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Olympic media centre to get £100m revamp

17 May 13

Developer signs deal with London Legacy Development Corporation and will start work in 2014
Design team chosen for £800m Goodsyard scheme

16 May 13

Team appointed to design Hammerson and Ballymore’s £800m Bishopsgate Goodsyard development in London
Bechtel wins £36m Vauxhall job

16 May 13

Transport for London awards contractor station upgrade
Mace set to begin on £768m Victoria Circle

15 May 13

Developer Land Securties reports £533m profit for full year and confirms Mace’s appointment as £768m first phase begins next month
Chinese business park set for Royal Docks

14 May 13

Greater London Authority reported to have appointed preferred bidder
MPs reject Thames estuary airport plans

10 May 13

Heathrow expansion backed at expense of schemes by Foster & Partners, Halcrow and Gensler
Bam lands £75m priority schools package

10 May 13

This is the second win for the contractor under government’s £400m investment programme
British Land and AHMM to develop huge London scheme

8 May 13

Project will deliver 22 new buildings in Shoreditch
UCL ditches £1bn East London campus

8 May 13

Blow to consultants as university’s commercial negotiations with Newham council fail
Barratt picked for 600 home revamp of Catford Dogs

7 May 13

London mayor signs deal with housebuilder for mixed-use redevelopment
MCC unveils £200m Lord's revamp

2 May 13

Redevelopment of historic Cricket Ground designed by Colin Maber and Populous
Hub airport unnecessary, says London Assembly

1 May 13

Body contradicts London mayor by saying existing capacity should be better used
Old In & Out Club conversion wins planning

24 Apr 13

Architect Paul Davis + Partners plans to redevelop London’s old In & Out Club into a private mansion get green light
GLA development panel: full list revealed

22 Apr 13

Berkeley Group, major housebuilders and contractors all secure places
Willmott Dixon takes on £40m Greenwich village project

22 Apr 13

Willmott Dixon has agreed a £40m contract for the next phase of the Greenwich Millennium Village development
Plans to totally rebuild Euston station scrapped

19 Apr 13

Plans to completely demolish and rebuild Euston station to make way for the high-speed project have been dropped
Skanska's Monument office project gets green light

16 Apr 13

Skanska’s development arm has secured planning permission for a Make Architects-designed office-led scheme at 11-19 Monument Street, London
Davis Langdon on London Google HQ

12 Apr 13

Exclusive: Consultant to work on Google’s £300m new European headquarters in Kings’s Cross
New Olympic stadium images revealed

12 Apr 13

Plans for venue include gravity-stressed 84m roof when it becomes home of West Ham football club in 2016
Brookfield takes expanded role on revamped Pinnacle

10 Apr 13

Contractor takes management role on revamped project that is expected to include a residential element
English Heritage backs Smithfield plan

10 Apr 13

Conservation body backs John McAslan + Partners’ planned redevelopment of Smithfield Market having opposed previous plans
Families take legal action over Lakanal House fire

5 Apr 13

Action taken against three parties including social housing contractor Apollo
Network Rail appoints Crossrail director

4 Apr 13

Rob McIntosh to lead Network Rail’s £2.3bn programme of upgrades for the Crossrail development
British Land pushes Docklands developments

4 Apr 13

Developer progresses 1.8m sq ft Harmondsworth Quay scheme and £38m shopping centre
Great Portland Estates plans Old Street revamp scheme

3 Apr 13

Developer buys six-storey office block and redevelopment opportunity in joint venture
Stanhope and BBC launch TV centre revamp firm

3 Apr 13

Developer and broadcaster launch TVC Developments
Costain joint venture wins £300m Crossrail fit out job

2 Apr 13

Contract is the last major construction contract to be awarded on the project
Green light for £85m Cross Quarter regeneration scheme

2 Apr 13

Development Securities’ plans include 220 homes and a Sainsbury’s superstore
Inquest blames 'serious failures' by council for fatal fire

28 Mar 13

Inquest on Lakanal House tower block deaths blames safety failures by Southwark council and its contractors
Race for Crossrail North East improvements starts

28 Mar 13

Network Rail asks four firms, including Balfour Beatty and Costain, to bid for improvement job between Stratford and Shenfield
Carlyle buys £25m Commercial Road scheme

28 Mar 13

Developer’s joint venture plans to build 19-storey student tower by 2015
First phase of Croydon’s Ruskin Square bags planning

28 Mar 13

AHMM-designed residential tower approved by council
Goldman Sachs ‘London HQ’ gets green light

27 Mar 13

City of London approves 1m sq ft complex in Farringdon
Green light for Candy's Sugar Quay

25 Mar 13

The Candy brothers’ Foster + Partners-designed luxury residential scheme on bank of Thames wins planning
Elizabeth House scheme avoids public inquiry

21 Mar 13

Lambeth council approval of £600m Chipperfield-designed development will stand after Eric Pickles decides not to ‘call-in’ plans
West Ham to be confirmed as 2012 stadium tenant

20 Mar 13

Deal over £429m main Olympic stadium will be announced on Friday
Race begins for £600m Northern Line extension

20 Mar 13

London Underground starts pre-tendering for extension to Battersea
London challenges architects to create a ‘fitter city’

18 Mar 13

GLA explores links between city design and fitness
'Black Death' bodies found by Crossrail dig

15 Mar 13

Long-lost burial ground believed to date from Fourteenth Century plague discovered in Farringdon
Huge London Brickfields scheme gets go-ahead

14 Mar 13

Scheme includes 1,150 homes and an urban square
Lend Lease seeks architects for Elephant & Castle

13 Mar 13

Lend Lease is looking for architects for the next stages of its redevelopment of Elephant & Castle
Boris unveils London 'floating village' plans

12 Mar 13

Mipim latest: Boris Johnson has unveiled plans to create the UK’s largest ‘floating village’ in a bid to transform London’s Royal Docks
HSE investigates tunnel piling incident

12 Mar 13

HSE investigating cause of incident that saw two piling drills from a north London construction site pierce a London train tunnel
British Land to raise £500m development war chest

12 Mar 13

Developer also sells Ropemaker development for £472m
Piling drills pierce London train tunnel

11 Mar 13

Two piling drills pierce through train tunnel leaving train driver shaken
Southbank Centre unveils major extension plan

6 Mar 13

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios designs revamp of complex’s Festival Wing
Berkeley to develop £60m West London student scheme

25 Feb 13

Berkeley has struck a deal with Imperial College London to develop a £60m student accommodation scheme in North Acton
Councils strike financing deal on Northern Line extension

20 Feb 13

Developer contributions and business rates to be used to contribute to cost of Northern Line extension
Crossrail announces new operations boss

15 Feb 13

Howard Smith to be responsible for maintenance on £15bn London railway
Boris reveals £78m housing fund winners

15 Feb 13

Barratt Homes receives largest single allocation under London scheme
Plans submitted for Smithfield market

14 Feb 13

Developer Henderson submits plans for John McAslan + Partners-designed Smithfield Quarter scheme in the City of London
Serpentine unveils 2013 summer pavilion

14 Feb 13

Cloud-like structure to be designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto
Lend Lease selected for £60m River Plate House job

14 Feb 13

Exclusive: Contractor selected as construction manager for Mitsubishi Estate Company project in the City of London
Five vie for £350m Battersea power station job

13 Feb 13

Exclusive: Sir Robert McAlpine emerges as early favourite in five-way battle for the first phase of the Battersea power station
Two firms in for £65m O2 hotel

13 Feb 13

Exclusive: Race for job to build £65m riverside hotel adjacent to the O2 arena in Greenwich has been narrowed down to two bidders
G&T and Aecom make UCL Stratford shortlist

12 Feb 13

Cost consultants, engineers and architects in running for £1bn campus masterplan
Boris narrows £80bn airport hub race

12 Feb 13

London mayor to recommend one of three proposals for UK airport hub
Boris asks for Zaha's help on airports

11 Feb 13

Hadid, Atkins and Pascall & Watson to sit on mayor’s panel aiming to narrow down list of proposals
Deal struck on major Nine Elms scheme

8 Feb 13

Housebuilder Barratt agrees deal on London regeneration scheme including 700 flats and new Sainsbury’s supermarket
First phase of Elephant & Castle homes win planning

