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Amazon unveils glass dome HQ

23 May 13

Retailer changes scheme from simple box to futuristic glass domes
Wings removed from Zaha's aquatic centre

23 May 13

Temporary seating removed from landmark Olympic building
Morgan Sindall bags two Bournemouth projects

23 May 13

Morgan Sindall appointed to two projects worth £27m as part of a £40m regeneration scheme
Work starts on OMA's Copenhagen waterfront scheme

22 May 13

Mixed-use development set to link the city centre, the historic waterfront, and the culturally-rich Slotsholmen district
Newcastle Maggie's cancer centre opens

22 May 13

A Ted Cullinan-designed Maggie’s cancer-support centre has been officially opened at Newcastle’s Freeman Hospital
Serpentine pavilion takes shape

21 May 13

Sou Fujimoto’s cloudlike structure nears completion
Atkins helps GSK HQ achieve green standard

20 May 13

Consultant Atkins work on GlaxoSmithKline’s new headquarters in Philadelphia has helped the building achieve double LEED platinum certification.
Work completes on Worthing leisure centre

20 May 13

Contractor Morgan Sindall has completed work on a £17.9m leisure centre on Worthing’s seafront.
Timelapse video of Freedom Tower spire installation

17 May 13

The spire in installed on top of New York’s Freedom Tower, making it the tallest building in the Western hemisphere
Bennetts Associates' St Antony's College buildings complete

16 May 13

Contractor Kingerlee has completed two Bennetts Associates-designed buildings at Oxford
Flax Mill Maltings: Milling about

10 May 13

Wates appointed for redevelopment of historic buildings in Shropshire
Lenbachhaus Museum: Foster in Munich

9 May 13

Restored and redeveloped museum opens its doors at special ceremony attended by architect Lord Foster
Green light for Cardiff winter sports scheme

3 May 13

A Scott Brownrigg-designed £250m sports village in Cardiff has been granted planning permission
The British Museum: History in the making

2 May 13

New images of under-construction £135m extension released
Construction complete on the Leeds Arena

22 Apr 13

Bam Construct has completed construction of the £60m Leeds Arena on time and budget
Green light for Kier's £80m Woking job

19 Apr 13

Kier is to construct an £80m housing scheme in Woking after winning planning approval from the borough council
Stoke-on-Trent bus station: On the buses

19 Apr 13

Grimshaw-designed, £15m bus station opens to the public, hailed by council leader as start of “city’s transformation”
Skanska's Monument office project gets green light

16 Apr 13

Skanska’s development arm has secured planning permission for a Make Architects-designed office-led scheme at 11-19 Monument Street, London
Bam wins £10m Swindon UTC job

12 Apr 13

Bam Construct has won the job to build a new University Technical College in Swindon.
Grimshaw unveils 90-storey Australian tower

10 Apr 13

Architect’s design uses wind to cool apartments
Foster's Amman airport opens

4 Apr 13

Architect’s design has flexible modular structure to allow for continued expansion
Essex Passivhaus scheme wins planning

2 Apr 13

Circle Housing Group and Climate Energy Homes get planning permission for 51-home Passivhaus housing scheme
Northwich town centre scheme wins planning

28 Mar 13

Broadway Malyan’s £80m transformation of Northwich town centre receives planning approval
Atkins unveils Nanjing masterplan

27 Mar 13

Atkins reveals masterplan for Nanjing in China – a project it will also oversee landscaping and construction of over the next two years
HOK’s Istanbul financial centre starts on site

25 Mar 13

Architect to design two of the scheme’s high rise towers
Littlewoods Pools Building gets planning

22 Mar 13

Capital & Centric granted planning permission by Liverpool council to redevelop building as a hotel
Shaftesbury Theatre: the show must go on

21 Mar 13

Bennetts Associates Architects plans to redevelop the famous theatre in London’s West End get go-ahead
‘Largest ever’ off-site hospital build contract awarded

19 Mar 13

Yorkon will construct a £17.9m Women and Children’s Centre in Middlesex
Berkeley Homes submits Crossrail station development plans

15 Mar 13

Residential developer submits planning application for 219 homes above Woolwich Crossrail station
Green light for Feilden Clegg Bradley's Belfast campus

14 Mar 13

Project for University of Ulster to accommodate up to 15,000 students and staff
Morgan Sindall wins £24m Scottish office job

11 Mar 13

Contractor to build five-storey scheme in Glasgow
Crown Estate unveils Piccadilly building art

6 Mar 13

Collaboration between artist Richard Deacon and Eric Parry Architects
Skanska swoops on 100 Cheapside job

5 Mar 13

Contractor confirms £28m office scheme win in City of London
BDP wins Cardiff college design competition

4 Mar 13

Architect will design £26m city centre community campus
Véo Melawati: 3DReid grows in Malaysia

1 Mar 13

Architect reveals plans for luxury apartment, designed for Malaysian developer Sime Darby Property
Skanska's Trinity Square gets green light

27 Feb 13

Skanska has been given planning permission for its Cheltenham residential development.
Bam wins £26m London school job

26 Feb 13

Bam Construction has secured a £26m job to design and rebuild a primary school and 80 residential units in North West London
Henry Boot submits plans for £50m Daventry retail scheme

25 Feb 13

Developer Henry Boot has submitted plans for a £50m retail and leisure scheme in Daventry, Northamptonshire
Green light for Willmott Dixon's £30m Aberfeldy estate project

22 Feb 13

Willmott Dixon’s development division has reached financial close on phase one of the £250m transformation of the Aberfeldy estate in Tower Hamlets
Plans unveiled for China maritime cultural project

21 Feb 13

Office for Architecturual Culture has worked up design for Tanmen International Oceanic Fishing Culture Centre and Musuems project in Hainan, China
Housing Design Awards open

18 Feb 13

Entries open for 65th Housing Design Awards that recognise excellence and sustainability in home design
Serpentine unveils 2013 summer pavilion

14 Feb 13

Cloud-like structure to be designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto
Farrells-designed tower wins Asian award

11 Feb 13

Nearly completed Terry Farrell and Partners-designed tower in Phnom Penh wins best commercial development in South East Asia
VolkerStevin to create Welsh beach

8 Feb 13

Contractor VolkerStevin is set to create a new beach in Colwyn Bay, North Wales.
Bam to build Oxford university's Zaha Hadid building

7 Feb 13

Bam Construct has won the job to build the Zaha Hadid-designed extension to Oxford university’s Middle East Centre
Galliford Try’s modular Antarctica base opens

6 Feb 13

Research facility completed after eight year collaboration
Foster + Partners completes first Latin American project

5 Feb 13

50-apartment block in Argentina’s capital city Buenos Aires reaches completion
Miller and Sweett police scheme reaches milestone

4 Feb 13

Criminal justice centre in Aberdeen by consortium involving the two firms reaches financial close
The View from the Shard opens

1 Feb 13

The View from The Shard officially opens to the public today
Green light for Urbanest's Thames-side student scheme

31 Jan 13

A major student accommodations scheme over looking the Thames in London has been given planning permission by Lambeth council.
Crossrail reveals Bond Street over-site development

30 Jan 13

Planning application submitted for PLP-designed six-floor office block
Walthamstow arcade scheme wins planning

29 Jan 13

Pollard Thomas Edwards-designed development of the Arcade Site in Walthamstow wins planning permission
Hanham Hall: Eco living

25 Jan 13

HCA’s zero-carbon development moves forward, as Barratt and Sovereign Housing Association agree on deal
British Museum: Depths of the past

24 Jan 13

Artist-in-residence inspired by excavation that forms part of build process for Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners’ project
HOK to design £500m Saudi airport expansion

22 Jan 13

Firm to help design expansion of Riyadh Airport in Saudi Arabia
Balfour Beatty to take on £16.5m West London refurb

21 Jan 13

Balfour Beatty is to undertake the design and construction works for the refurbishment 1 & 2 Stephen Street, London.
Amanora Gateway Towers 1: The high life

18 Jan 13

Luxury tower project developed by jeweler Swarovski will comprise of 410 apartments in the Indian city of Pune
Make's £450m makeover for St James's gets go ahead

16 Jan 13

Huge scheme for the Crown Estate approved by Westminster planning committee
Assael unveils North Wharf Garden design

15 Jan 13

Architect masterplans major Paddington regeneration project
Green light for A2Dominion's Thames riverside housing scheme

14 Jan 13

81-home scheme by Assael Architecture in Hammersmith secures planning permission
Muse moves forward with £200m Basingstoke regeneration scheme

11 Jan 13

Muse Developments has signed two development agreements with Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council for the £200m Basing View regeneration scheme
Crossrail: Fun at the circus

10 Jan 13

Aerial shot of London Crossrail project site at Finsbury Circus
Bam completes £20m Nottingham eco-hotel

9 Jan 13

Contractor Bam Construct has completed a RHWL Architects-designed £20m eco-hotel at Nottingham University
Foster's early gem protected by government

8 Jan 13

Heritage minister awards Grade II-star listing to 1977 Sainsbury Centre
London Bridge Station gets highest green rating

3 Jan 13

Station design achieves 96.9% CEEQUAL sustainability score
New Story Museum wins planning

20 Dec 12

Scheme by Purcell Architects in Oxford to become an “international visitor attraction”
Bermondsey housing scheme wins planning

18 Dec 12

Architect BuckleyGrayYeoman gains approval for 82-home scheme
Nex's contest-winning Cadogan Cafe

17 Dec 12

Architect’s design saw off stiff competition for small but prestigious job
Frankfurt airport: Fresher Frankfurters

13 Dec 12

Grimshaw unveils designs for refurbishment of terminal one entrance
RHWL Arts Team wins planning for theatre

12 Dec 12

Architect’s 100-seat theatre in south west London due for start on site in spring
Atkins to design sports academy in Oman

11 Dec 12

Complex includes state-of-the-art swimming, gymnastics and athletics facilities
Populous scoops Russia World Cup stadium job

10 Dec 12

2018 stadium to nearly halve capacity in legacy
Birmingham’s Exchange Square wins planning

7 Dec 12

Developer Nikal says scheme will meet city’s Grade A office space shortfall
Entering Moscow's Orbit

6 Dec 12

Studio Egret West-designed Orbit Park will be home to Russian National Aviation and Space Museum
SES wins place on rifle range job

4 Dec 12

Firm appointed to provide building services engineering
Capita Symonds appointed on £60m university job

3 Dec 12

Consultant to work on UK’s most sustainable academic building
Wood be great: Wood Wharf

30 Nov 12

Aecom scoops role on £2bn extension to Canary Wharf
Center Parcs white water adventure ride opens

29 Nov 12

Holder Mathias-designed £4m ride at Center Parcs Elvden Forest takes riders on a water adventure
G&T lands role on Globe theatre extension

28 Nov 12

Consultant will work with Allies & Morrison on new indoor theatre
HOK triumphs in global contest for £167m Italian lab

27 Nov 12

Architect unveils design for Sicily campus facility after beating 13 other teams
Capita Symonds bags £7m London fit-out

26 Nov 12

Firm will work on revamp of JLT’s City of London HQ
Port-au-Prince restoration: Upmarket

23 Nov 12

Alan Baxter Associates scoops sustainability award for rebuilding Iron Market in Port-au-Prince after 2010 earthquake
Nine Elms: On the horizon

22 Nov 12

Nine Elms Vauxhall Partnership reveals vision of redevelopment plans
Jestico + Whiles wins planning for Hackney school

21 Nov 12

Jestico + Whiles have secured planning consent for a new Sixth Form Centre at Stoke Newington School in Hackney, east London
Sir Robert McAlpine lands £20m Mayfair office

20 Nov 12

Sir Robert McAlpine has won the £20m job to build a 40,000 sq ft Mayfair office building for Grosvenor
Morgan Sindall wins £15.8m university job

19 Nov 12

Morgan Sindall has won a £15.8m contract to redevelop and upgrade facilities at the University of Hertfordshire
Plymouth University: Marine Life

16 Nov 12

Duke of Edinburgh opens Burwell Deakins Architects-designed facility
Five Pancras Square: Crowning glory

15 Nov 12

Bennetts Associates-designed building in King’s Cross Central development wins BREEAM design rating of ‘outstanding’
Plymouth's Marine Building research centre opens

13 Nov 12

A new Marine Building at Plymouth University, designed by Burwell Deakins Architects, has been opened by the Duke of Edinburgh
Avanti’s great leap forward

9 Nov 12

UK architect wins chance to work on 22ha regeneration plan in China
Al Maryah Island: Treasure island

8 Nov 12

Abu Dhabi Urban planning council approves 3.5 million m2 mixed-use development
New York-style 'high line' mooted for Manchester

6 Nov 12

Manchester residents join with architect BDP in campaign to transform disused viaduct into elevated garden
New vision for Stoke business district

5 Nov 12

Manchester based regeneration specialist Genr8 has revealed designs for a new central business district for Stoke-on-Trent
Durham University: Making the grade

2 Nov 12

£50m, BREEAM Excellent-rated building the Palatine Centre is new HQ for university
ISG wins £40m Liverpool events centre

1 Nov 12

ISG has won the £40m job to build a new events and exhibition centre on Liverpool’s waterfront
Zaha Hadid's Galaxy Soho completes

31 Oct 12

Architect designing further Chinese projects for developer
Land Securities' 123 Victoria Street redevelopment completes

30 Oct 12

The Aukett Fitzroy Robinson-designed refurbishment of 123 Victoria Street has completed
Portakabin completes £3m modular primary school

26 Oct 12

Portakabin has handed over the first complete primary school in England to be built using modular construction
Make unveils plans for Stansted expansion

