The London Festival of Architecture 2008 is a celebration and exploration of the city’s buildings, streets and spaces, aimed at Londoners and visitors alike.
The Festival runs from 20 June – 20 July and includes street installations, exhibitions, guided walks, cycle rides, boat tours of the city’s river and canals, parties, design workshops, debates, breakfast talks, [...]

Brazil is still one of the world’s biggest producers of machinery and equipment. In the first six months of 2007 the sector recorded growth of 10% in revenues compared with the same period last year. This is the scenario setting the optimistic tone for the 27th International Machinery and Industrial Supplies Trade Fair, the most [...]

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has appointed world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid as the architect of its new “Innovation Tower”. This building will be her first permanent architectural work in Hong Kong. The new Tower will be located at the northeastern tip of the university campus. Construction work will begin in 2009 and the whole [...]

The completion of Wembley National Stadium designed by Foster + Partners and HOK Sport, heralds a new chapter for Britain’s iconic venue. The new Wembley Stadium will be the first of a new generation of sports stadia, with facilities unparalleled anywhere in the world, including banqueting halls, pre-function gathering spaces and facilities for media coverage. [...]

Property giant British Land said that its board has formally decided to press ahead with construction of the Leadenhall Building, its 224m (736 ft) new tower in London. The stunning 47 storey building (612,000 sq ft), set to be one of the tallest in the City of London, is part of British Land’s £4 billion [...]

The director of architecture and design review at CABE has become the most senior architect on the Olympic project.
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) has appointed Selina Mason as its deputy head of design.
Mason is a qualified architect with eight years experience in practice, six of which were spent at CABE. She will join the ODA [...]

UK engineering firm Mott MacDonald has been appointed through a Transport for London (TfL) Environmental consultancy framework contract to assist with the application process for the proposed Croydon Tramlink Extension to Crystal Palace. The aim of the Extension programme is to improve access between Croydon, Anerley and Crystal Palace and to help regenerate the Upper [...]

British architect Lord Richard Rogers, acclaimed for his urban, socially minded and open designs including the airy Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, is the winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced Wednesday.
Rogers, 73, is the fourth British architect to receive the field’s top honor, founded in 1979 and sponsored by the family [...]

The London-based firm Amec said year-end results were in line with expectations despite pre-tax losses increasing due to construction losses. Pre-tax profit before exceptional items fell to £64.7m (2005 £73.9m). Revenue for the period increased 14% to £3.2bn. Dividends were raised 6% to 12.2p. The group said it hopes to deliver operating margin target of [...]

Demand for skilled labour in the UK construction industry is expected to grow in the next five years. ConstructionSkills, which deals in making sure that there are enough skilled construction works to meet the industry’s demands, says that 87,600 new skilled workers will be required each year between 2007 and 2011 in order to fill [...]

The house, le Corbusier maintained, should be a machine for living in. Yes, Frank Lloyd Wright said, but only if you think the human heart is no more than a fuel pump. Le Corbusier’s architecture, at least in its mid-period, was inspired by the thrilling purity of new technology. ‘L’avion accuse!’ he wrote, suggesting the [...]

Aiming for an iconic new building that will grab international attention, the Cleveland Institute of Art has hired MVRDV, a highly regarded Dutch architecture firm known for edgy, humorous and provocative buildings, to design a major expansion of its campus on upper Euclid Avenue.
The project, which could cost $40 million and take three to [...]