8 Feb 13

Lend Lease scheme of 235 homes set to be “among the most sustainable in Britain”
Ballymore Group submits twin towers plan

7 Feb 13

Glenn Howells Architects-designed residential towers on the edge of Canary Wharf submitted for approval
Business group unveils Crossrail 2 plan

5 Feb 13

London First says massive underground line through central London is most cost-effective solution to the need for additional capacity
Bouygues reaches close on £50m Barking regeneration scheme

5 Feb 13

Contractor to build supermarket and retail development in town centre
BBC TV Centre masterplan unveiled

5 Feb 13

Developer Stanhope hails the way AHMM-designed scheme opens up the site to the public
Olympic Park scoops top planning award

1 Feb 13

London Planning Awards recognises 2012 achievement and honours work of architect Sir Terry Farrell
The View from the Shard opens

1 Feb 13

The View from The Shard officially opens to the public today
Green light for Urbanest's Thames-side student scheme

31 Jan 13

A major student accommodations scheme over looking the Thames in London has been given planning permission by Lambeth council.
Thames Water delays £4.1bn ‘super sewer’ tender

31 Jan 13

Exclusive: Company moves back procurement of infrastructure provider in order to firm-up funding model
Chelsea Barracks redevelopment 'under review'

29 Jan 13

Qatari Diar reviewing £2bn project in response to economic conditions
Three vie for Derwent's £150m Saatchi redevelopment

28 Jan 13

Big names in the running for redevelopment of former Saatchi & Saatchi HQ in Fitzrovia, London
Herzog & de Meuron chosen for London tower

24 Jan 13

Swiss architect behind Beijing Bird’s Nest stadium will design one of capital’s tallest residential towers at Wood Wharf
Lipton and Rogers joint venture to focus on affordable offices

24 Jan 13

Lipton Rogers will aim to implement concepts from research that has suggested the cost of office buildings can be cut by up to 50%
Make's Leicester Square makeover bags planning

18 Jan 13

Redevelopment of 48 Leicester Square will see building get all new core and floorplates
Google completes King's Cross deal

17 Jan 13

Google buys major site at King’s Cross which will be home to its new UK headquarters
Government will not list Broadgate

17 Jan 13

Culture secretary issues listing immunity for remaining parts of 1980s scheme
Half of London councils sign up to Cabe review service

17 Jan 13

Body says “conversations” with other boroughs are continuing
Hammerson and Westfield agree £1bn Croydon deal

17 Jan 13

Developers set up joint venture to undertake the regeneration of Croydon town centre
Boris Johnson 'must ensure' Crossrail is blacklist-free

16 Jan 13

London Assembly motion follows Building’s exclusive on blacklisting past of former industrial relations manager on £15bn project
Make's £450m makeover for St James's gets go ahead

16 Jan 13

Huge scheme for the Crown Estate approved by Westminster planning committee
Heygate Estate vision gets green light

16 Jan 13

Lend Lease’s masterplan for the transformation of the Heygate Estate in Elephant & Castle has been given the green light by Southwark council
Helicopter crashes into crane in London

16 Jan 13

Two dead as a helicopter crashes into a tower crane on Berkeley’s Vauxhall tower site in London
Shutting Heathrow would 'make closing pits look easy'

15 Jan 13

Expert tells London Assembly to back expansion at existing airports, rather than closing Heathrow
Lipton to quit Chelsfield for new venture

14 Jan 13

Property developer Sir Stuart Lipton to team up with Stanhope veteran Peter Rogers
Pinnacle bank deal buys tower more time

11 Jan 13

Owners of £1bn tower confirm two-to-three year extension to bank loan as review of stalled project gets underway
Goldman Sachs submits 1.2m sq ft HQ plans

10 Jan 13

Investment bank submits plans for nine-floor City of London office block
Vinci and St Modwen sign £2bn Nine Elms agreement

7 Jan 13

Vinci and St Modwen ratify £2bn New Covent Garden deal
Canary Wharf tower to be second highest in UK

4 Jan 13

Chalegrove Properties submits plans for 75-storey flat block
Lend Lease confirms £170m Land Secs contract

4 Jan 13

Contractor will build two major new buildings in Victoria as revealed in Building
Crossrail workers graft over Christmas to pave way for line

3 Jan 13

A team of 200 construction workers worked on Christmas and Boxing Day to move Docklands Light Railway line
Firms picked for 400 building retrofit programme

3 Jan 13

Balfour Beatty, Willmott Dixon and Skanska among thirteen firms appointed for Mayor of London framework
Land Secs picked to develop £100m cinema complex

19 Dec 12

Birthplace of London film industry set for new ‘film quarter’
Rich students rent a third of prime London homes

19 Dec 12

Property investor LCP warns immigration policy may hit resi market
Nine Elms twin towers win planning

19 Dec 12

CLS Holdings gets green light for Vauxhall mixed-use scheme by Allies & Morrison
Apollo fined after seven hospitalised

18 Dec 12

Social housing contractor found at fault for carbon monoxide incident
Big name architects to advise Boris Johnson

18 Dec 12

Design advisory group to have role in planning permission for major developments
Bermondsey housing scheme wins planning

18 Dec 12

Architect BuckleyGrayYeoman gains approval for 82-home scheme
Walkie Talkie tower reaches milestone

17 Dec 12

Structure of controversial London skyscraper topped out today
Boris funds Stansted expansion study

17 Dec 12

Mayor of London considering Stansted Airport expansion as an option
Cheesegrater pushes over 50% pre-let mark

17 Dec 12

Insurer Amlin takes 110,000 sq ft of space in London tower
Battersea Power Station phase one approved

14 Dec 12

Wandsworth grants detailed planning for Ian Simpson and dRMM designs
Final proposals for Shell Centre unveiled

13 Dec 12

Six architects release visualisations of eight new towers for London’s South Bank
Stanton Williams Thames-side scheme gets going

13 Dec 12

Sir Robert McAlpine pre-construction adviser on Riverwalk SW1 luxury housing development
Government amends luxury homes tax plans

12 Dec 12

Treasury introduces exemptions from stamp duty hike
RHWL Arts Team wins planning for theatre

12 Dec 12

Architect’s 100-seat theatre in south west London due for start on site in spring
Boris advised to set up new Tottenham regeneration body

11 Dec 12

Report by panel including Stuart Lipton says body should be created to drive regeneration in the riot-hit area
Pinnacle offers to settle Brookfield legal claim

7 Dec 12

Developer seeks settlement on City of London’s tallest tower project
West Ham bid poised to win Olympic Stadium

5 Dec 12

Legacy company begins search for a contractor to adapt stadium
London Olympics will come in ‘under budget’

5 Dec 12

The National Audit Office predicts £377m underspend
Battersea Power Station set to tender for main contractor

30 Nov 12

Developer of £8bn scheme to go to market early in the new year once planning permission is granted
Wood be great: Wood Wharf

30 Nov 12

Aecom scoops role on £2bn extension to Canary Wharf
Quintain pushes ahead with Greenwich Peninsula

26 Nov 12

Developer submits detailed planning application for first 506 homes
Earls Court redevelopment wins planning

21 Nov 12

Developer Capco wins approval from second London borough for £8bn scheme to redevelop Earls Court
Olympics boss under fresh scrutiny over blacklisting

16 Nov 12

Union official accuses ODA boss Dennis Hone of giving ‘misleading’ evidence in front of London Assembly committee
MPs reject Foster and Halcrow airport scheme

13 Nov 12

Poll claims that less than a fifth of MPs back Thames Hub project
ODA claims it could find 'no evidence' of Olympic blacklisting

8 Nov 12

ODA chief executive Dennis Hone refutes Ucatt claims while appearing before the London Assembly
West Ham faces two-year Olympic stadium delay

7 Nov 12

Legacy boss admits no chance of premiership football by 2014
Chipperfield's £600m Waterloo scheme wins planning

7 Nov 12

Lambeth Council says Elizabeth House plans were “impossible to refuse”
Dennis Hone confirmed as Olympic legacy boss

5 Nov 12

Chief executive of Olympic Delivery Authority given permanent legacy job after taking over from Andrew Altman in August
Masterplanner sought for Whitechapel overhaul

5 Nov 12

Tower Hamlets council puts out tender for architect
Earls Court developer in joint venture talks

