News WXCA wins competition to reconstruct Warsaw’s Saxon Palace Warsaw architect WXCA has won a competition to design a reconstruction of the Saxon Palace, a neoclassical landmark demolished by the German army after the suppression of the 1944 rising…
News Unesco condemns Russian attack on historic centre of Odesa The United Nations’ culture, education, and science agency Unesco has strongly condemned Russia’s missile attack on the historic centre of Odesa, Ukraine, which is protected under the World Heritage Convention.…
News ‘At least a year’ to repair grain-port damage after Russian attack, minister says It will take “at least a year” to repair grain-terminal infrastructure at the Ukrainian ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk after Russian attacks last week, Ukraine’s minister of agrarian policy has…
Perspectives ‘A new heritage’: Seven Ukrainian designers on rebuilding their country “People should be able to unite to create their homes.” – Maksym Lysogora “Reconstruction is not about restoring Ukraine to its pre-war state … we have an opportunity to rethink…
News Korea, Poland pledge cooperation on $52bn of Ukraine reconstruction The governments of South Korea and Poland have agreed to cooperate on some $52bn of Ukrainian reconstruction projects, the Pulse business news service reports. Yoon Suk Yeol, the president of…
News Bechtel and Ukraine sign reconstruction agreement Bechtel has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine’s State Agency for Restoration and Development of Infrastructure, the organisation responsible for Ukraine’s reconstruction. The two parties agreed last week at…
News Aecom to help Ukraine plan post-war reconstruction programme Dallas-based engineer Aecom has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine’s Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development to provide programme management support for the country’s eventual reconstruction. Aecom says…
News Ukraine’s frontline nuclear plant suffers seventh outage of invasion Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant this morning lost all external electricity for the seventh time since Russia’s invasion began, the director general of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael…
Innovation Meet the Canadian architect on a mission to rebuild Ukraine module by module Principal of WZMH Architects, Zenon Radewych, is spearheading a drive in Ukraine to use its system of stackable concrete modules to rebuild apartment blocks damaged by invading Russian forces. He…
News World Bank donates $200m to help fix Ukraine’s energy infrastructure The World Bank will give $200m in grant financing to help Ukraine repair the energy infrastructure Russia has destroyed in its invasion. The money will pay for critical equipment needed…
News UK and Ukraine sign trade deal to aid reconstruction efforts The UK Department for Business and Trade has signed an agreement to improve the Ukraine’s access to support for reconstruction efforts once the present conflict is over. The deal was…
News EU threatens to seize €300bn from Russia to rebuild Ukraine EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen today said the EU could seize €300bn of Russian Central Bank reserves and use it to rebuild Ukraine. A further €19bn of Russian…
News Russian ‘energy terrorism’ wipes out 40% of Ukraine’s power infrastructure as EU alleges war crimes Forty percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been damaged by Russian missiles and drones following Russian defeats on the battlefield, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, calling the attacks “Russia’s…
News Ukraine invasion: Cost of war damage hit $127bn in September As Ukraine’s allies work out how to coordinate an eventual reconstruction of the country, the cost of the damage inflicted by Russian forces on its buildings and infrastructure stood at…