Design
Attack the Block: Planners turn off Kensington Odeon scheme
There's been a big twist in the ongoing plot to redevelop Kensington High Street's Odeon cinema.
RBKC Basement Ban claims ‘key’ scalp in Holland Park
CPC Group's proposed 24 unit scheme on Holland Park has been turned down by the Royal Borough's planners on architectural grounds due, in part at least, to the council's mega-basement ban policy
Finchatton strengthens senior team
Super-prime developer Finchatton has promoted Jiin Kim-Inoue to the role of Design Director, responsible for "leading and implementing the firm's global design strategy".
Make appoints first female board member
Make, the architecture practice behind projects including St James's Market and Rathbone Square, has appointed its first female board member.
Foster + Partners’ Shoreditch skyscraper gets off to a flyer
Units at Principal Tower, London's first resi tower to be designed inside and out by Foster + Partners, have been selling like locally-sourced artisan hotcakes.
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Style icon’s penthouse asks £6.95m
Is this the most fashionable apartment on the market right now?
‘Red Baron’ swoops in to rescue Apethorpe Hall
A 48-bedroom Jacobean mansion, described by Simon Thurley as "by far the most important country house to have been threatened with major loss through decay since the 1950s", has been bought by a French p…
UK developer strikes £300m deal to build English mansions in the Middle East
A British housebuilder has been signed up to deliver £300m worth of luxury resi across the Middle East, including a take on Kensington's super-prime Phillimores development.
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Power Dressing Rooms: How to fashion a tailored walk-in wardrobe
Alix Lawson of interior architecture and design studio Lawson Robb reveals what makes a top drawer dressing room.
Rippon sketches out ‘palatial and stately’ intent for Hyde Park Barracks
Developer Bruce Rippon and QFT Architects have outlined some ground-breakingly old school ideas for one of prime central London's most exciting residential development prospects
Tapping In: How much value can another bathroom add?
Apart from convenience, what can a new ensuite bathroom add to your average £1.6m
Exhibition: The architect and the client in days of yore
A new exhibition, Building a Dialogue: The Architect and the Client, at the Sir John Soane’s Museum will explore the "delicate, complex and sometimes difficult" relationship between clients and architects, c…