Revealed: RIBA House of the Year 2024 finalists
Oct 31, 2024 · Last year the prize was collected by a home in Tottenham, north London, by Hayhurst & Co – described as a ‘riad-inspired urban oasis’ (pictured below). Hayhurst & Co’s low-cost, five-bedroom Green House beat projects by Denizen Works, Studio Weave, Rural Office and Níall McLaughlin Architects.. The RIBA House of the Year award was set up in 2013.
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High Court upholds approval of Make’s controversial South Bank …
Dec 20, 2024 · The former secretary of state also acknowledged concerns about the development’s impact on ‘designated heritage assets’, including Denys Lasdun’s Grade II*-listed National Theatre and Grade II-listed IBM Building, and questioned whether the Make scheme would ‘provide a positive contribution to the townscape of the South Bank’.
Al-Jawad Pike wins Neave Brown affordable housing award 2024
Oct 16, 2024 · Al-Jawad Pike founding partner Jessam Al-Jawad described Chowdhury Walk as ‘both modest and pioneering’. He explained: ‘It demonstrates what is possible when a local authority elects to develop its own brownfield sites to address housing need and enhance the local neighbourhood.
RIBA House of the Year won by 31/44’s ‘work-in-progress’ family …
Dec 5, 2024 · Six Columns in Crystal Palace, designed by practice director Will Burges to be his own family home, was chosen ahead of five other finalists - including Surman Weston’s Peckham House, which won the AJ Manser Medal earlier this week.. Also shortlisted were houses by Studio Brassica Architects, TaylorHare Architects, Hugh Strange Architects, and Tom Dowdall Architects.
Joseph Rykwert, ‘gloriously erudite’ architecture critic, dies aged 98
Oct 21, 2024 · The late author Susan Sontag, in her review of Rykwert’s The Dancing Column added: ‘Joseph Rykwert is a gloriously erudite, ingeniously speculative historian and critic of architecture – of that is, the forms (in the most concrete sense) of civilisation, of social embodiment itself.’. His 1963 book The Idea of a Town (1963) remains a pivotal text on the social and cultural anthropology ...
Benedetti unwraps detailed plans for RIBA House of Architecture
Nov 19, 2024 · 8/11 Clockwise from left to right: 66 Portland Place, proposed concept ©Benedetti Architects; Sign language system, drawing by Sir Christopher Wren (1650s) ©RIBA Collections; Design for imagined replanning of Trafalgar Square, a birthday card from Zaha Hadid to fellow Architectural Association student, Antony Feldman (1974) ©RIBA Collections
AHMM rethinks Southwark station scheme as student housing
Jan 3, 2025 · Submitted in September on behalf of developer Helical and Places for London, Transport for London’s (TfL’s) property company, the latest proposal features a part-nine and part-15-storey building providing affordable homes and student accommodation.. AHMM’s scheme would see 44 affordable units in the shorter block and 429 student bedrooms in the taller building.
Rayner approves M&S Oxford Street plans
She today (5 December) ruled that the retailer could press ahead with its plan to replace the iconic building with a 10-storey office scheme by Pilbrow & Partners. Rayner’s Tory predecessor, Michael Gove, blocked M&S’s plans to demolish its flagship Oxford Street store in July 2023, but his decision was quashed by a High Court judge in March 2024. ...
Exclusive: first Stirling Prize winner set to be demolished
Nov 11, 2024 · In 2018, plans were unveiled to convert the building into a primary school under wider proposals by 5plus Architects for the university’s existing campus and surrounding area, which included the delivery of a significant amount of new housing.. But the school scheme has now been ditched and the development team, having ‘explored multiple options’ for the long-vacant four-storey block ...