1 Nov 12

Capco looks for housebuilder or contractor for Earls Court redevelopment project
Carlyle Group unveils South Bank tower cluster

29 Oct 12

Developer will build nine Thames-side towers between five and 48 storeys high on site of Building’s office.
Make submits Hanover Square office scheme

23 Oct 12

Mace to project manage 66,000ft2 Legal & General scheme near Crossrail station
Brookfield ups stake in Bishopsgate tower

15 Oct 12

Developer increases stake in 40-storey 100 Bishopsgate
Berkeley 50-storey Blackfriars tower approved

11 Oct 12

Developer Berkeley Group retains Ian Simpson design but changes use from hotel to residential
Housing shortage will hold back jobs growth

9 Oct 12

Report by property consultant Cluttons says employment growth is expected to outstrip housing supply in London
London property appeal grows for global wealthy

2 Oct 12

But consultants warn against complacency towards foreign investors
Olympic Park plans move forward

27 Sep 12

Approval for £17m of Section 106 work paves way for redevelopment
G+T scoops Battersea redevelopment role

27 Sep 12

Exclusive: Firm will act as cost consultant on first phase of £5.5bn scheme
Quintain deputy steps down

25 Sep 12

Deputy chief executive Becky Worthington to set up her own business
Moylan: iCity must provide jobs

21 Sep 12

Ex-Legacy body chair says favoured bidder for Olympic media centres must offer proof on employment promises
Farrell picks up Wood Wharf design job

14 Sep 12

Architect selected for 4.7m sq ft development
Unite in £460m London housing deal

14 Sep 12

Student developer to build 4,000 bed spaces in join venture with Singapore government’s real estate arm
Green light for controversial £8bn Earl's Court scheme

13 Sep 12

Hammersmith & Fulham council grants outline permission to Terry Farrell scheme
Galliford Try announces £41m worth of wins

13 Sep 12

Firm picked for £23m Grainger scheme in London and £18m refurb of Birmingham’s NIA
Revealed: Make Architects' £450m West End designs

11 Sep 12

Crown Estate unveils £450m scheme to transform a major part of St James’s
DevSecs and Cathedral plan £700m 'Greenwich Beach'

7 Sep 12

Residential and office-led scheme planned on the banks of the Thames next to O2 Arena
Battersea work 'to start in months'

5 Sep 12

Developers promise prepatory work will commence by the end of the year after sale completes
Boris invests in London's first sustainable industries park

4 Sep 12

London mayor details £30m spending to develop low-carbon business quarter
Police name Hanover Square victim

3 Sep 12

Woman was killed by large falling window next to Hanover Square construction site
London prime residential pipeline up 70% on 2011

3 Sep 12

EC Harris annual report finds £38 billion in developments on the blocks
Green light for £300m Earls Court housing scheme

31 Aug 12

Developers reach financial agreement to make John McAslan + Partners design a reality
Lend Lease submits plans for Elephant & Castle homes

29 Aug 12

Developer Lend Lease has submitted plans for the first new homes to built as part of the massive Elephant & Castle regeneration scheme
Derwent to build £150m Fitzrovia scheme next year

22 Aug 12

London developer will construct two new schemes in 2013
Pickles approves Vauxhall Cross towers

21 Aug 12

Secretary of state gives go-ahead to £400m Squire & Partners scheme
Dev Secs submits 400,000 sq ft Brent plans

20 Aug 12

Sheppard Robson-designed scheme includes 223 homes, a Morrisons foodstore and an oriental retail quarter
Trocadero to become a 'pod' hotel

17 Aug 12

Plans to transform London’s iconic Trocadero building into a Tokyo-style pod hotel have been approved by Westminster council
Allies & Morrison wades into Olympic marketing row

15 Aug 12

Architect which worked on Olympic Park masterplan hits out at restrictions in BBC interview
Olympic firms warned not to 'preach' to rest of world

10 Aug 12

Sir John Armitt says industry should avoid ‘empire-building’ when seeking to win post Olympics work
Derwent shortlists builders for £70m of London work

10 Aug 12

Further schemes worth £140m to be tendered shortly as focus shifts to new build developments
Olympic velodrome: Full speed ahead

10 Aug 12

Britain achieves its highest Olympic medal tally for over a century. But can the delivery model that gave us the Games’ venues provide a blueprint for the future?
Cost of the Olympics: Was it worth it?

10 August 2012

Everyone’s agreed that the Olympic park was hugely successful. But with questions raised over the cost of procuring the Games, is this a model other public sector projects should follow?
Engineers' Olympic effort celebrated on YouTube

9 Aug 12

Film from the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Olympic Delivery Authority already seen by 9,000 people
Quintain sets Greenwich Peninsula target

8 Aug 12

Developer to submit detailed plans by the end of the year
Olympic Stadium - home to glory

6 Aug 12

Populous Architect’s Olympic Stadium played host to a golden weekend for Team GB
Aylesbury Estate: Taking back the streets

03 August 2012

How phase 1 of a two decade redevelopment has brought back the traditional grain of the streets to London’s deprived Aylesbury Estate
London's answer to NY's Flatiron building opens

31 Jul 12

Retail building in West End for Bosideng designed by DSDHA and built by McLaren
Thomas Heatherwick reveals secrets of Olympic cauldron

30 Jul 12

Designer says it was the ‘altar’ to the ‘temple’ of the Olympic stadium
New US embassy designs unveiled

27 Jul 12

Detailed plans for new US Embassy in Nine Elms regeneration area submitted for planning permission
AEG sounds out contractors for £65m O2 hotel

27 Jul 12

Entertainment firm on the look out for contractor for £65m hotel project next to O2 arena
UKTI announces £8bn Battersea plan

26 Jul 12

Investment revealed on eve of fortnight of London trade summits
BBC TV Centre backers invest in Stanhope

26 Jul 12

Mitsui Fudosan and Alberta Investment Management Corp buy shares
Olympic 'urban park' plans unveiled

26 Jul 12

Plans for new post-Games scheme in southern area of Olympic Park designed by New York High Line architect
Peabody's 500-home Clapham scheme given the nod

24 Jul 12

Hawkins Brown-designed redevelopment of St John’s Hill estate approved by Wandsworth Council
GPE development pipeline grows

24 Jul 12

Developer has 14 schemes in pipeline totalling 3.4m sq ft
Quintain appoints new FD

24 Jul 12

Former Berkeley Group man Richard Stearn takes finance role
AHMM to design BBC TV Centre overhaul

23 Jul 12

Architect will work on plans as Stanhope completes purchase
Olympic marketing rules "not doing harm" ODA boss insists

19 Jul 12

Dennis Hone says Olympic marketing restrictions are “no straightjacket”
Boris launches £8m self-build fund

18 Jul 12

Mayor invites Londoners to apply for funding
IKEA neighbourhood wins planning

18 Jul 12

Retail giant’s property arm gains approval for ‘Strand East’ scheme
Bids for Olympic stadium revealed

17 Jul 12

Football up against Formula One racing for a home at the Olympic park
Stanhope buys BBC TV Centre

17 Jul 12

Developer buys iconic ‘doughnut’ complex for £200m
V&A Museum wins planning for £41m scheme

11 Jul 12

Exhibition Road project by Amanda Levete Architects given the green light
Mace confident it will hit extended Shard deadline

5 Jul 12

Contractor working to hand over skyscraper in September as Shard is inaugurated today
EC Harris and Expedition on Piano’s Selfridges job

29 Jun 12

Consultants join Shard architect on major department store project
Shard completion delayed by at least two months

21 Jun 12

EXCLUSIVE: Mace working to extended deadline for practical completion of £500m landmark
Hackney council set to object to Olympic park legacy plans

21 Jun 12

Hackney council will formally object to the 6,870-home proposals for the redevelopment of the Olympic park
Crossrail submits plans for Farringdon commercial development

20 Jun 12

Six storey building aims to capitalise on area’s new transport links
City of London to market scheme dropped by Hammerson

20 Jun 12

Make Architects-designed London Wall Place will be marketed by Jones Lang LaSalle
Landmark London Wall scheme dumped by Hammerson

19 Jun 12

EXCLUSIVE: Developer confirms it will not continue with Make-designed 500,000 sq ft office scheme near Barbican
Brookfield buys £520m Hammerson office portfolio

