All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 35
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NewsRevised Fletcher Priest plan for £250m Manchester spa resort approved
Therme Manchester to include more than 25 pools, 30 multi-sensory saunas, a snow room and a “garden of wellbeing”
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NewsDe Montford University starts search for team to design £30m library redevelopment
Job to include a refurbishment of existing block and a newbuild extension
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NewsGreen light for BIG and HWKN’s Canada Water office schemes
Southwark council approved 24- and 11-storey blocks designed by BIG and HWKN
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NewsWestminster set to approve luxury roof extension at the Dorchester hotel
Reardon Smith proposals include a restaurant with a retractable roof and a new penthouse suite
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NewsRIBA says Arb education reforms lack detail on climate and building safety skills
Jack Pringle criticses shake-up for putting too much focus on later stages of training
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NewsLiverpool looking for masterplanners to oversee city’s historic waterfront
Council to appoint team of placemaking specialists to guide development over the next 15 years
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NewsLasdun’s Ziggurats closed over failing concrete fears
Grade II*-listed student accomodation blocks the second Lasdun project hit by RAAC crisis
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NewsWilkinson Eyre’s plans for £750m Marlow Film Studios progress amid local backlash
Local MP among hundreds of objectors to plan to build one of the UK’s largest film studio complexes
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NewsSpurs submits plans to boost height of hotel tower next to stadium
F3 Architects’ partially built scheme has been dormant for four years
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NewsNational Theatre carrying out surveys after discovering RAAC in backstage areas
Many large theatres have been forced to close in recent days after discovering the failing concrete
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NewsStudents and academics at odds over Arb education shake-up
Two thirds of teachers who responded to a survey did not support plans to abolish parts 1, 2 and 3
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NewsSunak finally eases planning rules for onshore wind
Communities which support wind farms could be given up to 50% off their energy bills
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NewsRAAC schools had been due for renewal under scrapped Labour plan
Shelved Building Schools for the Future programme would have seen renewal work at 13 schools hit by failing concrete crisis
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NewsBirmingham council declares itself effectively bankrupt
Europe’s largest local authority freezes all new spending after being hit by a £760m bill to settle equal pay claims
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NewsGovernment expands RAAC surveys of court buildings after Harrow closure
Harrow Crown Court closed for repairs last month despite assurance that sites had been deemed safe
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NewsTory revolt prompts government to scrap onshore wind ban
Backbenchers force Sunak’s hand following broken promise to relax rules by last April
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Features‘I don’t seek permission, I ask for forgiveness’ – Muyiwa Oki on his plans for his RIBA presidency
RIBA’s first black president - and its youngest - did not tell his bosses at Mace that he was running for the role. He is someone who wants to do things his own way, but how much will his promises to shake up the 188-year-old institute run up against its ...
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FeaturesThe RAAC schools crisis: what we know so far
More than 100 schools containing cheap concrete told to immediately close after collapse of beam previously thought to be safe
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NewsSchools told to close all buildings containing problem RAAC concrete
Report in June found reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete could be present in more than 500 schools