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Oliver North will lead the growth and evolution of Ridge’s cost and commercial management capability, strengthening the consultancy’s position on nationally significant infrastructure, investment and strategic capital programmes. He joins Ridge as Head of Cost and Commercial Management and Partner,... View Article

Landmark mixed-use building brings together 163 residential units with commercial and social spaces The scheme was built with 85% prefabricated components, including the world’s first prefabricated lift system Striking redbrick façade pays visual homage to London’s iconic St Pancras station... View Article

Lagoons, public spaces and walkable districts define the year-round coastal city, one of the Mediterranean’s most ambitious planned destinations. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has unveiled plans for a new 20.6-million-square-meter coastal city on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast, near Marsa Matrouh... View Article

Planning permission has been granted for 354 new homes on Leicester’s Waterside, giving the go ahead for the transformation of the former British United Shoe Machinery (BUSM) site. The regeneration of the vacant, 10-acre brownfield site has been designed by... View Article

AC Milan and FC Internazionale Milano have unveiled the design of their future home – Generali Stadium – conceived to carry the spirit of San Siro into a new era and become a new landmark for Milano. Designed by Foster... View Article

The Royal Armouries in Leeds has selected leading international architecture and design practice BDP to take its £100m landmark Waterfront Development project through the next detailed design stages as the project begins to take shape. The Waterfront Development project will... View Article

Stephen George + Partners (SGP) is proud to announce the completion of a stunning new bus station in the heart of Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire. Officially opened by the Mayor of West Yorkshire Tracy Brabin, the fully-fledged bus station replaces the... View Article

The pedestrianisation of Oxford Street has officially begun. On Monday 26 October, the first phase of a pedestrianised Oxford Street was unveiled by the Oxford Street Development Corporation (OSDC) and East. An almost-kilometre stretch of Oxford Street – between Orchard... View Article

Last week, multi-disciplinary design practice, rg+p Ltd partnered with the Leicestershire and Rutland Society of Architects (LRSA), LCB Canopy and community interest company, Mini BrickChic® CIC to host a series of workshops for aspiring young architects. Held in the public... View Article

Planning permission has been granted for R131, a research building designed by Stride Treglown for the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) at Oxfordshire’s Harwell Science and Innovation Campus. The five-storey building at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) will provide... View Article

ZMMA and Nissen Richards Studio, working in a co-creative collaboration, are delighted to announce their appointment for the exhibitions redesign at The Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds. The Museum’s ‘Armed with Hope and Understanding’ project represents a major, multi-million-pound refurbishment... View Article

Matthew Pope joins company as Director, Principal Designer  Global architecture, engineering, and sustainability consultancy Ramboll today announces the appointment of Matthew Pope as Director, Principal Designer. Matthew, a RIBA chartered Architect and member of the RIBA Principal Designer, joins Ramboll from... View Article

Designs have been revealed for a mixed-use development that will transform a prominent site in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital, into a culturally resonant and vibrant new quarter of the city. At the heart of the scheme, the World Trade Center Yerevan... View Article

The Sloane Robinson Building, home to the University of Bristol’s Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus (TQEC), is its most significant development. It transforms a seven-acre former Royal Mail site beside Brunel’s Grade I-listed Temple Meads station into a civic centre for learning, research, innovation... View Article

Work has completed on the 8-bed Seastone Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) High Intensity Environment (HIE) for Dorset HealthCare at its Alumhurst Road site in Bournemouth. Designed by Medical Architecture alongside the NHS Trust and built by Kier, the... View Article

Architectural and landscape design practice Fereday Pollard & Partners (FP&P) has announced the senior promotions of Annie Lennox and Alistair Randall to Associate, following their invaluable contributions across FP&P’s major infrastructure projects. Annie worked with FP&P for several years as a consultant... View Article

The Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) has published Structural Design for Architecture: The Work of Frank Newby by renowned architectural historian and engineer David Yeomans, the first major study to bring together Newby’s professional work, personal archives and design philosophy in a... View Article