Video: Building The Cheesegrater
Slightly geeky but very impressive video about the construction of a new London landmark.
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Blackfriars Station Beset By Delays
The completion date for the new, Thames-spanning station at Blackfriars has been pushed back by four months. Network Rail blamed the delay on additional repair work over Blackfriars bridge, which involves incorporating the adjacent, disused piers into a new cross-river structure. The cost of the …
Westminster Abbey Gets New Hat
Image by Wallyg Or, in the parlance of ecclesiastical architecture, a new corona. Plans are afoot to build a £10 million crown-like structure on the abbey’s roof, directly above the spot where nearly every monarch since the Conqueror has been crowned. The structure would replace …
Architects Tell Charles To Keep His Nose Out
Image / Southcoasting Fed up with his royal toes treading on their profession, a group of architects have hit back at Prince Charles. Rather than interfere in his line of work by launching a sub-standard line of cookies and jams, they’ve co-signed a letter requesting …
Chelsea Ponder Battersea Blues
Stadia mania seems to be gripping the Premier League: a week after Tottenham announced plans for a new stadium, Chelsea are apparently considering a move away from their Stamford Bridge home to a purpose-built ground in Battersea. A design drawn up by architect HOK Sport …
Drink-ography: Advice
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Phototour of Kings Place
Kings Place is all but finished, and ready to receive visitors from 1 October. This apostrophe-shy centre of arts on York Way will also be home to two orchestras and the Guardian from the end of the year. We got a sneak peek of the …
The Saturday Strangeness
69. The Phantom Wall Smasher! Well, that’s what the press, being The Sun, Daily Mirror and Metropolitan Police newspaper The Job called him in 1977. Following on from last week’s feature on bizarre compulsions and spectral assailants, this time we move onto less sinister acts, …
Doon Street Tower Gets Go-Ahead
A 140 metre tower for a plot behind the National Theatre has received the stamp of approval from Hazel Blears, the less-than-lofty Secretary of State for Communities and Local Development. Doon Street Tower raised the hackles of English Heritage and others, who prefer their views …
Stephen Lawrence Centre Opens
The Stephen Lawrence Centre will be offically opened by the Mayor in Deptford today. In what is bound to an emotive event, the living memorial has been designed to reflect Stephen Lawrence’s own aspirations to become an architect. Not only is it a handsome building …
