London’s Stufish Entertainment Architects has created a new 19,500m² theatre in Xishuangbanna, southern China
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Malcolm Fraser finds new home at Halliday Fraser Munro
Leading Scottish architect Malcolm Fraser has been hired by Halliday Fraser Munro just weeks after the shock closure of his own practice
Northern Powerhouse rail scheme ‘unpaused’
Two rail electrification schemes controversially paused in the summer are to be restarted, transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin has announced
Conder to drop black timber home on Hackney warehouse
A matt black timber house designed by Simon Conder Associates (SCA) is set to be lifted by crane onto the roof of a brick warehouse in London Fields, Hackney next month
Labour launches independent review into housing crisis
An independent review of housing has been launched by shadow housing minister John Healey
Karakusevic Carson team picked for former biscuit factory revamp
Karakusevic Carson Architects (KCA) has been appointed as lead architect to draw up designs for two sites near to Bermondsey tube station in south London
Competitions: editor’s pick 02.10.15
A new entrance for the Science Museum, the University of Gloucestershire’s Oxstalls Campus and upgrading St John at Hackney Church. The editor’s pick of this week’s leading competitions
Murphy completes new Anglia Ruskin University campus
[First look + project data] Richard Murphy Architects has completed its £16 million final phase of a new campus for Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge
#Great Schools: Making the case for good design
Read the digital edition of #Great Schools, a special publication by the Architects’ Journal sponsored by Hawkins\Brown
Second place for Foster in Mars base contest
Foster + Partners has been named as the runner-up in the first round of a competition to design a new Mars base and will now work up its proposals for the next phase