Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud gets new co-presenter as architect Natasha Huq joins

Grand Designs host Kevin McCloud gets a new co-presenter as architect Natasha Huq joins the Channel 4 show By Ellie Phillips For Mailonline Published: 04:07 EDT, 23 July 2021 | Updated: 04:15 EDT, 23 July 2021 He’s fronted the show solo for two decades. And, Grand Designs: The Streets host Kevin McCloud, 62, is to get … Read more

Architect who failed with 200 applications finds job after standing on street with ‘hire me’ sign

Architect with a master’s degree who had 200 job applications knocked back finally finds work after standing on a busy Melbourne street with a ‘hire me’ sign Kushagra Jhurani sent over 200 job applications but couldn’t get work He has a first class Master of Architecture from University of Melbourne After standing outside a Melbourne train … Read more

Book Archiphantasy presents architect Alexander Wong’s out-of-this-world fantasy designs

The world’s first ‘alien’ cinema, a ‘super-luxury’ home that mimics royal living and the breathtaking monochrome apartment of a film director.  Welcome to the world of ultra-glamorous architecture as featured in new coffee table book Archiphantasy (The Images Publishing Group), penned by prolific architect Alexander Wong. The weighty, lavish tome showcases more than 30 cinemas, private … Read more

Architect designs GENIUS in-built drying rack for clothes below the kitchen sink 

Architect designs GENIUS in-built drying rack for clothes below the kitchen sink  A German architects has revealed the secret clothes line in his laundry room The Melbourne father was sick of clunky, free-standing, collapsible drying racks  The rack can support 65 kilograms of weight and slides neatly away every time By Belinda Cleary For Daily … Read more

Architect is fined after accusing neighbours of building ‘Nazi concentration camps’

An experienced architect has been fined after she accused her neighbours of building ‘Nazi concentration camps’ when they knocked down garden wall and began putting up a car port. Karin Reenie Elliott sent a series of abusive texts after the couple knocked down the partition at their home in Norwich including one that read: ‘We … Read more

Prince Charles’s favourite architect is embroiled in row over £7million ‘Poundshop Versailles’

Prince Charles’s favourite architect is embroiled in a row over claims that the view that inspired one of Constable’s most famous paintings will be ruined by a house critics have branded a ‘Poundshop Versailles’. Quinlan Terry, known as Britain’s ‘high priest of classical architecture’, has complained about the £7million mansion being built by Craig Bisson, 41, … Read more

Can an architect and builder visit my house in lockdown?

We moved home last summer into a house that we consider a project and needs totally refurbishing and extending. It’s not quite a Grand Design but we intend to completely transform the house. Our plan was to get a small selection of architects round in the New Year to give us their thoughts on what … Read more

Climate change: Architect proposes floating igloos to save penguins

Could floating igloos help save penguins and stop climate change? Architect’s design provides the endangered birds with breeding habitats while stopping polar ice caps from melting An Iranian architect shared a concept to save penguins in Antarctica It describes a two-part system with igloos on the surface and under the water  Igloos above provide shelter and … Read more

Architect proposes floating igloos to save penguins from going to extinct and halting climate change

Could floating igloos help save penguins and stop climate change? Architect’s design provides the endangered birds with breeding habitats while stopping polar ice caps from melting An Iranian architect shared a concept to save penguins in Antarctica It describes a two-part system with igloos on the surface and under the water  Igloos above provide shelter and … Read more

Extravagant bank designed by Edinburgh Dome architect David Rhind goes on sale for £700,000

David Rhind was a prominent Scottish architect in the 1800s. Born in Edinburgh in 1808, was the son of a lawyer, John Rhind, while his mother was Marion Anderson. Rhind is believed to have left Edinburgh for London, learning his trade at the drawing office of Augustus Charles Pugin – an Anglo-French artist, architectural draughtsman and writer. … Read more