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Argent team named preferred bidder on Brent Cross Cricklewood South25Feb2015 | By Richard Waite
Argent, working with Allies & Morrison, Liftschutz Davison Sandilands and Glenn Howell Architects, has been chosen to deliver the7,500home Brent Cross Cricklewood South scheme for Barnet Council
International contest launched for Preston bus station25Feb2015 | By Richard Waite
The RIBA’s competition office has begun an international search for a team tocreate a new youth centre in Preston’s grade IIlisted Brutalist bus station
Doubts castover NineElms bridgecontest asWestminsterobjects25Feb2015 | ByRichard Waite
Westminstercouncillors havesaid they don’twant a new bridgebetween Nine Elms
and Pimlico, just hours after all 74 entries in the highprofile design contest were revealed
Grimshaw’s Plymouth ‘Ship’ threatened with demolition25Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
Grimshaw’s awardwinning Western Morning News headquarters and printworks in Plymouth is threatened with demolition
Cardiff to restart student union contest24Feb2015 | By Merlin Fulcher
Cardiff University is to relaunch its design contest for a new £80 millionstudent union amid criticism of its procurement process
Shuttleworth attacks 'arrogant' and'egotistical' architects24Feb2015 | By Hattie Hartman, Laura Mark
A controversial speech given by Ken Shuttleworth to anaudience of engineers has been criticised by FCBS bossKeith Bradley
Edinburgh's World Heritage status'threatened' by Hoskins' scheme24Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
Gareth Hoskins Architects plans to convert an emptyEdinburgh landmark into a hotel have come under fire fromUnesco
Protest over Unesco Buddha contest decision23Feb2015 | By Merlin Fulcher
A petition has been launched against Unesco’s ‘unfair and unprofessional’ choice of winner in the competition for a new cultural centre in Bamiyan, Afghanistan
Nine of London's new housing zones announced23Feb2015 | By Michaila Hancock
London mayor, Boris Johnson has today announced the first of 20 new housing zones across the city
Cash prizes return for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition22Feb2015 | By Richard Waite
The Royal Academy (RA) has announced the return of the cash prizes for the best architectural submissions at its 2015 Summer Exhibition
Delays force Design Museum to push back Thames closure20Feb2015 | By Merlin Fulcher
The Design Museum has pushed back the closure of its current home in Shad Thames as a result of delays to work on its proposed new HQ inside theCommonwealth Institute
Designs emerge for Pinnacle as skyscraper site snapped up19Feb2015 | By Richard Waite
The first images of the proposed PLPdesigned replacement for KPF’s stalled Pinnacle tower in central London have emerged
Design of the Year nominations revealed19Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
Just one UK architecture project has been nominated for the Design Museum’s 2015 Design of the Year Award
Footprint's pick of AJ Small Projects 201519Feb2015 | By Hattie Hartman
Which of the 24 shortlisted schemes could be in the running for this year’s Small Projects SustainabilityAward?
AJ exclusive: Ellis Woodman named new ArchitectureFoundation director18Feb2015 | By Richard Waite
The relaunched Architecture Foundation (AF) has appointed the AJ’s criticatlarge EllisWoodman as its new director
Council leader resigns as Pickles wades into Winchester Row17Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
Winchester City Council leader Robert Humby has resigned a day after communities secretary Eric Pickles waded into the row over Allies and Morrison’s controversial Silver Hillscheme
AJ120: get your surveys in!17Feb2015 | By Emily Booth
Extended entry deadline: Friday 20 February 2015
Legal challenge launched over 'devastating' garden bridge plans17Feb2015 | By Athlyn CathcartKeays
A legal challenge has been launched against Thomas Heatherwick’s proposed Garden Bridge across the River Thames
Latest news
Work begins on Glenn Howells’ £30m Eastside scheme25Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
Work is set to start on this 21,405m² student flats scheme in Birmingham designed by Glenn Howells Architects
Allies and Morrison reveals new east London tower plans25Feb2015 | By Tim Clark
Allies and Morrison has submitted plans for a new highrise development on the southern part of Leamouth Peninsula, east London
Last chance to enter the Housing Design Awards25Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
The deadline for this year’s Housing Design Awards has been extended to 4 March
Farshid Moussavi wins planning for Fenchurch Street office block25Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
Farshid Moussavi Architecture has won planning for a new office block at 130 Fenchurch Street in central London
O’Donnell + Tuomey’s LSE in last five for Mies van der Rohe Prize25Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Stirling Prizeshortlisted Saw Swee Hock Building is the only UK project named amongthe finalists for the biggest award in European architecture
2015 RIAS Awards entry deadline looms25Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
The deadline to enter schemes into this year’s RIAS Awards is Thursday 26 February
Project manager appointed for Mack restoration25Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
Gardiner and Theobald has been appointed as project manager on therestoration of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s firedamaged Glasgow School ofArt
Towering inferno: escaping from the Torch tower24Feb2015 | By Athlyn CathcartKeays
An eyewitness account of the fire which destroyed 100 of the 676 flats in Dubai’s Torch tower once the world’s tallest residential building
UKGBC calls for more green infrastructure in the built environment
24Feb2015 | By Athlyn CathcartKeays
The UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) has called on developers to stop downplaying green infrastructure as ‘a fluffy optional extra’ and include roof gardens, streets trees and woodlands inevery scheme
Holl’s Maggie’s centre approved – again24Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
Steven Holl’s revised plans for the Maggie’s Centre at St Bart’s Hospital have been approved by City of London planners today (24 February)
Hopkins wins goahead for £42m Royal Free Hospital research building24Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
Hopkins Architects has won planning for a new research building at the Royal Free Hospital in north London
Video: Putting together Bystrup’s Tpylon24Feb2015 | By Michaila Hancock
Watch Bystrup’s RIBA competitionwinning pylon design being manufactured in the UK
Asda plans £600m investment in new stores and refurbs24Feb2015 | By Lucy Mair
Asda has announced it will invest £600m to expand and improve its store estate in the coming year.
