The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Architect picked for latest Birnbeck Pier rescue attempt
North Somerset Council has named Haverstock as winner of its competition to revamp the Grade II*-listed Birnbeck Pier in Weston-super-Mare
Competition wins
Updates on architectural competitions, including shortlists, winners and other news
Bristol Housing Festival names winner of contest to redevelop school site
The Bristol Housing Festival has named gcp Chartered Architects as winner of its contest for local architects to redevelop the site of a former school on Novers Hill
Curl la Tourelle Head wins Ramsgate Harbour contest
Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture has won Thanet District Council’s competition to restore and regenerate a series of structures within Ramsgate’s Grade II*-listed Royal Harbour
Proctor and Matthews wins contest for ‘sensitive’ exemplar Mansfield housing
Proctor and Matthews Architects has won a competition to design a new ‘exemplar’ and ‘sensitive’ housing scheme in Mansfield Town Centre, Nottinghamshire
Adam Khan wins contest to rethink Barbara Hepworth’s St Ives studio
Adam Khan Architects – working with Thread, Price & Myers and Ritchie+Daffin – has won a Tate competition to transform a Grade II-listed former workshop used by Barbara Hepworth in St Ives, Cornwall
HTA wins contest to upgrade Crystal Palace Park
HTA Design has won Bromley Council’s competition for an ambitious £17.45 million overhaul of Crystal Palace Park in south London
Winner of Davidson Prize 2023 revealed
The Alan Davidson Foundation has named the winner of its third annual architecture prize, which focuses on the future of housing and the home
Matthew Lloyd wins ideas contest for alternative social housing in west Belfast
Matthew Lloyd Architects has won a competition to draw up an alternative masterplan for new socially rented homes on the former Mackie International factory site in west Belfast
Zaha Hadid Architects shortlisted to design Norwegian concert hall
Zaha Hadid Architects has been lined up against four other big hitters in the contest to design a new concert hall in Bergen, Norway
Former Serpentine Pavilion architect Counterspace wins Belgian bridge contest
London and Johannesburg-based Counterspace has won an international contest to design a pedestrian bridge in Vilvoorde, Belgium