverpool has downplayed the potential impact of a High Court ruling on the future of the Pathfinder programme.
Simpson shortens South Bank skyscraper
26-Sep-2006Ian Simpson has redesigned - and dramatically shortened - his Beetham Tower on London's South Bank.
Pathfinder bosses call for continued government support
25-Sep-2006The chiefs of the nine Pathfinder Housing Market Renewal Initiatives (HMRI) have called on the government to continue backing the controversial programme at the Labour Party conference.
World's biggest architectural names asked to help flood-ravaged New Orleans
25-Sep-2006Some of the biggest names in architecture, including Norman Foster, have been invited to help transform a key 7km-long river bank as part of the rebirth of flood-hit New Orleans.
Confusion surrounds Wear Bridge scheme
20-Sep-2006Speculation is growing over the future of Spence Associates' and Techniker's competition-winning Wear Bridge scheme in Sunderland.
Rem goes back to his US alma mater with £21 million scheme - images
20-Sep-2006Rem Koolhaas has unveiled the first images of this surprisingly understated scheme for Cornell University in Ithaca, New York State.
HOK's Scottish scheme looks set for the go-ahead following A+DS mauling
15-Sep-2006The first scheme to be reviewed - and slated - by design watchdog Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS) looks set to finally be given the go-ahead.
Israeli art academy seeks new designer through unorthodox competition
15-Sep-2006An unusual two-stage competition has been launched in Jerusalem, which will see the first-round winner face guaranteed contest finalist Foreign Office Architects (FOA).
-While slamming RMJM's Liverpool skyscraper scheme
14-Sep-2006CABE has slated RMJM's high-rise Princes Dock proposals in Liverpool, branding the scheme 'joyless' and 'disappointing'.
Work of leading Scottish architects to go on show
13-Sep-2006An exhibition celebrating two of Scotland's most controversial architects has received Heritage Lottery Funding and will open in autumn 2007.
Stanton Williams presents visions of Leonardo - image
13-Sep-2006These are the first images of Stanton Williams' designs for the new Leonardo da Vinci show which opens at the V&A in central London tomorrow (14 September).
Firebrand Roche slams London borough's design guide
13-Sep-2006Militant London architect Chris Roche has branded Islington's draft Urban Design Guide 'draconian' and claimed it will shackle creativity and innovation.
Caruso St John's Stirling chance bolstered by award win
12-Sep-2006Caruso St John Architects' Brick House has remerged as one of the favourites to scoop this year's Stirling prize after winning the RIBA London region's 'best in show' award.
New addition planned for City of London skyscraper cluster - images
12-Sep-2006Allies and Morrison has released these first images of its new skyscraper scheme at 100 Bishopsgate in the City of London.
Hoskins to replace Edinburgh's 'ticket caravan' - image
11-Sep-2006This is the first image of Gareth Hoskins' proposal to replace the infamous ticket 'caravan' at Edinburgh Castle.
RMJM converts Glasgow church remains into apartments - images
11-Sep-2006Work has started on this scheme by RMJM to convert the famous white tower - the only remaining part of the now-demolished Park Church in Glasgow - into luxury apartments.
Leading Minimalists on Chichester museum shortlist
8-Sep-2006Some of the biggest names in British Minimalism have been shortlisted in the competition to design a new district museum in Chichester, West Sussex.
Foster and Rogers unveil Ground Zero towers - images
7-Sep-2006These are the first images of Norman Foster and Richard Rogers' proposed new skyscrapers for the Ground Zero site in New York.
Designer sought for tribute to legendary hornsman Satchmo
7-Sep-2006A competition has been launched to find an architect to design a new visitor centre in the US dedicated to jazz legend Louis Armstrong.
McLaughlin turns his back on pioneering Southwark procurement scheme
6-Sep-2006Niall McLaughlin has walked away from the ambitious Elephant & Castle residential redevelopment in Southwark.
LDA launches design advisors recruitment drive
5-Sep-2006The London Development Agency (LDA) has launched the search for the first members of its new design advisors panel.
Collett and Farmer wins High Court battle after three years of legal woe
5-Sep-2006London-based practice Collett and Farmer has secured a convincing victory in the High Court - ending an extraordinary three-year legal struggle to recover unpaid fees.
World-famous Crucible aims to pot the black with refurbishment
1-Sep-2006A search has been launched to find an architect-led team to revamp the famous Crucible Theatre in Sheffield - the home of world snooker.
Halliday Clark to build educational Eco-Pod - images
31-Aug-2006Halliday Clark has jumped on the growing bandwagon of practices working with shipping containers with this scheme for Immanuel Community College in Bradford.
Hampton Wick's 'Hansel and Gretel' house to be replaced by larch-clad apartments - images
31-Aug-2006Architect Richard Pain has just submitted plans for this seven-apartment scheme in a conservation area in Hampton Wick, south-west London.
Denton Corker Marshall's Stonehenge saga continues
30-Aug-2006Denton Corker Marshall's long-awaited and highly controversial planned new visitor centre at Stonehenge is to face yet another public inquiry.
Huge medical research centre design contract up for grabs
29-Aug-2006The search for an architect to design possibly one of the largest medical research facilities ever to be built in the UK was launched this morning.
Wakefield's Sun Lane baths to face the wrecking ball
23-Aug-2006Wakefield City Council has admitted it will launch a design competition for the replacement for the doomed 1930s Sun Lane baths.
Rogers to take another bite out of the Big Apple - image
23-Aug-2006The Richard Rogers Partnership has won the green light for this massive new studio complex development on the Long Island City Waterfront in New York.
Kelly gives green light for Barratt Homes in London
22-Aug-2006The government's Culture Secretary Ruth Kelly has flown in the face of the planning inspector and given the green light to a huge housing scheme in Southwark.
Foster's church scheme rejected
11-Aug-2006Norman Foster's proposals for his first-ever church project have been sent back to the drawing board.
SOM goes east with Polish skyscraper - image
10-Aug-2006SOM's London office has been approached to design a new 25-storey luxury apartment block in Poland.
OGC reveals fraudsters' fake letter
10-Aug-2006The Office for Government Commerce (OGC) has released a letter sent by fraudsters impersonating senior OGC officials in a bid to stop the swindlers getting hold of architects' bank details.
Morley goes up on the roof at Lister Mills - images
9-Aug-2006David Morley Architects has been given the go-ahead for this unusual roof-top scheme at the famous Lister Mills in Bradford.
Discovery of Pugin drawing opens the way to massive restoration work - images
9-Aug-2006The discovery of a long-forgotten drawing by Victorian architect Peter Paul Pugin has opened the door for the restoration of the impressive altar at the Gorton Monastery - Manchester's answer to the Taj Mahal.
Viñoly reveals shortened London skyscraper - images
8-Aug-2006These are the first images of Rafael Viñoly's redesigned 'Walkie Talkie' skyscraper in Fenchurch Street, central London.
Purcell Miller Tritton to rehouse lords
4-Aug-2006Purcell Miller Tritton (PMT) has been handed the task of transforming a Grade II*-listed Arts and Crafts building next to the Houses of Parliament into new offices for the House of Lords.
Imperial Tobacco Factory HQ saved from the scrap heap - images
2-Aug-2006Skidmore Owings and Merrill's (SOM's) part-demolished 1970s Imperial Tobacco Factory Headquarters in Bristol has been saved from total destruction.
Atkins wins casino go-ahead after massive cost hike and redesign
31-Jul-2006Atkins' redesigned proposals for a massive new casino project in Southend-on Sea, Essex, have been given the green light.
Demand for architecture courses increases despite top-up fees
25-Jul-2006The widely predicted drop in the number of architecture students joining courses following the introduction of university top-up fees has failed to materialise.
Select committee makes fresh demand for VAT exemption on 'historic buildings'
24-Jul-2006The government has been urged to reconsider its position regarding VAT on repairs to historic buildings by an influential parliamentary group.
Colin St John Wilson's own 'Mini-monument' house up for sale
14-Jul-2006One of the most important houses of the 1960s - architect Colin St John Wilson's own Grantchester Road home in Cambridge - has been put up for sale.
Viñoly's 'Walkie Talkie' skyscraper set to shrink
14-Jul-2006Rafael Viñoly will have to reduce the height of his planned 45-storey central London skyscraper, dubbed the Walkie Talkie, because of its potential impact on key views across the capital.
Hoskins scoops second Shetlands win
13-Jul-2006Gareth Hoskins Architects has won a second major competition in the Shetland Islands in as many months, this time for a new £7.25 million junior high school on the isle of Yell.
Supermarkets turn to all-wood stores in bid to go green
12-Jul-2006Supermarket giants Asda and Tesco have revealed plans to build three new all-wood stores.
Client drops troubled earth-sheltered home plans
11-Jul-2006The businessman behind controversial plans for an unusual earth-sheltered home in the Yorkshire Dales has decided to drop the strife-hit scheme.