19 Jun 12

Deal includes Foster & Partners-designed development site Principal Place
Permission given for 3,000 homes at Nine Elms

19 Jun 12

Wandsworth council approves Covent Garden Market and One Nine Elms schemes
Belfast architect opens London office

13 Jun 12

Titanic Belfast centre designer Todd Architects expands after winning two major Ballymore jobs
Pringle Brandon Drew unveils plans for Shakespeare theatre site

12 Jun 12

Exhibition space for historic remains to be incorporated into residential and retail devleopment
Boris beats housing delivery target

12 Jun 12

Mayor of London delivered 54,000 homes in first term but is accused of a “shameful whitewash” by Labour
Planning levy causes London schemes to stall

8 Jun 12

Doubts over Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) mean developers put projects on hold to avoid potential charges
Malaysian developers win £400m Battersea race

7 Jun 12

S P Setia-led joint venture selected as preferred bidder for iconic London site
Great Portland Estates buys two prime London properties

1 Jun 12

Henderson offloads French Railways House and Jermyn Street property in £39m deal
Leisure hub by Michael Aukett Architects

1 Jun 12

Vinci begins work on Michael Aukett Architects-designed mixed use leisure, retail and residential project in south London
Al-Jazeera in talks to become first Shard tenant

31 May 12

Middle Eastern broadcaster set to move London bureau to London Bridge skyscraper
Three firms land £150m London hotel job

25 May 12

Edwardian Group appoint Arup, Woods Bagot and Jones Lang LaSalle to develop £150m project in Leicester Square
Top consultants vie for £300m Goldman Sachs HQ job

25 May 12

Firms compete for quantity surveyor role on KPF-designed bank project
Pringle Brandon set to merge with leading US design firm

24 May 12

Deal with Perkins & Will would see London office focus on sectors such as higher education and laboratories
Shell Centre plans unveiled by Qatari Diar and Canary Wharf

22 May 12

Draft masterplan by Squire & Partners involves 800 homes and a new 37-storey tower
Olympic engineers win their own gold medals

22 May 12

2012 Stadium and Velodrome work of Paul Westbury and Chris Wise recognised by Institution of Structural Engineers
£1.3bn Meridian Water plans unveiled

21 May 12

Enfield launches consultation on 200-acre waterfront scheme
Zaha Hadid hits out at 'rude' 2012 bosses

18 May 12

Architect of the Aquatics Centre complains she has not been invited to the Olympics
Boris seeks consultants for London design panel

16 May 12

Consultants sought for design and urbanism procurement panel
London cable cars may miss Olympic opening

16 May 12

Contractor Mace begins full testing on £50m project
Olympic stadium competition delayed until after 2012 Games

14 May 12

Legacy Corporation re-launches competition for operator after just four bids received
ISG is front-runner for £20m City Tower job

11 May 12

Contractor tipped for Great Portland Estates’ City Tower re-fit
Walthamstow Stadium plan romps to victory

9 May 12

Council approves £50m Conran scheme to build on dog track
Financial close for Lambeth housing PFI

8 May 12

Regenter’s Myatts Field North scheme clears last hurdle
Broadgate owners apply for certificate of immunity from listing

8 May 12

British Land and Blackstone risk new heritage battle while unveiling new public realm plans for City complex
Lord's housing plans go back to drawing board

4 May 12

MCC to develop new masterplan as president looks to Trent Bridge for inspiration
Exclusive: Shard architect primed for flagship Selfridges scheme

3 May 12

Renzo Piano set to embark on third high profile London project with major Oxford Street store extension
'Living rent' pledge will scare off investors, industry warns

27 April 2012

Housebuilding takes centre stage in mayoral race as concerns are raised over rent controls
Sir Robert McAlpine and Laing O'Rourke battle for Fitzrovia job

27 April 2012

Contractors seek new hope for ‘NoHo Square’ site
London Underground names Bank upgrade shortlist

24 Apr 12

Three joint ventures and Dragados in running for station upgrade
Green light for Derwent and Crossrail's West End theatre

20 Apr 12

Council grants planning permission for first new theatre in West End for over 30 years
Ken Livingstone backs RIBA manifesto for London

20 Apr 12

Labour candidate for mayor joins Greens and Lib Dems in pledging support for RIBA’s call for good design
Arena plan for Battersea Power Station

19 Apr 12

Architect Allies & Morrison offers ‘practical’ proposals for London landmark
Minister confirms planning fees rethink

18 Apr 12

Greg Clark says plans set out last year ‘can’t be delivered’
RIBA exhibitions to celebrate 2012 Olympic construction

18 Apr 12

Olympic stadium, Aquatics Centre and Velodrome among key venues celebrated
London framework to procure homes worth £5bn

16 Apr 12

Greater London authority inviting bids to be on London Development Panel
Exclusive: Galliford Try faces legal action from Olympic subbies

13 April 2012

Specialists seek more than £11m over athletes’ village delays
GPE trumpets £1bn London development pipeline

05 April 2012

Healthy picture contrasts with recent depressing news on London commercial market
Interview with James Pellatt, Great Portland Estates

4 Apr 12

Great Portland Estates has a £1bn development pipeline over the next five years, so naturally head of projects James Pellatt is on the hunt for companies of all sizes - just so long as they have a sense of humour. He talks to Emily Wright
McLaren joins Barking framework

4 Apr 12

Construction firm looks to broaden east London work
Backing sought for £600m Waterloo plans

3 Apr 12

Proposals would create new business district and ‘Victory Arch Square’
Final steel piece lifts Shard to full height

2 Apr 12

Latest pictures of Shard at its full height of 310m
2012 workers stage own Olympic games

2 Apr 12

Mock events have included throwing half a breeze block to emulate the shot-put
Tesco unveils first London housing scheme

28 Mar 12

North East London project built by McClarens and designed by Collado Collins
Canary Wharf Crossrail station five months ahead of schedule

23 Mar 12

Station ready for tunnel boring machines to break through
Bidders for £400m Crossrail tunnel fit-out job revealed

22 Mar 12

Bam Nuttal, Balfour Beatty and Costain among bidders for fit-out of 21km of twin bore tunnels
Regeneration fund receives £270m budget boost

21 Mar 12

Osborne hands Growing Places fund a boost including £70m reserved for London
Chancellor announces £150m funding for TIF schemes

21 Mar 12

Move dismissed by British Property Federation as “small beer”
'Super sewer' could create 9,000 construction jobs

20 Mar 12

Report backed by TUC and London First calls on government to proceed with £4bn Thames Tunnel scheme
Make wins Crown Estate project in West End

19 Mar 12

Architect commissioned to work on £400m St James’s Market
Chelsfield wins £1.2bn Royal Docks race

19 Mar 12

Developer appointed preferred bidder on 50-acre Silvertown Quays
IKEA submits 1,200-home Stratford plans

16 Mar 12

Retail giant’s property arm submits plans for ‘Strand East’ scheme
Vinci wins final Crossrail tunnel portal contract

16 Mar 12

Contractor beats rivals including Balfour Beatty and Costain to land £30m job
Cabe calls for revisions to landmark Nine Elms plans

15 Mar 12

Watchdog criticises proposals for Vauxhall Square and New Covent Garden Market
8build wins Debenhams HQ fit-out

12 Mar 12

Firm will fit out 145,000ft2 new central London offices
Olympic bosses question marketing restrictions on 2012 firms

9 Mar 12

ODA chief exec Dennis Hone and legacy bosses reportedly at loggerheads with Olympics minister at Mipim
Barratt and British Land to develop City residential scheme

9 Mar 12

Joint venture aquires two acre site next to Aldgate East tube station
Vinci Ringway bags £800m London roads deal

8 Mar 12

Joint venture selected as preferred bidder on 25-year PFI contract
Huge Nine Elms scheme wins planning

6 Mar 12

Royal Mail developed project, designed by Allies & Morrison, will create 1,870 homes
Exclusive: Sir Robert McAlpine bags £550m Bloomberg job

5 Mar 12

Contractor beats off competition from Lend Lease to win contract for media company’s HQ
Balfour and Vinci target London office market

02 March 2012

Contractors establishing a foothold in the area and enjoying significant contract wins
Berkeley Group buys Thames site

02 March 2012

Latest foray by Tony Pidgley into London waterside resi market is Foster-designed scheme in Vauxhall
The London office market: Development boom?

