NEWS News brief...
NEW APPOINTMENT The RIBA has appointed Stride Treglown’s divisional director Pierre Wassenaar to its Board of Trustees.
TRIO OF SKYSCRAPERS
E-commerce giant Amazon is set to build a new HQ in Seattle. Plans for a cluster of three skyscrapers, each 37 stories high have been submitted to Seattle’s review board. The buildings, designed by NBBJ, are due to be developed over a period of eight years.
PLANS SUBMITTED David Chipperfield Architects has submitted plans for the proposed £600million redevelopment of Elizabeth House next to Waterloo Station.
SPECIALIST CARE
DESIGN AWARD Pozzoni Architects has been named ‘Best Design & Construction Company’ at the Laing & Buisson Independent Specialist Care Awards 2012. The Awards recognise best performing private and voluntary sector providers working in the provision of social care services for adults with learning or physical disabilities or mental health conditions, whether that be in residential care, homecare or specialist hospitals. A brand new category for 2012, Best Design and Construction Company recognises innovation and excellence in architectural design and construction and illustrates how effective design can enhance care services.
MAKE PROFITS UP Ken Shuttleworth’s practice Make has announced a 12 percent increase in its annual turnover and a 37 percent hike in its gross profits.
Contribution celebrated Zaha Hadid’s work and status as an internationally significant industry figure recognised Celebrated, if controversial,
Although Hadid has
British architect Zaha Hadid continues to make her mark on the industry after being recognised with two prestigious honours within a matter of weeks of one another.
s well as being recognised by the Sunday Times as one of the most influential people in Britain right now, Hadid has also been named ‘the woman who has made the greatest contribution to architecture’ by Architect’s Journal’s inaugural ‘Women in Architecture’ survey.
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sometimes struggled to get her work built, particularly here on home soil, she has enjoyed a rapid reversal of fortunes in recent years. She is now widely recognised as one of Britain’s leading lights - her London Olympic Aquatics centre has attracted great acclaim and in 2011 the ingeniously designed Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton secured Hadid’s second successive RIBA Stirling Prize. Now, Hadid has been included in the Sunday Times 2012 list of the ’50 most influential Britons of the past 50 years’. The newspaper list ‘Makers and Shakers 1962 –
2012’ says: “Hadid’s buildings are seriously sensuous and sexy. The first woman to win the Pritzer award for architecture, the Iraqi- British innovator sometimes struggled to get her work built… fortunately her stunning London Aquatics Centre was given the thumbs up.”
In addition to this, not insignificant, accolade Hadid has Received the Jane Drew Prize for her outstanding contribution to the status of women in architecture. A unanimous decision led to Hadid being praised by the in the Architect’s Journal’s inaugural ‘Women in
Housing
registrations down
Figures released by the NHBC (National House- Building Council) have shown that the gap between private and public sector registrations in the UK continues to expand, with social housing figures contracting year-on-year.
NHBC registration figures for the public sector decreased 20 percent in January 2012 compared with January 2011, and 58 percent in February 2012 year-on-year. 1,854 compared with 2,304 in January 2011 and 1,373 from 3,289 in February 2011. In contrast, private sector housing registrations have experienced consecutive increases this year, with a nine percent rise in January followed by 27 percent in February,
compared with the start of 2011. In total there has been a
marginal two percent decrease in the number of homes across all sectors registered to date this year in the UK - 16,343 in 2012 compared to 16,705 in 2011. Richard Tamayo, commercial
director of NHBC says: “Our latest statistics have revealed a consistent start to the year, with both January and February reporting significant
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