24 Oct 12

Architect Make is developing plans to expand Stansted airport to up to four runways to solve the UK’s airport capacity problem
Construction sites to go on show in November

22 Oct 12

91 sites, including Leeds Arena and Tate Modern extension, will open their doors to the public
SOM scheme wins sustainable community award

19 Oct 12

Arnold Schwarzenegger presents accolade for Chicago Lakeside development
Work starts on Stanhope's Mark Lane

18 Oct 12

£110m City office development is designed by Bennetts Associates
BDP wins German prison redevelopment job

17 Oct 12

BDP has won the Düsseldorf Ulmer Höh design competition to redevelop a former prison site in Germany.
New home for Borough Market

15 Oct 12

The Jestico + Whiles-designed redevelopment of Borough Market, in London, is now complete
Shanghai China Grand Theatre: Theatrical revival

12 Oct 12

RHWL Architects to return listed 1930 Shanghai China Grand Theatre to its former glory
Deloitte & AKD Amsterdam office: Deloitteful

11 Oct 12

PLP Architecture’s office building awarded BREEAM-NL Outstanding design certificate
AFR wins planning for £50m Bristol scheme

9 Oct 12

Grade A 8-storey office development gets the green light
Magdalen College library plan gets green light

8 Oct 12

Wright & Wright Architects’ scheme for a new Library at Magdalen College, Oxford, has been granted planning permission
McLaren wins London job

5 Oct 12

Contractor wins £16.5m job on central London project, the Turnmill building
Rathfinny winery lays sustainable roots

4 Oct 12

New winery in East Sussex to be biggest and most environmentally friendly in England
Deal struck for International Criminal Court

3 Oct 12

Schmidt Hammer Lassen-designed structure set for 2013 start
Planners back Crossharbour mixed-use scheme

2 Oct 12

Thumbs-up for 850 homes and 280,000 ft2 of retail space
St Ambrose College welcomes pupils

1 Oct 12

New school has been designed around a central space
Chichester College forges ahead with £6.5m teaching facility

28 Sep 12

Chichester College’s new teaching facility given green light
Greenwich Peninsula sculpture opens

27 Sep 12

Pods made of sustainable material house exhibition space in Greenwich Park
Back to nature: Cory Environmental Visitor Centre

26 Sep 12

This visitor centre at the Thurrock Thameside Nature Park has completed
Student double-bill for Liverpool

25 Sep 12

Worthington Properties showcases accommodation proposals
Up the Walkie Talkie

20 Sep 12

Building went up 20 Fenchurch Street this week - all the way to the top floor.
Ground broken for new Design Museum

19 Sep 12

Luminaries of architecture and design contribute items for 2012 time capsule
New homes for Department of Transport office

18 Sep 12

Westminster backs apartments plan for former Department of Transport office
The real green deal

17 Sep 12

Micro-algae put to work for zero-carbon façades
Astudio in Hong Kong: Weaving in

14 Sep 12

UK architect’s ‘weave’ design reaches final shortlist for residential development
Five architects vie for RIBA housing gong

13 Sep 12

Duggan Morris Architects and Found Associates among those shortlisted for RIBA’s Manser Medal
BuckleyGrayYeoman lands permission for London office extension

12 Sep 12

Epworth House in Islington London to get refurbishment
Gensler unveils Thames Estuary airport plan

11 Sep 12

Scheme proposes alternative to rival Foster + Partners design
Permission sought for Central Square Leeds development

10 Sep 12

Consultant EC Harris handling application for Aedas-designed scheme
UK firms win Moscow expansion job

7 Sep 12

Architects Gillespies and John Thompson & Partners and engineer Buro Happold on winning team
Education on the isles

6 Sep 12

Joint venture between three Northern Ireland contractors due to complete six schools across the Western Isles
Gleeds takes off at JFK

5 Sep 12

Gleeds starts work as program manager on £107m JFK airport project
Chester floats arts complex plans

4 Sep 12

Council looks to build new venue around classic cinema
Terminal 2B: Come fly with me

31 Aug 12

Balfour Beatty project becomes first airport building in UK to achieve BREEAM rating
St James Theatre: Curtains up

30 Aug 12

First newly-built theatre in London’s West End for three decades set to open next month
Lend Lease submits plans for Elephant & Castle homes

29 Aug 12

Developer Lend Lease has submitted plans for the first new homes to built as part of the massive Elephant & Castle regeneration scheme
Howe Park Passive House: Sealed tight

24 Aug 12

Eco Design Consultant’s Passivhaus project makes claim to be most airtight building in country after accreditation tests
Art of Building finalists announced

23 Aug 12

Photography competition down to 12 finalists
Pinnacle One: Temple to culture

23 Aug 12

Developer names Make-designed tower that will form part of the Chengdu Daci Temple Cultural and Commercial Complex
Mace starts work on Building's new home

22 Aug 12

Contractor Mace has started work on site at 240 Blackfriars Road, the new home of UBM, the publishers of Building magazine
Images unveiled of major Jeddah airport

21 Aug 12

Areen Aviation completes interior design work
Wates completes £26m new Aquatics Centre

21 Aug 12

State-of-the-art Luton facility intended to capitalise on Olympics effect
Bell rings for Morgan Sindall's £19m Hull school project

15 Aug 12

Contractor Morgan Sindall is primed to start work on £19.2m schools project in Hull, as a part of the final stages of Hull’s £400m Building Schools for the Future Programme.
Scott Brownrigg unveils Surrey Uni ‘gateway’

14 Aug 12

Three-storey building for University of Surrey includes student reception and halls of residence
Stock Woolstencroft submits £52m London mall plans

13 Aug 12

Architect proposes mixed-use redevelopment of 1.1 Acton hectare shopping centre
Olympic velodrome: Full speed ahead

10 Aug 12

Britain achieves its highest Olympic medal tally for over a century. But can the delivery model that gave us the Games’ venues provide a blueprint for the future?
Construction Rocks: Wall of sound

9 Aug 12

Tune up for Construction Rocks – UK construction’s battle of the bands
Olympic Stadium - home to glory

6 Aug 12

Populous Architect’s Olympic Stadium played host to a golden weekend for Team GB
Weihai Pavilion: How to Make it in China

3 Aug 12

Exhibition space on the Shandong Peninsula is architect’s first building in mainland China
ArcelorMittal Orbit: Out of this world

2 Aug 12

Tickets for Olympic tower sell out, despite criticism from architects
London 2012: the venues in action

31 Jul 12

Despite the controversy over empty seats the Games venues are proving popular. And so too is the ArcelorMittal Orbit
Heatherwick-designed cauldron highlight of opening ceremony

30 Jul 12

The Olympic stadium was finally put to use on with the opening ceremony of London 2012
Scott Brownrigg's Lilly campus

27 Jul 12

Work now complete on architect’s office building for multinational pharmaceutical corporation
Works commence on Trump Tower Manila

26 Jul 12

Ground works have commenced on the Trump Tower Manila, designed by global architecture, urbanism and design practice Broadway Malyan
Hive library breaks BREEAM record

25 Jul 12

Gold-clad building scores highest ever rating for a public library
Peabody's 500-home Clapham scheme given the nod

24 Jul 12

Hawkins Brown-designed redevelopment of St John’s Hill estate approved by Wandsworth Council
Landmark Brighton tower secures funding package

18 Jul 12

Council loan of £15m to see Marks Barfield Architects’ i360 start on site before year end
LDA Design wins luxury Mumbai landscape scheme

17 Jul 12

Firm commissioned to create an extensive, multi-stage landscape design for a $2bn prime residential-led scheme
Wimbish award winner

16 Jul 12

Eco-friendly Essex social housing project wins UK Passivhaus Trust award
University of Glamorgan: Eco-award for student halls

12 Jul 12

Boyes Rees Architects-designed student accommodation one of eight winners of the 2012 Constructing Excellence in Wales Awards
Action for Bray film studios

11 Jul 12

a:b:i:r architects scheme for film studios at Bray wins planning permission
Lasers and searchlights shine on Shard's big day

6 Jul 12

Twelve lasers and 30 searchlights lit up the sky last night to celebrate the inauguration of The Shard - the tallest building in Western Europe.
Abu Dhabi International Airport: They have take-off

5 Jul 12

Joint venture signs £1.87bn contract for Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates-designed Midfield Terminal Building
Manchester cultural centre gets go ahead

2 Jul 12

Manchester council approves plans for new £80m building in city centre
Capita Symonds-owned architect ESA opens new Poland office

28 Jun 12

Wholly-owned Capita Symonds architecture practice ESA has opened its second Polish studio in the capital Warsaw.
The very best for Bordeaux

26 Jun 12

Winning design team unveiled for new Bordeaux cultural centre
Court of Appeal gives green light to the Quill

25 Jun 12

Spparc-designed 30-storey tower in London Bridge wins planning battle after Court of Appeal grants its consent
PGE Arena plays host to Germany VS Greece

22 Jun 12

The PGE Arena in Gdañsk in Poland plays host to the second quarter final in Euro 2012 tonight between Germany and Greece
Elephant & Castle regeneration: Mammoth project

21 Jun 12

Lend Lease presents new image for massive regeneration project in south London, expected to be completed in 2025
LAVA wins competition for Ethiopian stadium

20 Jun 12

Global architects the Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) and Designsport chosen for stadium complex in Addis Ababa
MVRDV unveils design for Polish tower

19 Jun 12

Global architect MVRDV has unveiled designs for a new tower in the Polish city of Poznan
Green light for Tony Fretton Architects' Belgian scheme

18 Jun 12

Tony Fretton Architects has achieved planning permission for a new 7,500 sq m town hall and administrative centre in Deinze, Belgium.
Sweett Group unveils luxury Hong Kong store

14 Jun 12

Consultant unveils images of Shanghai Tang Mansion store
Against the grain: Granary Square

14 Jun 12

New public space near Kings Cross designed by Townshend Landscape Architects and built by Bam Nuttall opens
Pringle Brandon Drew unveils plans for Shakespeare theatre site

12 Jun 12

Exhibition space for historic remains to be incorporated into residential and retail devleopment
Newham's first council housing in a decade completed

11 Jun 12

Bell Phillips Architects has designed first new council-commissioned housing in ten years
BDP unveils plans for Oldham Town Hall

7 Jun 12

Architect designs “light-box” facade for iconic building
Straight to the Pointe

6 Jun 12

Plans lodged for £200m Cardiff waterfront development
Leisure hub by Michael Aukett Architects

1 Jun 12

Vinci begins work on Michael Aukett Architects-designed mixed use leisure, retail and residential project in south London
Serpentine Pavilion unveiled

31 May 12

Kensington Gardens gallery set to open latest summer structure
For the record

30 May 12

Todd Architects’ work on Public Records Office in Belfast scores a hat-trick of awards
Muse puts 'sparkle' into Doncaster

28 May 12

Coloured tiles on civic office designed to give the city’s cultural quarter a sense of space
CCTV in Beijing officially complete

25 May 2012

Construction on the OMA/Rem Koolhaas designed CCTV Headquarters in Beijing, China, officially reached completion last week
170-tonne cultural centre craned onto Southend Pier

24 May 12

Structure designed by White Arkietkter in partnership with Sprunt is transported along the Thames Estuary and lifted onto the pier
BDP to design Shanghai business district

23 May 12

Hongquio business district job won by architect in international competition
Broadway Malyan reveals masterplan for new Brazilian city

22 May 12

Practice designs compact sustainable city to support Brazil’s growing economy
Foster & Partners to design Roman artefact museum

21 May 12

Museum will house more than 1,000 stone relief funerary blocks in southern France
BIG in Korea

18 May 12

Danish firm has revealed its design for Cross # Towers residential towers in Seoul
BIG unveils designs for Seoul residential tower

18 May 12

Cross # Towers will form gateway to Yongsan International Business District
Diplomatic move

17 May 12

Architect Waugh Thistleton designs temporary pavilion at Lancaster House for Olympic business summit
Clear line ahead for Northampton station scheme

16 May 12

Government pledges half of redevelopment’s £20m cost
Sowing the seeds of change in China

15 May 12

Broadway Malyan to design Grand Agriseeds Technology HQ
McLaren set to start on Liverpool project

14 May 12

Five-floor steel-framed store to host new US fashion invasion
A trip to the top: What is the Orbit like?

