New figures show a massive decline in basement-related applications across RBKC & Westminster since the introduction of stringent rules designed to prevent over-development.
“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.”
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…
Design consultancy Ekkist has recruited Ben Channon to grow its wellbeing advisory services
Mental health professionals advise on how to “minimise conflict” with tricky clients in this useful piece by Kelsey Mulvey for design bible Architectural Digest.
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’…
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…
Five of the apartments at Lightstone’s 130 William scheme come with a special edition Aston Martin DBX, custom-designed by Sir David Adjaye.
‘Brexit will have a long-term material and potentially highly damaging effect on the architects’ market’, warns the RIBA.
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.
The No.8 tower at One Thames City in Nine Elms has reached full height.