Architecture
FT: Covid offers opportunity to reshape cities, says architect Foster
Legendary British architect envisages the 'obsolete' office building becoming the 'residential tower of the future’.
Ghelamco gears up to launch debut UK scheme
Inspired by the architecture of 1930s New York, mixed-use AHMM-designed project The Arc is due to deliver 100 new homes on City Road.
Tall tower problems: ‘Leaks, creaks & breaks’ reported at super-prime New York high-rise
Media reports tell of friction at one of New York's highest-profile luxury high-rise developments, with warnings that other super-tall towers could have similar problems.
Government’s new national design code & Office for Place aim to ‘bring back beauty’
The Government has published a new set of national design standards for property developments, formally introducing the word "beauty" into planning rules for the first time.
9 Trends: Key resi development themes for the year ahead
The Knight Frank team shares its take on the big themes in residential property development in London for the year ahead, from the rise of homeworking and wellbeing to retail conversions and mixed-use…
The Modern House founders target ‘marvellous historic homes’ with new estate agency, Inigo
Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill unveil new venture named after the 17th-century architect who sparked a revolution in British building design.
In Pictures: Touring Richstone’s latest super-prime project by Richmond Park
The top-end developer has created Langdale House as 'the perfect balance of city/country living', and is laying on a year's worth of complimentary after sales care.
Planning clampdown stamps out PCL’s mega-basement boom
New figures show a massive decline in basement-related applications across RBKC & Westminster since the introduction of stringent rules designed to prevent over-development.
Architecture sector rallies with ‘fragile growth’, except in London
"It is a mixed and changing picture but with an overall growth in confidence," says the RIBA
Behind the Schemes: Designing a Devon Passivhaus
The flight to the country proved one of the big trends of 2020, and is showing no signs of abating as we head into 2021; here, London-based studio McLean Quinlan talks us through a recently completed Paragraph…
Luxury residences for ‘true automobile enthusiasts’ unveiled in NYC
Five of the apartments at Lightstone’s 130 William scheme come with a special edition Aston Martin DBX, custom-designed by Sir David Adjaye.
One in six London architecture firms ‘concerned about practice viability’
'Brexit will have a long-term material and potentially highly damaging effect on the architects’ market', warns the RIBA.