11 May 12

Britain’s tallest and most controversial sculpture, the Orbit was unveiled today on the Olympic Park. What is it like?
Dream job for Arup in Seoul

11 May 12

Engineering services firm plays centrol role in South Korean commercial development
Architect's plans for the manor reborn

10 May 12

Grant set to pave the way for Grade I building’s £3.6m restoration
Ground broken for new Shanghai financial centre

9 May 12

Construction starts on Bund business and entertainment hub
Brighton set to give tower plans a lift

8 May 12

Council could borrow £14m needed to get new landmark off the ground
Red sky at night for the Orbit

4 May 12

Olympics bosses turn spotlights on UK’s largest sculpture
One World Trade Center tops New York

2 May 12

Construction of the £1.8bn One World Trade Center surpasses the Empire State Building
BIG Vancouver vision

1 May 12

Architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has unveiled plans for a 490-foot-tall tower in downtown Vancouver
The Walkie Talkie's latest step

30 Apr 12

First steel section installed for Fenchurch Street skyscraper
BREEAM into China

27 April 2012

Sustainability accolade for US-driven mixed-use development
Scaffolding boss finishes 100 marathons in 100 days

25 Apr 12

Matthew Loddy completes grueling test to raise £45,000 for charity
London landmarks' marathon effort revealed

25 Apr 12

Construction industry trio close in on £7,500 fundraising target after finishing race in 5hrs 50 mins
Designs unveiled for Centre Point

24 Apr 12

Drawings detail plans for London landmark’s future
East End park gets Olympic makeover

23 Apr 12

Chinese pagoda unveiled in Victoria Park
Vision for the next 100 years

20 April 2012

University sets sights on ripe old age for green enterprise centre
Eastbourne in line for £70m facelift

19 Apr 12

Plans lodged for shopping centre extension to ‘kick-start’ regeneration
Planners back City-edge hotel

17 Apr 12

Tower Hamlets approves 23-storey Aldgate development
BAM passes latest academy test

16 Apr 12

Constructor selected for £15.5m Dumbarton job
New square for Fulham

13 Apr 12

London Square has won planning permission to create a £100m residential square in Fulham
Burnley UTC plans are grist to the mill

12 Apr 12

£10m University Technical College will bring Grade II building back into use
United House picked for Finsbury Park towers

11 Apr 12

£130m regeneration project will create 350 new homes at north London hub
Business hub made entirely from shipping containers unveiled

10 Apr 12

Clugston completes £1.2m sustainable project in Sunderland
Yeah, Hackney's in the House

5 Apr 12

Borough commissions non-sport media centre for Olympics
Victor named for Imperial War Museum refit

4 Apr 12

Lend Lease wins First World War galleries work
Mayfair Chambers passes 'Go'

3 Apr 12

Westminster City Council approves 3DReid-designed development
Final steel piece lifts Shard to full height

2 Apr 12

Latest pictures of Shard at its full height of 310m
BAM bags Ealing academy

30 March 2012

Contractor adds Ealing school to its academy portfolio
Green shoots in Stepney

29 Mar 12

East London development begins as part of wider regeneration programme
City goes for Parry roof garden

28 Mar 12

Tweaked Fenchurch Street development wins approval
Health centre is a winner

27 Mar 12

BREEAM salutes first healthcare building to win ‘outstanding’ rating
Maidstone museum reopens

26 Mar 12

Museum reopens after £3m refurbishment
Thumbs up for new Thameside hotel

23 Mar 12

City of London approves Queen Hithe Hotel for shadow of St Paul’s
Love arts: Culture in store for Southampton

22 Mar 12

Former department store site to become new arts complex
BREEAM accolade for The Green

21 Mar 12

University of Bradford’s £40m student village graduates with eco honours
Top BREEAM award goes to the dogs

20 Mar 12

Latest sustainability roll of honour unveiled at Ecobuild conference
Shenzhen high-rise scheme set to move forward

19 Mar 12

Architect wins approval for 18-tower Galaxy Yabao project in China
A sight to sea: McAslan's Earls Court scheme approved

16 March 2012

First phase of eight-block Seagrave Road development now set for 2013 start
Southwark housing scheme completes

15 Mar 12

Metaphorm-designed block will house residents of soon-to-be-demolished Heygate Estate
Green-light for Cartwright Pickard development

14 Mar 12

Former school site on edge of South Downs is centre for £5.5m development
Scunthorpe sports centre up for green award

13 Mar 12

A unique sports centre in Scunthorpe has been shortlisted for the public building of the year in the Sustain Awards.
Formation Architects' Bexley gym opens

12 Mar 12

Sport England chief says Europa Centre defines the concept of ‘legacy investments’
LSE's New Student Centre achieves BREEAM Outstanding

09 March 2012

LSE’s New Student Centre is the 17th building worldwide to receive a BREEAM Outstanding rating
Foster + Partners unveils designs for Marseille port revamp

8 Mar 12

Architect unveils designs for historic port at Mipim
Liverpool Waters £5.5bn plan approved

6 Mar 12

City council backs outline proposals from Peel Holdings to regenerate 60ha of docklands
Green light for ORMS science building

6 Mar 12

Uppingham School will get a new science building including exhibition space and a research centre
BREEAM at the BBC

02 March 2012

Vinci’s BBC Wales studios have become the highest BREEAM rated industrial building in the UK
Green light for Kew scheme

1 Mar 12

Construction will start later this year on Assael Architects-designed residential scheme
Atkins unveils designs for wing-shaped China hotel

28 Feb 12

Hotel-led development will be built near the Cotai tourist strip in Macau
Made in Taiwan: Yuan Ze University arts and education centre

24 February 2012

Santiago Calatrava-designed project will include a 1,200 seat performing arts centre
Making a splash: Baca Architects' amphibious home

20 Feb 12

The two-storey house will float when the dock beneath it fills with water during floods
Berkeley launches One Tower Bridge

17 February 2012

Construction will begin on development of 390 flats after controversial planning history
Wilkinson Eyre completes Soho office

16 Feb 12

The £9.5m building replaces a sixties building in the Soho Conservation Area
Capita's Saudi shopping centre: Open all hours

15 Feb 12

Capita Symonds has unveiled plans for a new shopping centre in Al- Ahsa, Saudi Arabia. The 1.3 million ft2 scheme will provide two anchor stores at either end of a three-level “24hr lifestyle street”. The project is due for completion in 2014.
Designs for Sundance building unveiled

14 Feb 12

Architects BIG and Architectural Nexus win Kimball commission
Foster & Partners' Commonwealth Games arena begins to emerge

10 February 2012

Work by Lend Lease expected to complete on the 12,000 seat Scottish Hydro Arena in 2013
Take off: New Abu Dhabi airport is approved

9 Feb 12

Kohn Pederson Fox Associates has designed the airport, with a contractor expected to be appointed imminently
Designs for floating pavilion at Olympics unveiled

7 Feb 12

Pavilion will be situated on elevated site above the Waterworks River
Major work on King's Cross station completed

03 February 2012

John McAslan + Partners’ lattice-work roof incorporates 1,000 tonnes of steel
Scott Brownrigg to design Cardiff's International Sports Village

2 Feb 12

Architect has won job along with team led by developer Helium Miracle 113
Olympic construction workers recreate masterpiece

31 Jan 12

‘Bathers’ pose for photographic recreation of 19th century painting
Buro Happold and 3XN unveil Odenplan station entrance

27 January 2012

Proposed structure in Stockholm will have curved concrete amphitheatre over underground concourse
Olympic Wetlands Bridge receives highest ever CEEQUAL rating

26 Jan 12

Nearly half of the content of the bridge by value is recycled
The Olympic village: architectural review

25 Jan 12

The Olympic village is the last main 2012 venue to be completed and as a symbol of regeneration its success is crucial to legacy plans. But have its designers played it too safe? Building reports
Croydon tower gets planning permission

19 Jan 12

Croydon council grants permission for £350m 55-storey CZWG tower
Rock star-inspired artwork installed on Olympic park

17 Jan 12

RUN by Monica Bonvicini weighs 30 tonnes and is adjacent to the handball arena
Capita Symonds unveils Kampala Tower

16 Jan 12

Firm designs 222m high tower for Ugandan capital
New King's Cross public square wins planning

13 Jan 12

Stanton Williams-designed scheme will create 7,000m2 of public space outside station
Landmark registry office opens in Blackpool

12 Jan 12

£2m building by architect dRMM is clad in gold-coloured shingles
RMJM gets permission for 300m high Istanbul tower

11 Jan 12

The 500,000m2 development will include a hotel, offices and apartments
Architect for Bath arts centre chosen

9 Jan 12

University of Bath apppoints Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios to design new Centre for the Arts
Atkins unveils designs for Georgia skyscraper

6 Jan 12

250m-tall tower will be one of the tallest in the region
Six storey new build for Cadogan Estate wins planning

6 Jan 12

Scheme by Stiff and Trevillion Architects also involves engineers AKT II and Arup
One-bedroom hotel on South Bank opens for 2012

5 Jan 12

David Kohn Architects’ A Room for London is part of the London 2012 Festival
Eco hotel planned near Bangalore unveiled

4 Jan 12

Architect Mohsin Cooper and engineer Hurleypalmerflatt behind 9,450m2 scheme
Make wins planning for Chancery Lane revamp

3 Jan 12

Scheme for 150 Holborn granted permission by Camden council
Foster to design high-speed rail station in Spain

22 Dec 11

Foster + Partners wins competition to design Ourense AVE Station
London Bridge overhaul designs gets green light

21 Dec 11

New visualisations released of revamped station
ODA selects giant trees for Olympic Park

20 Dec 11

Half a ton bronze and steel rings will be placed in the tree crowns
First images unveiled of Maggie's Aberdeen

16 Dec 11

Cancer care centre has been designed by Oslo-based Snohetta
Carnival spirit: Foster Wilson Architects completes Notting Hill arts centre

16 December 2011

Firmco was main contractor on the £3m scheme
BIG wins lapland ski resort contest

13 Dec 11

Firm will create a 47,000 sq m ski resort and recreational area in Levi, Finland
Farrells' Kennedy Town Swimming Pool opens in Hong Kong

13 Dec 11

Phase one provides two outdoor pools with views of Victoria harbour
Work begins on £50m Capita Cyprus scheme

12 Dec 11

Capita’s architecture subsidiary ESA masterplanned the 17ha project
HLM and Leadbitter complete £20m school in Wales

09 December 2011

The school comprises a number of three-storey stone and render-clad wings
Titanic Belfast Visitor Centre to open next March

8 Dec 11

Harcourt Construction is building the 14,000m2 visitor centre in Belfast
BDP wins multimillion-pound Leeds shopping centre scheme

7 Dec 11

7,500m2 redevelopment will commence early in 2012
Capita Symonds unveils £20m Saudi development

5 Dec 11

Mixed-use scheme will cover 50,000ft2, and work is expected to start next spring
Planning submitted for 'eco-mosque'

02 December 2011

Marks Barfield Architects has submitted a planning application for “Britain’s first eco-mosque” in Cambridge
Ardmore starts work on £26m Tower Hamlets regeneration project

1 Dec 11

Scheme will see the creation of 139 homes
Medical building blocks: Stryker unveils office

1 Dec 11

Volker Fitzpatrick was contractor on the three-story, 10,000m2 facility
New images of Thames Hub unveiled

29 Nov 11

Architect Foster + Partners reveals further work in advance of Oxford Uni lecture
BDP designing major biomass power plant near Sheffield

28 Nov 11

Multi-disciplinary firm working with Bam Nuttall on £120m scheme for E.ON
Skanska reveals detailed housing designs

25 Nov 11

Swedish contractor starts work on its first housing scheme in the UK, an estate of Scandinavian-style homes in Cambridge,
Bournville College opens £65m campus in Longbridge

25 November 2011

Upto 15,000 students will study at £66m college designed by Broadway Malyan
Mansell completes Hopkins' Nottingham University building

25 November 2011

Engineering and Science Learning Centre cost £10m to build
State-of-the-art treehouse for vulnerable young people opens

24 Nov 11

Blue Forest’s £178,000 woodland retreat was opened by the Duke of Gloucester
McLaren factory: Driving force

23 Nov 11

White, pristine and streamlined – McLaren’s sports car production centre is like no factory you’ve ever seen. Ike Ijeh goes for a spin at the Foster-designed facility
Science park seeks joint venture partner for £35m 'Digital Plaza'

21 Nov 11

Proposed scheme would create a 100,000ft2 specialist hub for tech firms
The highest height: The Shard's spire unveiled

18 November 2011

Mace carried out ‘test run’ of assembling the spire in a Yorkshire airfield
New University of Salford student village

17 Nov 11

Hawkins Brown and Urban Initiatives have won planning permission for a new student village at the University of Salford.
X marks the spot: Bam's Molecular Biology lab nears completion

15 Nov 11

RMJM-designed building resembles an X-chromosome from the air
Construction begins on University of Nottingham hotel

11 November 2011

Bam Construct has begun construction on an £18m hotel for the University of Nottingham.
RMJM wins planning for teaching facility in Wales

10 Nov 11

Project will include secondary, higher and further education facilities
Willmott Dixon completes eight-storey cross-laminated timber building

7 Nov 11

Contractors claims use of solid cross-laminated timber on East London apartment block saved 892 tonnes of carbon
100 top architects draw Square Mile for charity

4 Nov 11

Fundrasier for Article 25 charity sees 100 architects and engineers each draw a segment of the Square Mile in London
Manchester business school: A serious business

04 November 2011

Commercial property developer Bruntwood has been named preferred developer on a £60m scheme for Manchester Business School.
St Mary's University's new wave of sports facilities

4 Nov 11

Morgan Sindall has completed a £6m sports centre for St Mary’s University College in Twickenham, south-west London.
Cancer charity Maggie's unveils Nottingham centre

2 Nov 11

Building was designed by CZWG with interiors by Sir Paul Smith
Bruntwood to deliver £60m Manchester Business School development

1 Nov 11

BDP-masterplanned project will include a four-star hotel, conference venue and education centre
Going for green: Student complex awarded highest ever BREEAM rating

28 October 2011

The accomodation complex scored 95.05%
First recycled plastic bridge in Europe built in Scotland

26 Oct 11

Thermoplastic material used in construction of road bridge will be sold by Vetech next year
Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama opens after £22.5m redevelopment

25 Oct 11

Cardiff scheme designed by BFLS with Willmott Dixon as main contractor
Scottish architects shortlisted for top award

24 Oct 11

RIAS Andrew Doolan prize is worth £25,000 to the winner - the richest in British architecture
Olympic bridge completed

19 Oct 11

A key footbridge linking the Olympic Stadium and aquatics centre has been completed, the ODA has announced.
Tesco turns derelict hospital into store

14 October 2011

Tesco has been granted planning permission to transform the site of Wolverhampton Royal hospital into a 139,800ft2 store development.
London firm wins Paris residential job

13 Oct 11

London-based Farshid Moussavi Architecture has won a competition to design a major residential complex in the La Defense district of Paris.
Olympic media centre legacy plans

