Archive for March, 2010
Anger as RIBA Council fails to debate low pay
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on March 31, 2010
Council meeting did not discuss exploitation of students
Trust agrees to Finsbury review
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on March 31, 2010
The board of NHS Islington, which wants to shut down the Lubetkin-designed Finsbury Health Centre in north London, has agreed to review a council report into the centre ahead of a crucial board meeting in May
Housing designers urged to tackle TB
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on March 31, 2010
Architects could become part of the solution to tackling the spread of tuberculosis in Britain, a charity has claimed
Friend raises roof at architect’s former north London house
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on March 31, 2010
Friend & Company has won planning permission to build an artist’s studio and rooftop garden on top of a modern London house
Cube to go on despite developer’s collapse
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on March 31, 2010
Make expects its major mixed-use tower in Birmingham, the Cube, to be finished despite the developer going into administration last week
Wilkinson Eyre’s Kew centre set for green light
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on March 31, 2010
Wilkinson Eyre has designed a “vital” quarantine house to protect the collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew from disease and destruction
Tory shadow minister heaps praise on Cabe
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on March 31, 2010
Cabe has been given a huge vote of confidence by shadow architecture minister Ed Vaizey, who has promised it will retain direct state funding in the event of a Conservative government
Super lab brings in new architect after HOK fails to impress
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on March 31, 2010
The client behind a £600 million “super laboratory” has drafted in PLP — the practice formed by former partners of KPF’s London office — to overhaul the design because it is worried the original by HOK is not good enough.
Office Campus given go-ahead
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on March 31, 2010
Richards Partington Architects has secured planning for its Office Campus scheme, an £11 million project in Kent
Pelan appointed to Civic Trust role
Posted by The Sheet in Architecture News on March 31, 2010
The Scottish Civic Trust has named communications specialist John Pelan as its new director