Howells reveals King’s Cross tower
Plans for the tallest tower on the King’s Cross Central site have been unveiled. It is hoped the building, by Glenn Howells Architects, will become an “urban marker” for the regeneration scheme, visible from across London.
City of London to charge for pre-application meetings
The City of London is to begin charging developers for pre-application meetings.
RIAS alarm at Scottish National Trust report
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has written to the National Trust for Scotland asking for an urgent meeting about the future of the historic properties it manages.
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Peter Rees: The man who built the City of London
As Peter Rees marks 25 years as the City of London’s chief planning officer BD meets the man and gauges to what ends he has used his considerable power.
Architectural education needs change, says Neil Spiller
Former Bartlett tutor Neil Spiller is as apprehensive as the freshers as he embarks on his new role as head of Architecture & Construction at the University of Greenwich. He plans to lead the school with an ecological and political vision for architecture.
Hatcham Gardens by East
East’s landscaping of Hatcham Gardens is part of a linear arboretum it is creating across the south London area of Deptford.
Aecom's Graham Fairley on new facade materials
In the last of a series of videos on facade design, Graham Fairley, head of facade engineering at Aecom, talks to Anthony Gell, CEO at the Business Voice, about the latest advances in technology and the opportunities it creates for architects.
Glass staircases in Apple’s Covent Garden store
The two glass stairs in Bohlin Cywinski Jackson’s Covent Garden store for Apple are as amazing as the i-gadgets on sale
The 2010 architecture biennale goes 3D for an invigorating exhibition
Entering this year’s Arsenale I was greeted with a surreal vision of the future. Hoards of revering onlookers, 3D glasses strapped to their faces, mouths agape, as images of Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa zooming around their EPFL campus on Segway scooters flashed before their eyes.
Prefab Houses
A new book by Arnt Cobbers and Oliver Jahn overlooks the real big hitters of the industry.
Venice Biennale
Romania shines at the Venice biennale
The Giardini’s other pavilions fell somewhere along usual spectrum between artistic whimsy and corporate sales pitch, the most successful standing out for the powerful execution of a single idea.
The sprawling Venice biennale offers frustrations and rewards
The sprawling labyrinth of the Giardini’s Palazzo delle Esposizioni (formerly Italian pavilion) continues the well-paced tempo of the Arsenale, only shifting slightly from the shock and awe tactic of immersive installations to a greater emphasis on exhibiting built projects, and artists whose work tackles the wider social and political of context in which these buildings are situated.
Boris is brave to think bigger
Ignore the critics, London’s new housing design guide will mainly give us a size of home long enjoyed in western Europe
The resistance to regen starts here
Embracing every regeneration project on offer does no favours to our rundown urban areas
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