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Five's newly remodelled meeting room, known as the 'Blue Room', may evoke the terrestrial TV channel's notorious 'filthy Five' image it is so keen to get rid of, but there's [...]

Gulf states are ready to spend big on bridge and road infrastructure to keep their economies ticking over in 2009. The injections of public spending that were announced at the [...]

More than 100 high-rise towers will be built in Doha in the next few years. By 2013, views of the West Bay area will be dominated by at least 180 [...]

With the UAE alone producing more carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2]) per person than any other country in the world, the Middle East is a major contributor to the amount of the [...]

The facade of Galleria West shopping centre, in Seoul, South Korea, is a three-in-one box of tricks that shimmers with changes in identity as much as colour. A kaleidoscope of [...]

At the job interview they'll ask what you can offer them, but you are thinking just the opposite. As the best graduates and experienced architects become increasingly sought after, the [...]

Designing a highly glazed, streetfronting building with a welcoming public face, that is robust enough to withstand a range of extreme evens, is the toughest of briefs. Architect Terry Farrell [...]

Architecture's next great contribution to London's railway infrastructure is having a typically frustrating gestation period, but one day the city will get Crossrail. It probably will not be by the [...]

Clients came under fire once again last week for treating the winning architect in an RIBA-organised selection with 'contempt'. Ushida Findlay was the latest practice to beat stiff competition in [...]

Daniel Libeskind is poised to sign a six-month contract to start working on the detailed redesign of the World Trade Centre, he told BD this week. The short-term contract, expected [...]

Development costs are so high in Doha that a $100m investment would not be enough to build many of the tall residential or commercial towers that are rapidly changing the [...]

The UK's first national skills academy will be designed by Nightingale Associates after it was chosen by the owner of BHS, retail mogul Philip Green. The Arcadia chairman appointed Nightingale [...]

Massimiliano Fuksas's telling of the story of his latest completed building might grate a little with those architects who find the process of winning a commission and then seeing it [...]

Drivers passing through a previously bleak and unprepossessing roundabout near Exeter could now be forgiven for thinking the northern lights had migrated to Devon. The West Country version of the [...]

The government is set to raise an extra 70 million [pounds sterling] by upping the the cost of submitting planning applications in a bid to deal with a huge decisions [...]

Four out of five leisure venues are inaccessible to disabled people and in flagrant breach of the law, a major new survey has found. More than 1,300 buildings, including pubs, [...]

Grimshaw's proposed 30 million [pounds sterling] extension of the Royal College of Art has been abandoned amid fears that defending the scheme against opposition will prove too expensive. Despite winning [...]

Housebuilders are threatening to boycott the government's flagship Delivering the Sustainable Communities Plan Summit, claiming they have not been given a voice in the conference programme. BD understands two major [...]

Cabe has demanded changes to how schools of architecture are funded because it fears that a spate of school closures could lead to a critical shortage of design skills needed [...]

As many as 15 design competitions will be triggered if London is announced as the host of the 2012 Olympic Games next summer. Jason Prior, European regional vice-president of Edaw, [...]

Nightingale Associates this week became the third-largest architectural firm in the UK after it swallowed up the 53-strong Liverpool-based Derek Hicks & Thew Architects and swelled its ranks to more [...]

Non-EU architects this week reacted with horror to a move by the Architects Registration Board that will make it far harder and more expensive for them to get their qualifications [...]

Future office design will focus far less on creating iconic forms such as the Gherkin and more on transforming existing interior spaces to suit changing work patterns. Architects waiting for [...]

Foster & Partners' City Hall in London could be the latest building to be afflicted with the glazing defect known as glass cancer. Contractors are investigating all the internal panels [...]

Sheppard Robson is the latest name to be linked with the listed practice Aukett, which is known to have been looking to merge with or acquire another architectural practice. Sources [...]

The Victoria & Albert Museum will not commission an iconic piece of architecture to replace the dumped Daniel Libeskind 'Spiral' extension. Director Mark Jones told BD there was hardly any [...]