Richard Waite

Bradford, London

News Editor at The Architects' Journal

News Editor - The Architects' Journal

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Queen Elizabeth II memorial finalists’ designs revealed

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

The public has been invited to view each of the five shortlisted design concepts for the national memorial following the launch of an online exhibition today (7 May). The winner in the contest organised by Malcolm Reading Consultants, will create a ‘historic’ memorial to the UK’s longest-serving monarch on the site next to Buckingham Palace in London’s St James’s Park.
Squire & Partners wins decade-long planning battle for £1.3bn brewery scheme

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

The plans for site owner Reselton Properties were approved by Richmond Council in 2023, subject to sign-off from London’s mayor. It was the fourth application submitted by the developer to be approved by the council. But mayor Sadiq Khan challenged the 7.5 per cent level of affordable housing in the 1,075-home Thameside proposal in south-west London. The Greater London Authority (GLA) claimed the development team had failed to prove the maximum viable amount of sub-market-value residences.
Heatherwick on shortlist to create climate-action ‘world wonder’ in Netherlands

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

They are joined by New York and Madrid-based Office for Political Innovation and Spanish/US outfit Ecosistema Urbano on the shortlist in the international architecture competition to create a ‘new world wonder’. The two-stage contest, with a prize pool of €250,000 (£213,000), is backed by Dutch social enterprise Shift, which is ‘dedicated to igniting massive climate action’. Heatherwick and Ecosistema Urbano were both pre-selected ahead of an open call in January, which attracted 80 submissions.
RIBA West Midlands is first region to reveal 2025 award winners

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

The £43 million refurbishment of two Brutalist buildings at Coventry University by BDP, was one of five projects in the West Midlands to pick up regional awards, and was praised by the jury for delivering ‘outstanding value for the university with a light touch’.
FCBS wins job to overhaul Sheffield’s listed town hall

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

The appointment to restore architect Edward William Mountford’s Renaissance Revival-style landmark follows a competitive selection process led by Sheffield City Council.According to the council, the ‘transformative’ project aims to ‘breathe new life into the historic building, ensuring its long-term sustainability and continued role as a central hub for civic life in Sheffield’. FCBS has growing ties with Sheffield.
Harp & Harp channels Arts and Crafts with Croydon homes

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

The 710m² project replaced a single, detached post-war family home on the ‘challenging’ hillside plot, which has a 10m level change. The three-storey development in Bradmore Way, Coulsdon, provides three houses, two maisonettes and two flats. It was one of the last projects to be given approval under a local policy allowing suburban intensification – Croydon’s Suburban Design Guide supplementary planning document – before it was revoked in July 2022 amid political upheaval in the borough.
Emerging practice Trewhela Williams gets go-ahead for west London church revamp

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

Both the hard landscape and arched structure are respectfully set to key datums levels of the host building, and formed in pigmented in-situ concrete, referencing the red sandstone mouldings and sills across the historic façade. The material floods through the floor surface and hard landscape elements alike acting as a unifying element evoking permanence and calmness. This forms a simple, coherent base supporting the majesty and detailed intricacy of the gothic revival style façade above.
Níall McLaughlin wins approval for timber Maggie’s in Cambridge

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

The purpose-built structure will replace an existing, temporary Maggie’s Centre which, since 2012, has been housed within a converted key worker residential block. The 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize-winner has been working with the cancer support charity on the plans for the new permanent facility on the Addenbrooke’s Hospital campus for five years.
Built Barriers: A gallery of obstacles facing women daily

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

Women’s action group Part W has already received more than 70 photos of the frustrating, everyday ‘built barriers’ that women and girls face. Launched on International Women’s Day last month (8 March), the Built Barriers awareness campaign’s initial phase will create a visual archive of real-life examples, documenting how those who identify and live as women are affected by spaces ‘that weren’t designed with them or their safety in mind’.
Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt wins approval to retrofit listed 1970s Reading Uni block

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

The scheme will convert Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis’s (HKPA) now largely unoccupied faculty of Urban and Regional Studies (URS) on the University’s Whiteknights campus into a new home for its department of Construction Management and Engineering.