
Elizabeth Hopkirk
Assistant Editor at Building Design News
Buildings, heritage, art, nature | Writer, editor, cyclist, optimist. Always something interesting round the next corner...
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Oct 16, 2023 |
bdonline.co.uk | Joey Gardiner |Emily Twinch |Elizabeth Hopkirk |Ben Flatman
Urban regeneration developer falls to a loss in results impacted by last year’s modular failure Specialist regeneration developer Urban Splash has fallen to a pre-tax loss of £2.9m and lost over a quarter of its staff, according to annual accounts impacted by the collapse of its previously de-merged modular housebuilding joint venture.
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Oct 11, 2023 |
bdonline.co.uk | Jim Dunton |Ben Flatman |Elizabeth Hopkirk |Daniel Gayne
Promotions come as founder steps aside from leading practice Source: John Robertson Architects John Robertson Architects has announced three director-level promotions and the transition of its founder to a “senior adviser” role. The practice said associate directors Etain Fitzpatrick, Angela St Clair-Ford and Mark Wibberley have now become directors.
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Sep 28, 2023 |
bdonline.co.uk | Jim Dunton |Ben Flatman |Tom Lowe |Elizabeth Hopkirk
Building will be a hub for 10,000-home Cambridgeshire new town CZWG’s detailed designs for a permanent community centre to serve the Cambridgeshire new town of Northstowe have been submitted for reserved-matters consent. The practice’s vision for the two-storey hub includes a café, community kitchen, meeting rooms, an NHS room, a community office, a double height main hall and a 75sq m “messy activity room”.
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Sep 27, 2023 |
bdonline.co.uk | Jim Dunton |Roger Emmerson |Elizabeth Hopkirk |Tom Lowe
Hiring drive hikes staff numbers at longstanding Scottish firm Scottish architect Aitken Turnbull has announced seven new hirings and two promotions, boosting headcount by around 25%.
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Aug 14, 2023 |
bdonline.co.uk | Elizabeth Hopkirk
The city’s celebrated Victorian pleasure gardens have reopened after a £28.3m revamp – and decades of drama and indecision, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk The future of Aberdeen’s celebrated Union Terrace Gardens has been a preoccupation of the local newspaper since the 1950s. By the early years of this century the saga had begun making headlines in Building Design as a string of new visions for the Victorian city centre park, some quite outlandish, were proposed and then ditched.
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