Is this the world’s grandest agency office?

If you're keeping an eye on ups and downs across the pond, it's worth noting that Herzog & de Meuron's fervently anticipated 56 Leonard - billed as "the most imaginative and architecturally significant …

Ballymore has come up with something pretty spectacular for its Embassy Gardens scheme in Nine Elms - a 25 metre pool linking two of the residential buildings at tenth floor level.

The English countryside could be about to see two new mansions "of national importance" arise from its green folds, so long as someone finds the time and money to actually build them