Heritage
New Soho scheme for Oakmayne Bespoke
Developer Oakmayne Bespoke has snapped up a Grade II listed townhouse on Soho Square for £8m, which it plans to convert into five ultra-prime residences.
Magic Castle: Extraordinary holiday home in Warwickshire bags the RIBA Stirling Prize
An extraordinary modern holiday home shoehorned into the crumbling walls of an ancient moated castle has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2013 for the best new building of the year.
Measure for Treasure: Dr Simon Thurley, head of English Heritage, on philanthropy, funding and the future of heritage
What's the future for England's past? With a funding revolution and a sea-change in how the nation's heritage assets are valued, there's a reformation taking place at English Heritage
G&T restoration just the tonic for Islington
Some people really deserve to have streets and squares named after them.
An engineer called Hugh Myddelton - who was knocking around in the 1600s - is one of them
Old & Wise: Listed Property Show returns
Much like a classic car club, but with bigger stakes, the Listed Property Owners' Club was set up over twenty years ago to give advice and support to those with a penchant for period property
Great Houses of London: An Evening with James Stourton
Fancy brushing up on your knowledge of the capital's preeminent abodes? Better pop this in the diary then; John D Wood is sponsoring a typically high-end evening of wit and wisdom called "An Evening with…
Full steam ahead for Admiralty Arch hotel and resi scheme
Rafael Serrano has netted formal approval to turn Admiralty Arch into a hotel, private members' club and super-prime private residences, with construction due to kick off early next year.
MOD to flog old War Office in Whitehall for £100m+
The MOD's Old War Office building in Whitehall is now surplus to requirements, and is being put up for sale for "more than £100m".
Grosvenor mulling Project Falcon sale
Grosvenor might, we hear, be considering flogging it's 11-15 Grosvenor Crescent office-to-resi scheme , otherwise known as Project Falcon, to luxury developer Wainbridge Estates.
City Limits: What sort of London are we building?
Free the leviathan of residential construction from the callous shackles of planning control, says Edward Keene..
Time out for Abramovich’s Cheyne Walk plan
It sounds like Roman Abramovich has put his plan to renovate a mansion on the banks of the Thames in Chelsea on hold for the time being
Comedy of Manors: Why William Cash is banning the WI
Opening a historic home to the public is no tea party, discovers William Cash as he gets into hot water with the W.I. during a Wodehouse-worthy episode at Upton Cressett.