Design
New Government design manual & planning reforms promise a ‘green housing revolution’
Housing Minister reveals an "ambitious revamp of planning rules" and bans gas boilers in new homes, as the Government publishes its first-ever "design manual to promote the building of beautiful new homes"…
Ten characteristics of well-designed places: official guidance
The Government's new housing design manual, aimed at property developers and architects, offers "planning practice guidance for beautiful, enduring and successful places"
APML’s Knightsbridge Gate scheme tops out
The longest façade retention project in London is delivering 15 luxury apartments along with retail units and office space, just up the road from Harrods...
Singaporean giant UOL debuts maiden London scheme
One Bishopsgate Plaza will be 'the first tower development in the City to fuse private apartments with a luxury hotel'
Mayfair architect fined £1,000
ARB highlights case involving 'serious breaches of the Architects Code'
Brexit uncertainty continues to impact architects
RIBA's Future Trends Workload Index sank to its second-lowest point of the year in August
LANSERRING & Jenny Packham collaborate on ‘transformative’ dressing room concept
'Haute couture' kitchen and furniture maker teams up with influential British fashion designer to reimagine the personal dressing space...
SHH-designed townhouse on Harley Street asks £18.5m
Following a painstaking three-year restoration programme, this Grade II listed John White mansion could well set a new benchmark for the famous London address...
In Pictures: Elicyon, Fenton Whelan, Katherine Pooley, XBD & SHH vie for international design prize
Feast your eyes on all 22 projects shortlisted in the £1m+ residential category at this year's SBID International Design Awards...
Rigby Group closes in on £3bn turnover
Allect Design Group's parent company reports strong growth and pledges to "continue to look at further acquisitions"
Lateral apartments up for rent in Henry Holland townhouse
Grade II listed building on Mayfair's Hertford Street was built by the world famous royal architect in 1768
Hawkes wins green light for railway-inspired Para 79 Lake House
A former fishing lake complex and derelict railway in East Sussex are to be turned into a stand-out new home, designed by Hawkes Architecture