Architecture
Foster + Partners’ Shoreditch skyscraper gets off to a flyer
Units at Principal Tower, London's first resi tower to be designed inside and out by Foster + Partners, have been selling like locally-sourced artisan hotcakes.
Make appoints first female board member
Make, the architecture practice behind projects including St James's Market and Rathbone Square, has appointed its first female board member.
‘Red Baron’ swoops in to rescue Apethorpe Hall
A 48-bedroom Jacobean mansion, described by Simon Thurley as "by far the most important country house to have been threatened with major loss through decay since the 1950s", has been bought by a French…
UK developer strikes £300m deal to build English mansions in the Middle East
A British housebuilder has been signed up to deliver £300m worth of luxury resi across the Middle East, including a take on Kensington's super-prime Phillimores development.
Rippon sketches out ‘palatial and stately’ intent for Hyde Park Barracks
Developer Bruce Rippon and QFT Architects have outlined some ground-breakingly old school ideas for one of prime central London's most exciting residential development prospects.
Exhibition: The architect and the client in days of yore
A new exhibition, Building a Dialogue: The Architect and the Client, at the Sir John Soane’s Museum will explore the "delicate, complex and sometimes difficult" relationship between clients and architects,…
Ridgeford puts in plans to ‘repair a hole’ in Marylebone
Ridgeford Properties has handed in its planning application to create an entire new block on the Moxon Street car park site behind Marylebone High Street.
London’s Pride #2: The best residential developers and developments
What are the very best new residential schemes in London, and which luxury property developers are the ones to watch in the coming year?
Notorious Marylebone mansion sold for ‘knockdown’ £25m
One of the most infamous properties in London just got more so, after reportedly being snapped up by a wealthy smut peddler.
In Pictures: 33 Portland Place
This place just can't seem to stay out of the headlines (more on the latest developments here);
Earl of Cardigan’s 100-room mansion ‘sold for £12m’
One of Wiltshire's finest stately homes, the sprawling Tottenham House near Marlborough, has reportedly been sold for nearly £12m.
Georgian Group Awards 2014: The Winners
Joint Winner - Restoration of a Georgian Country House: St Giles, Dorset
Two historic estates have shared the big prize at the twelfth Georgian Group Architectural Awards.