Chapman Taylor's huge Glasgow scheme takes a battering
7-Jul-2006Chapman Taylor's massive £1.2 billion Glasgow Harbour regeneration project has been slated by design watchdog Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS).
O'Donnell + Tuomey wins first UK chance with Photographers' Gallery
7-Jul-2006O'Donnell + Tuomey hopes to succeed where Erick van Egeraat failed after being chosen to design a new home for the Photographers' Gallery in London.
Foster gets to work on first church scheme - images
6-Jul-2006Norman Foster has unveiled these images of his first-ever church project.
The US braces itself as Alsop eyes up Yonkers site - images
6-Jul-2006Will Alsop is to make his American debut with this scheme on the Hudson River in the city of Yonkers, around 5km north of New York.
Barker Review calls for faster, more transparent planning process
5-Jul-2006The Barker Review of the planning system has called for the process to be speeded up and made more transparent.
Woods Bagot wins the green light for Liverpool Central Village
5-Jul-2006Woods Bagot has finally been given the go-ahead for its controversial and largely redesigned Liverpool Central Village development.
AFL to give Munster rugby club refit a try - images
4-Jul-2006Stadium expert AFL Architects has been chosen to redesign Munster Rugby Club's famous Thormond Park home in Limerick in the Irish Republic.
Shhhh! British Library North building revealed - images
4-Jul-2006Work is about to start on the British Library's new overflow facility in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire.
Architects sought for overhaul of Northern Ireland's Maze Prison
3-Jul-2006The long-running saga surrounding the future of the notorious Maze Prison site in Northern Ireland finally looks close to being resolved.
Move to save Gehry's Hove towers 'may not be enough'
30-Jun-2006A last ditch bid to rescue Frank Gehry's radical twin-towers on Hove seafront may still not save the project, observers have warned.
'No Seaside in Scotland' pledges Duany
30-Jun-2006Andres Duany has vowed not to create another Seaside in Scotland when he builds a new settlement in the Highlands.
'Tweaking not terminal,' client claims over Sheppard Robson college
30-Jun-2006Suffolk College has played down rumours it has pulled plans for a Sheppard Robson-designed £50 million extension.
Hoskins comes second in Latvia but sees off Albert Speer and Zaha - images
30-Jun-2006Gareth Hoskins Architects has narrowly missed out on winning a major international competition to masterplan the 'playground' resort of Jurmala in Latvia.
Chichester museum designer sought
29-Jun-2006A competition has been launched to find a design for a new district museum in Chichester, West Sussex.
Not in Balmond's back yard - Cecil slams Crouch End housing scheme
29-Jun-2006Engineer to the stars Cecil Balmond has been labelled a 'Nimby' after opposing a small residential development next to his Victorian home in Crouch End, north London.
Concept model unmasked as Wilkinson Eyre skyscraper proposal - image
28-Jun-2006This supposed concept project, currently being exhibited at the Royal Academy under the guise of a notional tower scheme, is in fact Wilkinson Eyre's proposed skyscraper development for 20 Blackfriars Road.
Zaha and Aedas think along the same lines in the Middle East
28-Jun-2006Zaha Hadid and Aedas spent yesterday (27 June) proving the originality of their surprisingly similar Middle East skyscraper designs.
Jestico + Whiles hoping to break into Bratislava - images
28-Jun-2006Jestico + Whiles has submitted plans for this luxury apartment scheme overlooking the Slovakian capital, Bratislava.
Aukett Fitzroy Robinson continues its financial success
27-Jun-2006Aukett Fitzroy Robinson's financial turnaround is continuing apace, according to interim results unveiled today
Scottish Executive admits Miralles Holyrood appointment was illegal
27-Jun-2006The architects who missed out on designing the controversial Scottish Parliament building could sue after the Scottish government admitted that the selection procedure had been illegal.
Keilder competition-winner wins planning green light - image
26-Jun-2006Charles Barclay Architects' competition-winning Kielder Observatory scheme in Northumberland has been given the green light by planners.
Wakefield gets yet more culture as Allen Tod wins planning - images
26-Jun-2006Allen Tod Architecture has been given the go-ahead for this £2 million project in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, for national visual arts organisation The Art House.
World-class architect sought for Liverpool landmark refit
23-Jun-2006The developer behind the Port of Liverpool Building revamp is looking for an 'international standard' architect to mastermind the internal overhaul of the Grade-II* listed landmark.
Welsh housing gets the Robert Adam treatment - images
23-Jun-2006Robert Adam Architects has revealed these images of a new 'urban village' on the former site of Britain's first oil refinery in South Wales.
Bergdoll takes MoMA architecture role
22-Jun-2006The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has unveiled Barry Bergdoll as the head of its department of Architecture and Design.
Scottish design watchdog pans proposal to extend historic house
21-Jun-2006Scotland's answer to CABE has branded plans for a new extension to the Grade A-listed Balbirnie House near Glenrothes, Fife 'unacceptable.'
Milton Keynes growth quango in demolition U-turn
20-Jun-2006The agency behind controversial proposals to double the size of Milton Keynes has turned its back on an 'insensitive' housing demolition programme.
Yeoman McAllister scheme panned by Scottish design watchdog
16-Jun-2006A housing scheme by Edinburgh-based practice Yeoman McAllister has been mauled by Scotland's design watchdog for lacking 'skill and ambition'.
British firms make the cut in St Petersburg shortlist
16-Jun-2006A brace of British-based firms has been shortlisted alongside some of the world's biggest architects in a competition for a massive office scheme in Russia.
Spratley goes for planning in Basingstoke - images
16-Jun-2006Henley-based Spratley Architects has submitted this scheme in Basingstoke for planning permission.
BBC chooses Salford scheme as its Northern home
15-Jun-2006The BBC has decided to build its new £400 million northern home in the Salford Quays.
Final death knell sounds for Pimlico School
14-Jun-2006John Bancroft's Brutalist Pimlico School in Westminster is set to finally be demolished, ending years of speculation about the future of the late-1960s building.
Shoreditch warehouse listing welcomed by conservationists
13-Jun-2006The listing of a 19th-century furniture warehouse and showroom on the fringes of London's commercial hub has been welcomed by conservationists.
Alison Brooks is sole British survivor in international steel comp
12-Jun-2006Alison Brooks Architects is the only British-based practice left in the international Living Steel Competition to design a new type of sustainable housing.
Le Corbusier's Chandigarh masterwork finally set to be finished
9-Jun-2006Le Corbusier's masterpiece at Chandigarh in India is set to be finally finished almost 40 years after the last major building work on the world-famous Capitol site.
Hopkins unveils US university work - image
7-Jun-2006This is the first image of Hopkins Architects' new £120 million chemistry-research building for Princeton University.
Kelly saves Liverpool homes from Pathfinder threat
7-Jun-2006Ruth Kelly has saved a row of derelict Victorian villas which had been earmarked for demolition under the controversial Pathfinder programme.
Anonymity goes wrong thanks to Hong Kong comp blunder
6-Jun-2006Another international design competition has descended into a shambles after the accidental disclosure of the names of those wanting to enter the anonymous contest.
Zaha sees off stellar global competitors to pick up yet more work
6-Jun-2006Zaha Hadid has bagged yet another high-profile competition - this time to design three towers in Dubai.
Wilford and Dyson out of Africa
1-Jun-2006Michael Wilford and Chris Dyson's extraordinary proposals for a new Museum of Africa have been ditched by landowner Spier Holdings.
Mangera Yvars pipped to post for massive Islamic centre in Saudi - images
31-May-2006London-based firm Mangera Yvars has narrowly missed out in the competition to design a new headquarters for the Organization of Islamic Conferences (OIC), in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Reiach and Hall wins new Dundee Council offices - images
30-May-2006Reiach and Hall Architects has won the competition to design Dundee Council's new £20 million offices in the city's North Lindsay Street.
Alec French scoops Gulbenkian
26-May-2006Alec French Architects' museum dedicated to the SS Great Britainhas sailed off with this year's £100,000 Gulbenkian Prize.
Buxton spa plan picks up cash but receives fresh 'Bath warning'
26-May-2006Councillors in Buxton have warned they do not want another Bath Spa on their hands despite approving a £1 million grant towards the transformation of the town's Georgian Crescent buildings.
Fire-ravaged Gilbert Scott masterpiece up for sale
24-May-2006The ruined Grade I-listed Hafodunos Hall in Wales, which was torched by arsonists nearly two years ago, has been put on the market.
Mayor admits his carbon targets are impossible
22-May-2006The Mayor of London has admitted the capital will miss its 2010 target for CO 2emissions as cash intended for the scheme is syphoned off to fund the 2012 Olympics.
ARB under fire again as simmering CPD row reignites
22-May-2006The simmering argument over the ARB's would-be role in monitoring continuing professional development (CPD) has flared up again.
