A trade mission to encourage China to look to the North East has visited international architectural practice Newcastle-based redboxdesign group. VIPs from Hunan Province were shown the practice’s award-winning headquarters by Chairman Alan J Smith who also hosted a special lunch in their honour. Alan J Smith OBE, DL said: “China is the world’s fastest …

The Design Centre for the North construction is moving apace as the distinctive external skin begins to take shape. The building will play a key role not only in the continuing development of the Baltic Business Quarter masterplan but also in it’s role as a centre for hi-tech design companies. Andrew Clark, Managing Director of …

Increase in University Fees and the Impact on the Profession Whilst an enormous amount of the debate over tuition fees has focused on how much students with courses longer than three years, for example doctors, dentists and engineers architects seem to have been omitted form the debate. MPs voted in December 2010 to raise tuition …

Still Life at the Penguin Café is a ballet composed by the esteemed Simon Jeffes and choreographed by David Bintley. The initiative of using art as the medium to explore these ideas is a powerful one and further reinforces the way we think of our creative and collective accountability. Our Chairman, Alan J Smith OBE …