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 people believe this may scar Britain in a number of ways.
This will have an effect on the economy and the tourism that such projects attract. Essentially this is also due to lottery funding cuts as major private sectors can no longer match the funding.

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. Simply this has caused a major corporate branding problem.
The sponsorship deal cost nearly twenty million pounds to setup and has Barclays smiling from ear to ear. This has destroyed the architecture and image of London as every street corner now holds the branding Barclays bank.

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 developers do not destroy the sites of London. This will essentially safeguard our tourism business aswell.
Building are to be built within the confines of the documents publish by Boris Johnson who also states that new and interesting buildings will add to the enjoyment of the city. This should alos fit in with the heritage that come with London.

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 with David Cameron. There is still speculation around this and some believe David Cameron may have been snubbed by the Gandhi’s.
Benoy are well known for the Bull Ring shopping centre in the town centre of Birmingham a now popular tourist destination for visitors to the UK. Majority of the work Benoy will undertake is in Bangalore and Mumbai.

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 orphans in a heavily aids ridden population.
The students are said to have covered their own costs for travel and other expenses and have embarked on this amazing project of their own free will. They will be working to essentially save and home children who are desperate need of a safe environment.

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 teacher to get his new batch of students involved.

And to the delight of many in the town, the project will be costing less than £5,000, whereas a private firm would likely charge upwards of £40,000. Once completed, members of the community will be invited to view the ideas and plans the students come up with to see which will be viable to develop into full scale projects.

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 structure and will contain a local radio station and a career advice section showing that not only the future of the building is important in this structure! During the development process, young people from the area were consulted to ensure that they were provided with a youth centre that will be of great benefit to them.

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 and the changes over time.

Following this tour, the children are then to design their own building that ideally should complement existing structures. The programme then concludes with a talk from an existing architect and an awards ceremony that gives the students the chance to showcase their designs in front of an audience of friends and parents.

From March until May of this year, a new exhibition will take place in the J Paul Getty Museum entitled Building the Medieval World: Architecture in Illuminated Manuscripts. This exhibition combines the art and literature from medieval and renaissance periods with the architecture of the time.

This fascinating exhibition will display how the artists and writers of the time were influenced and how their works were changed by the architecture of the time. From entirely fictional scenes and simple framing of paintings, through to showing how the people of the time interacted with the buildings, the scope of this exhibition should fascinate those with an interest in the history of architecture.

828M or 2717 ft
Formerly known as Burj Dubai, Renamed after the man in the suit of aurmour who paid for it to be finished after Funding dried up. This my friends is the biggest thing ever made by man., at 828 m (2,717 ft) It took 5 years to build with Construction beging on 21 September 2004, The building opened on 4 January 2010. After the Shenanigans with funding.. Its set in what will be called flagship intersection.
This behemoth was Designed primarily by a Chicago based architect called Adrian Smith and the design was brought to life by the Samsung corp, who have been responsible for other massive buildings in the past.
Total cost to make? A smidgeon over 1.5 Billion Dollars.
Fancy some estate in this mansion? Well it will set you back anywhere up to $43,000, per square feet. Well if you’re an oil tycoon I guess that’s just a drop in the ocean.