02 March 2012

With 25-year leases expiring all over the City, this was meant to be a boom time for commercial development in central London. So why are so many of the most prestigious schemes either on hold or sitting empty? Building reports
Dev Secs agrees deal to unlock stalled London scheme

1 Mar 12

Sheppard Robson to downsize project on Edgware Rd following deal with supermarket Morrisons
United House appointed for £28m Southwark scheme

1 Mar 12

Contractor chosen by Notting Hill Housing to build PCKO’s Grange Walk project
Design Council names new London home

28 Feb 12

Innovation charity set for move to Stirling Prize-shortlisted Angel Building
Battersea Power Station put on open market

24 Feb 12

Agent Knight Frank begins global marketing push
Treasury gives £150m Lambeth PFI housing scheme go-ahead

21 Feb 12

Treasury gives thumbs-up to Myatts Field North PFI scheme
Half of London's office plans 'may never happen'

21 Feb 12

New report warns economic jitters could jeopardise London office pipeline
Green light for Laing O'Rourke's £76m affordable housing scheme

20 Feb 12

Barking and Dagenham council claims the scheme is nation’s first fully privately-funded social housing project
Berkeley Group appoints Rogers for South Bank tower

17 February 2012

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners will design 22-storey tower, in Berkeley’s latest foray into riverside London property
Berkeley launches One Tower Bridge

17 February 2012

Construction will begin on development of 390 flats after controversial planning history
Old Vinyl Factory development gets nod

16 Feb 12

Development Securities and Cathedral Group joint venture’s £250m scheme to include 132 apartments
Land Securities teams with pension fund for Victoria scheme

16 Feb 12

Mixed-use scheme on Victoria circle site worth £1bn
Wilkinson Eyre completes Soho office

16 Feb 12

The £9.5m building replaces a sixties building in the Soho Conservation Area
Battersea Power Station site worth extra £470m if demolished

15 Feb 12

Historic power station site may only be viable for development if cleared
ECA questions sparks' dinner protest plan

14 Feb 12

ECA boss says targets of protestors anger will not be at dinner and protests should be directed at HVCA
Shepherd bags London hotel contract, again

14 Feb 12

Contractor wins £33m contract to renovate historic hotel nearly two years after initial project collapsed
Spurs freed from affordable housing obligation

14 Feb 12

Council agrees to scrap affordable housing obligations and £16m in regeneration payments as part of club’s new stadium deal
Vinci bags £100m Kings Cross office job

10 Feb 12

Contractor to do pre-construction design work on four-storey office block
How the Olympics and Jubilee are driving London projects

10 February 2012

The Olympics and the Diamond Jubilee have given the capital a real lift this year and all sorts of projects that were languishing in the design drawer are now busily being prepared, spurred on by civic pride and that unyielding deadline. Ike Ijeh looks at the best of them
Ingrid Skinner: First we take West Hampstead

10 February 2012

Ingrid Skinner has big plans to turn Taylor Wimpey’s fledgling London division into a £100m-turnover business - and all without leaving Zone 2. She talks to Building. Photography by Anthony Lycett
Margaret Ford to leave legacy company

8 Feb 12

Chair of Olympic regeneration body to step down after the Games
Sweett Group wins Shard fit-out job

8 Feb 12

Consultant will oversee administration, planning and quality monitoring of luxury hotel fit-out at top of tower
St Modwen looks again at Elephant & Castle

7 Feb 12

Developer reports increased profits for 2011
Spurs let off the hook on affordable homes

6 Feb 12

Council report wipes planning obligations from Tottenham Hotspur for stadium development
Berkeley and DSDHA housing scheme approved

3 Feb 12

Luxury £60m residential scheme in Westminster is architect’s biggest ever project
Mace favourite to win Design Museum job

03 February 2012

Contractor is already advising on £80m scheme
Mace wins £50m Regent Street job

31 Jan 12

Office and retail scheme is for the Crown Estate and Exemplar
Mitie wins £10.5m Derwent London office job

31 Jan 12

Scheme at Clerkenwell Green will redevelop 7,500m2 office as Mitie points to ‘buoyant’ work pipeline
Sheppard Robson's £750m Fitzrovia development at risk

30 Jan 12

Dispute between developer and council over level of affordable housing on ‘Noho Square’ site puts plan at risk
Prince of Wales rebrands his built environment charity

27 Jan 12

Heir to the throne visits London’s Waterloo to launch the Prince’s Foundation for Building Community
Will the Olympics mean other projects in London get delayed?

27 January 2012

Traffic restrictions set for the six weeks of the Olympic and Paralympic Games are designed to help cope with unprecedented levels of visitors to the capital. But could London’s other construction projects end up in a jam?
Mace announces new global HQ

25 Jan 12

All five of the firm’s offices in the capital will merge at Moorgate Hall
Government must invest in design, Conran argues

24 Jan 12

Habitat and Design Museum founder says design can invigorate ailing economy
Design Museum unveils £80m plans for new home

24 Jan 12

Design by Architects John Pawson and OMA for museum’s new home at former Commonwealth Institute building
Plans for new Design Museum unveiled

24 Jan 12

John Pawson Architects reveals plans to convert former Commonwealth Institute in Kensington into new Design Museum
Government to consult on 'Boris Island' estuary airport

18 Jan 12

The government is to hold a formal consultation on controversial plans for a new airport in the Thames Estuary
Foster + Partners’ £290m Principal Place put on hold

17 Jan 12

Hammerson scheme stalls after tenant pulls out
Stanton Williams scoops Mayor's planning prize

17 Jan 12

Architect wins London award for Kings Cross scheme with Argent
Balfour Beatty appointed for London office scheme

13 Jan 12

AXA Real Estate chooses firm for £57m last stage of Sixty London
New King's Cross public square wins planning

13 Jan 12

Stanton Williams-designed scheme will create 7,000m2 of public space outside station
Exhibition Road: Walkin' & wheels

13 January 2012

Dixon Jones’ £28m reworking of South Kensington’s great museum quarter, Exhibition Road, resolves the long stand-off between pedestrians and cars by allowing them to share the same space. Ike Ijeh is knocked over by the simplicity of the design. Photographs by Tim Crocker
New Aecom transport boss named

12 Jan 12

Former MD of Heathrow Express Richard Robinson takes helm in Europe
Commercial development plummets

12 Jan 12

Development drops at fastest rate for over two years - decline steepest in London and the South-east
TFT and Paragon make Land Secs framework

6 Jan 12

Five consultants will provide project services for the developer
Confidence in London property market falls sharply

6 Jan 12

Survey indicates eurozone crisis may trigger decline in property investment in the capital
Six storey new build for Cadogan Estate wins planning

6 Jan 12

Scheme by Stiff and Trevillion Architects also involves engineers AKT II and Arup
Mivan's wins £3.5m job on luxury London hotel

06 January 2012

Foster + Partners-designed hotel in Covent Garden will open in time for the Olympics
One-bedroom hotel on South Bank opens for 2012

5 Jan 12

David Kohn Architects’ A Room for London is part of the London 2012 Festival
Sheppard Robson scheme in doubt

5 Jan 12

Boris Johnson to commission review of Hammersmith scheme, examining the impact of reducing its height
Pictures show extent of damage to Hammersmith flyover

4 Jan 12

Images show corrosion to prefabricated concrete panels
Plans for £60m Thames pontoon withdrawn

4 Jan 12

Client still committed to the Mace and Gensler scheme but will make amendments following negative reception
TfL to keep Hammersmith flyover closed

3 Jan 12

Transport body to run further tests on sixties bridge
Battersea put on sale 'in New Year'

21 Dec 11

Administrator of stricken scheme says interest already received from several major players
Users wanted for Olympic stadium

20 Dec 11

Government faces race to get legacy plans in place before games
Six shortlisted for Olympic park redevelopment

19 Dec 11

Urban Splash and Berkeley among developer teams for first post-games neighbourhood
Lloyds building listed at grade I

19 Dec 11

Richard Rogers-designed building in the City of London given the highest level of heritage protection
Viñoly brought in to work on Chelsea Battersea bid

19 Dec 11

Architect will work with Hussey’s Almacantar and Kohn Pedersen Fox
New London bus hits the streets of the capital

