Private Equity firm Providence Equity Partners has bought a stake in specialist sports practice Populous, architect of the Tottenham Hotspur stadium
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van Heyningen & Haward’s radio station-to-school retrofit wins new RIBA Reinvention Award
A radio station-to-school retrofit by van Heyningen & Haward Architects (vHH) has scooped a brand new award for reinvention at this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize awards
Practice misses out on Stirling but scoops top social housing accolade
Apparata Architects has won the 2023 Neave Brown Award for Housing, for its ‘ingenious’ east London scheme a House for Artists
Extra £10bn a year and new ‘design culture’ needed in UK infrastructure, says NIC
An independent review of national infrastructure policy has called for a sharp increase in government spending to support growth and meet Net Zero targets
Civil servant who resigned over RAAC inaction warned of ‘Grenfell-scale tragedy’
A former senior civil servant who resigned over government inaction on reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) warned it could result in a ‘Grenfell-scale tragedy’
Urban Splash cut a quarter of staff after failure of modular housing arm
Urban Splash’s latest published accounts reveal it shed a quarter of its staff after its modular housing venture collapsed in 2022
Decision on Morris+Company’s Islington office scheme deferred – again
Islington Council has deferred its decision on Morris + Company’s Castle and Fitzroy House office proposal for a second time
Former BDP chair and Royal Opera House designer Bill Jack dies
Former BDP chairman Bill Jack, who led the firm's design of the Royal Opera House, has died aged 89
Architect to lead new Financial Times visual investigations team
The Financial Times (FT) has hired Pulitzer-winning architect Alison Killing to lead a new visual investigations team at the newspaper
ARB fines architect in overcharging row
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) has fined a Manchester-based architect £2,500 after he charged a client £500 for work they never agreed to