The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Tate+Co bags planning for latest Brunel Museum job
Tate+Co has received planning permission for its designs for a £2 million upgrade and extension to the Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe, south-east London
Competition wins
Updates on architectural competitions, including shortlists, winners and other news
Groupwork and BDP shortlisted for Castle Park housing in Bristol
Stirling Prize-shortlisted Groupwork and AJ100 practice BDP are among five teams vying for a modular mixed-use housing development in Castle Park, Bristol
Chipperfield and WilkinsonEyre shortlisted for Canadian Parliament annexe
David Chipperfield Architects and WilkinsonEyre are among six finalists in a contest for a new £248 million (CAN$430 million) mixed-use office block for the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa
Grafton on shortlist to reimagine streets and squares around Notre-Dame
Stirling Prize winner Grafton Architects is among four finalists in a competition to rethink the public realm surrounding the reconstructed Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral
Prague masterplan competition won by emerging UK practice
A team including London practice Marko and Placemakers has beaten BIG, among others, to win a contest to remasterplan a 24ha swathe of the Czech Republic’s capital
Who are the finalists? Shortlist picked in AJ contest for Brent Cross Town pavilion
The AJ can exclusively reveal the names of the four finalists in the Pavilion for All competition, organised by Argent Related and Barnet Council in association with the AJ
Grimshaw wins Swiss university contest – but plans paused for five years
Grimshaw has won a competition to design the masterplan for University of Bern Muesmatt campus in Switzerland – but the scheme has already been put on hold
Adjaye and Carmody Groarke longlisted for £27m Montreal gallery
Adjaye Associates and Carmody Groarke are among 11 architects longlisted to design a new £27 million contemporary arts space for Montreal’s PHI Centre
Six teams shortlisted for South Bermondsey pocket park
New London Architecture (NLA) and Southwark Council have named the six collaborative and emerging design teams competing for an inclusive and low-carbon makeover of Bramcote Park in South Bermondsey
Ab Rogers wins £250k Wolfson Prize with modular hospital concept
Ab Rogers Design has won this year’s Wolfson Economics Prize, which sought concepts to ‘radically improve’ NHS hospitals