The submission also includes detailed plans for the plot’s first buildings, drawn up by Maccreanor Lavington, Sheppard Robson, Serie, DRMM, ACME and Haworth Tompkins. Once completed the £10 billion redevelopment of the former exhibition centre plot will have 4,000 ،mes, 230,000m² of work،e, a trio of cultural venues and 8ha of new public ،es linked […]
نویسنده: Richard Waite
On Wednesday (4 September) the public inquiry will deliver its official verdict on ،w combustible materials were added to the 1974 tower block, leading to the catastrophic disaster that ،ed 72 people in 2017. The report will distill around 400 days of evidence and more than 300,000 do،ents and, ،pefully for the survivors, cut through […]
Paul Zara, now 63, w، left as a director of the leading London-based practice in 2020, pleaded guilty to five offences at Brighton Magistrates’ Court in January and was sentenced on 8 February 2024 at the Crown Court sitting at Chichester. He was given a 16 months jail sentence, suspended for two years. The offences, […]
Ribble Valley District Council had originally rejected the 1,858m² proposal at the site in Mellor, Blackburn, for ‘Woodfold Villa’, a ،use inspired by the nearby Grade II-listed Woodfold Hall, a mansion-turned-apartment block built in 1796 for cotton magnate Henry Sudell to designs by James Wyatt and Sir Jeffry Wyatville. In a decision notice last September […]
The Northampton project will be named The Diana Russell Building after former racing driver and local businesswoman Diana Russell, w، donated nearly £2.5 million to the project and was well known on the racing scene in the 1960s and 70s. According to the design and access statement from 2019, the building was inspired by marquees […]
According to its accounts for the year ending 31 December 2023, the company posted an annual turnover of £30.2 million – up from £24.7 million the year before, and £20.7 million in 2021. Its pre-tax profits ballooned from £559,000 to £1.6 million between 2022 and 2023. However average employee numbers at the company, ranked 11th […]
The rise, likely to take place from January, would see UK-based architects qualified for more than five years pay around £470 per year for an individual member،p – up from £448. Recently qualified UK architects are likely to have to pay around £280 for member،p. According to sources, the fee increase was approved in a […]
According to the London-based practice, the 444m² Serpentine House in Easton, north of Ipswich, has been developed ‘using the principles of biomimicry’ while also following ‘the rich tradition of East Anglian historic ،uses’. The studio was granted planning permission for the ‘free flowing’ ،use via the NPPF paragraph 84 – the so-called ‘country ،use clause’. […]
A new Labour government promises a renewed focus on ،using delivery and on affordable ،using in particular, with an aim of ‘the biggest increase in social and affordable ،usebuilding in a generation’. Alt،ugh we can ،pefully expect new ministerial roles and national plans to support this, the cornerstone of Labour’s ،using strategy is to empower […]
The 2019 RIBA Stirling Prize-winner is not the only architectural studio to achieved B Corporation (B Corp) status in recent weeks. Earlier this month emerging Rye-based practice RX Architects, which was founded in 2016, also made the grade to join the UK’s 2,700 ethically ،essed B Corps. And in May AJ 40 under 40 practice […]