07 October 2011

The Olympic Park Legacy Company has invited bids from companies interested in taking over the press and broadcast centres after the 2012 Games.
Gartnavel Maggie's Centre: Moment of calm

5 Oct 11

Rem Koolhaas shows unusual restraint and impeccable bedside manners at Glasgow’s second Maggie’s Centre, where a subdued and informal space uses the natural world around it to promote healing
Fosters unveils designs for Kuwait International Airport

4 Oct 11

Design based on Kuwaiti sailing boats aims to achieve ‘gold’ LEED rating
Splash of colour: Park Hill flats go on sale

30 September 2011

Urban Splash has transformed a grade-II listed estate through a £100m regeneration
Woods Bagot's retail tower opens in Hong Kong

27 Sep 11

Cubus tower features fractured ‘ice-cube’ facades
Rise and shine: Belfast's new sculpture

23 September 2011

The biggest public art sculpture in Belfast has been completed
Open House London

16 September 2011

St Mungo’s Spring Gardens hostel for the homeless is one of more than 700 buildings opening its doors to the public this weekend for Open House London.
Birmingham Library gets topped out

15 Sep 11

The Library of Birmingham held it’s topping out ceremony this week.
RIBA awards shortlist announced

09 September 2011

The RIBA has announced the shortlists for its 2011 awards series.
An emergency shelter with a difference

1 Sep 11

This ‘origami’ shelter is one of many concepts being exhibited in Australia to highlight the effects of Japan’s natural disasters
Key Homes to build Woolwich hotel

26 Aug 11

The 130-bedroom hotel will be part of mixed-use scheme
Davis Langdon to advise on £2bn Turkish eco-town

26 August 2011

News comes as Aecom plans to grow European business
Sweett house goes walkabout in Melbourne

24 Aug 11

Australian project managers tackle the tricky move of a century-old heritage house
Aecom and Wilkinson Eyre’s winning Rio 2016 designs unveiled

22 Aug 11

Olympic Park will host 15 Olympic and 11 Paralympic contests
ISG wins contract to build £3.7m Cheltenham gallery extension

19 Aug 11

New three-storey structure by Berman Guedes Stretton will include extra gallery space and cafe
Wexford's new council HQ

12 August 2011

London-based Robin Lee Architecture, formerly one half of Nord, has completed Wexford council headquarters in Ireland.
Birmingham library: Going in circles

11 Aug 11

The first section of the striking facade for the Mecanoo-designed £189m Birmingham library was fitted into place on Wednesday.
LDA completes Gloucester public realm scheme

10 Aug 11

Conservation area is part of urban masterplan for Gloucester Quays and Docks
Russia gets a new shopping centre

9 Aug 11

Mott McDonald has been appointed as design engineer for a 127,000m² shopping centre in St. Petersburg, Russia
Newbiggin Maritime Centre by Mosedale Gillatt Architects

8 Aug 11

Beach-side museum highlights the art and history of people living on the Northumberland coast
John McAslan gives King's Cross its wow factor

5 Aug 11

New 150m-wide canopy framing the Western concourse will be biggest spanning station structure in Europe
Titanic Belfast Visitor Centre: Now waterproof

05 August 2011

Aluminium rainscreen panels have been installed on the attraction
Dow to manufacture Olympic Stadium wrap

4 Aug 11

Chemical giant says hardware of 25m-high installation will be reused after the Games
New York architect bags New Holland job

2 Aug 11

Brit David Chipperfield loses out to US firm WORKac in Russian competition organised by Architecture Foundation
KPJ International Specialist Hospital: Best of health

29 July 2011

Nightingale Associates’ luxury private hospital is based in Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Life aquatic: The Olympics aquatic centre

28 Jul 11

In the week that marked a year to go to the 2012 Olympics the construction of Zaha-Hadid designed Olympic aquatics centre was completed
Campden Hill: Living in luxury

22 July 2011

John McAslan & Partners’ designed scheme overlooks Holland Park in west London
Velodrome tipped to win Stirling prize

21 Jul 11

Hopkins’ 2012 venue leads the pack of six finalists for the architectural gong
Mansfield Folkhouse youth centre: Rejuvenated

20 Jul 11

The Nottinghamshire youth centre has had a £6.5m makeover
Durham University’s Business School: Flexible studies

15 July 2011

GSS Architecture has submitted a planning application for a £10m extension to Durham University’s Business School
Liverpool museum to open next week

13 Jul 11

Danish architect 3XN’s museum is the UK’s largest to be built in over 100 years
ISG Jackson wins £4m Brixton housing project

11 Jul 11

Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects has designed 42-unit scheme for developer Kitewood
Picadilly Circus revamp

08 July 2011

The first stage in a £14m overhaul of London’s Piccadilly Circus is completed.
Canary Wharf dragon slayers defeated in battle of Hackney

1 Jul 11

Team Wharf miss out in rowing final despite severing head of a dragon in earlier heat
Crest Academies: Specialist education

01 July 2011

Wates has won a £37m deal to build two schools in London
Serpentine Pavilion: A natural observatory

28 Jun 11

This year’s design, by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, seeks to inspire visitors to observe nature
Star Wars: Jawa the HQ

24 June 2011

Aedas Architects’ “Sandcrawler” will be completed in Singapore next year
St Paul's celebrates 300th birthday with a clean

21 Jun 11

Wren’s masterpiece emerges from £40m restoration project
River trip: Zaha Hadid's Riverside Transport Museum

10 June 2011

Far from the Olympic aquatics centre, the first of Zaha Hadid’s big UK projects is complete. Building reviews her dramatic and somewhat psychedelic transport museum in Glasgow
Mexican Millau set to link capital to Gulf of Mexico

6 Jun 11

The 200m-plus piers of the San Carlos bridge will be second in height only to Foster’s French landmark
Office sweets: Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Toffee Factory

03 June 2011

Development will provide 1,500m2 of workspace in 25 new office units
TB Simatupang Development: Oriental sustainability

03 June 2011

Atkin’s design in Indonesia will house office, retail and serviced apartments
Waterside flats in Bristol

03 June 2011

Edward Cullinan Architects and Crest Nicholson have won planning permission for a waterfront building on the Bristol Harbourside redevelopment.
Buckingham Group completes hat-trick of sporting venues

2 Jun 11

New stadium for Brighton football club follows Olympic handball and Silverstone completions
The shape of Scunthorpe

27 May 2011

Scunthorpe leisure centre rises from the landscape as a series of interlinked domes, more in number than the Eden Project. We find out how you specify roofing for such a complex project, where nearly every element is unique
Buro Happold at Chelsea Flower Show

26 May 11

Engineer Buro Happold and NEX Architecture create pavillion based on the way plants grow
Buro Happold and NEX combine for Chelsea pavilion

24 May 11

Design of Chelsea Flower Show exhibit based on how plants grow
City office block gets a makeover

23 May 11

Fletcher Priest Architects and TIAA-CREF Asset Management UK have won planning permission for the refurbishment of a 25-storey office block in the City of London.
BDP low carbon flats

20 May 2011

BDP has revealed its design for a “very-low carbon” apartment building in Nanjing, China
Sculpting the Hepworth

19 May 11

Art meets industry in David Chipperfield’s Hepworth Wakefield gallery, reflecting two facets of its Yorkshire location’s heritage. But is this work of art devoid of humanity?
RIBA window-dresses Regent Street

12 May 11

RIBA architects collaborate with shops on Regent Street to create work that fuses innovations in architecture with retail design
Solar panels to halve carbon emissions at Blackfriars station

11 May 11

Huge array on Thameslink station roof will produce over 1MW of energy
Phase one of Masdar complete

06 May 2011

The $1.4bn first phase of one of the world’s most sustainable cities, Masdar in Abu Dhabi, has been completed.
Wolverton Park: urban retreat

06 May 2011

A £35m residential development in Milton Keynes has been selected as the sole UK entry in an international shortlist of nominees for the Urban Land Institute’s Awards for Excellence
Ballymore submits plans for US embassy area

5 May 11

Terry Farrell’s 15-acre masterplan for area around proposed US embassy goes in for planning
Skanska slides 1,200-tonne Thameslink bridge into position

3 May 11

Rail bridge over Borough High Street will double capacity of track around London Bridge
EC Harris' big day

28 April 2011

The firm will be flying the flag for the Royal Wedding tomorrow - literally
Tel Aviv Museum of Art: Five levels of light

28 April 2011

The £33.7m Herta and Paul Amir Building will open in November
The Boutiq: Eastern allure

27 Apr 11

Property consortium Heeton Holdings, KSH Holdings and TEE International have launched a luxury 39,972ft2 residential-led scheme in Singapore
Sloping off: a:b:i:r architects Brighton house

21 April 2011

The house optimises its sloping gradient with lower ground floor bedrooms
Cartwright Pickard wins planning for £3m Sheffield scheme

18 Apr 11

Arundel Street mixed-use project includes office, retail and 72 student flats
Eastern promise: Foster + Partners' Kai Tak Cruise Terminal

15 April 2011

The terminal will open in 2013 and have the capacity to disembark 8,400 passengers
Fire on Blackfriars station site

8 Apr 11

Blaze started at around 11.45am and two fire engines called
BuildingTV: Europe's tallest living wall springs into life

6 Apr 11

Bennett’s Associates use 180,000 plants to create 11th-storey green wall at the Mint Hotel in London
Make submits new design for Cherry Orchard Road

5 Apr 11

Fifty-four storey Croydon scheme goes in for planning
Leadbitter wins £49m Cornwall campus job

4 Apr 11

Contractor to build facilities for the University of Exeter and University College Falmouth
Camberwell Leisure Centre refurbishment

01 April 2011

?Watkins Grey International has completed the first phase of the south London project
Mixed-use scheme starts in north London

01 April 2011

A mixed-use development designed by architect HTA has started near the Wembley development
Coop Himmelb(l)au reveals design for Albanian Parliament

31 Mar 11

New Parliament building featuer a glass cone wrapped in a perforated steel skin
Work completes on Olympic Stadium

29 Mar 11

Last piece of turf will be laid today in Sir Robert McAlpine-built stadium
Zaha Brava: The Guangzhou Opera House

18 March 2011

Architecture and geology collide in Zaha Hadid’s glorious Guangzhou Opera House
Crossrail reveals full-size model of station platform

16 Mar 11

Mock-up will help engineers with design and specification of platforms
Mansell starts on 1,000-home PRP Kensington scheme

14 Mar 11

PRP have masterplanned Wornington Green Development in Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Co-op calls for developers to aid £800m Manchester regeneration

10 Mar 11

Group issues Mipim call for help on long-term regeneration surrounding £100m head office
Hubble bubble: the ArcelorMittal Orbit

04 March 2011

The ArcelorMittal Orbit is a third of its way to becoming London’s tallest sculpture
New town centre for Longbridge

04 March 2011

Plans have been submitted for a new £70m town centre for Longbridge in Warwickshire
Video: Willmott Dixon first winner on £1bn Tesco plan

04 March 2011

Contract is first of a £1bn pipeline of mixed-use schemes of which Cyril Sweett will work on first four
FaulknerBrowns wins design role on Newcastle Science Central

1 Mar 11

Architects will design the Gateway building to the 24-acre city centre development
St Modwen submits planning for £70m Longbridge scheme

28 Feb 11

New town centre will include 24 new shops and restuarants as well as 40 apartments
One Hyde Park: Heart's desire

25 February 2011

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, known for its left-leaning sympathies, is the architect behind the world’s most expensive apartments: One Hyde Park in London’s Knightsbridge
Miller Construction lands £5m Preston College contract

24 Feb 11

Construction to start immediately on new facility
Bulgari reveals plans for luxury London hotel

23 Feb 11

Squire & Partners are designing the luxury brand’s five-star Knightsbridge hotel
3XN to design Swedbank's Stockholm headquarters

22 Feb 11

V-shaped structure will house 2,500 office workers
Gensler designs London snow resort

18 February 2011

Acer Snowmec, ASL Developments and Gensler Architects have put forward plans to build Europe’s first indoor snow resort by converting the Olympic park media centre.
Tesco unveils huge Midland’s hospital redevelopment

17 Feb 11

Retail giant proposes 139,800 sq ft mixed-use scheme for Wolverhampton’s Royal Hospital
Emry's Architects win mixed-use scheme in south London

15 Feb 11

Emrys Architects have won planning permission for a mixed-use development in Camberwell
Park life

11 Feb 11

Architecture plb has been appointed to design a £30m residence building for the University of Portsmouth
Spurs' lost chance?

