All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 4
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‘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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Morris & 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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HTA 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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Interview: 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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Herzog & 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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Faulkner 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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General 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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Campaigners 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
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Morris & Co revises delayed Shoreditch scheme for the second time
Mixed-use proposals heading to fourth planning committee meeting next week after three deferrals
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Green light for Glancy Nicholls' 47-storey Birmingham tower
Residential scheme to be the tallest in the city’s Broad Street tower cluster
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Stiff & Trevillion unveils chopped down rejig of rejected City tower
Revised scheme to include four-storey roof extension to grade II*-listed Holland House following refusal of original plans in 2021
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FCBS gets go ahead for Natural History Museum outpost in Berkshire
Facility to house a third of the museum’s collection along with digitisation labs
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KPF to submit plans for 1.5ha City fringe redevelopment
Vision for new “beating heart” of Shoreditch to include 65,000sq m of office space
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Arb investigation into professional practical experience launches call for evidence
Former policy advisor to Nick Clegg and Ryder partner Peter Barker also announced as commission members
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Purcell wins planning for retrofit of Richard MacCormac science block
Scheme will add two storeys to 1989 building used by Queen Mary University
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Feilden Fowles beats three Stirling Prize winners to land Oxford University job
Practice to design “holistic” transformation of grade II*-listed Mansfield College
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Manchester United to make decision on Old Trafford redevelopment by end of this year, Burnham says
Manchester mayor said redevelopment of the ground and the surrounding area could be the “biggest regeneration scheme in the country”
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Grimshaw unveils Waterloo Station masterplan
Network Rail and Lambeth council scheme could see vacant undercroft spaces opened up and a roof extension on the main station building
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Who would back a ‘retrofit only’ mandate? RICS debate airs range of industry views
Former RIBA president Sunand Prasad and Save Britain’s Heritage director Henrietta Billings among Industry experts which discussed how much weight should be given to retrofit schemes by the planners and regulators. Tom Lowe reports
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City formally approves plan to build 1.2 million sq m of office space by 2040
City Plan 2040 document will now be sent out for public consultation before heading to the government for final approval