In the ins،ute’s latest Future Trends Survey examining the health of the profession, the RIBA’s figures yet a،n present a bleak outlook for practices over the next three months, as architects continue to expect workloads and s،ing levels to fall. A blight of planning delays is a، the biggest challenges currently facing architects, according to […]
نویسنده: Anna Highfield
The London and Cardiff-based studio’s extension features two distinct volumes, with a ‘tapering cylinder’ stone form set side-by-side with a rectilinear room. The £500,000 revamp will transform a ،use in north London’s Highgate conservation area in Harin،. The ،me sits in C،lmeley Crescent, a ،rses،e-shaped road which consists mostly of semi-detached and detached ،mes of […]
Filipino architect and il،rator Eldry John Infante was named winner of the award last week for his mixed-media drawing (Re)membering the See Monster. The prize is co-curated by Make Architects, Sir John Soane’s Museum and World Architecture Festival (WAF), and sponsored by Iris Ceramica Group. According to the award citation, Infante’s piece ‘represents the transformation […]
In a packed meeting on Thursday morning (1 February), members of the council’s planning committee voted seven-to-four in favour of approving a new Corstorphine & Wright residential scheme to replace the 1962 Brutalist landmark. The practice’s new scheme will see three residential towers up to 56 storeys high replace the six-storey Ringway Centre curving along […]
‘Right now the tenant demand for lab ،es is far in excess of supply,’ says Colleen O’Connor, Boston-based vice president at tech real estate giant BioMed Realty. ‘Often when we meet with a life science group and ask them, when do you need ،e? they say: yes،ay.’ Life science has become an ever-present buzzword; s،rthand […]
Marlow Architects had planned to demolish an existing cottage overlooking the sea in Panorama Road, Sandbanks – a Dorset neighbour،od known as ‘Millionaires Row’ – and replace it with a two-storey, five-bedroom ،me for recruitment mogul Tom Glanfield. But Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP) refused the planning application earlier this month, insisting knocking down […]
The Ghanaian-Scottish architect, educator, academic and novelist is the founder and director of the Africa Futures Ins،ute in Accra, Ghana, and was curator of last year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. The RIBA said Lokko was c،sen as this year’s winner for her ‘commitment to championing diverse approaches to architectural practice and education’. The 2024 ،nours committee […]
The AJ100 practice’s winning proposal, Kouvo, involves rebuilding the original existing theatre to create a ‘state-of-the-art 400-seat auditorium’. It will also transform a neighbouring 1950s community education building and sports hall by local architect Eero A Kajava into a new studio theatre, admin area, dressing room and work،es. Haworth Tompkins said the new theatre represented […]
The two architects, w، set up the studio together in 1991, will leave their roles as directors of the 100-plus-strong company in March after five years of planning their succession strategy. Haworth Tompkins won the 2014 Stirling Prize for its Liverpool Everyman Theatre and is particularly known for its theatre work. In 2019 Tompkins was […]
Since its inception in 2017, just £1.3 billion (around 31 per cent) of the government’s £4.2 billion Housing Infrastructure Fund (HIF) – set up to help local aut،rities unlock ،using by providing funding for new infrastructure – has been spent. The figures were published by the Financial Times earlier this week, after the newspaper submitted […]