Richard Waite

Bradford, London

News Editor at The Architects' Journal

News Editor - The Architects' Journal

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Queen Elizabeth II memorial competition won by Foster + Partners

5 days ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Gino Spocchia |Richard Waite

The AJ understands that the Foster + Partners team, which includes heritage specialists Purcell, French landscape architect Michel Desvigne and artist Yinka Shonibare, has been selected to design the national memorial on the site next to Buckingham Palace in London’s St James’s Park. Norman Foster’s architecture practice, which the AJ understands was informed last week of the win, saw off four other bids, following the high-profile competition organised by Malcolm Reading Consultants.
Architects named on king’s birthday honours

1 week ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Richard Waite

Parry, who set up Eric Parry Architects in 1983, is behind several major current projects in the City of London, including the under-construction Justice Quarter off Fleet Street and the 74-storey One Undershaft tower, approved in December, which will sit between RSHP’s Leadenhall building and Foster + Partners’ Gherkin. Harrap founded Julian Harrap Architects 10 years earlier. The practice is known for its repair and restoration of historic buildings, estates, and landscapes.
Allies and Morrison picked to masterplan St Mary’s Hospital redevelopment

1 week ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Richard Waite

The AJ understands that Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has picked the AJ100 practice to draw up outline plans for a major mixed-use development at the historic west London campus, featuring a new hospital tower within a redeveloped life sciences campus. The new, taller 800-to-840-bed hospital with integrated research facilities will sit on the east of the 3.5ha St Mary’s estate and have a smaller footprint than the existing hospital blocks.
New practice Slab Design Union: ‘I’ve yet to see AI produce a door schedule or DPC detail’

2 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Richard Waite

Practice name Slab Design Union ArchitectsFounded 2024Based Birmingham, but working nationwide. Main people For now, it’s just me - Alan Morrissey. I’ve built up a network of brilliant consultants and creatives working across disciplines including structural, façade and environmental engineering, visualisation and communication, modelmaking, interiors, sustainability, landscape and ecology that I can bring their specialist services in on projects as required.
Exclusive: RSHP is working on Euston station project

3 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Richard Waite

The news comes just days after it emerged that Allies and Morrison was drawing up a new masterplan for the 24ha over-site development, which will sit above the new high-speed rail (HS2) station and Network Rail station. This is backed by a newly formed Crown Estate/Lendlease joint venture.
‘There isn’t much left to trim’: AA chief lays bare real costs of education

3 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Richard Waite

Writing exclusively for the AJ, Ingrid Schroder’s warts-and-all breakdown revealed how she was juggling the finances at the £23.7 million turnover, central London-based school. The revelations come as universities and their architecture departments face an unprecedented financial crisis, which has already led to redundancies and concerns about the future of some schools.
Wallace Collection picks National Gallery architect to revamp its London base

3 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Richard Waite

Annabelle Selldorf's practice will create a five-year masterplan for the museum’s Grade II-listed Hertford House base on Manchester Square. The job comes soon after the practice completed the controversial revamp of Venturi, Scott Brown’s 1991 National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing. The Wallace Collection comprises 5,500 objects, including medieval and Renaissance works of art and princely arms and armour.
The new towns agenda needs to design for a generation

3 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Andrew Lansley |Richard Waite

If history teaches us anything, it’s that success lies not in hitting targets, but in embedding the right design principles from the start. As the government pushes forward with its ambitious house-building agenda, we face a pivotal opportunity – one we cannot afford to miss. As chair of the Cambridgeshire Development Forum for more than a decade, and former MP for the area, I’ve seen the lessons of the past play out across successive developments.
‘Well-judged and admirably specific’: plans to cut red tape for small housing sites welcomed

1 month ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Richard Waite

Chris Fellner, director, Haworth TompkinsOverall, it’s positive the government has recognised that small and medium sized sites are particularly difficult to develop if they have to fulfil the same onerous planning requirements and go through the same planning process as major developments. So, removing some of these requirements, while still retaining an appropriate level of quality control, is a good step forward.
Allies and Morrison takes over on Crown Estate/Lendlease’s Euston project

1 month ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Richard Waite

News of the appointment comes just days after The Crown Estate snapped up a 50 per cent stake in the Lendlease-backed oversite development sitting above a new high-speed rail (HS2) station and an upgraded Network Rail station. Allies and Morrison replaces Prior + Partners on the long-awaited and hugely complex project, which will now be delivered by the King’s property company working in a joint venture with the Australian developer giant.