Archive for May, 2009
Initiative to revive spirit of Civic Trust
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on May 28, 2009
Roadshow planned to gain support for replacement organisation
Millennium housing falls drastically short of target
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on May 28, 2009
A flagship government scheme to create seven “millennium communities” of high-specification homes built to stringent environmental standards has produced just 1,626 properties in more than nine years
3D Reid designs Co-operative HQ
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on May 28, 2009
The 3D Reid design for the Co-operative Group’s new head office building in Manchester has been revealed
Spanish gong for Norman Foster
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on May 28, 2009
Norman Foster has been awarded the 29th Prince of Asturias award for the arts, granted by the Spanish Prince of Asturias Foundation
Approval for library extension
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on May 28, 2009
Shepheard Epstein Hunter has won planning permission for a £6 million extension to a library in Enfield, north London
Dyer sets up in Abu Dhabi
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on May 28, 2009
International practice Dyer is on the verge of setting up an outpost in Abu Dhabi
Protests fail to take the sparkle out of Make’s gem
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on May 28, 2009
Make’s contentious plans for an ultramodern “mansion block for the 21st century” have won approval
Barge living gets revamp
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on May 28, 2009
Baca Architects and PCKO have won a competition to remodel five river barges for a mixed-use scheme in London’s Docklands
Scots Lock ‘exemplary’
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on May 28, 2009
7N Architects has been honoured by the Scottish government for its low-carbon masterplan to regenerate Speirs Locks in Glasgow
The prose and cons of the icon
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on May 28, 2009
Does the recession mean the end of the icon?