11 Feb 11

Tottentham Hotspur’s plans for the Olympic stadium may come to naught today
Planning secured for 51,500ft2 office in Shoreditch

10 Feb 11

Buckley Gray Yeoman designed headquarters building in Shoreditch received planning approval from Hackney Council this week
BIG to design New York pyramid-style residential scheme

8 Feb 11

Danish architect promises a hybrid of European courtyard and Manhattan skyscraper
Tottenham Hotspur releases Olympic Stadium images

8 Feb 11

Club hits back at claims it would ’demolish’ existing site
Walk on water: London River Park

28 January 2011

Gensler’s floating Thames promenade wins Mayor’s Award for Planning Excellence
AKT wins role on £400m ski-slope incinerator

27 Jan 11

Copenhagan design by BIG architects combines leisure and waste energy plant
Emrys Architects wins planning for West End flats

26 Jan 11

Mixed-use central London development will feature 23 apartments
Richmond Housing Partnership HQ by bptw

25 Jan 11

Teddington three-storey office generates 20% of energy on site and hits BREEAM excellent rating
Farrell submits Paddington Basin final phase masterplan

24 Jan 11

Terry Farrell and Partners’ plan for five mixed-use buildings has been submitted to Westminster City council for planning consent
Drama in Shanghai: Shanghai campus by Morphosis Architects

21 January 2011

?There’s more than one way to achieve contextualism, and Morphosis Architects’ Giant Campus in Shanghai goes for the provocative approach. Ike Ijeh is beguiled. Photographs by Roland Halbe
BDP's Northampton Station goes to planning

19 Jan 11

BDP designed scheme first phase of major redevelopment by Network Rail
One Hyde Park opens its doors

19 Jan 11

The most expensive flats in the world officially opened today
Floating wetland centre scoops BREEAM award

18 Jan 11

Adam Khan Architect’s Brockholes visitor centre has won a BREEAM Outstanding award
Willmott Dixon signs off on £26m Oldham academy

17 Jan 11

Contractor reaches financial close on £26.3m scheme to replace Waterhead Academy
Bennetts Associates completes New City Inn hotel

13 Jan 11

Nine-storey, £65m hotel was built by Laing O’Rourke
Heron hotel gains planning approval

12 Jan 11

Skyscraper will face the almost completed Heron Tower
Grimshaw submits design for Suffolk energy plant

11 Jan 11

Planning application sought for energy-from-waste facility near Ipswich
Jakob + Macfarlane's Lyon office: The cube with a hole

07 January 2011

Cuboid buildings may be all the rage but Jakob + Macfarlane’s provocative office block in Lyon is one of a kind
Building's favourite Flickr images of 2010

29 Dec 10

There are over 1,500 approved images on Building’s Flickr group. Here are our favourites
Populous and T Clarke light up London Olympic stadium

21 Dec 10

David Cameron turns the 2012 stadium’s 543 floodlights on for the first time
British Land's Slicker City

17 December 2010

British Land has submitted a planning application for a 12-storey 1.1m ft2 office block in the iconic Broadgate development in the City of London
Savills and DMA's Deptford digs

17 December 2010

Savills London Planning Team and DMA Architects have won planning approval for a 199-unit residential development in Deptford, south-east London.
Make's Broadgate scheme goes to planning

10 Dec 10

Broadgate development by British Land and Blackstone include four City trading floors for UBS
Grid Architects in Deptford: Grid locked

10 December 2010

Grid Architects and St Edward Homes have won planning permission for a 2.8ha residential and business quarter in Deptford, London
Mecanoo reveals design for Birmingham library interior

9 Dec 10

Mecanoo reveals impressions of inside the central rotunda a year into the building work
Morrison hands over Olympic canoe venue

9 Dec 10

Morrison Construction deliver Lee Valley White Water Centre 18 months before London Games’ opening ceremony
Sustainability Awards 2010: The winners and runners up

3 December 2010

Who are the clients, contractors, designers and manufacturers leading the way in boosting green construction? Well, many of them are right here. Here we list the winners and runners-up in this year’s Sustainability Awards
Foster's Masdar Institute kick starts Masdar City

2 Dec 10

Sustainability campus becomes first fully operational building within groundbreaking Abu Dhabi development
Hopkins and ISG win St Thomas' hospital job

1 Dec 10

Firms selected to reclad 13-storey tower in central London
RIBA architecture student awards

29 Nov 10

Westminster University student scoops silver medal and Mackintosh School of Architecture student awarded bronze medal
Melbourne office by Wilkinson Eyre Architects: Uni glow

26 November 2010

Wilkinson Eyre Architects and the Melbourne office of Sinclair Knight Merz have been appointed to design a building for the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. A six-storey block will “float” above a retained street-level Victorian facade. The development will form part of the university’s Hawthorn Campus.Send your project images to buildingimages@ubm.com
Queen unveils design for Foster's Abu Dhabi museum

25 Nov 10

Zayed National Museum on Saadiyat Island will showcase the history and culture of the Emirates
Bennett's Royal Shakespeare Company takes centre stage

24 Nov 10

This £12m refurbishment of the Stratford theatre should be a hit with audiences
Aghobili Hotel by Henning Larsen: On a high

19 November 2010

Aghobili Hotel in Abastumani, Georgia, is designed by Henning Larsen Architects.
Making a point

19 November 2010

WSP’s Grand Palladium injects futuristic design and some serious angles into the heart of Mumbai’s commercial district
Crossrail station visuals go on display

18 Nov 10

The latest designs for Crossrail stations are on show at the Building Centre
Manchester architect wins planning for £9m Everton scheme

16 Nov 10

Four-storey development designed by Formroom will house club shop, museum and hospitality suites
Make's Stratford education project gets green light

15 Nov 10

Collaborative scheme will go on site next summer and be ready for students in 2013
Glen Howells Architects: In the Lime light

12 November 2010

Glenn Howells Architects has redesigned the public square outside Liverpool Lime Street Station
Tesco completes first church conversion

11 Nov 10

Church in Bournemouth is first place of worship to be turned into a Tesco Express
Grid Architects wins planning for 190 Strand

10 Nov 10

206-flat West End development will include 22,500ft2 of mixed-use space
Consortium designs Antarctic research station

9 Nov 10

British-South Korean team releases first image of its competition entry for the Korean Polar Research Institute
Benoy and Arup lead UK charge in China trade mission

8 Nov 10

Masterplanner David Lock Associates joins architect and engineer in winning work in the country
Ras Al Khaimah Gateway

05 November 2010

This £1bn mixed-use building has been completed by Buro Happold in the UAE
Danish bank gets Tetris style cladding

4 Nov 10

A subtle puzzle-like pattern of panels helps Danish bank stand out
Greenpower Education Trust wins award

3 Nov 10

A centre aimed at nuturing sustainable engineering talents in young people has been recognised for its design quality
Crossrail reveals revised £1bn Tottenham Court Road plans

2 Nov 10

Designs by Hawkins Brown will double capacity at flagship central London station
What a carve up! HTA crowns its Pump-king

1 Nov 10

HTA’s architects turn their attention to the emerging pumpkin sector in their halloween design comp
Lab work

29 October 2010

Ryder Architecture has won planning permission for the next phase of Liverpool Science Park, opposite the city’s Metropolitan cathedral
Yorkon uses vintage methods of construction for Tesco

27 Oct 10

Offsite specialist re-creates sixties-style supermarket at Goodwood Park in Sussex
Foster's Vietnam debut breaks ground

26 Oct 10

Work gets under way on architect’s VietinBank Business Centre in Hanoi
Passivoffice: First UK office to reach Passivhaus standards

22 October 2010

Powys council was worried by rises in gas prices, so it decided to make its Stag teaching facility the first office in Britain to reach Passivhaus standards. After horrendous design problems, the team spent 12 months collecting data on how it performed. And, as Thomas Lane reports, the figures came as something of a shock…
The man-made mountain: Copenhagen's 8 house

21 Oct 10

Thomas Lane reports on the Copenhagen apartment block that has turned the suburban experience into something wild. Photos by Jens Linhe
Olympic Energy Centre opens

20 Oct 10

Building designed by John McAslan will help reduce the Olympic Park’s carbon emissions
Belfast's New Library scoops RICS sustainability award

19 Oct 10

Queen’s University library was built with an open-plan approach and with materials that can be recycled after use
Derby College’s Roundhouse wins RICS project of the year

15 Oct 10

This £48m vocational skills college provides facilities for 2500 students and has brought regeneration to the East Midlands
Urban nest

15 October 2010

Mansell’s scooped a £13.4m contract for 11-storey block in London
Foster's design for Qatar 2022 World Cup bid

11 Oct 10

Lusail Iconic Stadium will seat over 86,000 people and have a retractable roof
Gilt trip: Refurbishing the Savoy hotel

08 October 2010

The refurbished Savoy hotel looks a million dollars - which is just as well because it cost more than £200m to do up. Happily nobody was to blame for the cost and time overruns - except possibly the owner’s insatiably lavish tastes
Scott Brownrigg's Bodleian storage facility

7 Oct 10

The £26m building can hold up to eight million volumnes from the libraries’ collections
New York mosque drawings unveiled

6 Oct 10

First images by SOMA Architects show how the controversial Park51 community centre could look
Low energy development opens in Leeds

5 Oct 10

Citu unveals refurbished 1930s block with open-loop borehole and ground source heat pump
Hadid's Maxxi wins Stirling prize

4 Oct 10

Zaha Hadid beats off five other nominations to scoop £20k prize
The magic mushroom: Pavilion at Stuttgart university

01 October 2010

If you think 6.5mm plywood is just for DIY patch-ups, then you should see what the scientific wizards at Stuttgart university have done with the stuff
Animated copper facade by Atelier KAAMA in Prague

30 Sep 10

Architect specifies three different shades of copper cladding that will weather at different rates
New wing to Kew's herbarium opens

29 Sep 10

Edward Cullinan Architects’ design will house upto 50,000 new plant specimens a year
Test family to live in 'climate-smart' house

28 Sep 10

Swedish firms launch ’One Tonne Life’ project to show households can reduce emissions without sacrificing lifestyle
Morgan Sindall scoops £17m university job

27 Sep 10

University of Sussex picks contractor to start on 8000m2 project in October
Madrid health centre: If Gucci did factories

24 September 2010

… they might look a little like this Madrid clinic, by local practice Estudio Entresitio
Green light for £30m London sustainability centre

22 Sep 10

Council approves plans for exhibition and office space in London’s Docklands, which will open in time for Olympics
Zero-carbon homes scheme will test energy in action

20 Sep 10

Energy provider invests £3.5m to develop and monitor code level 6 homes
Zaha's class act: Evelyn Grace Academy

17 September 2010

Pupils move into architect’s first completed project in England
Track goes down at 2012 velodrome

16 Sep 10

Facility on course to be first Olympic park venue to reach completion
Jestico + Whiles wins planning for Hackney Catholic school building

15 Sep 10

BSF project will unite split-site Cardinal Pole school in one location
BAM tops out Cambridge lab

10 Sep 10

New images released of RMJM-designed laboratory on day BAM tops out
Henning Larsen reveals aquarium in Georgia

9 Sep 10

Danish practice designs 2000 m2 aquarium on the Black Sea coast
Winning design revealed for Turkish opera house

8 Sep 10

Turkish practice wins competition to design 33,000 m2 arts venue
BDP unveils £51m Glasgow college

7 Sep 10

Anniesland College is officially opened by Scotland’s first minister
Ocon wins £5m student scheme in Liverpool

6 Sep 10

Contractor to build 100-unit student accommodation by August 2011
Highbury Gardens by Porphyrios Architects: Home Base

03 September 2010

Developer First Base marked the topping out of its £29m Highbury Gardens scheme in north London this week
Councils approve Tescos despite planners recommending refusal

2 Sep 10

Planning officers’ recommendations are ignored by councillors in Hull and Consett
Stride Treglown student tower wins planning in Preston

1 Sep 10

The £13m scheme by developer contractor Marcus Worthington will have 275 student bedrooms and studios
Cumbernauld unveils 33ft sculpture

31 Aug 10

Scotland’s 1950s new town hopes to revive its image with £250k female figure overlooking A80 motorway
One Ocean Pavilion by Soma: Fluid dynamics

27 August 2010

Austrian architect Soma has unveiled designs for its One Ocean pavilion, which will be built for the 2012 Expo in Yeosu, South Korea
New York backs new skyscraper

26 Aug 10

Planning permission given for 363 meter tower despite opposition from Empire State Building’s owner
Blackfriars station: new images revealed

25 Aug 10

Network Rail publishes new images of Jacobs-designed station
ISG wins £3.5m schools remodelling job in Dudley

25 Aug 10

Improvements at Hawbush Primary School will see new single-storey classrooms and the refurbishment of existing facilities
Brighton social housing scheme gets go-ahead

24 Aug 10

After five years, three planning applications and two public inquiries Hyder Group development is finally granted planning permission
Foster and Koolhaas vie for Hong Kong masterplan

23 Aug 10

Foster + Partners and OMA reveal rival designs for the city’s £1.8bn cultural district
Architect proposes inflatable buildings for derelict sites

20 Aug 10

Wood Bagot reveals designs for ’icebergs’ as a quick and flexible solution to the growing problem of stalled construction projects
Watkins Gray reveals latest designs for Deptford school

19 Aug 10

Exclusive architectural images of the latest BSF school project to be given the green light
Japanese house by Eastern Design Office: Heaven & earth

13 August 2010

This Japanese home-cum-office on the edge of a precipice is designed to resemble a dragon flying over a mountain
Timber frame tops out at Daventry's iCon

12 Aug 10

The £8.5m project in Daventry aims to attract 60 sustainable construction and technology firms
Manchester approves 33-storey student tower

10 Aug 10

Second tallest building in Manchester will provide accommodation for 520 students
McLaren parks showroom in One Hyde Park

6 Aug 10

Supercars will be sold on the ground floor of the Rogers Stirk Harbour development
Terry Farrell's Regent's Place: Regent’s spark

06 August 2010

Sir Terry Farrell’s Regent’s Place is the fruition of a vision that should kick-start the regeneration of one of London’s more grisly thoroughfares. Ike Ijeh reports
Kick off for Dublin's Aviva Stadium

4 Aug 10

The new Populous-designed home of Irish rugby hosted its first game on Saturday
ISG wins £9.1m contract to build Millwood School

3 Aug 10

Bury Council awards ISG contract to build special needs school on site of Radcliffe High School
Plymouth University reveals plans for Hoe

2 Aug 10

Former site of the Plymouth School of Architecture set to be location for student accommodation designed by Willmore Illes Architects
Newport transporter: It's a big Usk

30 July 2010

The Newport transporter bridge in south Wales reopened last week after a £1.2m refurbishment project
Two years to go to London 2012

