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David Chipperfield Architects’ design of Fayland House – The ‘Best New Build in the World’

Thursday, 29th October 2015

David Chipperfield Architects’ design of Fayland House has controversially been judged the ‘Best New Build in the World’ by an international panel of architects. ALM HM the UK’s leading hard metal distributor supplied VMZINC to specialist metals contractor Peters Roofing for a project... View Article

Ormerod Design provides tasteful service for Majestic Wine

Thursday, 29th October 2015

Leeds-based architectural practice, Ormerod Design Ltd, has completed a contract to design the new Watford head offices of Majestic Wine as part of a £2 million refurbishment. The three-storey property was built in the 1980s – generally considered a non-vintage decade... View Article

tp bennett completes interior design for highest office space in London

Tuesday, 27th October 2015

tp bennett has completed the interior design for Amlin’s relocation to new offices in the Leadenhall building, one floor of which is now billed as the highest office space in London. Amlin now occupies levels 19 to 24, including the... View Article

Bond Bryan’s design for Hertswood Academy receives green light from the planning authorities

Monday, 26th October 2015

The development proposals seek to provide accommodation for both the current Upper School and Lower School at the Lower School site to facilitate the redevelopment of the Upper School site for residential dwellings. The Academy development includes integrating the ARK... View Article

Vienna International Hotelmanagement becomes Vienna House

Monday, 26th October 2015

Vienna International Hotelmanagement AG (VI) is repositioning itself. The countdown is on. Effective 1 February 2016, Austria’s largest hotel group will flip the switch to recreate its brand identity from top to bottom. Vienna International Hotelmanagement AG is set to... View Article

Quote of the Week – 26th October 2015

Monday, 26th October 2015

“The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work.” – Sir Alex... View Article

Stretford Mall Aldi starts on site

Friday, 23rd October 2015

Work has started on site at the Stretford Mall in Manchester on plans to build a new £1.3 million 17,000 square foot Aldi food store. Leading architectural practice, Pozzoni was appointed by mall owner Lunar Stretford Sarl in January 2014, to re-visit... View Article

K2 Space completes workspace design projects

Friday, 23rd October 2015

Office interiors company K2 Space has recently completed a number of high profile projects. These include office design and build work for Groupon and William Blair in the City and Intercept Pharmaceuticals in the new Kings Place development in King Cross.... View Article

Second Queen’s Award presentation in three years for Ancon

Thursday, 22nd October 2015

Just three years after its first Queen’s Award for Enterprise presentation in 2012, Ancon Building Products officially received its second award on Thursday 15th October at a special ceremony at its manufacturing site in Deeside, North Wales. The 2015 Award,... View Article

ISG completes John Lewis Birmingham shop

Tuesday, 20th October 2015

ISG has given the 140,000 passengers that daily pass through the revamped Birmingham New Street Station the perfect excuse for some retail therapy after completing a fit out of the eagerly anticipated 250,000 square foot John Lewis shop that sits... View Article

Sky Gardens at Vauxhall enters penultimate phase

Tuesday, 20th October 2015

Sky Gardens in Vauxhall, a development by Frasers Property (UK) Ltd, is now 35 per cent build complete and is entering its penultimate phase of development. Situated at the gateway of Nine Elms, the Sky Gardens scheme consists of a... View Article

Historic Bath mill is transformed into modern student housing complex by local construction firm

Monday, 19th October 2015

The redevelopment of the historic Twerton Mill on Lower Bristol Road in Bath has been completed, delivering a new state-of-the-art student housing complex for the city’s burgeoning student population. The £16.6 million project has created accommodation offering 330 bedrooms in... View Article

First family focused rental scheme wins Sunday Times ‘housing project’ award

Monday, 19th October 2015

Essential Living and Assael Architecture have won Sunday Times housing project award for Creekside Wharf in Greenwich. The award was searching for the most impressive schemes with planning permission, less than 6 months into development and relied entirely on CGI’s.... View Article

ISG’s Whitworth Scheme Pipped to RIBA Stirling Prize

Friday, 16th October 2015

ISG’s extension and refurbishment of The Whitworth Gallery, designed by MUMA, missed out on taking the top prize in architecture last night – the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize 2015 – despite topping the architectural industry and BBC’s readers’ poll with... View Article

Staffordshire set to deliver more employment sites as business development continues

Thursday, 15th October 2015

Staffordshire is preparing for more business development schemes as it continues to deliver multi-million pound Growth Deal projects. The county council and its partners are planning projects in anticipation of a new round of applications put forward by the Government... View Article

Reynaers invests in new channels to drive business forward

Thursday, 15th October 2015

Reynaers has taken its marketing to the next level by investing in a series of radio ads to underpin its latest campaign. The adverts will run throughout October and November on LBC and Smooth, popular stations in the South-East, and... View Article

An Edinburgh community group constructs UK’s first community-use “WikiHouse” in Fountainbridge

Wednesday, 14th October 2015

Volunteers ‘put the pieces together’ for new temporary community space. The weekend of 10- 11 October saw the first community-use WikiHouse being built in the UK. The innovative and sustainable community project is temporary and uses the site of the former... View Article

ISG Awarded £7.5 Million Royal Mint Visitor Centre Scheme

Tuesday, 13th October 2015

ISG has been awarded a £7.5 million project to construct a visitor centre at The Royal Mint in Llantrisant, which will showcase coin minting operations to the public for the first time in the organisation’s 1000-year history. The scheme combines... View Article

ISG Secures £7.9 Million Reading Office Scheme at Green Park

Monday, 12th October 2015

Increasing demand for Grade A office space in the Thames Valley region has seen Reading-based office fit out specialist ISG secure its latest win at Green Park – taking a £7.9 million project to modernise an existing five-storey office building.... View Article

ISG Secures Major Cheshire Fire Station Deal

Monday, 5th October 2015

Cheshire Fire Authority is a step closer to realising its ambition of a safer Cheshire after appointing ISG to build a new fire station in Penketh, Warrington. Procured via the influential North West Construction Hub framework, the contract extends ISG’s... View Article