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John McAslan + Partners opens New York studio
John McAslan + Partners (JMP) is opening a New York studio as it ‘ramps up to deliver major projects around the world in 2024’
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News stories about and completed buildings by John McAslan + Partners
Scottish public art to be housed in McAslan-designed centre
John McAslan + Partners has been given planning permission for a cultural centre in Edinburgh that will house 97 per cent of all Scottish public art
RIBA names winner of motorway gantry design competition
The RIBA has named Useful Studio as overall winner of an architectural contest to reimagine the future of overhead gantries for motorways and A roads
McAslan in £14m legal battle over defects at Manchester University building
John McAslan + Partners is embroiled in a legal battle with the University of Manchester, which claims it is owed at least £13.7 million due to defects in a building completed in 2008
John McAslan + Partners-designed Elizabeth Line Bond St station finally opens
The station, designed with engineers WSP, is opening five months later than the line’s other central stations, a delay with origins in tunnelling issues dating back to 2014
John McAslan + Partners’ £300m district around Belfast Transport hub approved
Planning officers have approved John McAslan + Partners’ 135,000m² mixed-use development around Belfast’s new integrated bus and rail station
LSE chief: ‘Chipperfield was so passionate in his advocacy for retention’
Will Hurst talks to Julian Robinson, head of estates at the London School of Economics (LSE), about the school’s final set piece architecture project and how a ‘paradigm shift’ in its response to the climate emergency will see it retain most of the existing building on the site
Chipperfield and Feix&Merlin win contest for £120m LSE building
David Chipperfield Architects with Feix&Merlin Architects have won the competition to design the London School of Economics’ final ‘set piece’ academic building on its main Holborn campus
LSE big-name finalists reveal their designs for £120m building
The London School of Economics (LSE) has revealed designs by the six architects vying for the final ‘set piece’ academic building on its main Holborn campus
The Burrell Collection reworked by John McAslan Architects
BUILDING STUDY: The £68 million renovation of Glasgow’s Burrell Collection involves a major reconfiguration that will continue to divide opinion, says Jay Merrick, but the essential spirit of the original – ‘mingling art with nature’ – remains intact.