Fact of the Week – 9th October 2017
Like fingerprints, everyone’s tongue print is... View Article
2017 Restaurant & Bar Design Awards announces winners
The Penny Drop, a restaurant in Melbourne, Australia designed by Golden, and Westlight, a bar in New York, USA designed by Studio Munge are the Overall winners of the 2017 Restaurant & Bar Design Awards. Another 35 category winners (including Best UK Winners) were revealed... View Article
South African carving – Zeitz Museum and the Silo Hotel, Cape Town
The transformation of a historic Cape Town grain silo into a contemporary art museum topped with a hotel involved carving out the inside to form an elliptical atrium, and covering the facade with glittering glass pillows. Stephen Cousins reports. When... View Article
Dialogue between the elements – V&A Museum of Design, Dundee
Scotland’s new museum of design has a fittingly cutting-edge design by Kengo Kuma & Associates which combines bracing modernity with an organic feel, and connects a city back to its riverfront. James Parker reports. This is a tale of two... View Article
Timber Expo to address safety and quality in buildings
Timber Expo announces its return to Birmingham NEC from 10 – 12 October 2017. The show will cover a wide range of timber applications, from timber frame through to plywood, CLT and timber cladding, while exploring the latest developments across... View Article
Mosaic completes lavish refurbishment of Hutchesons City Grill in Glasgow
Mosaic Architecture + Design, one of Scotland’s most experienced practices, has completed a lavish refurbishment of Hutchesons, the flagship outlet of Glasgow-based restaurant group Rusk & Rusk with the introduction of The City Grill and 158 Club Lounge. Now known... View Article
Next stop, Abbey Wood: HUB and shedkm given greenlight for 245 homes next to Elizabeth Line station
Residential developer HUB has secured a resolution to grant planning permission from Greenwich council for Abbey Place, a landmark mixed-use scheme in Abbey Wood, south east London, that will provide 245 homes for rent. The Abbey Place scheme, which is... View Article
FaulknerBrowns plans for Derby swimming pool complex unveiled
Derby City Council has unveiled ambitious plans for a state-of-the-art swimming and leisure facility designed by international design practice FaulknerBrowns Architects. The facility, which is being project managed by Mace, is planned as a replacement swimming pool complex alongside the... View Article
AHR appointed to deliver new engineering building for University of West England
AHR has been appointed by the University of the West of England (UWE) to design and deliver their new multimillion pound engineering building. The building, which will be located at the University’s main Frenchay Campus, will feature mechanical and manual... View Article
YIT’s proposal still in the running in the competition for the Pasila tower area
YIT’s competition proposal TRIGONI was selected for the second phase of the international Helsinki High Rise design-build competition. The competition proposal’s most prominent feature is its trigons – equilateral triangular towers. In addition to them, the proposal wants to make... View Article
Farrells scheme delivers affordable housing for Londoners in West London
A new scheme by Farrells for Dolphin Living comprising 29 apartments, 14 of which are affordable, completed this week in Gorleston Street, Hammersmith and Fulham. The site – previously inhabited by an unused recording studio and parking – had undergone... View Article
Hymers College LRC wins prestigious School Library Association Award
The Learning Resource Centre at Hymers College, Hull, designed by Jefferson Sheard in 2015, has been named joint winner in the prestigious School Library Association Inspiration Awards in an awards ceremony in central London on 2nd October. The state-of-the-art building,... View Article
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects reveal latest visuals for the new Shanghai East Library to mark the project’s ground breaking
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects have revealed new visuals of the Shanghai East Library. In 2016, the practice won a three stage international competition to design the new public library that will sit adjacent to Century Park in the east part of... View Article
Countryside selected to deliver £40m regeneration scheme in Hoxton
Countryside, one of the UK’s leading home builders specialising in placemaking and urban regeneration, can confirm today that a development agreement has been signed with Hackney Council to develop new homes for social renting, shared ownership, and outright sale at... View Article
Croydon bids for 2019 Borough of Culture
Croydon has launched its bid to become London’s first Borough of Culture in 2019. The initiative, sponsored by the Mayor of London, will see two winners (one for 2019 and one for 2020) each receive over £1m to deliver a huge programme of events.... View Article
Foster + Partners’ new sustainable vision for MOL Campus in Budapest
Designs for MOL Campus, the new headquarters for the MOL Group, a global oil and gas company based in Hungary were revealed today. The new building is a vision for the workplace of the future that places sustainability at the... View Article
Planning application submitted for £350 million development at key South Bank, Leeds site
CEG has submitted a hybrid planning application for a significant 3.52 hectare (8.69 acre) site in South Bank, just minutes from the new southern entrance to Leeds City Station. The application seeks detailed planning permission for two office developments with... View Article
CEG’s Radstock House Wins Coveted Best British Homes Award
CEG’s joint venture development with Banda Property has secured the coveted Sunday Times Best British Homes Award for Best Apartment Building (24th September 2017). Located in the heart of the Battersea creative district, Radstock House is a new build mixed-use development... View Article