All Buildings articles – Page 65
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NewsGovernment skills quango snubs BIM training
Construction Industry Council boss slams “absolutely crazy” decision not to fund development of BIM skills
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NewsPlanning submitted for 'eco-mosque'
Marks Barfield Architects has submitted a planning application for “Britain’s first eco-mosque” in Cambridge
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NewsSquire and Partners to redevelop listed hospital
Firm will work with City & Country Group to restore 1906 building in West Sussex
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FeaturesHydropower: Water works
With all the controversy over solar, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that hydropower produces a thousand times more electricity. Building investigates a power source that could light up the industry
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NewsSkanska reveals detailed housing designs
Swedish contractor starts work on its first housing scheme in the UK, an estate of Scandinavian-style homes in Cambridge,
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NewsLend Lease wins £35m National Theatre contract
Lend Lease has beaten Mace to win a prestigious £35m contract to redevelop the National Theatre on London’s South Bank
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NewsBournville College opens £65m campus in Longbridge
Upto 15,000 students will study at £66m college designed by Broadway Malyan
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NewsMansell completes Hopkins' Nottingham University building
Engineering and Science Learning Centre cost £10m to build
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FeaturesThe notorious work of Richard Seifert
Ten years after Richard Seifert’s death, Ike Ijeh asks how some of his most well-known works have shaped the architecture of modern Britain - and how controversial they really were
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NewsState-of-the-art treehouse for vulnerable young people opens
Blue Forest’s £178,000 woodland retreat was opened by the Duke of Gloucester
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FeaturesMcLaren factory: Driving force
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
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NewsWillmott Dixon to build £33m Redcar leisure and business centre
Architects S&P and +3 and engineer Buro Happold are also lined-up to work on the project, which is due to start in the New Year.
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NewsScience park seeks joint venture partner for £35m 'Digital Plaza'
Proposed scheme would create a 100,000ft2 specialist hub for tech firms
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NewsFloating high in Malaysia: Angkasa Raya tower
Ole Scheeren’s 268m tall tower will have three cubic ‘floating’ shafts
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FeaturesArts-led regeneration projects: Join the culture club
These days museums, art galleries and concert halls are built not for their own sake but in the hope they can transform deprived urban wastelands into vibrant communities. Ike Ijeh looks at the resounding successes - and some abject failures
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NewsGrass is greener: Hab Oakus' housing project complete
The Triangle, a £4.2m social housing project by Hab Oakus, the development company spearheaded by Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud, is complete and fully inhabited. The Swindon scheme comprises 42 eco-homes built around a “village green”. The project was designed by Glenn Howells Architects and built by Willmott Dixon.
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NewsThe highest height: The Shard's spire unveiled
Mace carried out ‘test run’ of assembling the spire in a Yorkshire airfield
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NewsLewisham flats development enters third phase
Architect BPTW has commenced work on the third phase of its Heathside and Lethbridge estates in Lewisham, London, to deliver a further 214 homes.The third phase of the estate will plug into a central energy centre which is currently under construction.The three phases of the development started to date will ...
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NewsShard spire appears in Yorkshire field
Mace and Severfield Rowen erect Shard’s steel spire on airfield to test construction processes
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FeaturesFlood-proof house: Home and dry
Would you build a house on the Norfolk Broads, one of the most flood-prone areas of the UK? LSI Architects did and its sophisticated design meant getting the project through planning was plain sailing.