27 Jul 10

Olympic officials and athletes tour Olympic Park to view construction progress
KPF's Holborn Viaduct scheme restarts

26 Jul 10

London commercial scheme looks set to go ahead after economic downturn forced a delay
Chatham Dockyard's salvage operation

23 July 2010

Returning a wrecked building to public use is tough enough at the best of times, but when your main contractor goes under, the pressure piles on. Stephen Kennett hears how Chatham Dockyard overcame adversity to open its new cultural hub for the summer tourist season
Stirling prize shortlist announced

22 Jul 10

Hadid’s Rome Maxxi museum features on list dominated by museums and schools
Junk Jellyfish theatre emerges on Bankside

22 Jul 10

Theatre designer Martin Kaltwasser struggles with buiding bureaucrats to deliver this pop-up recycled theatre in Southwark
£11m Isle of Dogs development gets green light

21 Jul 10

Penoyre & Prasad design for east London family homes gets planning permission
Foreign Office Architects reveals Cleveland art museum design

20 Jul 10

London practice to design £17m contemporary art museum in United States
Zaha's Glasgow 'cathedral' wins photography prize

19 Jul 10

John Dunn’s image of Zaha Hadid’s Riverside Museum in Glasgow wins CIOB’s Art of Building competition
Grimshaw designs Suffolk waste plant

15 Jul 10

This energy-from-waste plant will produce power for 30,000 homes
Blackfriars starts to take shape

13 Jul 10

Balfour Beatty nears completion of foundations work, paving the way for construction of station to straddle Thames
Infinity Bridge wins steel award

12 Jul 10

Stockton-on-Tees’ Infinity Footbridge was one of four projects to scoop gongs at last week’s Structural Steel Design Awards
Here be dragons: Construction Dragon Boat Challenge

09 July 2010

Who says the age of heroes is over? At the construction industry’s annual charity boat race, Alex Smith watched wannabe dragonslayers vie to see who was the strongest, fastest (and silliest)
Housing Design Awards: Living proof

09 July 2010

It takes more than a numbing recession, constrained sites and nimbyism to stifle creativity in housing design. Martin Spring reviews the winners of this year’s Housing Design Awards
Serpentine Pavilion: Nouvel's red vision

7 Jul 10

Kennsington Gardens will open its 10th Serpentine Pavilion this weekend, and there’s a chance to hear Nouvel discuss his design
Starry opening night for Foster's Khan Shatyr

6 Jul 10

Dignitaries attend entertainment centre opening timed to celebrate Kazakhstan president’s 70th birthday
Capita Symonds reveals Goodwood sculpture

02 July 2010

Alfa Romeo sculpture made of 12 tonnes of steel is centrepiece of 2010 Festival of Speed
HOK turns its office into a village green

29 Jun 10

HOK London studio goes green as part of the London Festival of Architecture Open Studios
Kraus Schnberg wins Galvinzing in Architecture award

28 Jun 10

Architect recognised for extension and refurbishment of a Victorian warehouse in Bradford
City of London's 2012 entrance options revealed

25 Jun 10

Architecture Foundation shortlists five designs for a temporary new landmark for Aldgate
David Chipperfield cyclists triumph in City of London

24 Jun 10

London Festival of Architecture kicks off with team race through Smithfield
Vote for your favourite construction photo

23 Jun 10

Chance to vote online in the CIOB’s Art of Building photography contest
Alsop opens London Festival of Architecture

22 Jun 10

Will Alsop, Paul Finch and Roger Zogolovitch lead procession up Regent Street to celebrate the work of John Nash
Doing civics: Doncaster offices

18 June 2010

Cartwright Pickard Architects’ Doncaster Civic Offices has been awarded planning permission
Affordable homes completed in North-west London

17 Jun 10

A2Dominion and St Edward Homes team up on £3m development in Stanmore
Architect's office backs England for World Cup

15 Jun 10

Weston Williamson turns its office into a giant England flag
Caruso St John's modernist cafe at Chiswick House

15 Jun 10

Cafe forms part of restoration of gardens at historic stately home
Sculptor recreates Tate Modern out of sugar cubes

14 Jun 10

Models of Tate Modern and NEO Bankside can be viewed by the public during the London Festival of Architecture
Headingley pavilion: Boycott, Illingworth, Close – and Alsop

11 June 2010

Alsop Sparch is about to join the great names that adorn the sacred home of Yorkshire cricket. But it took more than a sports club to construct the Headingley Carnegie stadium’s new pavilion, as Ike Ijeh found out
Thomas Balsley unveils waterfront park beside new Tampa art museum

10 Jun 10

Curtis Hixon Park forms centrepiece of waterside regeneration in Florida city
Green light for £100m Brentford regeneration scheme

9 Jun 10

Assael’s designs approved for Carlton scheme on derelict Alfa Laval site
RMJM's leaning tower enters the record books

8 Jun 10

Guiness World Records hails Abu Dhabi’s Capital Gate tower the ’World’s Furthest Leaning Manmade Tower’
2012 athletes' village takes shape

7 Jun 10

New images show progress on accommodation, academy and polyclinic
The Siemens Pavilion: Going for green

04 June 2010

Electronics firm Siemens has unveiled plans for a £30m conference and exhibition centre in London’s Docklands, which should be ready for the 2012 Olympics
Wolves unveil £40m football stadium redevelopment plan

1 Jun 10

Wolverhampton Wanderers to rebuild at least two stands at Molineux ground
Welcome arrivals: East London Line

28 May 2010

The East London Line extension has brought four new stations to the capital. Ike Ijeh reviews their designs
Mayor opens Candy Brothers' affordable housing scheme

25 May 10

Seventy homes unveiled in Westminster as the affordable housing contribution for One Hyde Park development in Knightsbridge
Rick Mather wins big at RIBA awards

20 May 10

Ashmolean museum wins one of four awards for architects
Latest aerial views: Olympic venues take shape

19 May 10

With nearly 10,000 people working on site construction is progressing on the 'big five' venues and a new bridge has been completed
£3.5m Bomber Command memorial gets green light

14 May 10

Monument, designed by architect Liam O'Connor, will be built in London's Green Park to commemorate those who dies during Second World War air raids
Nouvel takes Manhattan

14 May 2010

The French architect describes his 23-storey apartment block on the Lower West Side as a ‘vision machine’. Ike Ijeh tries to decipher what that means. Photos by Roland Halbe
John McAslan picks design for Wyclef Jean's Haiti studio

13 May 10

RIBA competition winner is picked for facility to help local people learn about music business
Sarkozy opens Pompidou Centre in Metz

11 May 10

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban's gallery space opens in north-eastern city of France
ZEDpavilion unveiled at Shanghai Expo

10 May 10

Bill Dunster's ZEDfactory practice wins competition to build sustainable section of street
To win Toulouse: Off Architecture's cultural centre

07 May 2010

This is a new €7.5m (£6.4m) cultural centre for the French town of Cugnaux near Toulouse
Images: Best buildings at the Shanghai Expo

30 Apr 10

2010 event reported to be most expensive in fair’s history
Cumbernauld's 10m steel sculpture holds high hopes for Scottish town

29 Apr 10

Town seeks image transformation through massive steel figure with sixties hairdo reflecting new-town origins
Atkins reveals designs for Hong Kong station

28 Apr 10

Engineering and design consultant shows preliminary designs for Hung Hom station and is now working up detailed tunnel designs
MAAP Architects unveil £75m mental health facility

27 Apr 10

Building work finishes on PFI project for mental health and learning disabilities
HOK unveils £5m orthopaedic centre

26 Apr 10

Duke of York opens Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital's outpatient centre
Danish bank headquarters complete

21 Apr 10

Designed by 3XN, building is characterised by dramatic roofscape with 83 prism-like skylights
Qatari Diar reveals new Chelsea Barracks masterplan

21 Apr 10

Initial concepts by Dixon Jones, Squire & Partners and Kim Wilkie Associates presented to resident groups
Four Seasons, extra topping

16 April 2010

London-based PLP Architecture has designed the Four Seasons hotel on Sowwah Island in Abu Dhabi
Sir Robert McAlpine bags £23m music school contract

14 Apr 10

Work on new school building includes concert hall and is set to start this month
ISG bags £7.1m Hertfordshire University scheme

14 Apr 10

Contractor wins contract on RMJM-designed law school that aims to acheive BREEAM excellent rating
North London twin skyscrapers get council green light

12 Apr 10

Major new housing scheme approved despite concerns over affordability of flats
Clapham gets a makeover

6 Apr 10

Studio Egret West has designed a 12-storey building in south London to be built by United House
2012 ‘Hubble Bubble’ sculpture revealed

31 Mar 10

Artist Anish Kapoor has designed the UK’s biggest sculpture, which will be a centrepiece of the Olympic park
VolkerHighways wins £4m Woolwich town centre job

31 Mar 10

Contract will involve regenerating two public squares for Greenwich council, as part of wider scheme funded by Homes and Communities Agency
Mersey's metallic flower

30 Mar 10

Tonkin Liu reveals its 14m high steel flower on the banks of the River Mersey
Green light for £6.9m Hackney homes scheme

29 Mar 10

Fraser Brown MacKenna's affordable housing scheme will include photovoltaics to meet code level three
Buildings to black out for Earth Hour

26 Mar 10

The Galleries in Dubai will be one of many domestic and commercial buildings to turn lights off this weekend
Sprouting: A.2R.C Architects' Brussels meeting centre

26 March 2010

The Square Brussels Meeting Centre, an extension to the Palais des Congres, won the Special Award of the Jury at the 2010 Mipim Awards
Jean Nouvel's National Museum of Qatar revealed

25 Mar 10

Building will provide gallery space, an auditorium, studio, cafes, a restaurant and a museum shop
Marco Polo Tower wins Mipim award

24 Mar 10

Fifty-five meter high apartement block in Germany by Behnisch Architekten scoops residential award at this year's Mipim
Free-runners let loose on BIG's buildings

23 Mar 10

Buildings designed by Bjarke Ingels Group are the backdrop to a film on urban parkour that is now out on DVD
Opening night at Libeskind's Grand Canal Theatre

19 Mar 10

Dublin 2,100-seat, five-storey venue was build for developer Chartered Land, Harry Crosbie Properties and Live Nation Ireland
Wakefield’s trinity: £390m regeneration

19 March 2010

Development plans for Wakefield have been showcased at Mipim
Abu Dhabi Ferrari roller coaster

18 Mar 10

First image released of ride at theme park on Aldar Properties' £39m Yas Island development
Chesterfield Waterside gets green light

17 Mar 10

Mixed-use £300m regeneration development will be based around canal basin
Westfield Stratford City steelwork is completed

16 Mar 10

Retail centre marks milestone in £1.45bn development as steel core is finished
Civic Trust Awards winners revealed

15 Mar 10

Gallery at Kew and St-Martin-in-the-Fields among 50 winners announced at weekend ceremony
Court appeal: Hague headquarters

12 March 2010

The International Criminal Court in The Hague has revealed the design for its new permanent headquarters
Images: England's first Passivhaus office

9 Mar 10

Office development in Kent claims to be 80% more energy efficient than required by current Building Regulations
3DReid unveils Moffat Academy

8 Mar 10

Multimillion-pound school for primary and secondary pupils has been completed
Back to the floor: Factory Records is reborn as a nightclub

05 March 2010

Factory Records, the legendary Manchester label, has been reborn as a nightclub. Thomas Lane nips in ahead of the crowds
Galliford Try bags £5.8m Rotherham station job

1 Mar 10

Contractor will start work on redevelopment of Rotherham Central this month
3D Reid unveils adaptable outside learning space at BSEC

25 Feb 10

Architect collaborates with Blue Forest to develop modular building that can turn on its seven sides
Herzog’s house: Basel showroom

19 February 2010

Last week, Herzog & de Meuron reopened its London office and the extension of Tate Modern began in earnest
Chelsea flower medallist helps design 'living building' for Ecobuild

17 Feb 10

Capita Lovejoy's ground-breaking structure aims to highlight role of green infrastructure in the built environment
Pack your skis, we're going to Cannes

15 Feb 10

Those attending MIPIM next month may want to think about packing some winter sports wear
Poole council secures £10m loan for Twin Sales Bridge

12 Feb 10

£37m bridge across part of one of world's largest natural harbours has faced years of delay
The best seats on earth: South Africa’s World Cup stadiums

12 February 2010

On 11 June, the 2010 World Cup kicks off in South Africa, the first time it’s been held on the African continent. Some 32 nations will compete in 10 stadiums, five of which are new. Stephen Kennett and Thomas Lane take a look at the construction of the big three
Villa Hush-Hush

05 February 2010

London Eye architect Marks Barfield has revealed designs for Villa Hush-Hush.
The rings of Temenos: Anish Kapoor in Middlesbrough

29 January 2010

His design for the Olympic site may be a long way off, but artist Anish Kapoor’s latest project in Middlesbrough is taking shape
Laing O'Rourke to build affordable accommodation for Oxford students

28 Jan 10

Oxford University's Somerville College aims to improve access to education for poorer students through cheaper housing
Capita Symonds' €30m Budapest stadium

27 Jan 10

Consultant will provide multidisciplinary services on 22,000-seat venue
Foster reveals masterplan for Stockholm district

25 Jan 10

UK practice joins forces with Berg Arkitektkontor to provide masterplan of Slussen area of city
Pet project: Royal Veterinary College

22 January 2010

London and Winchester-based firm Architecture PLB has received planning permission for a £6m teaching and research centre at the Royal Veterinary College campus in Hawkshead, Hertfordshire
Allies and Morrison's Coventry masterplan gets go-ahead

18 Jan 10

Friargate regeneration scheme wins planning approval after months of public consultation
Both sides of the tracks: Grimshaw's Newport station