Final three vie for RIBA presidency
19-May-2006The final trio battling it out to become the next RIBA president has been officially announced.
Birmingham city centre cleared as glass falls from Rotunda
19-May-2006Part of Birmingham city centre had to be evacuated after a glass pane fell from the Rotunda - the Grade II-listed 1960s landmark that is being refurbished by Glen Howells Architects in an incident yesterday (18 May).
Capita Percy Thomas on verge of Ruddle Wilkinson take-over
19-May-2006Ruddle Wilkinson will become the latest major practice to be devoured by acquisition-hungry architectural giant Capita Percy Thomas (CPT).
Conservationists promise to swing into action against Smithfield scheme
18-May-2006Conservations have vowed to 'mobilise the troops' to stop the controversial Smithfield development after it won planning permission this week.
Alexander 'Greek' Thomson memorial vandalised before it is even unveiled
18-May-2006Vandals have attacked a Glasgow memorial to Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, one of Britain's most famous 19th century architects.
Vandalism forces a redesign on the Phoenix Initiative
17-May-2006Vandals have forced the design team behind the Stirling-shortlisted Phoenix Initiative in Coventry city centre to rethink its designs.
A first look at Wilkinson Eyre's museum transformation - images
17-May-2006These are the first images of Wilkinson Eyre's £18 million plans to transform the Museum of London.
BBC shows preference for commercial practices with new design framework
16-May-2006The BBC has made its intentions clear about the type of 'value for money' architectural practice it wants for future construction projects after unveiling the names on its new design framework agreement.
Rem's top man in New York splits from the Dutch superstar
16-May-2006In a shock move, Joshua Prince-Ramus, the figurehead of Rem Koolhaas' operations in New York, has split from the Dutch architect's Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA).
Duo enter the running for RIBA presidency
15-May-2006Two more candidates have thrown their hat into the ring to become the RIBA's next president.
Scunthorpe searches for sports centre designer
15-May-2006The hunt is on for a design team to draw up plans for a new sports academy in Scunthorpe - the centrepiece of a major revamp of the town's Central Park.
Green Party goes to EU with King's Cross regeneration fears
12-May-2006Argent's massive King's Cross redevelopment is to be investigated by the European Commission over allegations that the project breaches rules on pollution limits.
'Keep using old Part L' is the advice, as software hold-up adds further delays
12-May-2006Building control officers have been told to continue applying the old Part L criteria because software needed to check compliance with the new regulations is not yet available.
McDowell + Benedetti swings into action with Hull bridge - image
12-May-2006McDowell + Benedetti has romped to victory in the international competition to design a new 'swinging' footbridge over the River Hull.
Fuksas wins African science institute competition - images
11-May-2006Italian Massimiliano Fuksas has walked off with the first prize in the international design competition for the new African Institute of Science and Technology (AIST).
Murray to step down from Biennale top job next year
11-May-2006The founder of London's phenomenally successful architecture biennale is to hand over control after this year's event.
Triple bill for Bradford Odeon site - images
11-May-2006These are the first images of the shortlisted schemes in the high-profile Bradford Odeon competition.
Environment groups attack plans for huge Yorkshire indoor development
10-May-2006Plans to build Europe's largest indoor leisure development on a former coal-mining site in Rotherham, South Yorkhire, have been slated by pro-countryside activists.
Aukett's contentious Croydon scheme faces more uncertainty following Tory council win
9-May-2006The new Conservative council administration in Croydon has refused to rule out re-examining Michael Aukett's controversial Croydon Gateway project.
MacDonald steps down at Glasgow Lighthouse
9-May-2006The head of The Lighthouse in Glasgow, one of Britain's leading architecture centres, has stepped down.
Hadid reveals Barcelona 'Spiralling Tower' - images
9-May-2006Zaha Hadid has unveiled these images of her new 'Spiralling Tower' proposals - a mixed-use office, university and exhibition development on Barcelona's waterfront.
Liverpool's much-maligned tall buildings policy is killed off
8-May-2006Developers and lobby groups across the city of Liverpool have welcomed the demise of the its tall buildings policy.
Dublin looks abroad for design review expertise
8-May-2006Dublin has again turned to British architects to fill the vacancies on its unofficial design review panel.
Preston performing arts centre gets under way - image
8-May-2006Work has started on this new £11 million performing arts centre in Preston, designed by architect SMC DTR:UK.
Leach Rhodes Walker to build hotel in Manchester conservation area - images
4-May-2006Leach Rhodes Walker has been given the green light for this five star hotel development in the heart of Manchester's Smithfield Conservation Area.
RIBA to bring Corb back to the UK
4-May-2006The RIBA has pulled off a major coup by landing the first Le Corbusier exhibition to hit the UK for almost 20 years.
BDP may demolish its own Brutalist icon - image
3-May-2006Preston Bus Garage, the much-loved Brutalist gem earmarked for demolition, could be flattened by the architects who built it.
Rogers to design new World Trade Center tower - image
3-May-2006Richard Rogers is to design one of the four new towers on the former World Trade Center site in New York.
Major London art gallery seeks complete revamp
3-May-2006The Photographers' Gallery ( pictured), in the heart of London's West End, is set for a major overhaul, the AJ can reveal.
Serpentine grass hill migrates to New Orleans - images
2-May-2006Dutch-based architects MVRDV has followed up its 'unbuildable' proposals for a mountain over the Serpentine Gallery with a similar scheme for flood-hit New Orleans.
Work finally set to begin on Jubilee Gardens - images
2-May-2006The controversial Jubilee Gardens project has finally been given the go-ahead, ending years of uncertainty over the future of the high-profile site on London's South Bank.
Rogue planner sent down
28-Apr-2006A rogue planning officer from Enfield Council who accepted bribes to pay for his wife's plastic surgery has been jailed for 18 months.
Urban-design firebrand Jane Jacobs dies, aged 89
28-Apr-2006The influential American writer and thinker Jane Jacobs, who famously challenged the brutal approach to urban planning in the early 1960s, has died in Toronto, aged 89.
Spence dropped to leave two in Hull Bridge competition
27-Apr-2006Spence Associates has been dropped from the River Hull footbridge competition, leaving a hotly contested two-horse race.
Airbus-style architecture takes off with trans-Euro prefab scheme
27-Apr-2006Some of Europe's brightest architectural lights have been brought together to design the next generation of prefab housing - an initiative that has already been dubbed architecture's answer to Airbus.
RMJM takes on massive new joint Egyptian city commission - images
26-Apr-2006RMJM has jointly landed the task of masterplanning a massive new city on the outskirts of Cairo.
Glenn Howells unveils Bradford regeneration proposals - images
26-Apr-2006Glenn Howells Architects has revealed these images of its competition-winning scheme to regenerate a key site in Bradford.
Park planners court controversy by rejecting earth-sheltered home
25-Apr-2006National Park planners have been accused of double standards after rejecting plans for an earth-sheltered home in the Yorkshire Dales.
Woods Bagot shrinks Liverpool tower in face of fierce opposition - images
25-Apr-2006Woods Bagot has gone back to the drawing board to address fears over its contentious Liverpool Village development.
Plans to build bungalows on 'Capability' Brown garden meet with storm of protest
24-Apr-2006Controversial plans to build six bungalows at Croome Court in Worcestershire - 'Capability' Brown's first major garden - have been met with a wall of objections.
S&P rides the crest of the wave with indoor surf centre plan - image
24-Apr-2006Pool expert S&P Architects has been asked to design the first indoor surfing centre in Europe, which will be sited in east London.
Liverpool lands cash for strife-hit museum scheme
21-Apr-2006The Museum of Liverpool has been handed enough cash to get its new building - the replacement for Will Alsop's doomed Fourth Grace project - off the ground.
Chatham's cable-car cultural centre clears cash criteria - images
21-Apr-2006Medway Council in Kent has cleared an important funding hurdle in its bid to build an unusual £78 million cultural centre featuring a cable-car crossing over the River Medway.
Heritage chiefs in Euro summit
20-Apr-2006European heritage chiefs are set to meet for the first time to discuss how other countries protect their historic environment.
Dutch-based firm wins high-profile Pathfinder scheme - image
20-Apr-2006A Dutch-based practice has scooped the controversial Whitefield competition in the heart of the infamous Nelson Pathfinder housing renewal area in Lancashire.
AHMM to revitalise Cheshire town
20-Apr-2006Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) has snatched victory in the competition to regenerate Runcorn's Canal Quarter.
Foster to work in Spain again
19-Apr-2006Norman Foster has been handed another major commission in Spain - this time for state-of-the art judicial buildings.
Rogers goes back to Bankside
18-Apr-2006Richard Rogers has been reappointed to work on the Bankside 4 site next to Tate Modern in London
Plans to revitalise Rochester riverside - images
18-Apr-2006Husband and Carpenter Architects has drawn up this scheme to regenerate a rundown riverside site on the banks of the Medway in Rochester, Kent.
