Architecture

Foster + Partners has announced the return of Lee Hallman to head up its Interiors Group.

Ronson Capital Partners and Mount Properties Trustees plans to demolish and redevelop 66 Chiltern Street, W1 have been approved, despite having been recommended for refusal by planning officers.

**UPDATE: Camden Council have given the new designs the go ahead. The £350m plans were approved at yesterday's (4th July) planning meeting.**

The first new development to regenerate the much vaunted Nine Elms area around Battersea Power Station - St James's 802-unit Riverlight scheme - was topped out this morning by none other than Boris Johnson.

Willy Wonka once said of his eponymous Chocolate Factory; “Down here, underneath the ground, I’ve got all the space I want. There’s no limit – so long as I hollow it out.”

Almacantar and Frogmore's new-look big plans to turn Richard Seifert's Centre Point into resi have been recommended for approval by planners ahead of next week's Camden council committee meeting.

An architect and building contractor have pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates' Court to causing irreversible damage to a Grade II listed townhouse in the heart of Notting Hill.

Uber architect Ken Shuttleworth of Make wants views of the Gherkin to be as protected as those of St Paul's Cathedral, with a listed status and viewing corridors put in place to prevent new high-rises…

The developers of South Bank Tower (nee King's Reach Tower) have gotten all competitive, applying for planning permission for an 11-storey extension to the scheme after a bunch of neighbouring high-rise…

Finchatton has been granted planning permission for a Squire and Partners-designed residential development in Knightsbridge, round the corner from Harrods and The Lansbury.

Unesco has called for a stop to works on a series of high-rise developments in Waterloo, Nine Elms, Vauxhall and Elephant & Castle ahead of it's annual meeting in Cambodia.

Stanhope and the BBC have just submitted their planning application to turn West London's Television Centre into a 14-acre mixed use development with around 1,000 residential units.