A £100,000 scheme to design four huts for disabled users at a Dorset beach attracted more than 150 entries.

Theatre specialists Tim Foster Architects is changing its name to Foster Wilson Architects.

Conservation groups have welcomed a pledge from the Conservatives to channel an extra £40 million of lottery money directly into built environment heritage projects.

The Learning & Skills Council has approved funding worth nearly £50 million for two schemes under its stalled college rebuilding programme.

Cabe has laid into Lewis & Hickey’s design for a 14-storey hotel on a prominent site in Birmingham, provocatively claiming there is not enough architectural talent within the original team.

The RIBA and Arb are to freeze their rates for 2010 as part of a move to support architects through the recession.

Associated Architects has recently completed a new health design & technology institute at Coventry University.

Urban Arts Projects has completed this 60m high Breakwater Beacon, the focal point of a brand-new $7 billion university in Saudi Arabia.

Hundreds of tower blocks across London have not been properly assessed for fire safety, according to a new investigation.