16 Dec 11

Designed inside and out by Thomas Heatherwick Studio
British Land appoints Mace to build Broadgate

16 December 2011

Make-designed office scheme in the City thought to be worth £225m in total - the largest in London
Carnival spirit: Foster Wilson Architects completes Notting Hill arts centre

16 December 2011

Firmco was main contractor on the £3m scheme
Pidgley to run rule over Battersea site bid

16 December 2011

Berkeley lines up to assess £5.5bn project that crashed into administration this week
Unite wins planning for 1,000-bed student digs

15 Dec 11

Accommodation block will be built next to Westfield Stratford, east London
Eight developers shortlisted for Royal Docks regen scheme

15 Dec 11

Canary Wharf and Mace among names in the running for 35 acre job
CLS lodges planning application for £400m Vauxhall scheme

14 Dec 11

Proposed development would include two 50-storey towers, with 510 homes and 163,945ft2 of offices
OPLC unveils winning designs for Olympic park's public spaces

14 Dec 11

James Corner Field Operations will create an urban landscape, and Erect Architecture a visitor centre and playground
Battersea crashes into administration

12 Dec 11

Ernst & Young appointed to redevelopment project with £502m debt
Terry Farrell plots new course for Battersea Power Station

9 Dec 11

Big name architect floats more piecemal approach after financial setback for current plan
Affinity Sutton and Mount Anvil plan £160m mixed-use tower

7 Dec 11

The 36-storey landmark development is at 261 City Road, London and will be known as ‘Silicon Tower’
Olympics may miss £9.3bn budget

6 Dec 11

Latest NAO report says increasing security costs mean budget is on a knife edge
Oxford Street works cause road closures amid crush fears

5 Dec 11

Westminster council closed parts of the London shopping street on Saturday and Sunday
Controversial Hammersmith scheme approved by council

2 Dec 11

Mixed-use plans by King Street Developments and architect Sheppard Robson could face appeal
Willmott Dixon and retailer Morrisons win £65m scheme

02 December 2011

Joint venture will build a 1.5 ha mixed-use scheme in Walthamstow
Ardmore starts work on £26m Tower Hamlets regeneration project

1 Dec 11

Scheme will see the creation of 139 homes
Ardmore wins £60m Kensington resi scheme

1 Dec 11

Contractor will build first phase of PRP-designed west London scheme
Almacantar's £400m Lord's cricket ground scheme ditched

1 Dec 11

MCC announces it will not proceed with AHMM-designed redevelopment project
Third of basement construction sites branded unsafe

30 Nov 11

HSE inspectors visited 109 London sites in a series of raids, issuing 76 enforcement notices
Osborne to back Battersea tube extension

29 Nov 11

Project would create two new rail stations and cost between £750m and £950m
Sir Robert McAlpine and others fined as worker loses leg on Arsenal job

29 Nov 11

Three contractors pleaded guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act on Emirates Stadium build
West End sees most new starts ever recorded

29 Nov 11

The Crane Survey shows the area has highest amount of space under construction for over two years
New images of Thames Hub unveiled

29 Nov 11

Architect Foster + Partners reveals further work in advance of Oxford Uni lecture
Leading museums plan pioneering energy network

25 November 2011

Mott MacDonald working on £32m scheme, which could be rolled out across government estate
Lend Lease wins £35m National Theatre contract

25 November 2011

Lend Lease has beaten Mace to win a prestigious £35m contract to redevelop the National Theatre on London’s South Bank
£650m Crossrail station contracts awarded

23 Nov 11

Organisation names joint ventures for huge Whitechapel and Farringdon station contracts
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands win UCL campus job

23 Nov 11

Architect Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands is already engaged in masterplanning a £500m redevelopment of University College London’s existing site
The highest height: The Shard's spire unveiled

18 November 2011

Mace carried out ‘test run’ of assembling the spire in a Yorkshire airfield
Lewisham flats development enters third phase

17 Nov 11

Architect BPTW has commenced work on the third phase of its Heathside and Lethbridge estates in Lewisham, London, to deliver a further 214 homes.
Countryside Properties and L&Q selected for Chipping Barnet regeneration

16 Nov 11

Plans by Alison Brooks Architects and HTA Architects would see 600 new homes built
Design firms invited to plan Olympic Park's legacy

16 Nov 11

Both urban and landscaping contracts to be awarded through a framework agreement over the next four years
£300m Regent Palace hotel revamp completed

7 Nov 11

Ambitious redevelopment by Sir Robert McAlpine and Dixon Jones Architects will provide office, retail and restaurant space
Camden sport centre, library and offices get planning at King's Cross

7 Nov 11

Planning permission granted to King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership as part of area’s wider redevelopment
Bloxham: Urban Splash is eyeing London market

3 Nov 11

Firm has previously not operated in London
Foster's Thames airport could include overhaul of UK infrastructure

2 Nov 11

Plans for a UK communication, energy and water ‘spine’ would be powered by new Thames Estuary barrier
London may lose £60m river park

2 Nov 11

Foreign backers say they could build in Singapore if planning permission is denied
Boris to introduce World Heritage Site planning rules

1 Nov 11

New planning rules seek to protect Houes of Parliament, Kew, Greenwich and Tower of London
TfL QS apprenticeships programme revealed

1 Nov 11

Boris Johnson lauds scheme allowing 12 apprentices to attend college while getting hands-on experience
Mayor of London reveals developer shortlist for Silvertown Quays

27 Oct 11

St George, Delancey and Chelsfield-led consortium will draw up detailed proposals for Royal Docks project
Skanska wins £50m City development

25 Oct 11

Fletcher Priest-designed building scheduled to complete in autumn 2013 with work to begin immediately
Foster's New Covent Garden Market site goes to planning

24 Oct 11

Proposals, worked up with Neil Tomlinson Architects, will be lodged with Wandsworth Council this week
Mansell bags £40m student job

21 Oct 11

Balfour subsidiary to build student scheme in Kings Cross
Ikea unveils 10.5ha mixed-use Stratford scheme

20 Oct 11

Retail giant’s property arm preparing planning application
Crossrail reveals designs for Tottenham Court Road

19 Oct 11

Derwent blocks designed by Hawkins Brown and AHMM include a new 350-seat theatre on the site of former Astoria
Morgan Sindall to redevelop MTV studios

18 Oct 11

Jacobs Webber-designed development will include new studios and refurbished office space
Design Council Cabe questions floating Thames walkway scheme

14 Oct 11

Design watchdog joins architect Graham Morrison in raising objections to Boris Johnson-backed project
Riverside Quarter in Wandsworth moves ahead

14 October 2011

One and Three Riverside are scheduled for completion in September 2012
Chinese win Cheesegrater job

13 Oct 11

Yuanda was awarded high-profile job by Laing O’Rourke
Work starts at £25m Jewish Community Centre

10 Oct 11

Development will include an open piazza and 14 two-bedroom flats
Welcome to Chobham Manor: Plans revealed for Olympic site

5 Oct 11

Planning application reveals that 8,000 homes will be built on the site of the 2012 Olympics with the first new homes opening in 2013
Boris appoints Lipton to riot taskforce

4 Oct 11

Sir Stuart Lipton and Julian Metcalfe will lead groups regenerating Tottenham and Croydon
Design team appointed on St Katharine Docks upgrade

4 Oct 11

Buckley Gray Yeoman and Morey Smith will renovate and refurbish existing offices at the London marina
Debt deal agreed for Pinnacle tower

23 Sep 11

Construction work set to begin again, Reuters reports
Hackney Empire wins High Court battle

23 September 2011

Took insurer Aviva to court over surety bond
Quintain to change use of space at Wembley Retail Park

19 Sep 11

Group hopes the change will attract high street retailers seeking affordable space
£1.5bn site near Olympics up for grabs

16 September 2011

Mixed use development in East London
Ministry of Sound threatens to sue over tower blocks

13 Sep 11

The nightclub’s lawyers say they will hold council responsible if noise complaints imperil the business
Cabe attacks Land Securities scheme

09 September 2011

Watchdog launches scathing attack on plans to redevelop Westminster office block
BAM appointed to build £25m Jewish Community Centre

6 Sep 11

Work started on the first purpose-built Jewish Community Centre in London
News International scraps plans for headquarters

