Design

Forget basements, bifolds and egg-shaped baths, it's all about party barns, cabanas and plunge pools for 2014's buyers.

Jane Duncan has been elected the next President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Birkenhead-based resi, super-yacht and commercial fit-out contractor MPE Interiors has recruited a new General Manager to drive the firm's broad church of renovations and new-build developments.

"Party pads" tend to be chunky affairs with ballrooms and big kitchens, not 323 sq ft studio flats on the fourth floor.

Thackeray Estates - Brett Palos and Antony Alberti's development firm that has just hired Strutt & Parker's  Charles Thompson as Commercial Director - has bagged a major planning approval to convert…

It looks like plans to build Britain's first 'floating village' could actually be happening.

The £27m sale of the Black Lion pub in Kensington has once again turned the spotlight onto change of use, but converting a pub into prime resi is no easy task, says Rachel Lee...

Timing nicely with this weekend's CLA Game Fair, Knight Frank tells us that the value of huntin' shootin' fishin' sporting property has risen by 32% over the last ten years, despite a "ripper of a recession…

PCL specialist developer Dukelease has called in super-prime interior design and development outfit Oliver Burns make its "most prestigious scheme" - 102 Jermyn Street in St James's - really pop.

Country kitchen staple AGA has launched a new cooker designed for labrador-free urban space-constrained homes. The "City60" is, as the name might suggest, just 60cm wide.

Developers "should be less fearful of going to court" over rights to light - as long as they have acted in a reasonable and responsible way - concludes a panel of experts assembled by Mishcon de Reya to…

The first images of "The Power House" - Battersea Power Station's central show apartment in the Power Station itself - have been released.