Architecture
Behind The Schemes: Reworking a Grade I listed townhouse in Regent’s Park
Louise Bradley explains how an important Regency building was updated for modern living...
Five in the running to become the next RIBA President
Simon Allford, Jude Barber, Nick Moss, Valeria Passetti, Sumita Singha are all hoping to be voted in as RIBA President Elect.
£40m super-prime concept mansion site offered for sale in North London
The Avenue Road plot has planning consent for two alternative designs: a traditional super-prime mansion by Wolff Architects, and an ultra-modern take on the Regency villa by Trace.
Behind the Schemes: Delivering classic design for C21st living in St James’s
Top architectural practice PDP London talks us through the complex process involved in creating a set of contemporary homes on one of London’s finest Georgian streets...
Delancey appoints two architects to create a new Earls Court masterplan
Hawkins\Brown and Studio Egret West have been tasked with creating a new vision for the stalled Zone 1 regeneration site "that sets a new global standard for a sustainable and vibrant mixed-use development.
An architect on how the pandemic could change our homes forever
With fewer people now commuting and more people working from home, where people choose to live and how they want their houses to function may change after this prolonged period of lockdown, writes Tara…
Derwent completes net zero carbon Charlotte Street scheme; offers free flats to NHS staff
80 Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia is Derwent's biggest ever mixed-use development, and marks a big step towards the firm's ambition to achieve a fully net zero carbon portfolio.
6% of architects don’t think their practice will survive the next 12 months
Architects' workloads are a third lower than at this time last year, reports the RIBA, and most practices expect their workloads to decline further in the coming months.
Watch: Mandarin Oriental Mayfair construction time-lapse
See months of graft condensed into ninety seconds with this time-lapse of Clivedale's forthcoming Mandarin Oriental-branded scheme on Hanover Square
Remote Control: Sandy Mitchell on launching design & build projects in the new era
As lockdown begins to ease and the property market re-opens so that buyers can finally move house, Sandy Mitchell of Redbook shares some discoveries made while running the consultancy business and advising…
Ferris Bueller-inspired Cornish Grand Design offered for £2.5m
Kevin McCloud called this new-build country house "a stinking success". The owners are now looking for a new project.
Recognition at last for Chermayeff’s revered Bentley Wood
Described as 'a regular Rolls-Royce of a house' when it was built in 1938, Serge Chermayeff's newly-listed Modernist gem is considered one of the most important buildings from Britain's inter-war period…