6 Sep 11

The firm has abandoned plans for redevelopment and put its site in Wapping up for sale
News International to sell Wapping site

5 Sep 11

Publisher puts 15-acre site on sale for second time in three years following property review
Reading the riot act

5 Sep 11

If your project suffered a loss as a result of the riots this August you may be able to claim compensation under a JCT contract or even from the police through a 125 year old statute
London Square gains two new sites

1 Sep 11

Developer has made plans in Shoreditch and Putney
PC Harrington wins Walkie Talkie job

1 Sep 11

Concrete contractor bags role on £500m Rafael Vinoly tower
Key Homes to build Woolwich hotel

26 Aug 11

The 130-bedroom hotel will be part of mixed-use scheme
Severfield-Rowen bags Cheesegrater job

17 Aug 11

Specialist wins steelwork package on the 52-storey London skyscraper
New london development in Soho

05 August 2011

Eric Parry Architects and Henderson Global Investors have won planning permission for a mixed-use redevelopment in London’s Soho.
Tony Lenehan: New directions

05 August 2011

Styles & Wood has had a tough few years, taking huge hits as the retail fit-out market nose-dived. Building finds out how new boss Tony Lenehan plans to turn things round - and why you could be seeing more of the northern-based firm in London
British Land costs amount to £159m on Cheesegrater

4 Aug 11

Developer also reveals it has invested £1.9bn in property during last 18 months
Plans submitted for floating park on the Thames

2 Aug 11

The park will span a kilometre length of open space along Thames Embankment
Foster + Partners unveils Thames transport hub

1 Aug 11

Proposals with consultants Halcrow include 150 million passenger airport
Morgan Sindall scoops £65m central London scheme

29 Jul 11

Redevelopment of six-storey offices in London’s Covent Garden
Assael flasts in Clarence Lane, Roehampton: Metro life

29 July 2011

Assael Architecture’s £5.3m developement will have 20 flats
Architects wanted to design post-Olympics Park

28 Jul 11

Design competitions for public spaces in the park have been launched
Canary Wharf and Qatari Diar sign JV to redevelop Shell Centre

28 Jul 11

Scheme is the latest project to kick off on London’s South Bank
Museum of London plans £4.5m project

27 Jul 11

Architect sought to design extension and refurbishment of Roman gallery
Foster + Partners’ Ruskin Square wins planning

22 Jul 11

Nine acre mixed-use scheme in Croydon approved
Lenehan: Styles & Wood targeting growth in London market

22 July 2011

New chief executive believes the London market could help the firm return to growth
Knight Frank survey reveals surge in Greater London land values

20 Jul 11

However gap between land values in the North and South continues to grow
Five firms land Catalyst housing deal worth £62m

18 Jul 11

Housing maintenance work covers stock in the London area
Gove sues BDP for £3m over Westminster Academy

15 Jul 11

Court action is over outstanding fees and alleged ventilation defects
Overseas investment boosts London office market

15 Jul 11

Investment from outside the UK up 25% in first half of 2011
City living: North Wharf Gardens, London

15 July 2011

Farrells Architects’ mixed-use developement is part of the Paddington Basin regeneration scheme
Four bidders revealed for TfL’s £60m District line upgrade

15 July 2011

Contract will be put out to tender in September but sources have revealed the firms that have passed pre-qualification bids
Hackney Empire vs Aviva Insurance: The Empire strikes back

15 July 2011

This is the tale of a theatre project, backed by Lord Sugar, that landed its client with a £3.2m headache. Now eight years on there’s a legal battle over a bond between the insurer and the theatre owner
Rees: refurbishment will replace skyscrapers

15 July 2011

City of London planning officer has seen growth in applications to refurbish office blocks
HCA announces winning bids for £1.8bn housing programme

14 Jul 11

London set to receive £1bn slice of HCA investment
Telford sales up 50% since April

14 Jul 11

East london housebuilder says trading in line with expectations
ISG Jackson wins £4m Brixton housing project

11 Jul 11

Inglis Badrashi Loddo Architects has designed 42-unit scheme for developer Kitewood
Hackney Empire sues Aviva for £1.1m over bond dispute

08 July 2011

London theatre funded by Alan Sugar in legal case that could affect use of construction bonds
Picadilly Circus revamp

08 July 2011

The first stage in a £14m overhaul of London’s Piccadilly Circus is completed.
McLaren bags three contracts on £41m scheme

6 Jul 11

Mixed-use project in East London will include over 100 apartments and a Tesco
£21bn of residential schemes planned for London

4 Jul 11

EC Harris’ report shows a potential 9,000 units delivered in the capital over the next nine years
Crossrail delays £700m of contracts until 2012

01 July 2011

Three major station projects put back to ease pressure on bidding teams
Hyder sues Carillion over £250m London rail upgrade

01 July 2011

Engineer claims £3.7m for North London Line project after adjudication fails to solve fee dispute
Mace and Laing O’Rourke shortlisted for £800m rail job

01 July 2011

The JV is one of five teams shortlisted for the upgrade of London Bridge Station
The Pinnacle goes onwards and upwards

01 July 2011

Work will proceed after being stalled for much of the year
St Katherine's Docks to be refurbished after £156m deal

29 Jun 11

Max Property Group buys central London’s only marina
Hammerson wins planning for London Wall Place scheme

28 Jun 11

New scheme involves the construction of two landmark office buildings
Pinnacle to start on site 'immediately'

28 Jun 11

Builder Brookfield is instructed by backers to proceed
BIM project to show savings

24 June 2011

A commercial building will be developed using BIM from start to finish, with the hope of showing how 50% savings can be made
Westminster council approves new Chelsea Barracks plan

21 Jun 11

Second design gets green light after Prince of Wales intervention led to withdrawal of Richard Rogers’ original in 2009
Call for reinvention of ‘iconic’ London skyscrapers

17 June 2011

Follows Sir Stuart Lipton’s plan to halve the price of tall buildings
Culture clash: Hunt refuses to list Broadgate Circus

17 June 2011

Culture secretary’s decision clears path clear for British Land’s scheme
Work to restart on Fosters site

17 June 2011

Fire hit Strand on Tuesday
Tate Britain puts out call for £1.2m hard strip job

13 Jun 11

Works at Millbank gallery to begin in September
Broadgate listing row deepens

10 June 2011

English Heritage has defended its recommendation of the site
Lipton plan to halve cost of London skyscrapers

9 Jun 11

Sir Stuart Lipton backs study that recommends cutting the cash spent on iconic City facades
Two firms vie for £340m Cheesegrater tower

8 Jun 11

Laing O’Rourke and Skanska are the firms to make the shortlist
L&Q files controversial dog track plans

7 Jun 11

Housing association submits revised application for 300-home Walthamstow regeneration
Broadgate plans rocked by listing recommendation

6 Jun 11

English Heritage deals potential blow to British Land’s City scheme
Workspace announces pre-tax profit rise of 100%

6 Jun 11

Company behind Wandsworth Business Village reports good year for regeneration
The Shard: London's tallest building

27 May 2011

Londoners have hardly been able to believe their eyes as the capital’s tallest building has shot up in front of them at dizzying speed. Building braves icy winds to report on an engineering triumph
Quintain ramps up Greenwich build-out

25 May 11

Developer pushes ahead with Lend Lease despite £48.1m paper loss
Specialist costs: Curtain walling

20 May 2011

The London office market revival could be the boost that curtain walling contractors need. So what are the options in terms of cost, and meeting Part L requirements? Steve Mudie of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, reports
Keltbray gets £500m Heron Plaza underway

19 May 11

Demolition contract awarded on second Heron skyscraper
Central London office space squeezed, says Derwent

17 May 11

Developer notes rising rental values as demand outstrips supply
HCA's Lunts to join Greater London Authority

16 May 11

HCA executive director for London to be Boris Johnson’s new housing boss
British Land announces first tenant in Cheesegrater tower

16 May 11

Insurance firm Aon to occupy ten floors of £340m City tower
Quintain wins planning for £500m Wembley scheme

13 May 11

Make-designed masterplan is next phase of giant Wembley development
Gardiner & Theobald wins Battersea appointment

13 May 2011

Consultant has been appointed to the 3,400-home project
London Square starts first development

6 May 11

New London housebuilder begins £30m scheme in Wimbledon
Gherkin architect pronounces death of the skyscraper