Phoney 'architect' sentenced
31-Mar-2006A man claiming to be an architect has been ordered to serve 200 hours of unpaid community work for forging a planning consent.
Ronalds scoops Pestalozzi comp - image
31-Mar-2006Tim Ronalds Architects has won the competition to design a masterplan for the Pestalozzi International Village in East Sussex.
Farrell set to move in on Leeds - image
31-Mar-2006Internationally acclaimed urban designer and architect Terry Farrell is set to sink his teeth into Leeds city centre.
Olympics legacy cost has not been thought through, consultant warns
30-Mar-2006The cost and design of the key legacy projects following London's 2012 Olympic Games has not been thought through, a leading London Development Agency consultant has claimed.
Massive Mersey crossing gets green light as backers turn to CABE
30-Mar-2006The government has finally decided to back the controversial new £209 million Mersey crossing project, ending years of speculation about the scheme.
'Terror group' threatens new developments
30-Mar-2006The AJ has been handed a top-secret dossier from architecture's only known terrorist organisation - the Historic Buildings Liberation Front (HBLF).
Chapman Taylor and Hopkins get the green light in Belfast
29-Mar-2006A £300 million redevelopment in the heart of Belfast, masterminded by Chapman Taylor and Hopkins Architects, has been given the official thumbs up.
RMJM Dumfries theatre plans pulled - image
29-Mar-2006The plug has been pulled on RMJM's ambitious proposals to replace the historic Theatre Royal in Dumfries.
CABE refuses support for Rogers in Cambridge - image
28-Mar-2006Richard Rogers' ambitious proposals to transform a key area around Cambridge Railway Station ( Rogers takes on huge Cambridge project) have been heavily criticised by CABE's design review panel.
Final designs for new Mary Rose home revealed
28-Mar-2006The final design of the new Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth has been revealed.
MAKE reveals new Digbeth Coach Station plans - images
28-Mar-2006MAKE Architects has unveiled the first images of proposals to replace Digbeth Coach Station in Birmingham.
Associated Architects reaches for the sky in Birmingham - images
27-Mar-2006Associated Architects has unveiled plans for a new 'vertical entertainment' centre in Birmingham, which is set to become the city's tallest building.
Zaha's Hoxton Square proposals finally win planning
27-Mar-2006Zaha Hadid has finally won permission for this scheme in east London, which is set to become her first built project in England.
Rogers loses out in Australia
24-Mar-2006Richard Rogers has missed out to local architects in the East Darling Harbour competition in Sydney.
Concern reemerges for Soane's last country house
24-Mar-2006The future of John Soane's Pell Wall Hall has been thrown further into doubt after it emerged that the building has been put up for sale.
Fresh search begins for Turner gallery architect in Margate
23-Mar-2006The Turner Contemporary Art Gallery has launched a search for a new architect following the collapse of Snøhetta and Spence Associates's scheme last month.
Government in Olympic apology to Zaha
23-Mar-2006Olympics minister Tessa Jowell has apologised to Zaha Hadid for public comments she made about the cost and design of the new London 2012 Olympic Aquatics Centre.
International practices fight it out in anonymous Newport comp - images
22-Mar-2006These are the first snapshots of the shortlisted schemes vying to win the Newport Market Square Open Ideas competition.
Sheppard Robson wins tropical diseases centre green light in Liverpool - images
22-Mar-2006Liverpool's School of Tropical Medicine is set to double in size after this new facility designed by Sheppard Robson got the go-ahead.
ARB critic Salisbury faces board disciplinary committee
21-Mar-2006Anti-ARB campaigner Ian Salisbury has finally been hauled before the board's Professional Conduct Committee (PCC) over his stance on Professional Indemnity Insurance (PII) cover.
Make reveals interior of its first completed building - images
21-Mar-2006Make Architects has revealed to the AJ the first interior shots of its new Dartford Judo Club.
Wembley workers in emergency evacuation
20-Mar-2006The Wembley Stadium construction site had to be evacuated this morning (Monday) after part of the roof broke free.
ARB chief executive resigns
17-Mar-2006In a shock move ARB chief executive Robin Vaughan, a driving force behind the board's controversial recent policies, has stepped down.
Satellite scheme reaches final stage in central London - images
17-Mar-2006Work has started on the second and final construction phase of Satellite Architects' new mixed-use development off Tottenham Court Road, in central London.
Overhaul for Mackintosh's Glasgow masterwork - images
16-Mar-2006Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece, the world-famous School of Art in Glasgow, is set to undergo its largest-ever renovation.
Livingstone slashes Crossrail construction budget
15-Mar-2006The construction budget for new stations on the multibillion-pound Crossrail project has been slashed to safeguard the future of the scheme, London mayor Ken Livingstone has claimed.
Simpson in line for tallest tower in Leeds - images
15-Mar-2006Ian Simpson has submitted plans to build the tallest tower in Leeds.
CABE promises to send design review to regions
15-Mar-2006CABE bosses have vowed to hugely expand the design review process into the English regions.
RMJM sees off international competition to win big in Moscow - image
14-Mar-2006RMJM has seen off nearly 30 practices to win a massive mixed-use scheme in Moscow.
Assael reveals extensive design changes after cinema plans finally win go-ahead
8-Mar-2006Assael Architecture has finally won planning for proposals to revamp the former Granada Cinema in Clapham after it was forced to carry out a major overhaul of its original design.
Squire wins planning for four-strong tower cluster - image
8-Mar-2006Squire and Partners has been given the green light for this mixed-use high-rise scheme on the Isle of Dogs, east London.
Farrell to take on Centre Point
6-Mar-2006Man of the moment Terry Farrell has been brought in to help revamp Richard Seifert's iconic Centre Point complex.
Carey Jones gets innovative in Leeds - image
6-Mar-2006Carey Jones Architects has been given the go-ahead for a new Innovation Hub for Leeds University.
Grade I-listed building to be demolished in controversial Paddington plan
3-Mar-2006English Heritage (EH) has controversially decided to back plans to bulldoze Span Four at Paddington Station.
Safety fears at Scottish Parliament after roof beam swings loose
3-Mar-2006Fears are being raised about the structural safety of the controversial Holyrood building in Edinburgh after a 4m-long beam came loose above the heads of MSPs.
Costs swell on sunken Margate scheme
3-Mar-2006The costs of the abandoned Turner Contemporary project in Margate are continuing to spiral - weeks after Kent County Council (KCC) decided to ditch the ambitious offshore scheme.
Birds Portchmouth Russum wins footbridge comp - images
2-Mar-2006Birds Portchmouth Russum has won the competition to design 'landmark' footbridges in Rochester, Kent.
Urban Splash in political storm over Park Hill - image
1-Mar-2006Urban Splash has found itself in the unusual position of being at the centre of a political fight over the controversial Park Hill redevelopment in Sheffield.
Contentious Reid scheme on Thames wins planning - images
1-Mar-2006The long-running saga surrounding Reid Architecture's plans for a new residential block next to the Tower of London has finally come to an end.
Alan Camp plans Plumstead residential move - image
28-Feb-2006Alan Camp Architects has submitted plans for this £15 million residential development in Plumstead, near Woolwich, south-east London.
Amazing architectural menagerie wins green light in Cotswolds - images
28-Feb-2006The first homes designed for the Landmark House project - an extraordinary showcase of schemes by some of architecture's biggest names - have been given the go ahead by Cotswold District Council.
Broadway Malyan takes on Liverpool's Fourth Grace site - images
27-Feb-2006Broadway Malyan has unveiled this extraordinary £75 million scheme, which will occupy part of the hugely contentious Fourth Grace site in Liverpool.
FLACQ sees off strong competition to bag Morecambe scheme - image
27-Feb-2006London-based practice FLACQ has scooped the high-profile competition to revamp Morecambe's Central Promenade.
Planning law change 'could be unfair to London'
24-Feb-2006Londoners could lose out on much-needed cash under dramatic proposals to change the planning laws, the London Assembly has warned.
Rogers takes on second mammoth New York scheme - images
24-Feb-2006Richard Rogers has been appointed to design a massive new studio complex on the Long Island City waterfront in New York.
After a three year wait lead architect on Restoration winner is finally named
23-Feb-2006The team behind the renovation of Manchester's Victoria Baths - the winner of the hugely popular Restoration television programme back in 2003 - has finally cleared its first major hurdle.
Robert Adam slates 'space ship' design with launch of low-carbon Classicism - image
23-Feb-2006Robert Adam Architects has been given the go-ahead for a new 54-home scheme in Surrey, billed as the first traditionally styled sustainable development.
Another day; another commission- Zaha picks up yet more work - image
22-Feb-2006Zaha Hadid has been chosen to design a new facility for Beirut's American University.
Wembley 'could have hosted cup final'
22-Feb-2006A key architect behind the delayed Wembley Stadium project has claimed the arena could still be finished in time for this year's FA Cup Final in May.
