All Buildings, Design and Specification articles – Page 23
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NewsBidders given more time to price £275m HS2 job
Tenders for Washwood Heath scheme now set to go back this April
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NewsSeventies campaign group reformed to battle Sellar’s plan to overhaul Liverpool Street station
Comic-turned-conservationist Griff Rhys Jones to head collection of heritage groups fighting proposals
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NewsGreen light for £275m HS2 rail maintenance depot
Washwood Heath job will also double up as railway’s network control centre
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FeaturesA piece of genius: world's first cast-iron building is fit for the future
When Historic England took on restoration of an 18th-century flax mill, the plan was to preserve a piece of history and give a unique industrial building a new sense of purpose
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NewsLendlease submits plans for £1.9bn Birmingham Smithfield regeneration
Masterplan includes plots designed by Stirling Prize-winning architects
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CommentWhy it is important to consider solar panels in planning applications
Photovoltaic panels have a right to light, so planners will want to see that any on neighbouring properties have been taken into account
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FeaturesMarket forecast: Weathering the storm
The UK is now clearly heading into recession but strong momentum in construction output should help to insulate our sector, despite only slightly slowing cost pressures
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FeaturesNine Elms: How the Chinese redefined development in London
The past decade has seen the riverside area around Vauxhall transformed with Chinese developers cutting their teeth on three major schemes. Thomas Lane visited the project
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NewsMace begins new year with blue riband brace worth £300m
Contractor lands London double with life sciences job in King’s Cross and new office in Berkeley Square
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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 22: Market update
A market update from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life that provides guidance on costing structural steelwork
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NewsGreen light for Stanhope’s huge Waterloo life sciences district
Scheme still needs to signed off by London mayor and communities secretary Michael Gove
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NewsBritish Land appoints architect to turn £20m City car park into logistics hub
Developer targeting more work in last-mile delivery push
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FeaturesTop 150 Contractors and Housebuilders 2022: Signs of hope in the economic phoney war
Contractors are wary but the need for more recruits and a better-than-expected autumn statement mean it’s not all doom and gloom for the year ahead, writes Dave Rogers
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NewsSellar to unveil design changes to £1.5bn Liverpool Street station following listing upgrade
Move follows Historic England’s decision to upgrade site’s listing status following request from developer and heritage groups
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NewsPlans in for 32-storey office tower beside historic London market
Developers say 85 Gracechurch Street will drive footfall at Leadenhall Market
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NewsSOM rejigs City tower to boost carbon credentials
Consented plans for the Diamond have been redrawn amid growing demand for low carbon office space
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FeaturesTo refurb or rebuild? Join the great M&S Oxford Street store debate
Henrietta Billings and Fred Pilbrow put the case for and against plans to build a new flagship store for Marks & Spencer on Oxford Street
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NewsCouncil accused of ‘abuse of power’ over approval for Make’s ITV studios redevelopment
Former Vauxhall MP Kate Hoey suggests Lambeth was driven by motive to get ‘as much money as possible’ from £400m redevelopment of ITV studios
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FeaturesBankside Yards: A new net zero model for London?
Native Land’s scheme will be the UK’s first major mixed-use net zero development thanks to an ambient heat network. Thomas Lane reports
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NewsStanhope’s huge Royal Street scheme in London set for approval next week
Development due to be built next door to Waterloo station