Buckley Gray Yeoman completes boarding school refurb24Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
Buckley Gray Yeoman has completed this refurbishment of grade IIlisted boarding houses at Roedean school near Brighton
Wilkinson Eyre reveals ‘dramatic’ new Wellcome Collection stair24Feb2015 | By Laura Mark
Wilkinson Eyre has completed a new stairway as part of the Wellcome Collection’s £17.5 million revamp of its Euston Road headquarters
Video: HASSELL’s £1.1bn hospital in Perth opens its doors
Take three: Holl's revised Maggie's scheme set for approval
Revealed: all 74 schemes vying for new Nine Elms bridge
Hackney Mayor launches petition against Bishopsgate plans
Niall McLaughlin pays tribute to 'rebel' Ian Athfield
Scottish Architecture Festival receives funding boost
AHR gets goahead for £18m Manchester health institute
Hayes Davidson becomes employeeowned practice
Bristol Mayor launches treeplanting drive
Work starts on O’Donnell + Tuomey’s €34m Budapest scheme
Green light for Robert Adam housing scheme on former MoD site
Bishopsgate rethink must 'not tinker around the edges' warn opponents
Last chance to book for next week’s roofing and drainage AJ Spec Live
Argentinian team wins Bamiyan cultural centre contest
Increase in new homes but numbers still short of national demand
Critics call on Pickles to abolish the ARB
Hunter Architects wins planning for thatched 'P55' house in Suffolk
Plans to transform Kent colliery site into ecopark approved
Marks Barfield's Baker St office revamp nears completion
Small Projects 2015 shortlist revealed: £125k £250k
Top 10 'most clicked' AJ Small Projects entries: week two
Foster completes second Apple store in Hangzhou
New practice: Cal Architects
Saltire Society launches 2015 housing design awards
Pascall + Watson blames bidding costs for large profit drop
William Matthews wins goahead for London hospital link bridge
Emerging Cambridge practice wins planning for yshaped home
Shuttleworth to judge underground design contest
First image of Garden Bridge’s copper cladding revealed
Viñoly wins approval for revised Marble Arch Tower scheme
Competition seeks underground designs
RIBA accredits first Chinese architecture school
Niall McLaughlin reveals £28m drama school
Sheppard Robson wins planning for former Yorkshire Post site
Chance de Silva reveals plans for 'ecohomes cluster'
Winners in contest for east London moveable parks revealed
Mackintosh exhibition opens at RIBA
Work starts on Foster’s aquarium in Taiwan
Jenkins slams Hyde Park Barracks listing bid
Weston Williamson lands Crossrail 2 design role
OS31 reveals contestwinning Canadian popup restaurant
Heritage row erupts over FCBS’s vision for BBC studios at Alexandra Palace
Report: London loses 8,000 social homes in a decade
Shapero reveals plans for 'revolutionary' Liverpool health centre
Boom time for Zaha Hadid as turnover grows 26%
Joseph Rykwert ColumnPreviousNext
Chelsea Barracks may be dead, but nimbyism lives on
Before the towering power of the financier, local authority and even royalty seem at a loss. Nimbyism does nowadays seem to be the only energising engine of protest, says Joseph Rykwert
Archistars outshone at Sofia’s World Triennial of Architecture
Littleknown practices showed outstanding work at Sofia’s World Triennial of Architecture, says Joseph Rykwert
Michael Sorkin: Building a philosophy
In his new book, architect Michael Sorkin strolls downtown New York follow him and grow wiser
The practice of theory
Italian architect Vittorio Gregotti has launched a broadside against theoryfree, postmodernist posturing. But theory, says Joseph Rykwert, must address architecture’s ‘thinginess’
Eileen Gray the original eminence grise
Though she waited years to receive proper recognition, says Joseph Rykwert, Eileen Gray was the designer behind one of modernism’s iconic buildings
A room with a not so pleasant view
Italy is degrading its Bel Paese, and the UK will follow if we relax our planning regulations, says Joseph Rykwert
The great chainsaw massacre
Our urban tree canopy – once a novelty , now a necessity – needs to be saved from developers, NIMBYs and lesser architects, says Joseph Rykwert
Do not miss Rodchenko and Popova
Joseph Rykwert on the remarkable Soviet constructivists’ new show at the Tate Modern
Why Sarkozy's Paris doesn't cut the mustard
The French capital has its charms – but a revolutionary city it is not, says Joseph Rykwert
Cities are more than occupied billboards
Advertising physically separates us from the lived experience of the urban fabric, however ugly or beautiful, says Joseph Rykwert
Siegfried Giedion gave my generation a place in history
Joesph Rwkwert on Space, Time and Architecture, a masterful history of the modern urge