Design
Scruton names his ‘Building Beautiful’ design tsars
Gail Mayhew, Mary Parsons, Nicholas Boys Smith & Kim Wilkie join Sir Roger Scruton's 'Building Better, Building Beautiful' Commission.
Couture Shift: Understanding the key trends shaping global interior design
The deepening relationship between fashion and interiors, the rise of the 'caring' consumer, and haute craftsmanship will be among the themes influencing the finest schemes of 2019, predicts design house…
In Pictures: Britain’s most sustainable new resi developments
Eight residential schemes in the UK have been shortlisted for this year's BREEAM Awards, which take place in London in March to kick-off Futurebuild week.
Georgian Group Awards: Call for entries
Heritage champion restarts awards programme after hiatus
Behind the Schemes: The grand revival of an historic Bloomsbury townhouse
How Quinn Architects returned a Grade II* listed building to its original grandeur after two centuries of alteration and poor repairs...
Japanese Knotweed ‘will be brought under control by 2040’
Lending and conveyancing restrictions mean that property sellers can't ignore knotweed, says a specialist firm;
In Pictures: Pedestrian-first plans to reinvent Aldwych & the Strand
Westminster wants to turn the West End's hectic gyratory into 'a world-class cultural and learning quarter'.
Super-tall, super-skinny, super-expensive: The ‘pencil towers’ of New York’s super-rich
The Guardian's architecture critic Oliver Wainwright rails against esoteric planning rules that have allowed 'a new breed of needle-like tower' to punch through the New York skyline.
In Pictures: Transforming seven ‘ad hoc’ Fitzrovia buildings into a high-spec boutique development
A look inside Great Portland Estates's 'Portland & Riding' scheme in Fitzrovia, designed by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands.
RIBA announces new housing architecture prize
The new Neave Brown Award for Housing will celebrate multi-unit residential development that 'demonstrate evidence of meeting the challenge of housing affordability'
Architects hit by housing slowdown
Architects' forecasted workloads in the private housing fell dramatically in December, says the RIBA
In Pictures: London’s best new home extensions & architectural improvements
The 11 winners of 2019's 'Don't Move, Improve!' competition