Design
Growing Plains: Creating the ultimate family-friendly outside space
Finding the sweet spot between stuffy formal arrangements and cluttered chaos, Barry Burrows explains how clever landscape design can help attract family buyers with a combination of style, vision and …
Film Stock: Curzon Mayfair penthouse asks £15.5m
Formerly the home of legendary beat pop purveyor Dave Clark
Kitchen Drink: Demand for wine coolers up by a third
Nearly half (48%) of kitchen designers and property developers say that customers have requested wine coolers in the last 12 months, according to a survey by Direct Line Premium Insurance
Urban Exposure and Highbridge to finance £400m Tech City scheme
Alternative lender Urban Exposure and investment firm Highbridge Principal Strategies have announced they'll be providing finance for Rocket Investments' £400m new scheme on City Road.
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Screen Idylls: How to design a showstopping home cinema
Home cinemas have come a long way in recent years and an oversized telly and a couple of beanbags simply won't cut it with today's top-end buyers.
Bell Ingram wins Landmark deal to restore historic Scottish buildings
Perthshire-based Bell Ingram has secured a new contract with The Landmark Trust to upgrade 19 of Scotland’s most famous historic buildings, including The Macintosh Building in Perthshire and The Pineapple bui…
House of the Year #2: Two more homes join the Manser shortlist
An experimental London house incorporating the walls of a 19th century stable into its split-wing design (Kew House) and Vaulted House, a sophisticated family house in Chiswick characterised by six skylight…
Projects in Brief: An extra-wide extension in Dartmouth Park
Architecture for London has just bagged planning for this tasty 15-metre-wide extension in Dartmouth Park
H.G. Wells book club flat claims West End’s longest available lateral frontage
A £3.65m pad in Marylebone has just been launched onto the market claiming to be the longest apartment currently available in London's West End.
Inside Peak: Hong Kong’s latest (and greatest) ultra-prime scheme
An extraordinary scheme is taking shape in Hong Kong right now, involving one of the most impressive teams of internationally-renowned architects and designers to be assembled in recent years.
‘Britain’s biggest private house’ goes for £8m
The sale of Wentworth Woodhouse, one of England's finest houses, was confirmed over the weekend
In Pictures: World Interior of the Year 2015
A fantastical creation in Rome has been crowned World Interior of the Year (Residential) 2015 at a swanky ceremony in Singapore.