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Keep up to date2023-11-20T16:39:00+00:00By Dave Rogers
Communities secretary Michael Gove to have final say on 90m-tall building
2024-01-29T07:00:00+00:00By Thomas Lane
The contractor wants to bring DfMA discipline to high-rise residential projects for the same cost as traditional build.
2024-01-16T07:59:00+00:00By Thomas Lane
The South-west’s biggest music venue has cost nearly three times the original budget and opened three years late. Thomas Lane visits to find out why – and whether it was worth it
2023-12-06T05:58:00+00:00By Thomas Lane
CiA new office building incorporating Europe’s largest green wall is also one of the UK’s most sustainable. Thomas Lane looks at how the team managed it
2023-11-20T16:39:00+00:00By Dave Rogers
Communities secretary Michael Gove to have final say on 90m-tall building
2023-11-06T06:00:00+00:00By Thomas Lane
This modern take on the traditional almshouse is intended to reduce loneliness and isolation by bringing community groups into the building and promoting interaction between residents. Could it tempt older people out of their family homes?
2023-10-16T10:00:00+01:00By Joey Gardiner
Influential think tank says new Housing and Planning Bill should be used to ‘regain initiative’ from Labour
2023-09-12T12:00:00+01:00By Thomas Lane
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole council has built an education centre from timber groynes reclaimed from the beach. Thomas Lane looks at the project, which has been shortlisted for the net zero award at this year’s Building Awards
2023-07-26T05:00:00+01:00By Thomas Lane
Network Rail wants to replace rural level crossings with bridges. A team has come up with an alternative to steel that is 40% cheaper to build with less embodied carbon
2023-07-12T05:00:00+01:00By Ben Flatman & Thomas Lane
Historic grade II* listed building reborn in £9.5m project as a multi-purpose facility for local residents
2023-07-10T06:46:00+01:00By Thomas Lane
The Oak Cancer Centre at the Royal Marsden’s Sutton site is a state-of-the-art research and treatment facility. Thomas Lane finds out more
2023-06-07T06:00:00+01:00By Thomas Lane
Like its neighbour the Cheesegrater, the latest addition to the City skyline – Wilkinson Eyre’s 8 Bishopsgate – had to avoid impinging on views of St Paul’s
2023-05-30T06:00:00+01:00By Thomas Lane
Armed with new net zero carbon targets, developer Grosvenor tested these out on a tired 1980s office building near Sloane Square
2023-04-12T06:00:00+01:00By Thomas Lane
The ground below the developer’s n2 office in Victoria was so congested by tunnels, it is supported in just four places. Thomas Lane looks at the pinpoint accuracy of the building’s fit
2023-04-03T07:01:00+01:00By Thomas Lane
Stone is typically stronger than concrete with one third of the carbon impact. Engineer Webb Yates is reinventing an ancient material for the modern age
2023-03-03T07:00:00+00:00By Thomas Lane
A sensitive landscape and stiff local opposition presented the team building Britain’s longest railway bridge with a major challenge. Thomas Lane reports on how they got on
2023-02-14T07:00:00+00:00By Thomas Lane
Sky wanted its new film studio in Elstree built in double-quick time to help meet movie makers seemingly insatiable demand for space. How did the contractor get on?
2023-02-01T07:00:00+00:00By Jim Dunton
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
2023-01-24T07:00:00+00:00By Thomas Lane
A 1920s facade’s poor condition left the project team wondering whether it would have been less carbon intensive to knock it down and start again
2023-01-09T07:00:00+00:00By Thomas Lane
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
2022-12-07T07:00:00+00:00By Thomas Lane
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
2022-11-18T07:00:00+00:00By Thomas Lane
Manchester’s Factory International mega‑venue aims to encourage artists to push the boundaries – as the designers themselves have done
2022-11-16T07:00:00+00:00By Tom Lowe
For Qatar 2022, Zaha Hadid Architects, Foster + Partners and BDP Pattern had to create open-air arenas where players and spectators are protected from temperatures of 40ºC
2022-10-17T06:00:00+01:00By Thomas Lane
Its grand height and formal aloofness may give it an air of superiority but the ‘vertical village’ goes out of its way to make people feel at home. Thomas Lane reports
2022-09-22T06:00:00+01:00By Susan Roaf
Forget everything you thought you knew about building design if you want to achieve net zero. I built a house that heats and cools itself naturally
2022-09-21T06:00:00+01:00By Thomas Lane
With climate change making heatwaves more frequent, intense and long-lasting, what can be done to mitigate overheating in buildings?
2022-09-16T06:00:00+01:00By Thomas Lane
It has been compared to climbing the world’s highest mountain but the redeveloped Battersea power station is now, finally, complete
2022-09-09T07:08:00+01:00By Ben Flatman
Ben Flatman takes a look back over a remarkable reign as seen through some key architecture
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