King's Cross redevelopment to begin at last
21-Feb-2006The massive redevelopment around King's Cross station is finally set to get the go-ahead next month.
Capita Percy Thomas continues expansion with Birmingham firm purchase
21-Feb-2006Takeover-hungry behemoth Capita Percy Thomas (CPT) has snapped up the Birmingham branch of architectural practice Church Lukas for an undisclosed sum.
Space Craft flies into Margate - image
21-Feb-2006Kent County Council (KCC) has unveiled the winner of a key architectural competition in Margate, just weeks after the authority pulled the plug on the town's controversial Turner Contemporary project.
Wolf Prix to team up with 'old friend' Zaha in Russia
20-Feb-2006Coop Himmelblau chief Wolf Prix is about to start work with Zaha Hadid and Greg Lynn on a top-secret project in Russia, it has emerged.
Dyson and Pillinger miss out in Mars simulator comp
20-Feb-2006Chris Dyson Architects (CDA) has narrowly missed out on winning a competition to design a new Mars surface simulator for the European Space Agency (ESA).
Pardey plans for St Albans school face planning inquiry
17-Feb-2006An inquiry is to be launched into John Pardey Architects' plans to transform a Grade-II listed school in St Albans, Hertfordshire, into a housing development.
MAKE sent back to drawing board in Wandsworth
17-Feb-2006MAKE Architects' contentious Wandsworth Riverside Quarter proposals have been sent back to the drawing board.
Stanley Park stadium cash injection claims are pooh-poohed
16-Feb-2006Plans for Liverpool FC's new £150 million stadium remain shrouded in uncertainty, despite rumours that the project has received a major cash boost.
Welsh government rejects Assembly cost claim
15-Feb-2006The Welsh Assembly government has rejected claims its new £67 million home has cost more per square metre than the highly expensive Scottish Parliament budget.
Martha Schwartz to take on Spaghetti Junction
15-Feb-2006International landscape architect Martha Schwartz is heading a top secret project to revamp the notorious Spaghetti Junction in the West Midlands.
Keppie makes it on to Scotland's £20 note
14-Feb-2006Keppie Design's recently completed Clydesdale Bank Exchange building in Glasgow is to appear on a special edition £20 note.
Hawkins-Brown and Feilden Clegg Bradley up for £100k prize
14-Feb-2006Hawkins\Brown's Roald Dahl Museum in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire ( pictured), has been named among the last ten in the running for the £100,000 Gulbenkian Prize.
Rogers' Welsh Assembly 'cost proportionally more than Holyrood'
13-Feb-2006Richard Roger's Welsh Assembly building has cost more per square metre to construct than the hugely controversial Scottish Parliament project, it has emerged.
Sheppard Robson unveils lecture hall designs in Leeds - images
13-Feb-2006Sheppard Robson has designed this new business school and lecture theatre complex for Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU).
What the-? Rem reveals his latest effort - image
10-Feb-2006Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has come up with yet another weird and wacky scheme - this time in Louisville, Kentucky.
Local practices set to revamp Milton Keynes concert bowl - images
10-Feb-2006Milton Keynes practices David Grindley Architects and The Architecture Studio have joined forces to mastermind the revamp of the city's famous concert bowl.
Confused chopper pilot lands on Foster's snow sculpture
9-Feb-2006A helicopter has landed on Norman Foster's sculpture at this year's Snow Show in Sestriere, Italy, after the pilot mistook it for a helipad.
Moscow Brits issue warning over Melnikov House
9-Feb-2006Developers sniffing around the threatened Melnikov House in Moscow have been told 'the world is watching you' by an architecture preservation group made up of British expats.
Kent sinks Snøhetta and Spence's Turner Contemporary
8-Feb-2006The controversial Turner Contemporary Art Gallery centre in Margate has been dramatically abandoned because of spiralling costs.
Eldridge Smerin first to take on British Library - images
8-Feb-2006Eldridge Smerin has been revealed as the first practice to be asked to rework parts of Colin St John Wilson's British Library building in central London.
Bexley Academy boss hits back after Foster's designs condemned
7-Feb-2006The chief executive of Norman Foster's business academy in Bexley has hit back angrily at claims by the head of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SAAT) that it should never have been built.
Pestalozzi village competition finalists named
7-Feb-2006Fat has been named alongside five other finalists in the competition to design a masterplan for the Pestalozzi International Village in East Sussex.
Clissold opening date put back again
6-Feb-2006The opening of the much-troubled Clissold Leisure Centre in Hackney has been put back yet again.
Levitt Bernstein gets go-ahead for competition-winning scheme - image
6-Feb-2006Levitt Bernstein has secured planning permission for this competition-winning residential development in north-west London.
Office scheme approved in bid to regenerate Hackney - images
3-Feb-2006Hackney planners have given the green light to this 81m-high office scheme on London's city fringe, designed by Horden Cherry Lee Architects (HCLA).
Refurbished building to feature UK's first rooftop running track - images
3-Feb-2006Work has started on site on the first building in Britain to have a running track on its roof.
Antarctic architect denies research station scheme has been frozen
2-Feb-2006The architect behind the new Halley VI research station in Antarctica has hit back at claims the project is in jeopardy.
British office to redesign Iraqi city
2-Feb-2006Llewelyn Davies Yeang (LDY) has landed the extraordinary task of masterplanning the holy city of Najaf in war-ravaged Iraq.
Aedas steams in to Dubai rail project - image
1-Feb-2006Aedas has stepped into the boots of Llewelyn Davies Yeang (LDY) to take on the design of the new Dubai metro project.
Caruso St John sees off Zaha to win Swiss competition - images
1-Feb-2006Caruso St John has beaten some of the top international names in architecture to win a competition for a new cultural centre in Ascona, Switzerland.
Ken Dodd and Prince Charles forge alliance to save cinema
31-Jan-2006Comedian Ken Dodd has joined forces with Prince Charles in a bid to save Carlisle's Art-Deco Lonsdale cinema from demolition.
HSE probes architect's staircase plunge
31-Jan-2006The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched an investigation into last Tuesday's accident in which an architect was injured after falling through a staircase.
Pawson just misses out again with arts scheme - images
30-Jan-2006Terry Pawson Architects has once again narrowly missed out on an overseas concert hall project.
Spies aim to thwart Olympic construction corruption
30-Jan-2006The team behind the London 2012 Olympics is to use undercover surveillance to ensure architectural and building consortia do not cheat when bidding for lucrative construction contracts.
Dixon Jones architect suffers major fall in Liverpool
27-Jan-2006An architect from Dixon Jones has suffered serious back injuries after falling through a staircase in an empty building in Liverpool.
More trouble for Zaha as Glasgow hits controversy
27-Jan-2006Zaha Hadid has sailed into another storm about spiralling budgets after it was revealed her new transport museum in Glasgow has come in at nearly £10 million more than expected.
Rogers reveals plans for massive New York scheme - images
26-Jan-2006The Richard Rogers Partnership has unveiled the first images of its new $1.7 billion (£1 billion) expansion of the Jacob K Javits Convention Centre in New York
Architect rebuts claims that latest Fourth Grace effort is dead
26-Jan-2006The architect behind the latest effort to tackle the troubled Fourth Grace site in Liverpool has hit back at claims the project is dead.
Hong Kongers reject Foster's cultural plans
25-Jan-2006Hong Kong does not want the multi-billion pound West Kowloon Cultural District (WKCD), masterplanned by Foster and Partners, a survey has revealed.
Fosters lands Heathrow East Terminal scheme - images
25-Jan-2006Foster and Partners has seen off competition from Richard Rogers, Grimshaw and Reid Architecture to land the massive Heathrow East Terminal project.
New Eldridge Smerin home starts on site in north London - images
24-Jan-2006An unusual site in Belsize Park, north London, is being cleared to make way for a new family home, designed by Eldridge Smerin.
Haworth Tompkins gets started on South Bank - image
23-Jan-2006Work starts today on this £9.4 million mixed-use scheme on London's South Bank, designed by Haworth Tompkins.
BDP suffers blow in Enfield
23-Jan-2006Enfield Council has kicked out proposals by BDP for a massive new university campus in Trent Park, north London.
Historic Greenwich hall could face wrecking ball
20-Jan-2006Contentious plans have emerged to bulldoze large parts of an historic market hall in the heart of Greenwich - one of London's most important World Heritage Sites.
Johnson to revamp Georgian castle - images
20-Jan-2006The Johnson Design Partnership has unveiled these proposals to build an office development in the ruins of a former stately home in Shropshire.
RMJM gets go-ahead for new university building in Galway - images
19-Jan-2006RMJM has been given the green light for a new on-campus engineering school at the National University of Ireland in Galway.
Hakes Associates makes it into final four in Kent bridges comp
19-Jan-2006Promising London-based practice Hakes Associates - one of the hot prospects featured in the AJ's 40 Under 40 - has been shortlisted for a bridge competition in Kent.
