Detailed plans for the first phase of Rafael Viñoly's Battersea Power Station masterplan have now been submitted to Wandsworth Council. The project in Nine Elms in London was granted outline planning consent in 2011 and the new application provides a detailed specification for the first stage of the development. The application covers the details of the scale of the buildings and structures, the external appearance and the landscaping within Phase

Rosewood hotels and resorts is to open its second Asian resort in Phuket, Thailand in 2014. Located on a 600m (1,968ft) Emerald Bay beachfront in Western Phuket, the Rosewood Phuket resort comprises 87 villas, 20 residences and five hideaway homes and a spa. The Sense Spa will feature five treatment rooms, seven spa villas with steamrooms and showers and a swimming and watsu pool. The central feature of the spa

The government-appointed architecture watchdog ARB (Architects Registration Board) has apologised for suggesting that Renzo Piano and Daniel Libeskind should not be described as architects in the UK press. Last week, ARB sent a letter to Building Design magazine saying that neither Piano nor Libeskind were registered with ARB - therefore being undeserving of the title. Piano is a former Pritzker Prize winner and is famous for having designed the Centre

More than 100,000 visitors attended the opening weekend of Glasgow's new Emirates Arena. The sports arena, which opened its doors on 5 October, will play host to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. The 10.5-hectare arena is located beside the Commonwealth Games Athletes' Village and the Celtic Park. It will include an indoor sports arena, three sports halls with 12 badminton courts, four outdoor five-a-side football pitches, an outdoor 1km cycle

Image: Work on the complex began in June 2012 The £18m Portway Lifestyle Centre in Oldbury, West Midlands is on track to open in August 2013, despite delays in construction work due to poor weather conditions over the summer months. The centre will replace the Oldbury Leisure Centre in Sandwell. Facilities will include a sports hall, hydrotherapy pool, a gym and weights area and dance studio. There will also be

Norway's 90m euro (£73m US$116) contemporary art museum, the Astrup Fearnley Museum in Oslo, has opened to the public. The museum, designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano, is located on the edge of a fjord and is divided into two halves by water. Renzo Piano's previous work includes Beyeler Museum in Basel, the extension of the Morgan Library in New York and the Shard in London. The museum covers an

Construction work is to begin on Abu Dhabi Louvre, the first Louvre museum outside Paris, at the beginning of 2013. Ahmad Al Fahim, executive director of marketing at Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC), told the Gulf News that a construction company would be announced at the end of December. The museum is to be located on the Saadiyat Island's Cultural District complex, which will also feature a Frank Gehry-designed

The world's first indoor Angry Birds-themed activity park will open to the public in December, at the Vuokatti ski resort in Sotkamo, Finland. Based on the popular mobile game, the Angry Birds Land includes a number of themed rides and a large play area, and encourages visitors to exercise and play. The activity park will be constructed within the 8,700sq m (sq ft 93,600) Incap industrial estate and will form

A consortium which includes US-based entertainment giant Paramount Pictures has unveiled plans to create a £2bn visitor attraction on the North Kent coast in the UK. Plans for the 872-acre development site, on the Swanscombe Peninsula, include a Paramount-branded entertainment resort and leisure district as part of what is being billed as "Europe's leading entertainment destination". The entertainment district will feature Europe's largest indoor water park, theatres, live music venues,

Plans for an £11m leisure centre and swimming pool in West Bromwich are underway following the signing of a contract between Sandwell Council and DC Leisure. DC Leisure will design, build, manage and maintain the town centre complex, due to open in summer 2014. The leisure centre will have a 25m pool with a learner pool, a sauna and steamroom, a four-court sports hall, a 100-station fitness suite, two dance

Texas architects HKS Sports & Entertainment Group have been appointed by the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority and the Minnesota Vikings to design the new $975m (£600m, 750m euro) Minnesota Vikings Stadium. Scheduled to open for the 2016 football season, the stadium will host major football events, as well as community events. HKS were chosen on the back of their successful NFL stadiums in Dallas and Indianapolis, as well as their

Rapper Jay-Z kicked off the party to launch Brooklyn's new stadium last Friday, 28 September. The 18,000-seat Barclays Center is home to the Brooklyn Nets basketball team and will also be a major music venue. This is the first time in 55 years that the borough has had its own major professional sports team, which will bring great economic benefits to the area. Located in a busy shopping area, which

Former US President Bill Clinton and Giorgio Napolitano, the President of Italy, will be at the opening of the Technogym Village on 29 September 2012, along with 800 other guests from more than 60 countries. The new company headquarters in Cesana represents the first Wellness Campus in the world with 60,000 m sq of covered spaces spread across the 150,000 m sq site. The Technogym Village is designed to be

Image: AFC is seeking a new site after the Calder Park plans were voted down by the council Aberdeen Football Club (AFC) has said it has received several expressions of interest in providing a site for a new stadium. The club was forced to restart its search for a new home after plans to build a 21,000-seater ground at Calder Park in the south of the city collapsed last month.

