Design
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
Cotswold Country House Clause treehouse development opp offered for £1m
'This is the most tree-mendous house you've ever seen,' says Savills' Benjamin Langridge
Behind the Schemes: Digging down in Highgate
How rejigging an architect's designs and lowering an entire garden by nearly two metres delivered a spectacular subterranean space backing onto Highgate Golf Club...
Architect plans new digs on ‘one of the very few undeveloped plots in RBKC’
Planners set to approve Sophie Hicks' 'unusual' subterranean Holland Park scheme next week
New architect named for Bishopsgate Goodsyard
Eric Parry has been brought in to design the Shoreditch scheme's tallest building, after two resi towers were cut last year
In Pictures: Central London’s longest pier set to launch this year
Royal Wharf Pier promises to better connect Ballymore and Oxley's Royal Wharf development with Central and West London, while creating a new public space 'reminiscent of traditional British seaside piers'…
18 ‘super-tall’ skyscrapers completed in 2018; more than in any previous year
Residential towers accounted for nearly a third of the world's newly-completed skyscrapers in 2018
Plans go in for a new wellbeing-focused neighbourhood in Essex
In Pictures: Studio Egret West's proposal for 2,500 new homes set in a "holistic landscape" near Thurrock