Architecture
Behind the Schemes: Creating two brand new penthouses in Knightsbridge
'Getting the most out of an existing building is an increasing focus for owners and developers and extending into the air rights above a property is a strategy more and more are pursuing'
Assael upsizes to new Putney HQ
Architecture practice Assael has made a move south of the river, setting up an swanky new HQ in Putney.
Argent and Galliard unveil London’s ‘most expensive and entertaining’ marketing suite
Galliard and Argent Design have laid claim to creating the "coolest", "most expensive" and "most entertaining" marketing suite in London, involving the repurposing of a Victorian viaduct in Shoreditch.
Clivedale shows off its £1 billion super-prime London pipeline
Four-year plan to drip-feed the schemes through to the HNW market
Open design competition launched to find a replacement for Piano’s ‘Paddington Pole’
A competition has been launched to come up with ideas to replace Great Western Developments Ltd's withdrawn Renzo Piano-designed 72-storey "Paddington Pole" / "Skinny Shard" designs for W2.
In With A Shot: British Land to take on first ‘Instagrammer-in-Residence’
Clarges developer British Land has partnered up with IGersLondon, one of the city’s biggest Instagram communities, to launch a competition to find an in-house Instagrammer.
31 Years: Is this the UK’s longest-running super-prime project?
If you thought your development was dragging on a bit, take some comfort in the progress of this stately home scheme in East Sussex.
Battersea Power Station masterplan tweak adds 400 ‘smaller, lower-priced’ homes
New proposals have gone in to switch out one of the three hotels planned at Battersea Power Station for another 400 resi units.
BNP Paribas Real Estate launches its first residential development in London
French property giant BNP Paribas Real Estate has followed up its Google-let first London office development (in King's Cross) with the launch its first residential development on this side of the Channel:…
RBKC scraps permitted development rights for basements
The Royal Borough has confirmed it is to remove permitted development rights for all basement extensions from next month.
Case Study: Turning a Notting Hill ‘housette’ into a Tardis
Soho-based development firm Landmass talks us through the remarkable transformation of a 622 square foot 'chocolate box' into a 3,280 square foot, five-storey residence valued at £6.95m.
Important Richmond ‘Maids of Honour’ house goes up for sale
The Grade I listed row of houses on the south west side of Richmond Green is quite possibly the finest Georgian terrace in the country, and arguably the best of this beautiful bunch has just hit…