All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 25
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NewsWorkload optimism ticks up as market shows sign of improvement, RIBA finds
But uncertainty over the election and high interest rates are dampening investment according to latest Future Trends survey
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NewsCouncil rejects plans for huge expansion of Sky’s new Elstree Studios
Concerns over loss of green belt land sink UMC Architects-designed application to add eight new blocks to existing site
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NewsCrooked House pub owners appeal against rebuild order
Council served enforcement notice last month giving owners three years to recreate “Britain’s wonkiest pub”
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NewsMayfair rebuild scheme set for refusal as Westminster targets net zero plan
But Foster & Partners’ proposed retrofit of nearby department store site handed recommendation for approval ahead of next week’s planning meeting
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NewsDavidson Prize reveals longlist for upcycled housing competition
This year’s £10,000 award will be handed to team with best proposal for building homes in existing non-residential structures
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FeaturesBuilding archives: Planning the postwar New Towns, 1945-46
The Builder reports on the development of a vast new wave of housing to replace the homes destroyed by wartime bombing
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NewsAdjaye Associates turnover jumps following workload boom in the Middle East
But income falls in five out of the firm’s seven global regions including 66% slump in the UK
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NewsPopulous completes major global shake-up following private equity deal
Co-founder Earl Santee named as new chief executive among a raft of other appointments
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NewsFosters designs ‘ultra-luxury’ apartment blocks in Dubai
Towers to feature triple-height “sky palace” with its own “grand arrival gallery”
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NewsCity launches guidance for reducing carbon in historic buildings
Heritage practice Purcell worked on toolkit explaining how heritage assets can be retrofitted responsibly
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NewsGreen light for revised Morris & Co office block eight years after original consent
Latest update adds statement new front door and several new sustainability improvements
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NewsRSHP reveals first look at plans for City’s latest skyscraper
Consultation on 240m-tall scheme to replace 99 Bishopsgate opens today
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Features‘Recession is a change agent’: Why Gensler is launching itself into the UK housing market
In the second of our interviews with senior Gensler executives, global co-chief executive Julia Simet and co-managing principal for Europe Duncan Swinhoe talk to Tom Lowe about turning towards office-to-residential conversions, how the UK planning system needs to change and why the world’s biggest practice doesn’t have targets
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NewsMorris & Co’s Shoreditch office plans finally approved at fourth committee hearing
Twice-redesigned scheme has been mired in planning woes since July last year
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NewsHTA Design unveils first phase of Crystal Palace Park facelift
Scheme to restore park’s Victorian features including its listed dinosaur sculptures and Italian Terraces
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FeaturesInterview: Gensler’s Diane Hoskins on how to keep growing in a time of crises
The co-chair of the world’s largest architecture practice tells Tom Lowe about the firm’s journey over the past few turbulent years and why they decided to write a survival guide for architects
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NewsHerzog & de Meuron’s £1.5bn Liverpool Street station plans hit by more than 2,000 objections
Westminster and Hackney councils join onslaught of objectors to “barbaric” planning application expected to be heard later this year
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NewsFaulkner Browns unveils plan to refurbish grade I-listed Newcastle market building
Two new pavilions would be built in early 19th century Grainger Market under plans
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NewsGeneral public assumes architects have high professional standards, Arb survey finds
Research being carried out to inform regulator’s new code of conduct and practice
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NewsCampaigners to launch High Court challenge against Make’s £700m ITV Studios plans
Save Our South Bank announce intention to start judicial review against Michael Gove’s decision to approve scheme last month