Will Ing

London, Oxford

News Editor at Construction News Magazine

Scotland-based journalist

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Articles

‘Check your PI cover’ warning to architects after Supreme Court ruling

1 week ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing |Greg Pitcher

The judgement, which interprets important elements of the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) and the Defective Premises Act 1972 (DPA), heightens the need for practices to hold ‘comprehensive’ professional indemnity (PI) insurance, according to top lawyers.
Castles, a distillery and Scotland’s newest prison among RIAS award winners

2 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

Sheppard Robson received an award for its four-storey Nucleus Building at the University of Edinburgh, while Architype also won for a very different education scheme: its 550-place Riverside Primary School in Perth. Three further winning projects are in Scottish cities, including Collective Architecture’s 130-home Ellengowan Regeneration scheme in Dundee and Stallan Brand Architecture + Design and LDA Design’s £28 million overhaul of Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens.
Haworth Tompkins joins major Liverpool regeneration team

2 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

Liverpool City Council has appointed a project team led by LDA Design to draw up a ‘transformational new masterplan’ for the cultural quarter, which encompasses an area from Lime Street Station to William Brown Street. Other companies appointed to the team include multi-disciplinary giant WSP, development consultancy Pegasus, engineering consultant Hatch, community engagement expert PLACED and regeneration specialist Aspinall Verdi.
BGY submits plans for Dalston shopping centre site

2 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

The practice is seeking permission to build 252 homes and 46 non-residential units on the site, which is formed of the eastern portion of Kingsland Shopping Centre, currently occupied by Matalan, as well as a large car park. The practice had originally expected to submit plans for the site in 2021 — but underwent three rounds of consultation, during which building heights were reduced from 17 storeys to minimise light loss to nearby Ridley Road Market.
RIBA announces winners of South Awards 2025

2 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

Nex’s renovation of the George Gilbert Scott-designed Jackson Library at Exeter College, Oxford was awarded RIBA South Building of the Year Award. The jury praised Nex for ‘radically transforming’ the building with its ‘sensitively yet confidently designed’ adaptations.
Mayor of London to support building on green belt

4 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

In a keynote speech on Thursday evening (8 May), Khan said his position on building on the greenbelt had changed due to the ‘extraordinary challenge’ of ending London’s housing crisis, which he said was causing ‘pervasive and profound’ damage to residents. ‘We’ll be working with councils and others to secure as many new homes as we can on brownfield sites, both large and small,’ he said.
Bureau de Change’s mixed-use west London plans rejected

4 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

Architect’s view (from October 2024)The site’s current single-storey unit is used as a warehouse. The development’s aim is to make more efficient use of the site footprint and improve the appearance and cohesion of the street. The history of the site has informed the materiality and design of the development. Multiple Victorian retail shops were found in the surrounding area – including perfumeries – all of which were characterised by their faceted bay windows.
RIBA reveals winners of South West and Wessex awards

4 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

Former Stirling Prize winner Allford Hall Monaghan Morris picked up an award for its new-build office in Bristol for developer Nord, while Stonewood Design was recognised for in a restored Victorian rectory in St Ives.
Leeds practice ceases trading after 22 years

1 month ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

The Leeds-based practice, formerly known as 2B Architecture, designed major housing schemes for developers such as Igloo Regeneration, Citylife and Citu – as well as a plan for Yorkshire’s tallest building and an 8,000 seat arena in Edinburgh. But the company, whose accounts show it employed up to nine people in 2020, stopped trading on 23 April with total debts of £334,000, according to a statement of affairs published by liquidator David Robson of Gaines Robson Insolvency.
Page\Park designs extension for Loch Lomond Neoclassical power plant

1 month ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Will Ing

SSE has submitted a Section 36 planning application to the Scottish government in a bid to create a pumped storage hydro scheme at Sloy Power Station. The Page\Park-designed building would contain new pumps and an overhead gantry crane at the hydroelectric site. The underground pumps would use existing pipelines and tunnels to take water up from Loch Lomond to Loch Sloy.