Threat to Edinburgh's World Heritage Site status re-emerges
18-Jan-2006A senior UN advisory body has warned that new developments in Edinburgh - including Norman Foster's £400 million Quartermile development - could undermine its World Heritage status.
Aberdeen masterplan cast into doubt
17-Jan-2006A scheme in the heart of the Bon Accord Quarter is set to be refused by Aberdeen City Council, fuelling further doubts about the quality of the massive city-centre project.
The race is on as two new comps are launched
17-Jan-2006The RIBA has just launched two major new competitions - with very different briefs.
Schwartz reveals grand designs for Dublin's Grand Canal - images
17-Jan-2006Landscape architect Martha Schwartz has unveiled these images of her proposals for the new Grand Canal Square in Dublin's docklands.
Foster to join Mies next to Seagram
16-Jan-2006Foster and Partners is on the verge of building a skyscraper overlooking Mies van der Rohe's seminal Seagram Building in New York.
Rogers launches counter-attack in Aquatics Centre row
16-Jan-2006Richard Rogers has today jumped to Zaha Hadid's defence over accusations that the cost of her controversial London 2012 Olympics Aquatics Centre has spiralled out of control.
-while Broadway Malyan also comes under fire north of the border
13-Jan-2006Architecture and Design Scotland (A+DS), the Scottish version of CABE, has slammed Broadway Malyan's plans for a massive mixed-use scheme on the site of a former bus depot in Edinburgh.
Lottery cash funds Yorkshire park development - images
13-Jan-2006This café and visitor centre scheme in Halifax's historic Shibden Park looks set to get the go-ahead thanks to a £4 million Heritage Lottery Fund grant.
Keep a close eye on Ken's Olympic powers, warns peer
12-Jan-2006Fears have been raised in the House of Lords about the sweeping powers being granted to London mayor Ken Livingstone in the run up to the capital's 2012 Olympic Games.
Unknown Fifties church set for listing - image
12-Jan-2006A 1950s church in north-west London, designed by a relatively unknown French architect, is on the verge of securing a Grade-II listing.
Frank Lloyd Wright house goes up in smoke - image
11-Jan-2006A long-forgotten house by Frank Lloyd Wright near Chicago has been destroyed by fire.
BDP sees off opposition to win Worcester comp - image
11-Jan-2006The University of Worcester has picked BDP from a strong competition shortlist to design its new £90 million city-centre campus.
Keith Williams set to design opera house in Ireland - images
11-Jan-2006Keith Williams Architects has been picked to design a new Eu30 million (£21 million) opera house for the world famous Irish opera festival in Wexford.
Greenside brouhaha reignites
10-Jan-2006The controversy surrounding the demolition of Connell, Ward and Lucas' Grade II-listed Greenside has taken yet another twist.
Foster's Singapore Supreme Court opens - image
10-Jan-2006Singapore's new Supreme Court, designed by Foster and Partners, has now been officially opened.
Council reveals regeneration plans for tornado-hit Brum
9-Jan-2006Birmingham City Council will get a first look tonight (9 January) at plans to transform the areas of the city hit hardest by last July's freak tornado.
Cinema giant moves architectural work from London to China
9-Jan-2006Fears over the growing exodus of architectural services from the UK to the Far East have been further fuelled by Warner Brothers' decision to move its London-based design centre to China.
Popular starts on site in Richmond - images
9-Jan-2006West-London based practice Popular Architecture has started on site with this extension project as part of a larger refurbishment of a Victorian semi.
Development agency boosts Bennetts' RSC plans
6-Jan-2006Bennetts Associates' £100 million-revamp of the Royal Shakespeare Company's home in Stratford-upon-Avon has been given a huge boost thanks to a multi-million pound windfall.
Cash injection fails to end fears for Zaha's Rome gallery - image
6-Jan-2006The Italian government has coughed up Eu10 million (£6.9 million) in a bid to ease mounting fears over the future of Zaha Hadid's new museum of 21st-century art in Rome.
Italian pleasure island plans come under fire
5-Jan-2006Plans for a Dubai-style pleasure haven off the coast of Forte dei Marmi in Tuscany, northern Italy, has provoked an outcry from environmentalists.
Sheppard Robson completes in Birmingham - images
5-Jan-2006A new PFI-funded treatment centre in Birmingham, designed by Sheppard Robson, has opened its doors to the public.
Arup goes to the Caribbean for stadium job
22-Dec-2005Arup Associates has landed the job of designing a new national stadium for St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean.
Arup goes to the Caribbean for stadium job - images
22-Dec-2005Arup Associates has landed the job of designing a new national stadium for St Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean.
Liverpool's Fourth Grace gets go-ahead
22-Dec-2005The replacement for Will Alsop's doomed Fourth Grace project in Liverpool has been given the go-ahead despite protests from a key world heritage organisation.
Ruddle Wilkinson attempts to create first eco-school
21-Dec-2005Work is about to begin on the new Howe Dell primary school in Hatfield, Hertfordshire - hailed as the country's first 'eco-school.'
Ruddle Wilkinson attempts to create first eco-school - image
21-Dec-2005Work is about to begin on the new Howe Dell primary school in Hatfield, Hertfordshire - hailed as the country's first 'eco-school.'
Johnson plans housing 'furnace' in Shropshire
21-Dec-2005These are the first images of a new £5 million housing development in Telford, Shropshire, by the Johnson Design Partnership.
Johnson plans housing 'furnace' in Shropshire - images
21-Dec-2005These are the first images of a new £5 million housing development in Telford, Shropshire, by the Johnson Design Partnership.
Architects for Aid make Pakistan progress
20-Dec-2005This concept design for new, prefabricated animal shelters has been drawn up to help devastated communities in the earthquake-hit area of northern Pakistan.
Architects for Aid make Pakistan progress - images
20-Dec-2005This concept design for new, prefabricated animal shelters has been drawn up to help devastated communities in the earthquake-hit area of northern Pakistan.
Long & Kentish wins cash for London Jewish Museum
20-Dec-2005The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has pledged over £4 million to help create a 'world-class' Jewish Museum in London.
Long & Kentish wins cash for London Jewish Museum - image
20-Dec-2005The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has pledged over £4 million to help create a 'world-class' Jewish Museum in London.
Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects wins Elmswell comp
19-Dec-2005East London-based practice Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects (RHM) has seen off hot competition to win a high-profile social housing contest in Suffolk.
Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects wins Elmswell comp - image
19-Dec-2005East London-based practice Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects (RHM) has seen off hot competition to win a high-profile social housing contest in Suffolk.
Architecture Week 2006 gets going with call for volunteers
19-Dec-2005The organisers of next year's Architecture Week are calling for those in the professsion to help the annual 'celebration of architecture' reach an even bigger audience.
Controversy as Nagan Johnson plans to bring rehab to south London
16-Dec-2005Nagan Johnson has won planning permission for this controversial drug and alcohol treatment centre in Brixton - London's drug capital.
Controversy as Nagan Johnson plans to bring rehab to south London - images
16-Dec-2005Nagan Johnson has won planning permission for this controversial drug and alcohol treatment centre in Brixton - London's drug capital.
Hadid Hoxton scheme may win race
16-Dec-2005A small scheme in east London is again looking like the frontrunner in the race to become Zaha Hadid's first built project in the UK.
Foster goes to Calgary
15-Dec-2005Foster and Partners has been chosen to design a new, high-rise corporate headquarters in Calgary, Canada.
Supporters hit back at EH over Liverpool tower
15-Dec-2005The backers behind Woods Bagot's 38-storey skyscraper scheme in central Liverpool have lashed out at English Heritage (EH) for persuading the council to turn its back on the project.
Soane house future in turmoil
15-Dec-2005The future of John Soane's Pell Wall Hall - his last country estate - is in crisis, it has emerged.
Woods Bagot Liverpool tower mauled by EH
14-Dec-2005English Heritage (EH) has slammed plans to build a 38-storey tower behind Liverpool's Central Station.
TP Bennett to convert Grade II-listed college into flats
14-Dec-2005TP Bennett has been given the green light to convert a Grade II-listed 1890s college building in south London into more than 200 flats.
TP Bennett to convert Grade II-listed college into flats - images
14-Dec-2005TP Bennett has been given the green light to convert a Grade II-listed 1890s college building in south London into more than 200 flats.
Race is on to save historic signal box
13-Dec-2005A battle has begun to try to save one of the last remaining 19th-century signal boxes in the North West of England.
RIBA to hold Cambridge show
12-Dec-2005The RIBA is to hold an exhibition about the Cambridge School of Architecture in a bid to illustrate the historic success of the troubled school.
Zaha table fetches £170,000 at auction
12-Dec-2005A table design by Zaha Hadid has been sold for a staggering £170,000 at auction in America.
