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British Museum set to launch controversial revamp competition
The British Museum has announced a 7,500m² redevelopment competition after it signed a highly-contentious £50m funding deal with fossil fuel giant BP
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vHH’s Houlton School shortlisted for RIBA’s new reuse awards
Van Heyningen & Haward Architects’ (vHH) revamp of Houlton Secondary School, Rugby, has been named among the finalists for the RIBA’s new reuse prize
Emerging architects shortlisted for new-look Stephen Lawrence Prize
The first finalists have been revealed for the relaunched Stephen Lawrence Prize, which is now only open to recently qualified and emerging architects
Wright & Wright wins approval for timber-framed student flats in Oxford
Wright & Wright Architects has won planning permission for a scheme that will allow an Oxford college to accommodate all of its students on site for the first time
Clare Wright: ‘We want to create buildings our descendants will thank us for’
Wright & Wright aims to create buildings ‘that our descendants will thank us for’ said co-founder Clare Wright as she set out her practice’s philosophy at an AJ100 Club event in London this week
Wright & Wright designs model gallery for over 30 miniature artworks
The maquette is part of the Models in Miniature exhibition at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, where the practice is designing a new collections centre
British Museum names architects on new £45m framework
London’s British Museum has named four architects for its £45 million construction consultancy services framework: Avanti Architects, Dannatt Johnson Architects, Nex Architecture and Wright & Wright Architects
Wright & Wright’s Museum of the Home completes
The Museum of the Home in Hoxton (previously the Geffrye Museum) is finally due to reopen on 12 June following its redevelopment by Wright and Wright Architects
Wright & Wright: ‘You’ve only got one life, so build buildings that you believe in’
Rob Wilson talks to Wright and Wright partners Clare and Sandy Wright, Stephen Smith and Naila Yousuf on site at the practice’s soon-to-open reworking of the Museum of the Home
Building study: Lambeth Palace Library by Wright & Wright
Projects seldom come so freighted with history or as laden with expectation as Lambeth Palace Library, which was recently completed to stringent specifications, writes Fran Williams. Photography by Hufton + Crow