Wirral Council has launched its vision for an international golf resort in Hoylake. The council is currently seeking potential developers it could partner with on the project, which - according to initial plans - would include a signature golf course and a luxury spa hotel with extensive wellness, leisure and restaurant facilities. There is currently no such resort in the area and a recent report by consultants Capita Symonds suggests

The City of Regina, in Canada, has unveiled new stadium plans to replace the existing Mosaic Stadium, one of the oldest buildings in the Canadian Football League. The 33,000-seater stadium has been inspired by the prairie sky and includes a sunken bowl design, a spectator roof to protect fan and louvers to control the wind. Fans will have improved comfort thanks to individual seats, with better views. To cater for

When the Asworth family - the owners of the Watergate Bay boutique hotel in Conrwall, UK - opened the new £3m spa at the hotel they opted to move away from the hushed, clinical approach and challenged the traditional way of thinking in spa design. Stride Treglown and Household, the designers who worked on the Cowshed Spa, were responsible for creating a warm, lived-in space, complementing the easy-living feel embodied

A new and improved leisure centre is set to replace the ageing Scartho Swimming Pool in Grimsby by 2014. North East Lincolnshire Council (NELC) has approved plans for the new facility which will include an eight-lane, 25m pool, a separate learning pool and a heath and fitness club. As part of the council's commitment to build a legacy following the 2012 Games, local disability groups have been consulted about the

Image: Mayor of Lewisham, Sir Steve Bullock with pupils from Sydenham School at the reopened pool Forest Hill Pools leisure centre in Lewisham, South London has reopened following an £8.9m redevelopment of its facilities. Designed by Roberts Limbrick Architects and built by Willmott Dixon, the venue is owned by Lewisham Council and operated by Fusion Lifestyle. The improved facilities at the centre now include a 25m swimming pool with spectator

Image: Plans include a new pool at Garstang Wyre Council has backed plans to invest £7.4m in the borough's leisure centres. The improvements will include the creation of an extreme sports facility at Thornton Leisure Centre, a luxury day spa facility and dance studio at Poulton Leisure Centre and an upgraded centre and new swimming pool at Garstang leisure centre. The plans follow a comprehensive review of leisure provision, which

Image: The spa will use exclusively Brazilian products The first '100 per cent Brazilian spa' is set to open at the Botanique Hotel & Spa mountain retreat, created by AOL co-founder, David Cole, founder of The Body Shop, Gordon Roddick and Brazilian entrepreneurs, Ricardo and Fernanda Semler. Set in 700 acres (283 hectares), in the mountains of Campos do Jordao, half way between Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the

Image: The revamp has been designed by Capita Symonds Plans to restore the historic Ynysangharad Lido at the Ynysangharad War Memorial Park, Pontypridd, Wales, have received a major boost in the form of a £2.3m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). The grant will be used to restore and reopen the Grade II-listed lido and will also help visitors learn about its history. The refurbishment works - designed by

Image: The complex will include a 7,000-capacity stadium and 17 full-size pitches Manchester City Football CLub (MCFC) has unveiled details of its plans to develop a new £100m training and education complex next to its Etihad Stadium. BAM Construction, part of the Royal BAM Group, has been selected to build the 80-acre City Football Academy which will include a 7,000-capacity stadium, 17 full-size football pitches, an academy building with classrooms,

Image: Johnson will personally oversee the Olympic Park's legacy plans London Mayor Boris Johnson has taken over the chairmanship of the London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC). The announcement follows news that Johnson moved Daniel Moylan, who'd only been chair of LLDC since June, to spearhead a new aviation policy unit. Making the announcement, Johnson said the Olympic Park and the continued regeneration of east London were "top priorities" and ones

Image: Part of the hotel will be underwater Plans are moving forward on a futuristic underwater hotel project in Dubai, which will allow guests to sleep with fish swimming outside their bedroom windows. The Water Discus Hotel will have 21 submerged rooms, as well as 30 above the surface, a dive centre, luxury spa, two restaurants, a swimming pool and a helipad. According to Bogdan Gutkowski, CEO of Big Invest,

Image: The Minnesota Children's Museum The Minnesota Children’s Museum is in line for a US$26m (£16m, 20m euro) revamp, which will include a physical adventure gallery, an entire floor dedicated to imagination and creativity and numerous galleries with content incorporating the latest research on early learning. Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle of Minneapolis have been appointed as design architects, who have more than 30 years’ experience designing spaces for children, including

Image: Peter Davies, mayor of Doncaster (centre) at the topping out ceremony A topping out ceremony has been held for a new £20m performance venue in Doncaster. When complete, the centre will house a wide range of spaces and facilities that include a 620-seat theatre kitted out to accommodate touring shows and a 200-seat or 400 standing flexible space for live music and smaller productions. There will also be modern