Obituary: Herbert Fitzroy Robinson, 1914-2005
9-Dec-2005Herbert Fitzroy Robinson, who has died at the age of 91, was the founder of one of the country's largest and most successful commercial practices.
Shortlist revealed for Worcester campus comp
9-Dec-2005The University of Worcester has unveiled the shortlist in the competition to create its new city-centre campus.
Allies and Morrison joins superstars on African shortlist
8-Dec-2005Some of the world's biggest architectural stars have been shortlisted in the competition to design the new campus for the African Institute of Science and Technology (AIST).
Serpentine pavilion goes to Koolhaas
8-Dec-2005Dutch superstar Rem Koolhaas has been picked to design next year's Serpentine Gallery Pavilion.
D5 inflates vast roof for Heathrow
7-Dec-2005Heathrow Airport's bus and coach station has been given a pioneering new inflatable roof.
Calatrava to sample delights of Vegas
6-Dec-2005Santiago Calatrava is reported to be on the verge of taking his wannabe landmark, the famous Turning Torso building in Sweden, to Las Vegas.
Hawkins-Brown starts on site with new Bournemouth library
6-Dec-2005Work has just started on this competition-winning library scheme by Hawkins-Brown in Boscombe, on the edge of Bournemouth.
Four more £60k house competition winners revealed
6-Dec-2005Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has unveiled the latest wave of winners in his high-profile £60k house competition.
Zaha insists her Olympic future is safe
5-Dec-2005Zaha Hadid has hit back at speculation about her future on the London 2012 Olympic Aquatic Centre project.
Ruddle Wilkinson wins planning in Marlborough
5-Dec-2005Ruddle Wilkinson has been given the thumbs up for a new £4.8 million cinema and theatre complex in the historic Wiltshire market town of Marlborough.
Fears for heritage lottery funding escalate
2-Dec-2005Fears are growing that the London 2012 Olympic Games could slash the amount of money heritage projects receive from National Lottery coffers.
Allan Murray reveals plans to demolish Modern building
2-Dec-2005A much-maligned 1960s building in the heart of Edinburgh is to be flattened to make way for a new mixed-used scheme by Allan Murray Architects.
Zaha forced back to drawing board as Olympic pool costs spiral
1-Dec-2005Zaha Hadid has been told to completely rethink her plans for London's 2012 Olympic Aquatic Centre after the proposed scheme came in at almost double the original £75 million budget.
Shepheard Epstein Hunter to join Spence at Liverpool uni
30-Nov-2005Shepheard Epstein Hunter (SEH) has won planning permission for a major new library at the University of Liverpool.
Brighton stadium faces High Court battle
30-Nov-2005The seven-year battle to find a new home for Brighton & Hove Albion football club has taken another unexpected twist.
Cladding falls from Simpson's Beetham Tower
30-Nov-2005Roads had to be closed around Ian Simpson's nearly-completed Beetham Tower in Birmingham after five pieces of metal cladding fell from the 39-storey skyscraper last Thursday (24 November).
Local practice sees off big names in Oxford competition
29-Nov-2005Berman Guedes Stretton has seen off a raft of big names to win the design competition for a new lecture theatre at The Queen's College, Oxford.
Yorkshire council makes pioneering green buildings pledge
29-Nov-2005Kirklees council in West Yorkshire has unveiled a pioneering new policy which will see almost a third of energy in new public buildings come from renewable sources.
RMJM takes on Indian convention centre
28-Nov-2005RMJM has been asked to design India's new international convention and exhibition centre on a 41ha site in Kolkata (Calcutta).
Sorrell pans Farrells' plans for Gateway park
25-Nov-2005The chair of CABE has slammed Farrells' plans for a national park in the heart of the Thames Gateway.
Housing Corporation boss blames architects for bad prefab
25-Nov-2005A Housing Corporation chief has said architects are causing a wave of badly designed pre-fabricated schemes.
Crossrail move saves Barbican
24-Nov-2005Crossrail has made a dramatic U-turn over proposals for a major tunnel under the Barbican in a bid to save the 1960s towers from sinking.
PRC comes to rescue of Norman Shaw's Banstead hospital
23-Nov-2005The derelict Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Surrey, designed by Victorian master Richard Norman Shaw, is to be saved from the scrapheap.
Broadway Malyan fashions plan for Beijing retail park
23-Nov-2005Broadway Malyan has completed this outline proposal for a new 70,000m 2retail fashion park in Beijing.
Charity dispatches architect to Kashmir
22-Nov-2005Recently formed charity Architects for Aid (A4A) has sent out its first aid-worker to an earthquake-hit area of northern Pakistan.
S&P wins Corby pool competition
22-Nov-2005S&P Architects, the practice working with Zaha Hadid on the 2012 London Olympic Aquatic Centre, has won a competition to design Corby's new swimming pool.
Carey Jones and MAKE win bid to build tall in Leeds
21-Nov-2005Carey Jones and MAKE have cleared the first hurdle in their bid to build a 24-storey residential tower on the Leeds International Swimming Pool site.
IWA wins U-turn from council for Darwen project
21-Nov-2005Clitheroe-based IWA Architects has finally been given the go-ahead for this 18-flat apartment scheme in Darwen, Lancashire.
Broadway Malyan takes on Venice
18-Nov-2005Broadway Malyan has been chosen to revamp the Valecenter shopping mall on the outskirts of Venice.
Former Desert Rat will face down bulldozers to save bus garage
18-Nov-2005A former Desert Rat has vowed to take on the richest man in Britain in a bid to save the much-loved Modernist bus garage in Preston.
Designer sought for Kent double-bridge
17-Nov-2005A competition has been launched to find a designer for two new bridges in Rochester, Kent.
Sturgis wants to get to work on office
17-Nov-2005Sturgis Associates has submitted a planning application to overhaul an office block in Charlotte Street, central London.
Livingstone will fail carbon test
17-Nov-2005The mayor of London will not come close to hitting his key 2010 target for zero-carbon developments in the capital, the AJ has learned.
'The profession loves us', counters the ARB
15-Nov-2005The ARB has attempted to prove its worth by releasing figures which claim to show architects believe in the board's regulatory safeguards.
Halpern unveils hat-trick of towers for Docklands
15-Nov-2005Halpern Architects has been given the green light for this 437-apartment scheme in London's Docklands.
Atkins plans three skyscrapers for Cardiff
14-Nov-2005Atkins has been appointed to mastermind the £200 million Bay Pointe residential scheme on Cardiff's waterfront.
Architects spurn calls for more Leeds family homes
11-Nov-2005Calls for more family homes in Leeds city centre have received a lukewarm reception from architects.
Union North comes down to London for Boundary Estate scheme
10-Nov-2005Liverpool-based practice Union North has been given the go-ahead for this scheme in the heart of east London's historic Boundary Estate.
Olympic planners accused of abusing system
10-Nov-2005Fears are growing that the authorities charged with delivering London's 2012 Olympic Games are abusing the planning and Compulsory Purchase Order (CPO) systems.
LDY denies it has been cast out in Bath
9-Nov-2005Llewelyn Davies Yeang (LDY) has hit back at rumours it has been ousted from the Bath Western Riverside scheme.
Broadway Malyan and Rogers scoop engineering gongs
9-Nov-2005Schemes by Broadway Malyan and the Richard Rogers Partnership (RRP) have scooped the structural engineering profession's top honours - the Structural Special Award.
ARB and RIBA continue to lock horns in reform row
9-Nov-2005The ongoing war of words between the ARB and the RIBA about whether the board should accept a regulatory shake-up has taken yet another twist.
Johnson rises again in New York
8-Nov-2005Work has started on Philip Johnson's last residential building - almost 10 months after the American legend's death
Agency denies it has endangered Olympic scheme
7-Nov-2005The London Development Agency (LDA) has hit back at claims that it has jeopardised the future of the £4 billion Stratford City project in the heart of the London 2012 Olympic regeneration zone.
AukettFitzroyRobinson backs a winner at Sandown racecourse
7-Nov-2005The 32-year-old grandstand at Sandown Park racecourse, designed by the Fitzroy Robinson Partnership (now AukettFitzroyRobinson), has won the Concrete Society's Mature Structures Award.
Allen Tod feathers its cap with RSPB centre
4-Nov-2005The RSPB is looking to secure funding for this new £250,000 Discovery Centre at its Old Moor reserve in the Dearne Valley, near Barnsley.
SEH goes to the top of the class with school extension
3-Nov-2005Shepheard Epstein Hunter has released the first images of its proposed extension to Paddington Green Primary School in west London.
Radical Thames overhaul proposed
2-Nov-2005m2r architecture is in discussions with Mayor of London Ken Livingstone about a scheme to open up the north bank of the Thames in time for the 2012 Olympic Games.
Moxon to chopper in new Scottish bridge
2-Nov-2005Moxon Architects has unveiled this design for a footbridge over the River Tanar, in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland.
