All Building Design articles in August 2025 – Page 11
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NewsCity signs off Make’s 10-storey High Holborn office block
Scheme to replace several 1960s buildings with 50,000sq m of office and cultural space
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NewsRayner refuses 43ha film studio scheme in Berkshire over green belt harm
4D Studio’s scheme near Maidenhead would have included 15 sound studios on rural site
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NewsArchitects recognised in King’s birthday honours
Eric Parry and Julian Harrap among built environment leaders to receive gongs
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NewsGrimshaw tightens belt as revenue and profit head south
Firm forced into cost-cutting programme as architect hit by delays to several ‘key projects’
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron revising its original plans to redevelop Liverpool Street station
Practice and developer Sellar consulting on new proposals for grade II-listed site which are said to contain ’much less demolition’
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NewsLeeds council unveils development plans for land around Elland Road football stadium
The plans are intended to replace the 2007 proposals
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NewsIndustry demands ‘clarity, certainty and reality’ from infrastructure strategy as government poised to announce £750bn blueprint
Funding boost for Lower Thames Crossing to be included in today’s announcement
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NewsGovernment ditches public sector decarbonisation scheme
Existing funding to continue until 2028 with subsequent plans to be announced in due course
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FeaturesWhat will the Treasury’s Green Book review mean for construction?
Boris Johnson’s 2020 review of the Treasury’s appraisal process for government investments led to some improvements in how value in schemes is judged, but a new review commissioned by Labour this year found many of the old practices remain embedded. Rachel Reeves has now said she wants to go further.
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NewsLocal architect gets green light for Leeds student tower
Part of 1960s-built Merrion Centre set to be demolished to make way for 37-storey development
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NewsKPF submits plans to refurbish City office of law firm Dentons
Rethink of 1990s SOM-designed building comes ahead of Dentons’ move to Eric Parry’s 1 Liverpool Street in 2026
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NewsChanges to Treasury ‘green book’ rules will help boost housing delivery in the regions, say sector figures
Government announces shift to “place-based” focus when appraising projects
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NewsReeves announces £10bn for ‘financial investments’ to attract private funding into affordable housing
But day-to-day cuts see housing ministry hatching plans to simplify grant funding and roll out AI
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NewsBuilt environment welcomes boost to infrastructure and housing in spending review
Views on the impact of the chancellor’s capital investment plans from professionals in construction, property and architecture
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NewsHousing and infrastructure emerge as big winners as Reeves divides up £113bn in spending review
Chancellor unveiled plans for investments in rail, affordable homes, energy, schools and skills
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NewsGreen light for Gensler’s Wellcome Genome Trust life sciences scheme
Pair of research buildings are first phase of 1.6 million sq ft expansion of Cambridgeshire campus
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NewsAHMM behind plan for £100m mixed-use scheme in shadow of Birmingham HS2 station
Digbeth area of city becoming building hotspot triggered by arrival of new railway
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NewsIn pictures: John Puttick Associates retrofit Victorian power station into youth hub in Blackburn
Located in the town centre, Fusebox now forms part of Blackburn Youth Zone and responds to a growing need for accessible youth infrastructure
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NewsReeves to announce £39bn Affordable Homes Programme and 10-year social housing rent settlement
Treasury also confirms CPI plus 1% annual rent rises and a consultation on convergence in a major win for the affordable housing sector
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NewsReeves reportedly drawing up plans for ‘housing bank’ and £25bn Affordable Homes Programme
Homes England to be redesignated as public finance institution to allow it to create financial assets and lower capital costs for developers