Architecture

Fresh from MSMR's triumph in the "Residential Visualisation" category at last week's SBID Awards, Sheila McCusker explains how computer generated imagery has evolved from a "nice-to-have" into an essential…

PCL specialist developer Dukelease and Brimelow McSweeney architects have bagged planning permission for a big office-to-resi scheme in Fitzrovia.

There's bad news for Jeremy Kyle's viewing figures this week, with architects reporting their first annual workload increase in over four years.

Rafael Viñoly's £500m-ish mixed-use plans for Almacantar's new-look Marble Arch Tower have apparently been finalised, with the proposed development involving the demolition of the existing 1960s tower…

Battersea Power Station's plans have been on public display for a couple of weeks now; if you haven't managed to be nosy on site in person, here are some of the more visual highlights...

Christian Candy’s CPC Group has secured the freehold to "the last big residential development site in the City of London", Sugar Quay.

House historian Melanie Backe-Hansen has compiled a list of the 50 most historically-important streets in Britain and Ireland, from Roman roads to Georgian crescents; street markets to village thoroughfares.

Will Alsop, the former RMJM architect who now runs All Design, is apparently all set to submit plans for a 19-storey residential scheme next to the London Heliport in Battersea. Will Alsop

A bill designed to put the kibosh on willy-nilly subterranean extensions had its first outing in the House of Commons this week.

Paul Davis & Partners has bagged the brief to draw up plans for the epic swathe of Chelsea soon to be offloaded by the Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust.

Within the context of prime and super-prime residential development, affordable housing is a complex matter and one that most developers will need to address at some point or another.

Air-punching from English Heritage and UNESCO; not so much from London & Regional Properties and Chelsfield.