20 Apr 11

Shard and Cheesegrater part of a dying breed, says Ken Shuttleworth
Ukraine’s richest man buys £136m One Hyde Park flat

19 Apr 11

Rinat Akhmetov has bought the UK’s most expensive flat at the Candy brothers’ One Hyde Park
Mace lands contract to build London cable car

18 Apr 11

Boris Johnson announces contract award and start date
Mace tipped to win TfL cable car project

15 April 2011

TfL are in dicussions with a preferred bidder for the £40m contract
SOM's Leamouth Peninsula scheme given green light

12 Apr 11

Ballymore’s 1,700-home East End scheme gets planning
Qatari Diar makes Olympic village shortlist

6 Apr 11

ODA says three organisations are still in with a chance for athletes’ village
Camberwell Leisure Centre refurbishment

01 April 2011

?Watkins Grey International has completed the first phase of the south London project
Mount Anvil wins planning for Wandsworth Business Village

28 Mar 11

Developer plans an 80,000 sq ft business centre and apartments in heart of Wandsworth
Tube Lines chief executive leaves after nine months

25 March 2011

Andie Harper steps down to be replaced by former RAF director Jon Lamonte
Alchemi conversion

18 March 2011

Alchemi will convert offices into flats in central London
Pinnacle to proceed after funding secured

17 Mar 11

Full funding is set be confirmed for the £1bn development later this month, according to reports
L&Q appoints contractors to £400m framework

16 Mar 11

Ten contractors on board for housing association’s development programme until 2015
Dennis Hone: the long goodbye

04 March 2011

The Olympic Delivery Authority’s new boss has kept his cool in the furore over the Games’ legacy. He’s more concerned with meeting those unmissable deadlines and ensuring the ODA itself bows out with grace
High-flying fox found in Shard

25 Feb 11

Intrepid fox climbs 72 floors up Europe’s tallest building
Argent to restart £250m King’s Cross scheme

25 February 2011

Construction has already started on two office blocks
This is the BBC ...

25 February 2011

After nine years, two architects and £1bn, the controversial BBC Broadcasting House refurbishment is winding up. But is it a feat of architectural elegance and practicality, or just another prime-time flop?
Severfield Rowen warns of 'poor' 2011

27 Jan 11

Steel specialist says London office projects being deferred to 2012
London developers to pay £300m Crossrail levy

17 Jan 11

Mayor Boris Johnson intends to charge up to £50 per m² for £14.5bn rail link
Primus doubles in size as it picks up Rok contracts

14 January 2011

£80m in Rok contracts sold off to company run by former Multiplex directors, saving 40 jobs
Robert Deatker: High flyer

14 January 2011

Turner & Townsend’s Robert Deatker is the man responsible for ensuring the smooth delivery of one of the UK’s most mind-bogglingly complex schemes - the 2 million ft2 London Bridge Quarter, which includes the 310m Shard. And he’s determined to pull it off
Spurs would demolish Olympic stadium

13 Jan 11

If club wins bid it will redevelop most of stadium specifically for football
London mayor approves Battersea revamp

23 Dec 10

£5.4bn development to include a two-station Northern line extension
Bear necessities: interview with Mike Bear, Lord Mayor of London

10 December 2010

Mike Bear, the new Lord Mayor of London, doesn’t intend to spend his year in office admiring the soft furnishings. He has 700 speeches to deliver, 23 countries to visit, and a plan to restore the City’s status as a world leader in development. And he still hopes to find time to make us learn to love bankers … But before all that, he spoke to Emily Wright
Grid Architects wins planning for 190 Strand

10 Nov 10

206-flat West End development will include 22,500ft2 of mixed-use space
Hammerson seeks planning for London Wall scheme by Make

9 Nov 10

Hammerson hopes to complete the 500,000ft2 development by 2014
Boris appoints housing task force

4 Nov 10

Peter Rogers will head up task force examing social housing in the capital
Galliford bags £60m sewage job

2 Nov 10

Contractor to improve largest waste water facility in Europe
Canadian firm signs deal to build £340m Cheesegrater

25 Oct 10

Oxford Properties-British Land joint venture will seek to complete 47-storey London tower by 2014
Walkie Talkie restarts after Land Sec signs joint venture with Canary Wharf

19 Oct 10

Land Secs says deal will allow it to bring forward other London developments in project pipeline
Green light given to London Olympia redevelopment

14 Oct 10

Work will start on site early next year to redevelop Olympia Exhibition and Conference Centre
Abramovich building secret £20m nightclub

24 September 2010

Roman Abramovich is understood to be building a secret £20m music venue beneath Chelsea FC’s stadium
Chipperfield beats Grimshaw and Hopkins to win Waterloo

22 Sep 10

Architect wins design competition to redevelop Elizabeth House next to Waterloo station
Floor at UK's most expensive PFI hospital remains empty

21 Sep 10

A whole floor of the £1bn PFI Barts and Royal London redevelopment is standing empty
Minerva to redesign £300m Ram Brewery scheme

21 Sep 10

New proposal for redevelopment of Youngs brewery in Wandsworth follows Eric Pickles’ rejection of twin-towers design
Decreasing workloads will lead to more job losses, says RICS

18 Aug 10

Impending public spending cuts and economic uncertainty hit construction
Olympic Park landscaping begins with planting 6,000 trees

25 Jun 10

Building got a sneak preview of the landscaping underway at Stratford, which includes 300,000 plants, flood management technology and a fish refuge
BAA revises Heathrow capital investment plans

25 Jun 10

Cash to be diverted from cancelled third runway project
City of London's 2012 entrance options revealed

25 Jun 10

Architecture Foundation shortlists five designs for a temporary new landmark for Aldgate
Brent Cross ticked

25 June 2010

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has given the go-ahead to a £4.5bn regeneration of Brent Cross in north London, masterplanned by Allies and Morrison
David Chipperfield cyclists triumph in City of London

24 Jun 10

London Festival of Architecture kicks off with team race through Smithfield
Crossrail unveils revised design for Whitechapel station

23 Jun 10

Amended proposals by BDP and Hyder ’offer better value for money’
Retired contracts manager accused of £250m Ritz sale scam

9 Jun 10

Retired construction professional in court for fraud over fake London hotel sale
Britain's first water desalination plant opens in east London

2 Jun 10

Thames Water’s £200m plant at Beckton can provide drinking water for 1 million Londoners
The little dipper

28 May 2010

Scott Brownrigg’s The Pool envisages the transformation of a disused tramway underpass in Kingsway, central London, into a swimming pool
Telford reports rising sales in East London

26 May 10

Housing group reports 10% increase in profit in ’extremely encouraging’ market
Morrison nabs £180m of work

30 Apr 10

Repair and maintenance contractor to provide services on about 28,000
Mears wins biggest ever deal

30 April 2010

Social housing maintenance firm Mears has won a £300m 10-year deal with registered social landlord Family Mosaic – the biggest win in its history
Balfour Beatty wins £65m West London housing contract

23 Apr 10

Mansell subsidiary will build 324 homes for Kensington Housing Trust
Balfour Beatty wins £65m housing contract

23 Apr 10

Mansell subsidiary will design and build 324 homes in London’s Wornington Green
Mears wins £170m repairs job

21 Apr 10

Lambeth council awards social housing repairs firm seven-year contract to start in October
McAlpine set to clinch Milton Court job

16 April 2010

Sir Robert McAlpine is set to grab the £150m Milton Court scheme, one of the biggest contracts being tendered in the City of London market
Laing O’Rourke and Costain nab £40m Crossrail project

01 April 2010

Laing O’Rourke and Costain have won a £40m contract to prepare Farringdon station in central London for the coming of Crossrail
VolkerHighways wins £4m Woolwich town centre job

31 Mar 10

Contract will involve regenerating two public squares for Greenwich council, as part of wider scheme funded by Homes and Communities Agency
Will Alsop's Peckham library revisited

20 March 2009

It won the Stirling prize, but many doubted whether it would ever win over the locals. Nine years on, Martin Spring went back to Will Alsop’s Peckham library to find out
City Hall revist: Time has told

2005 issue 42

Ken Livingstone did not want Building to revisit his ‘Beehive’ City Hall three years after completion. Could it be that this 21st-century landmark has not achieved its low-energy targets?