Project Articles

Independent charity Ronald McDonald House has announced it has secured planning permission for a new facility at the South Glasgow Hospitals Campus. The new Ronald McDonald House, which will provide free amenities and accommodation for families of sick children from... View Article

Australia has the best public library if what counts is architecture and interplay with the local area. In Lyon (France), the Danish Agency for Culture has now announced the winner of the international architecture prize: Schmidt hammer lassen architects –... View Article

Its disc-embellished exterior has been a city icon for 11 years, but now Selfridges is giving city shoppers another reason to stare, as its world-famous window displays arrive in Birmingham. Each year hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to Selfridges’... View Article

The construction of nine new affordable homes on the site of an old community centre in the Somerford area of Christchurch has been given the go-ahead. Sovereign Housing Association’s plans to provide the nine homes on the site of the... View Article

Nicola Sturgeon MSP, Deputy First Minister, unveils Glasgow City Council’s – and Scotland’s – largest ever single housing association grant-funded project on Friday 15 August. The completion of the £24 million housing development of 201 homes by New Gorbals Housing... View Article

Glenn Howells Architects announces it has completed work on the new Biffa Award Welcome Building – at the Forestry Commission’s National Arboretum at Westonbirt. Based in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, the arboretum is a Grade I registered landscape that is home... View Article

SPARK has completed the design of Prince’s Building a 71,600-square-metre mixed-use development and transportation hub for China Merchants. Located in Shenzhen South China the 110-metre-high, 27-storey office tower and five retail pavilions are connected by landscaped terraces that combine to... View Article

The Thames Hub Team welcomes the Airports Commission’s four Inner Thames Estuary airport feasibility studies published in July 2014. Commissioned to assess the credibility of an estuary airport, these studies found no showstoppers to the development of an Estuary airport,... View Article

Planning has just been announced for Ensign Court, a housing scheme that will provide 65 new homes for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Designed by award-winning architects Maccreanor Lavington, the site is located on the corner of Dock Street... View Article

BAM is to redevelop and refurbish the arts and design centre at Somerset College under a £7 million contract. The project was procured as a two-stage traditional contract via the Construction Framework South West. BAM, which has offices in Bristol... View Article

ISG has been awarded a £12 million project to redevelop the former University for the Creative Arts building in Maidstone. The comprehensive internal and external refurbishment will create state-of-the-art teaching facilities for MidKent College as part of its enlarged Maidstone... View Article

Birmingham City Council has granted detailed planning consent for the development of the first commercial building at Arena Central. Fronting Broad Street and sitting opposite Centenary Square, 1 Arena Central – which is set to be the first speculatively developed... View Article

Walthamstow Wetlands, an exemplar urban wetland reserve created from ten reservoirs at the heart of the Lea valley, will soon become a reality after securing Heritage Lottery funding. Stirling Prize-winning architects Witherford Watson Mann, will sensitively transform a Victorian pumping... View Article

Trehearne Architects has prepared designs for the transformation of the former Toys R Us headquarters in the Vanwall Business Park, Maidenhead. Following complete modernisation, reimaging and enlargement, the building will contain Grade-A office space of the same standard as a... View Article

Leicester-based architects Maber had a number of design challenges when working on the new world-class £4 million King Richard III Visitor Centre. The project, delivered for Leicester City Council, saw the former Alderman Newton’s School on St Martin’s Place transformed... View Article