Planning clampdown stamps out PCL’s mega-basement boom
New figures show a massive decline in basement-related applications across RBKC & Westminster since the introduction of stringent rules designed to prevent over-development.
Architecture sector rallies with ‘fragile growth’, except in London
“It is a mixed and changing picture but with an overall growth in confidence,” says the RIBA. “Whilst this confidence is likely to falter in the current lockdown, there is hope that it will return, once restrictions are eased.”
Super-prime design studio predicts six interiors trends for 2021
Oliver Burns co-founder Sharon Lillywhite runs us through some key interiors themes for the year ahead, including wellbeing, calming colours, connecting with nature – and touch-free tech…
Assael’s wellbeing chief moves to Ekkist
Design consultancy Ekkist has recruited Ben Channon to grow its wellbeing advisory services
Architectural Digest: 6 Tips for Dealing With Difficult Clients
Mental health professionals advise on how to “minimise conflict” with tricky clients in this useful piece by Kelsey Mulvey for design bible Architectural Digest.
FT: How coronavirus has shaped the home of tomorrow
Writing for the Financial Times, Harriet Fitch Little draws on insights from architects, agents – and a homesteader in rural Nova Scotia – to put forward six key shifts that will ‘shape our homes in 2021 and beyond’…
Behind the Schemes: Designing a Devon Passivhaus
The flight to the country proved one of the big trends of 2020, and is showing no signs of abating as we head into 2021; here, London-based studio McLean Quinlan talks us through a recently completed Paragraph 79 project that’s brought new life to a walled garden in Devon…
Luxury residences for ‘true automobile enthusiasts’ unveiled in NYC
Five of the apartments at Lightstone’s 130 William scheme come with a special edition Aston Martin DBX, custom-designed by Sir David Adjaye.
One in six London architecture firms ‘concerned about practice viability’
‘Brexit will have a long-term material and potentially highly damaging effect on the architects’ market’, warns the RIBA.
In Pictures: Inside 432 Park Avenue’s ‘sister building’
The CetraRuddy-designed 200 East 59th Street is the follow-up to Harry Macklowe’s 432 Park Avenue, one of the most successful luxury resi schemes in recent New York history.
Zone 1’s tallest new resi building tops out
The No.8 tower at One Thames City in Nine Elms has reached full height.