Scheme for chocolate model village unwrapped
31-Oct-2005These are the first pictures of the proposed revamp of the Bournville Estate model village in Birmingham - the home of Cadbury's chocolate.
Zaha walks into Olympic brouhaha with Cypriot flag row
31-Oct-2005Zaha Hadid has instigated yet another Olympic coup by becoming the first architect to start an international dispute ahead of London's 2012 games.
REID in Birmingham competition success
25-Oct-2005REID Architecture has been chosen to design a new office headquarters building in Birmingham following a competition victory.
KSS goes for planning in Kent
24-Oct-2005KSS Design Group has submitted plans for this 3,400m 2college in Kent.
m2r comes close in Germany
21-Oct-2005London-based practice m2r architecture has narrowly missed out on winning a competition to design a major scheme in Chemnitz, Germany.
Foster finally starts on site at Edinburgh Infirmary
21-Oct-2005Work has at last started on Foster and Partners' controversial £400 million Royal Infirmary redevelopment in Edinburgh.
Council boss becomes new sustainable communities guru
20-Oct-2005The head of Burnley Borough Council, Gill Taylor, has been appointed as the new chief executive of the Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC).
Bookie loses out in Stirling bet
20-Oct-2005Rumours that the identity of the winner of this year's Stirling Prize was leaked before its announcement on Saturday night have been strongly denied by the RIBA.
Campaigners fail to save listed hall of residence
19-Oct-2005Demolition work has started on the Southside hall of residence in London, ending any hope that the Grade II-listed block could be saved.
Conran aims high in Sheffield
19-Oct-2005Conran & Partners has been given the go-ahead - at the second attempt - for this 32-storey residential tower in Sheffield city centre.
Zaha finds silver lining in art show
19-Oct-2005Zaha Hadid will be exhibiting her Silver Paintings for the first time in the UK at Kenny Schachter's ROVE gallery in London.
Illuminating ideas sought for new show
18-Oct-2005The New London Architecture (NLA) centre is on the hunt for architects with bright ideas about how to light up the capital's buildings.
HOK unveils 'shimmering' Dublin stadium plan
18-Oct-2005These are the first images of HOK Sport's new Lansdowne Road Stadium in Dublin - an update of one of the world's best known sports grounds.
Portsmouth's Spinnaker albatross finally ready to open
17-Oct-2005The over-budget and heavily delayed Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth will be officially unveiled tomorrow (18 October) - almost six years after it was scheduled to open.
Fairhursts reveals four Salford giants
13-Oct-2005The Fairhursts Design Group has submitted plans for this four-skyscraper scheme in the heart of Salford Quays, Greater Manchester.
Parliament nomination 'bad' for profession
12-Oct-2005A row over whether the Scottish Parliament should be on the RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist has emerged ahead of the high-profile awards ceremony on Saturday.
Space-age tent can stand the heat
12-Oct-2005London and Munich-based practice Architecture and Vision has unveiled this prototype for a one-man tent capable of withstanding extreme desert temperatures.
RRP reaches for the sky in Korea
12-Oct-2005The Richard Rogers Partnership has been appointed to design Seoul's tallest towers.
Austin-Smith:Lord to help revitalise run-down Glasgow site
11-Oct-2005Austin-Smith:Lord has been given the green light for this £5.3 million residential scheme on a hillside site at Garnethill in Glasgow.
De La Warr Pavilion reopens to the public
11-Oct-2005The revamped De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea will finally welcome the public back through its doors on Saturday (15 October).
Sikh temple for Gravesend takes shape
10-Oct-2005This is the first image of how Calford Seaden's massive Sikh temple in Gravesend will look once construction has finished in 2008.
Edinburgh Old Town gets new street
6-Oct-2005Allan Murray Architects (AMA) has unveiled these images of plans to build the first new street in Edinburgh's Old Town since the 19th century.
Architects wanted for project to keep students in Africa
6-Oct-2005A competition has been launched to find an architect to design a new campus for the African Institute of Science and Techology (AIST) in Abuja, Nigeria.
Scottish Parliament scoops £25,000 Best Building in Scotland prize
5-Oct-2005Enric Miralles and RMJM's hugely contentious Scottish Parliament building has walked off with this year's RIAS Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture.
BDP picks up BCO 'best of the best' with Mailbox
5-Oct-2005BBC Birmingham's The Mailbox development has won the British Council for Offices' (BCO) highest accolade.
Heatherwick reveals plans for first British building
4-Oct-2005Thomas Heatherwick has submitted plans for this seafront café on Littlehampton's East Beach promenade - the designer's first building on British shores.
Architects honoured with RIBA International Fellowships
30-Sep-2005Some of the world's greatest living architects are among the first recipients of the RIBA's new International Fellowships award.
Germany calling for Assael Architecture
30-Sep-2005Assael Architecture is the only British practice to have been shortlisted in an international competition to redevelop a former military base in Germany.
Heritage Lottery Fund in surprise Chippo gallery U-turn
30-Sep-2005David Chipperfield Architects' new art gallery scheme in Wakefield has been handed a major boost after the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) announced it would now be giving £4.9 million towards the project.
Woods Bagot looks tall in Liverpool
29-Sep-2005Australian commercial big hitter Woods Bagot has unveiled these images of a massive new 56,000m 2mixed-use skyscaper destined for central Liverpool.
New school revealed for Cumbria
28-Sep-2005Manchester-based practice A-Cube Architects has released this image of a new building for Kendal College in Cumbria - part of a £7 million overhaul of the existing campus.
Government accused of failing to deliver on its commitment to new public buildings
28-Sep-2005A leading construction body, backed by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), has accused the government of failing to deliver the number of new hospitals, schools and housing it has previously promised.
Rochdale developers in surprise asbestos apology
27-Sep-2005The developers behind controversial plans to build 650 new homes on the site of a former asbestos factory in Greater Manchester, have apologised for failing to admit they had found traces of the deadly substance there.
Isokon defects trigger residents' fury
27-Sep-2005Shoddy workmanship is ruining the recently renovated Isokon flats in Belsize Park, north London, according to angry residents.
Bere unveils compact eco-home
26-Sep-2005Bere Architects has revealed this image of a compact, new 'eco-space house' which is about to go on site in north London.
Work starts on school with five-star standards
23-Sep-2005Work has started on GWK's £23 million St Edmund Campion Roman Catholic school in Gateshead.
Five aces line up to work on massive Vegas casino complex
15-Sep-2005A host of high-profile international architects has been assembled to design a new $5 billion (£2.8 billion) project on the Las Vegas Strip.
Finalists named in competition to develop threatened Bradford cinema
14-Sep-2005Bradford Centre Regeneration has announced the three finalists in the competition to redevelop the city's controversial Odeon cinema site.
£25,000 best Scottish building shortlist revealed
14-Sep-2005The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has announced this year's shortlist for the Andrew Doolan Award for Architecture, the prize formerly known as the Best Building in Scotland.
More opposition to Thames Gateway Bridge appears
13-Sep-2005Friends of the Earth (FoE) has become the latest group to voice its opposition to the controversial new Thames Gateway bridge proposals.
TP Bennett wins planning for Gilbert Scott work in City of London
26-Aug-2005TP Bennett Architects has released this previously unseen image of plans to overhaul the Guildhall complex for the Corporation of London.
Camp pioneers Elephant & Castle regeneration
25-Aug-2005Work has begun on this £18.5 million residential scheme by Alan Camp Architects - one of the first housing projects within the mammoth Elephant & Castle regeneration area in south London.
Bradford tower blocks refitted in £20 million scheme
1-Aug-2005Halliday Clark has been given the £20 million task of revamping 13 tower blocks in Bradford city centre.
Library left trailing in online Stirling poll
1-Aug-2005The Brighton library, the bookies' joint favourite to win this year's RIBA Stirling Prize, has been shunned by the public in an online poll.
Zaha to build Spanish bridge
1-Aug-2005Pritzker-prize winner Zaha Hadid has been chosen to design the new Bridge Pavilion for the Zaragoza Expo in 2008.
Eco-architect Yeang set for shock switch
19-May-2005Superstar international eco-architect Ken Yeang is to amaze the architectural world by becoming a full time director at major commercial player Llewelyn Davies.
AA voters go to the polls
18-May-2005Voting in the Architectural Association (AA) election for chairman will take place tomorrow (Thursday).
BIAT granted Royal Charter
18-May-2005The British Institute of Architectural Technologists (BIAT) has been granted a Royal Charter by the Privy Council.
Greenhill Jenner completes Hackney hospice
16-May-2005Greenhill Jenner has officially unveiled its new £9.6 million extension to St Joseph's Hospice in Hackney, east London.
Kent school to merge
13-May-2005The Kent Institute of Art and Design (KIAD) and the Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College have agreed to merge, creating a new arts college from Monday 1 August.
Television show to smash demolition myth
12-May-2005A television documentary to be aired next week will blow the lid on plans to demolish swathes of housing across northern England, the AJ can reveal.