Architecture
In Pictures: Koichi Takada designs Japanese-inspired luxury resi scheme in Abu Dhabi
Collaboration with Aldar promises 'something never seen before in the Middle East'.
Squire & Partners restructures top team
Top architecture practice names seven new partners as it embarks on 'a new era'.
Watch: Six projects vying for ‘UK’s best new home’ title
Eclectic shortlist revealed for this year's RIBA 'House of the Year' award, ranging from country idylls in Sussex & Cornwall to an innovative self-build in Peckham.
Making Sense of Sustainability: New frameworks aim to improve home & historic building retrofits
Three new sets of guidance - including a new standard from the RICS - attempt to clarify & formalise the emergent multi-billion-pound residential retrofit industry.
Foster + Partners opens biggest European studio beyond the UK
Design practice creates permanent new home in the EU’s tallest building.
Green light for old Hampstead Police Station development
Redington Capital and dMFK Architects have secured planning consent for the reinvention of a Grade II listed landmark building in prime North London.
Georgian Group Awards 2024: The Winners
An array of 'exemplary' conservation & restoration projects were recognised at the 20th edition of the prestigious heritage gongs.
FT: Can London make itself at home on the South Bank?
Writing for the Financial Times, Dominic Bradbury reports on the changing face of one of the capital's most important art & culture quarters, as some major new resi development schemes take shape.
Peter Jackson: What’s next for tall residential-led buildings?
One of SOM's London-based leaders talks us through the latest advances in tall building design, and explains how a new wave of schemes are attracting - and retaining - residents.
How adaptive reuse principles can help transform global development
It’s exciting to realise that we don’t have to demolish older buildings, says Chris Dietz of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World; instead, we can transform them into something new & functional.
Broadway Malyan recruits new head of international architecture
Lydia Firminger has joined the global urbanism practice from Leslie Jones Architecture.
Standards Practice: Navigating the complex world of green building certifications
As the new UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard joins the likes of BREEAM, LEED, WELL & Green Star, Tasos Stavrou of LeadingRE unpicks the tangled but increasingly-important world of eco-conscious construction…