Architecture
£6m Winnington Road plot comes with planning for a Wolff-designed mega-mansion
Buyers with ambassadorial ambitions could build themselves a 15,800 square foot residence just 100 yards from Kenwood House
Chasing ‘beauty’ is a distraction from quality housing design, warn architects
RIBA responds to the Government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, arguing for an immediate end to Permitted Development Rights - and pointing out that architectural style is subjective…
Watch: This ‘game-changing’ 3D visualisation platform is helping designers and planners see into the future
Aiming to render physical models and CGIs fully redundant, a "revolutionary" tool for London's architects, developers, advisors and planners has been rolled out to a wider audience.
Top architects unite to declare a climate emergency
17 Stirling Prize-winning architects have teamed up to drive a 'paradigm shift' in building design
How Norman Shaw’s Albert Hall Mansions helped open the door to apartment living in London
Paul Latham explains how the great Scottish architect brought ‘the Parisian mode of life’ to an aspiring middle class in Victorian London, by combining picturesque romance with orderliness...
Leonardo da Vinci designed an ideal city that was centuries ahead of its time
500 years after his death, Leonardo's ideas are not simply valid – they actually suggest a way forward for urban planning, writes Alessandro Melis
Housing Minister calls in ZHA’s Vauxhall Cross towers
Vauxhall Cross Island was approved by Lambeth Council last year
The Deep End: Avoiding headaches in basement building
Two very different mega-basement projects in Surrey and Knightsbridge demonstrate how these types of schemes come with their own unique set of factors, write Emma Shipp & Deborah Sharples...
Native Land reveals new mixed-use plans for South Kensington Tube station site
Designs by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners for TfL and development partner Native Land include 40 new homes on Pelham Street and replacement apartments behind a retained facade on Thurloe Street
Farrell’s Drum House snares a buyer
'Modernist classic' in Richmond hit the market at £7.5m late last year
Coastal communities may have to move, warns Environment Agency in stark flood risk assessment
'In some cases, the scale of flooding or coastal change may be so significant [that it] may mean potentially moving communities out of harm’s way in the longer term'
In Pictures: Monaco’s REDD designs ‘magnificent’ Mayfair pied-à-terre
Ultra-prime developer/designer revamps the grand former home of the art critic John Ruskin and his wife Effie on Charles Street;