The designers of the Shakespeare theatre in Stratford have stated that there may not be another major golden architecture project for years to come. This is due to cuts in the UK but mainly the boost that occurred at the start of the millennium. It seems that ideas are becoming stagnant and a number of [...]

London has been waiting for the cycle hire scheme for a very long time now, however it seems this has been implemented at the detriment of our beloved capital. First off it has been called the Barclays cycle hire scheme which means Barclays bank has thrown their branding over all cycle stops and cycles themselves. [...]

Mayor of London Boris Johnson is to publish planning guidance documents for developers in the capital of Great Britain. The aim of the planning guidance documents is to outline where developers can build without destroying the view in London. This comes after the London views management has strengthened rules in the capital to ensure that [...]

Benoy one of Britain’s largest architectural firms has successfully secured its third high profile contract in India. This comes as the UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron is India to meet try and strengthen ties with India and Britain, however this visit maybe in vain as it seems the Gandhi’s of India have cancelled their meeting [...]

UK students are for once being praised for ‘doing good’. Let’s face it UK students have a reputation for being drunk and lazy all the time, so it’s quite good to see news like this. Essentially a bunch of architecture students from the University of Newcastle travelled to Uganda to build a children’s village for [...]

A new development project in Ruthin has seen the Town Mayor invite a group of architecture students to come up with ideas for new projects across the town that could possibly help shape the future of the town.
Town mayor and an architect himself Gavin Harris, came up with the idea to persuade his own former [...]

The British Council have teamed up with the Architecture Foundation to once again host the London Festival of Architecture, to take place from June 14 to July 4th.
A biennial event, the London Festival of Architecture will allow professionals and non-professionals alike to take a look at exactly what goes on in the planning, design and [...]

A recent announcement stated that the go-ahead has been given for a new £4.7m project to build a youth centre in the London borough of Havering. The buildings caterpillar shape has been developed to be ‘future-proof’ with alterations and development very much in the forefront of thinking.
The building is planned to the Borough’s first carbon-neutral [...]

At the back end of 2009, the climax of Russia’s Building Festival resulted in the announcement of their annual Building Award. The award is presented to the best building that has been constructed within the previous seven years. Furthermore, the building must have been in use for a period of at least 12 months.
The process [...]

Following on from my post recently about TV shows raising awareness of architecture in young people, schoolchildren in Edinburgh are being encouraged to take note of the buildings around them. The Looking Up! project is a five week programme that take high school students around the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh examining the architecture [...]