15 January 2010

This is a first look at architect Grimshaw’s design for Newport station in Wales, created in association with Atkins
Aecom's winning design for Seoul Grand Park

14 Jan 10

New York office scoops competition in South Korea with Living World design
Benoy's Hong Kong iSQUARE takes retail to a new level

13 Jan 10

Vertical shopping centre designed jointly with Rocco Design is 31 storeys high
Milton Keynes welcomes £18m leisure centre

11 Jan 10

Holder Mathias' scheme is part of first phase in revitalisation programme for Bletchley area
Construction sites under blanket of snow

8 Jan 10

Images sent in by Building readers show how severe weather has affected building work across the country this week
A lesson in igloo-building

6 Jan 10

Pair of builders spend seven hours and use 1,000 ice blocks on snow structure
Hong Kong opens 1km long cable-stayed bridge

5 Jan 10

World’s second longest cable-stayed bridge spans the city’s Rambler Channel
Evergreen: Sarah Wigglesworth's bicycle Christmas tree

18 December 2009

Sarah Wigglesworth Architects was commissioned by developer Igloo to create an eco-friendly Christmas tree for a public square in London
Buro’s beautiful Finnish

11 December 2009

Buro Happold is the engineering consultant on this innovative masterplan for the City of Helsinki planning department
Will Alsop's paintings go on show at Chelsea mental health hospital

8 Dec 09

Leading architect's art exhibition at London hospital will include 30 new paintings
Pilgrims’ rest: Darb-Al-Khalil in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

04 December 2009

This is the corner block of a 5.8ha development known as the Darb-Al-Khalil, that has just started on site just south of the Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Viñoly's Vdara hotel opens at Las Vegas' CityCenter

2 Dec 09

Other elements by Foster, Kohn Pedersen Fox, Pelli Clarke Pelli, Daniel Libeskind and Helmut Jahn also to open shortly
Owen Ellis Architects unveil lakeside adventure centre

30 Nov 09

Work is now complete on £7.5m watersports building that is designed to achieve BREEAM rating of 'very good'
The factory: Haworth Tompkins' Royal College of Arts building

27 November 2009

The painters are in at the industrial Sackler Building – and they’re inspired
Status updated: Facebook’s California HQ

23 October 2009

This former laboratory in Palo Alto, California has been transformed into Facebook’s new corporate HQ
Kevin McCloud gets go-ahead to build green housing in Swindon

15 Oct 09

JV between broadcaster's housebuilding firm and housing group GreenSquare wins planning permission for 42-home scheme
Rem Koolhaas theatre opens in Dallas

14 Oct 09

Wyly Theatre designed by OMA and REX, boasts auditorium visible to passers-by from the outside
Images: Preview of nominees for Sustainable Project of the Year

12 Oct 09

As Building will be hosting the prestigious Sustainability Awards next month we thought we'd bring you a taster of some of what’s to come
John Lyall Architects opens Ipswich dance centre

12 Oct 09

£8.6m Jerwood DanceHouse opens this week on Ipswich waterfront
Winter palace: Sochi's 2014 stadium

09 October 2009

This is the final design for the 2014 Winter Olympic stadium in the Russian town of Sochi
Cityscape blog: Let's give those exhibitors a prize

7 Oct 09

You have to be brave to take part in Dubai's property expo in these straightened times, so after day one who's efforts deserve to be rewarded?
Viewing platform installed on Royal Shakespeare Theatre tower

5 Oct 09

Visitors will be able to take in panoramic views of Stratford-upon-Avon from 32m high platform
Construction Rocks 2009: industry's best band revealed

2 Oct 09

The second annual industry battle of the bands contest took place in King's Cross on Thursday night
Construction workers don pink helmets for breast cancer awareness

1 Oct 09

Emcor UK will donate £10 for every pink hard hat worn this month
Latest images: Main bridge in the 2012 Olympic Park takes shape

30 Sep 09

ODA releases images of 1,700 tonne steel bridge that will be the 'Gateway to the Games', plus timelapse video of the work
Return of the drinking fountain

28 Sep 09

Hyde Park has just opened its first new drinking fountain in 30 years, and it's big and very shiny...
Out of the blue: Terry Pawson's Carlow arts centre

25 September 2009

This luminous edifice in the south-east Irish town of Carlow is a glowing testament to a growing reputation
Alison Brooks appointed to Northampton university masterplan

24 Sep 09

Architect wins design competition to work on 14.5 acre campus
60m-high contemporary lighthouse to be symbol of Saudi university

23 Sep 09

Australian firm Urban Art Projects says design was inspired by ancient Arabic maritime traditions, regional art and marine ecology of Red Sea
Cabe's party games

21 Sep 09

A giant jigsaw took centre stage at the design watchdog's 10th birthday celebrations at the Saatchi gallery
Battle chess: modernists versus traditionalists

18 Sep 09

Mobile Studio have made a chess set that could settle the feud between Prince Charles' and Richard Rogers for good
Rochdale town centre set for £500m facelift

15 Sep 09

Public consultation due next month on proposals for Continental-inspired redevelopment
Jibbing and tacking with Captain Jack

11 Sep 09

'Stripped-down finely honed racing machine, built for power and speed': Joey Gardiner joins Jack Pringle on his yacht at Little Britain
Raffle draw: Raffle City, China by SPARCH

11 September 2009

SPARCH, the Asian arm of Archial Group, has unveiled these designs for the 150,000m2 Raffles City mixed-used development in Ningbo, China
Brent Cross developers to invest £1bn in local area

10 Sep 09

Investment will fund transport and road and environmental improvements
The evolution of the Darwin Centre

9 Sep 09

The Natural History Museum's collections and research facility will open on 15 September
'World's quietest building' opens

7 Sep 09

Bristol University claims its £11m Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information will surpass all other facilities for noise vibration levels
Back to school: Did you guess right?

4 Sep 09

As part of Building's start of term we posted school snaps from three prominent construction figures, now we reveal their true identities...
Back to school: Who do you think this is?

1 Sep 09

To kick off the new term Building has unearthed photos of industry figures as they were back in their school days
Hackney-sur-Mer: Levitt Bernstein’s Queensbridge Quarter

28 August 2009

Dalston, a less-than-glorious corner of east London, is beginning to look as if it might be able to tempt well-heeled Londoners to give it a go – thanks in part to Levitt Bernstein’s Mediterranean-styled Queensbridge Quarter
Plans revealed to de-clutter 2012 Olympic highway

30 Jul 09

Plans will see scruffy stretch of A11 improved with more green spaces, better lighting and refurbished properties
'Joyous' Piano building tops out in London

28 Jul 09

Ceremony held at landmark stage of mixed-use development with BREEAM Excellent rating
ODA makes construction pledges for 2010

27 Jul 09

Olympic team hopes to achieve latest goals two years before 2012 opening ceremony
Meet on the Ledge

24 July 2009

A series of glass observation boxes have been added to the 103rd floor of Chicago’s Sears Tower
Party Tricks: Ash Sakula's Luton Carnival Arts Centre

24 July 2009

Ash Sakula’s Carnival Arts Centre is Luton’s answer to Notting Hill – buzzing with life and invention and a haven for stiltwalkers and other forms of streetlife
Icon do that: architects redesign London landmarks

17 July 2009

Quinlan Terry’s sketch of Chelsea Barracks proved that even a doodle can make waves. It inspired us to ask four architects to imagine how some traditional London landmarks might look with a twist
Kevin McCloud sets up home at Westminster

14 Jul 09

Grand Designs presenter campaigns for more efficient insulation by building house outside parliament
First images: Serpentine Gallery Pavilion by SANAA

8 Jul 09

Japanese architect SANAA says its aluminium and acrylic structure resembles a cloud or floating pool of water
Dan's Den: Libeskind goes flatpack

26 June 2009

If you’ve got a couple of million euros you don’t know what to do with, why not buy your own Libeskind-designed house? Dan Stewart looks at what you get for your money
All aboard the Ashford bullet

18 Jun 09

The 140mph High Speed One service to St Pancras could be the future of rail travel if commuters are prepared to pay
Branching out in Dubai

16 Jun 09

200 trees are about to complete Limitless' Downtown Jebel Ali project landscaping
The world according to Terry …

12 June 2009

Thanks to architect Francis Terry, son of Quinlan, for sending us this pictorial explanation of the practice’s views on architectural styles – a useful aide-memoire for anyone following the Chelsea Barracks saga
Portsmouth FC reveals Herzog & de Meuron's latest stadium plans

18 Jun 08

New design unveiled for waterfront mixed-use scheme after MoD scuppers original plans
A Skywalk in the park

13 June 2008

Carmody Groarke has designed this 160m long temporary installation for the London Festival of Architecture, which starts next Friday.
Foster's Elephant House opens in Copenhagen

11 Jun 08

British architect opens its first zoological building in the Danish capital
OMA back in Rotterdam

10 Jun 08

Koolhaas’ practice to design mixed-use development in home town
Phase One guests get exclusive on Newcastle's £700m science district

6 Jun 08

Building's latest social networking event opens with a presentation on 'Science Central' due to be completed in 2020
Star architects break the mould with jelly concepts

5 Jun 08

Shortlisted designs by likes of Alsop, Foster and Grimshaw will be judged on innovation, aesthetics and 'wobble factor'
Giant pylon erected in Birmingham to highlight climate change

2 Jun 08

The pylon designed by Block Architecture is the centrepiece of the city's climate change festival
Images: Grosvenor opens £1bn Liverpool One today

29 May 08

Developer unveils UK's largest city centre regeneration project in the heart of Liverpool
Psycho buildings attack South Bank's concrete brutes

28 May 08

Giant architectural artworks take over London's Hayward gallery
Fire destroys timber frame block of flats in Edinburgh

20 May 08

Cause of inferno that ripped through six storey building on Saturday is under investigation
Architect reveals 50-storey vision of St Paul's Cathedral

15 May 08

Feix&Merlin reveals a novel solution to the issue of preserving views of Wren's masterpiece from various London locations
Life in the trees: Marks Barfield's tree-top walkway at Kew

15 May 08

Treetop walkway and underground tunnel designed by Marks Barfield opens to the public
Giant metal stag found in Elephant

14 May 08

Scaffolding sculpture erected in middle of Elephant & Castle site
Sixties revival: Sheffield office block gets a green make-over

12 May 08

Refurbishment of Sorby House is now complete and boasts sustainable features designed by Bond Bryan
Rotunda redux

2008 Issue 18

Glenn Howells used advanced technology to convert a famous Birmingham landmark into flats – and secure a piece of modern heritage in the process
Image: Zaha designs sculpture for Cincinnati art centre

8 May 08

Cirrus is an "urban carpet" that draws in circulation around the suspended interlocking solids and voids of the galleries
'Angel of the South' designs unveiled

7 May 08

Proposals by five artists competing for the £2m Ebbsfleet statue go on show
World record smashed by tallest ever Lego tower

6 May 08

Legoland Windsor and Skanska touch the sky with 30m tall plastic tower
Foreign Office Architects' John Lewis in Leicester: Great Drapes

2008 Issue 17

Foreign Office Architects’ new John Lewis department store in Leicester has revolutionised retail design by wearing its curtains department on the outside. Martin Spring admires the stitching
Artist's impression: London's iconic buildings on canvas

1 May 08

Exhibition of the captial's most loved - and hated - buildings goes on display
Patrick Caulfield still lifes pop up at Chelsea

29 Apr 08

Work of ex-Chelsea Art School pupil and teacher can be seen at a Manhattan Loft scheme designed by Dixon Jones Architects
Ice cream cocktails on the house at Phase One Shoreditch

25 Apr 08

Ices laced with cocktails and the tales of an Olympic fencer were the highlights of Building's latest social for new professionals
New Orleans reconstruction: We shall overcome

2008 Issue 16

Three years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the city is still in ruins and 40,000 people are homeless. The government has abandoned reconstruction in favour of commercial development, but the residents of the Lower Ninth Ward, determined to stop their district becoming an industrial park, have engaged charities, architects and a Hollywood star to change the fate of their community. Dan Stewart went to take a look
Stock Woolstencroft offers colourful view of the Olympics

22 Apr 08

Stock Woolstencroft-designed scheme for Telford Homes will overlook Olympic park
£300k repair bill for retired engineer who couldn't stop digging

16 Apr 08

Hackney council reclaims repair costs from pensioner who tunnelled extensively and dangerously under his own house
Balfour Beatty picks aquatics centre team

11 Apr 08

Main contractor for Olympic aquatics centre aims to keep much of the subcontracting in house
Images: Zaha Hadid wins Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum

9 Apr 08

Pritzker prize-winner beats Libeskind and Fuksas to design museum in Lithuania
Westminster acts to stop street-sign fakes

8 Apr 08

Council secures copyright to iconic signs in order to retain control over area’s image
12 weeks in the cooler

2008 Issue 13

Temperatures of 55°C below zero, no privacy, strictly rationed alcohol … and they’re only a third of the way through the job. Thomas Lane finds out what it’s like to spend a ‘summer’ on site at the Halley VI Antarctic research station
The wobble factor: architects enter jelly competition

3 Apr 08

Grimshaw and Make amongst 1,000 architects to explore relation between architecture and food
'Wee Willie Walsh' stars in T5 game

2 Apr 08

Software developer with a satirical eye posts T5 baggage retrieval game on web. Play it here
Camp Telefónica

2008 Issue 12

The design of a huge telecoms business park near Madrid borrows heavily from a Roman military camp
Plans unveiled to restore Mumbles Pier

19 Mar 08

Swansea Bay pier, rebuilt in 1956, will recieve £4m as part of regeneration package to make it a tourist destination once more
Duggan Morris wins £11m Liverpool Bay competition

