All articles by Tom Lowe
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Hawkins Brown lops four storeys off Manchester Met library in cost-cutting redesign
Landmark 13-storey scheme approved last year to be resubmitted as nine storeys with its floorspace almost halved
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Ridge & Partners submits plans for Portsmouth Faculty of Technology
Multi-disciplinary firm acting as lead architect, QS, project manager and principal designer
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‘Quite simply a giant of the profession’: tributes flood in for Nicholas Grimshaw following death at 85
Grimshaw’s eponymous practice announced the death of its founder yesterday
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HTA’s four-tower Elephant & Castle scheme approved
Plans replace two former schemes for Skipton House site by SOM and Piercy & Co
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Nicholas Grimshaw dies aged 85
Founder of Grimshaw celebrated for his ’extraordinary ability to convince others that daring ideas were possible’
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Green light for Chapman Taylor's 800-home scheme next to Old Trafford stadium
Scheme part of a wider masterplan for land surrounding stadium
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BDP appoints Arup’s Nick Jackson as architect director
Jackons’s past projects include the original design for 1 Undershaft
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Developer loses consent for plans to convert listed Victorian baths into cinema amid ‘unprecedented’ financial challenges
Maccreanor Lavington and Pringle Richards Sharratt behind scheme to repurpose Ladywell Playhouse in Lewisham
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US pharma giant pulls out of AHMM’s King’s Cross life sciences scheme
Decision blamed on declining competitiveness of UK market
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Finnish practice JKMM named winner in Helsinki museum contest
Names of finalists in anonymous competition for landmark scheme revealed for the first time
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HS2’s Euston terminus still at risk of poor decision-making, MPs tell Treasury
Government definition of ‘mega projects’ granted greater scrutiny excludes many strategic projects, Public Accounts Committee warns
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Levitt Bernstein wins planning for 79-home Islington mixed-use scheme
Vorley Road plans to include new Archway Library and medical centre
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City approves Orms and Richard Griffiths’ Custom House hotel conversion
Councillors unanimously back plans to turn grade I-listed City landmark into a hotel
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What does the appointment of Steve Reed as new housing secretary mean for housebuilding?
Angela Rayner’s replacement held the shadow housing brief in 2021 and now he returns to the role in government. But although he has promised to ‘build, baby, build’, Reed lacks the influence on Keir Starmer that his predecessor had
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National Gallery to launch competition tomorrow for £375m expansion
New wing at Charing Cross site envisaged to be gallery’s largest transformation since its foundation 200 years ago
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Pennycook keeps housing brief following reshuffle of junior ministers
More than 20 new junior ministers appointed following Angela Rayner’s resignation
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Network Rail looking for architect to design mixed-use redevelopment of Oxford station
Team sought to redesign 2014 plan by AHR Architects
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The Reform party conference: what a Farage government would mean for housing, investment and ‘net-stupid-zero’
Source: Reform UK Reform UK leader Nigel Farage in the main arena of the National Exhibition Centre at the two-day conference in Birmingham
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Stiff & Trevillion lodges plans for City’s latest office-to-hotel conversion
Scheme would add four storeys to ‘undesirable’ 1990s building