17 Mar 08

Architect's design chosen for Merseyside observatory and visitor centre near landmark Gormley sculture
Progressive collapse

2008 Issue 10

This was the moment the Birmingham skyline changed forever with the demolition of a 17-storey tower at Edgbaston shopping centre.
Images: Five vie for Paris tower

12 Mar 08

Foster, Libeskind and Nouvel among finalists named at Mipim to design the Tour Signal in La Defense
Images: Bahrain Bay £1.2bn scheme

10 Mar 08

Bahrain Bay development team looks for investors at MIPIM
A scientific monster

2008 Issue 9

This computer centre in Santiago, Chile, may have two heads but then it’s got two skins, too – altogether a bit of a freak
Beautiful Barnet

2008 Issue 9

The regeneration of Grahame Park in Colindale, north London, is about to start on site.
Down in Putney

2008 Issue 9

Will Alsop has unveiled his designs for Putney Place, a mixed-use development opposite East Putney station in south-west London.
Making a meal of it

2008 Issue 9

Make Architects is to collaborate with HKR and Gehl Architects on the redevelopment of Dublin’s 19th-century City Markets.
Salford reborn

2008 Issue 9

This is the latest image of construction at Salford’s Media City, the BBC’s new home in north-west England.
We’re the masters now…

2008 Issue 9

A headquarters for union Unison has been given the green light by Camden council.
Wembley on the march

2008 Issue 9

Architect Metaphorm has been appointed by Brent council to draw up a masterplan for Wembley town centre in north-west London.
RMJM wins competition to design Kolkata Airport scheme

6 Mar 08

Architect beats HOK and Aéroports de Paris to design India’s new domestic terminal
Gherkin’s cousins set to crown Croydon

5 Mar 08

Revised £500m Menta scheme by Ken Shuttleworth to be unveiled at Mipim
Thomas the Tank Engine arrives at £4.5m Theme Park

4 Mar 08

DF Beniston was the main contractor on Thomas Land at Drayton Manor Theme Park
Crane smashes roof in two

3 Mar 08

A 50-tonne crane crashed through a £1m luxury home in Kent
What lies beneath

2008 Issue 8

The Building Centre opened an exhibition this week that pays homage to underground infrastructure work in London.
Runway protestors break into Heathrow

25 Feb 08

Activists from Greenpeace attach a banner to a BA airplane after breaking through airport security
Phase One goes to Birmingham

2008 Issue 7

Over a hundred of Birmingham's bright young things came to the latest Phase One networking party hosted by Building
Celia Hammond: How I saved 170 cats from the Olympic site

21 Feb 08

Animal campaigner to talk to Building TV about the struggle to save stray cats on a huge demolition site
Giant woolly hats used to promote energy efficient homes

19 Feb 08

These advertising pillars topped with woolly hats are part of a campaign in Germany to improve energy efficiency in homes
Prince of Wales rubbishes lecture hall design by Patel Taylor

18 Feb 08

Prince Charles launches another attack on architects calling the Ivor Crewe lecture theatre at the University of Essex a dustbin
Images: Stephen Lawrence Centre attack - what's the cost?

15 Feb 08

Building went to David Adjaye's new Stephen Lawrence Centre to assess the damages caused by yesterday's racist attack
Cupid takes aim as architects meet developers on a speedy date

14 Feb 08

Can architects and developers ever fall in love? RIBA and Cabe's evening of speed dating revealed the answer
Top dog: Canine squad to rescue people from collapsed buildings

13 Feb 08

Specially trained dogs join fire and rescue service to sniff out people trapped under rubble
Atkins scoops three-tower complex in China

12 Feb 08

Shanghai office wins design contract for hotel, apartment and office towers in Chinese city of Chengdu
£1bn ‘city beneath a city’ planned for Amsterdam

2008 Issue 5

Lack of space and high land prices drive engineers to plan 1 million m2 project under canals
Sheppard Robson to design £100m Hammersmith scheme

5 Feb 08

Grainger/Helical Bar scheme beats off stiff competition for King Street site in West London
Quite a departure

2008 Issue 4

It’s finally here, and it’s quite unlike any other airport experience in the world. Over the next five pages, Martin Spring imagines what passengers will make of Richard Rogers’ monumental Heathrow Terminal 5. Then, on page 50, we ask whether this groundbreaking project really has changed the construction industry for the better.
Crack found in Beijing aquatic centre diving platform

29 Jan 08

Olympic aquatic centre faces safety problems on its opening day
Going bananas on the DLR

2008 Issue 3

When Consarc Consulting Architects set out to design a ‘landmark’ station for the Docklands Light Railway in a dreary part of east London, it took the unusual approach of topping it with a 32m white banana. And the even stranger thing, writes Martin Spring, is that it works …
The 'offensive' tale of Three Little Cowboy Builders

24 Jan 08

A book based on the Three Little Pigs has been banned from a school award for causing offence to builders
“Construction’s given me a second chance”

23 Jan 08

Meurika Stewart will leave prison with a job in the construction industry thanks to a new training scheme sponsored by Bovis
Flat-pack house goes on show outside Tate Modern

21 Jan 08

Maison Tropicale, a house designed by Jean Prouvé in the 1950s, will be open to visitors from next month
Putney Bridge developer struck off as architect

21 Jan 08

The man being prosecuted for damaging Grade-II listed bridge was struck off by regulator in 2005 for professional misconduct
Council prosecutes developer over holes in Putney Bridge

17 Jan 08

Property developer to be prosecuted over large holes drilled in Grade II-listed bridge in London
Zaha Hadid scoops design contest for US museum

16 Jan 08

Hadid beats Kohn Pedersen Fox in competition for Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
A Hard Day’s Night at the Beatles Hotel

15 Jan 08

Grade-II listed hotel in 'Beatles quarter' of Liverpool set to open filled with artwork and memorabilla of the band
Four injured in Clapham site collapse

10 Jan 08

Rear of house collapses on residential construction site in South London
Liverpool spruces up its drab buildings

10 Jan 08

Banksy artwork to be preserved in initiative to decorate derelict and depressing buildings with artwork
Travelodge to build hotel with shipping containers

8 Jan 08

The modular method is set to save the group up to £10m a year
Foster + Partners reveals designs for world’s largest building

28 Dec 07

Foster's plans for the Crystal Island in Moscow are granted preliminary planning permission
Building's favourite Christmas card

21 Dec 07

Architect ORMS wished Building a Merry Christmas with a festive health and safety assessment
Christmas lights with a twist: neon concrete mixers

18 Dec 07

In the heart of London's art scene a building site - illuminated with fluorescent colours - is stopping Christmas shoppers in their tracks
Hot poker

2007 issue 50

A tale of drama, high stakes and spreadsheets set in a west London casino
Zaha Hadid reveals Hong Kong design school

12 Dec 07

Hadid unveils 'Innovation Tower', her first permanent project in Hong Kong
Hybrid cars - the furniture of the future

12 Dec 07

For car fanatics this could be a dream come true - eco-vehicles parked in your living room rather on your front drive
QS Awards 2007

2007 issue 49

EC Harris and Turner & Townsend were the big winners at the third QS Awards
The pool that (nearly) sank its architect

2007 issue 49

In 1996, one of Britain’s hottest young designers was given a £7m leisure centre project in north-east London. Over the next 11 years, it mutated into a £45m disaster that cost him his London office, his marriage and £250,000 of his own money.
How to survive... decorations

5 Dec 07

Overcome with dread at this time of year? Read Amaya Lopez's daily guide to coping with Christmas
QS wins Moustache of the Year award by a whisker

4 Dec 07

Female colleagues at Bovis Homes honour Neil Adams for his impressive growth
A dynasty divided

2007 issue 48

Keith Miller thinks his row with cousin James over shares in the Miller Group can be sorted out over dinner. However, a history of friction between the two suggests it is more likely to end in a food fight.
Vive la revolution!

2007 issue 48

These are the first images of a controversial plan to construct a number of skyscrapers across Paris, which was unveiled by the mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, last week.
Specialist Contractor Awards 2007

2007 issue 46

The fifth Specialist Contractor Awards saw Keltbray and Concrete Repairs each collect two awards each for excellence
Sustainability Awards 2007

Awards Events 2007

The awards for environmental excellence in the construction industry took place last week at the Hilton Hotel, London
‘Why would I stop?’

2007 issue 46

At 72, Norman Foster shows no signs of slowing up. He divides his time between almost every corner of the globe and is confident that the partial sale of his £350m practice to a private equity group was not only a good idea, but will free him up to do what he does best – design buildings. In a rare interview, Martin Spring catches up with him – just
Asbestos found in aftermath of Olympic fire

13 Nov 07

Fire crews are still at Stratford this morning as the Health Protection Agency warns people not to touch material on site
Phase One visits Glasgow

12 Nov 07

Glasgow had two reasons to celebrate last week: winning the Commonwealth Games and hosting Building's event for new professionals
The venues for Glasgow 2014

9 Nov 07

Foster's design for the Commonwealth Games netball arena is among pictures
Nature nurtured

2007 issue 44

Studio E took two 120-year-old plane trees as the starting point for its west London primary school – and as the inspiration for a whole toy cupboard of sustainable features. The upshot is that these could be the first kids ever to love their greens.
Hallowed be thy brand

2007 issue 43

BMW’s car showroom in Munich takes the worship of luxury automobiles to astonishing lengths
Britain’s new front door

2007 issue 42

St Pancras station is about to become the last vital part in the 186mph link that connects London with the rest of Europe. So just as well that it’s an architectural and engineering triumph, then. Martin Spring looks at how it was achieved
Naughty school

2007 issue 41

Just because these Stuttgart classrooms make the most of light, colour and ‘the way children walk’ doesn’t mean they can’t break a few rules …
Mayne event

2007 issue 40

Here’s the latest design by Californian practice Morphosis and its Pritzker-winning boss
He’s cracked it

2007 Issue 39

Paul Andreu’s Beijing theatre has been dubbed the Egg. But how do you get into it? And what do you see when you do?
Meet our new advisers …

2007 Issue 38

This youthful bunch are thrilled to be working in construction, and even more delighted to be on Building’s new graduate advisory board. You’ll be hearing a lot more from them over the next year, but first, Eleanor Goodman and Lucy Handley do the introductions
The men who got left behind

2007 Issue 37

Increased public sector spending was supposed to be great news for construction firms. But, according to a survey released this week, these local contractors have missed out on the bonanza. Katie Puckett finds out why the growth of framework agreements is threatening the industry’s smaller businesses
A giant leap for Foster

2007 Issue 36

Star architect prepares to boldly go where no man has gone before …
The building that wasn’t there

2007 Issue 34

LSI Architects’ visitor centre in Cley in the Norfolk marshes works hard not to be noticed
Anyone for Hopkins?

2007 Issue 32

With the National Tennis Centre in south-west London, Hopkins Architects has taken a lumbering and guileless building type and instilled in it the grace and finesse of a Roger Federer. Martin Spring admires the architect’s all-round game
Beneath the black hill

2007 Issue 30

Blaenau Ffestiniog is not only hewn out of slate, its people depend on it for their livelihoods. So when Alfred McAlpine noticed that millions of pounds were unaccounted for and closed a quarry, it shook the town to its core. Dan Stewart went to Blaenau to find out what happened next. Photographs by Michael Grieve
Guess who just upped their street cred

2007 Issue 29

You’d expect the winners of the Housing Design Awards to be ambitious schemes. But you may be surprised to learn they’ve been built by the biggest mass developers and the smallest social landlords. Martin Spring celebrates some of the best entries and, on page 50, revisits a trailblazing former winner. Photographs by Tim Crocker
Top drawer

2007 Issue 28

Talk about a cabinet reshuffle – Denton Corker Marshall’s flamboyant design for Manchester’s Civil Justice Centre has brought dynamism to the heart of the legal establishment. Over the next eight pages Martin Spring praises the building’s clear, bold expression and on pages 48-50, we meet the Australian trio who designed it. Photographs by Morley von Sternberg
Chelsea’s magic sponge

2007 Issue 27

The famous CFC hopes its marksmen will be kept fit and working by this luxurious training and physiotherapy complex in Surrey
Dans army

2007 Issue 26

These days the Territorial Army isn’t so much about playing at soldiers as training them for actual combat. Still, it finds time to run ‘executive stretch’ weekends, where future managers find out a little about leadership. Dan Stewart joined a group from the construction industry for two days of fake blood and real guts
Calling all green gurus

2007 Issue 11

Zero waste, carbon negative buildings and throw in a flood contingency plan while you’re at it – sustainable construction has become a thriving industry within an industry. Its pioneers are shaping the future and their skills are much in demand. Building asked a selection of the industry’s leading lights to sacrifice a sliver of their carbon footprint to travel to Kew Gardens for a conference amid the balmy foliage of the Palm House. Lorraine Cushnie, Vikki Miller and Dan Stewart jotted ...
Life after the death of old king coal

2007 Issue 09

The National Coalfields Programme was set up a decade ago to rescue communities wrecked by mine closures. Mark Leftly toured the areas to gauge its progress
Life, or something quite like it

2007 Issue 07

Second Life is the virtual world that has its own businesses, currency and an exchange rate with real money. And where there’s real money, developers are never far behind. Katie Puckett steps ‘in-world’ as Katarina Rockett (she’s the one with the red bunches) to investigate the world’s first virtual construction boom
‘How could this happen in a civilised country?’

2007 Issue 06

Last September, Liliana Alexa’s son Michael died while he was washing his car – the first member of the British public to be killed in a tower crane collapse. Angela Monaghan explains why a public register of crane safety checks is needed to ensure that he is the last.