All articles by Tom Lowe
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Sheppard Robson’s Salford University acoustics facility approved
Exterior view of the approved scheme
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Former Aberdeen council architect removed from register after chasing teenage son with a meat cleaver
Colin Doig carried out 225 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to 2022 assault which also left his wife seriously injured
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Birmingham defers decision on Simpson Haugh’s five-tower scheme amid tall building fears
Councillors argue city is drifting in a ‘New York direction’ without any clear policy on high-rise development
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White Arkitekter hires passivhaus expert as UK sustainability chief
Christian Dimbleby joins Nordic practice after 20 years at passivhaus specialist Architype
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Manchester approves four towers including UK’s tallest outside London
Simpson Haugh’s 76-storey Viadux 2 tower and Sheppard Robson’s 44-storey Whitworth Street scheme among approvals
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Squire & Partners’ profit and turnover falls
Operating profit down by 90% and turnover 14% in eight months to March last year
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Allies & Morrison picked to develop 10,000-home masterplan on land around Old Trafford
King’s Cross architect to lead consultant team including Civic Engineers on ’one of biggest growth opportunities in country’
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Patel Taylor working up plans for 220m Canary Wharf tower
Proposals for 77 Marsh Wall site to contain 925 homes and a mixed-use podium
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Construction of Europe’s biggest theme park to start next year in Bedfordshire
Plans for Universal Studios UK confirmed as government agrees deal with US giant Comcast
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Green light for Stanton Williams’s plans to extend Seifert tower in Knightbridge
View of the proposed new podium
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Network Rail Property submits £1bn Liverpool Street Station redevelopment plans
Updated CGI showing the scheme’s 21-storey office development, which would be built above the station’s concourse roof
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Government rules out plan to demolish Hammersmith Bridge
Plan to keep stricken grade II*-listed structure as a “monument” also scrapped in taskforce meeting
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London’s £2.2bn Silvertown tunnel opens today
Scheme includes two portal buildings designed by dRMM
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Trump tariffs could make investors pause funding for major schemes, experts warn
But construction prices could also ease as overseas exporters dump products in the UK to avoid US barriers
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Allies & Morrison unveils plans to revamp Wimbledon’s Henman Hill
Seating to be expanded by 20% with a new pergola and terraced areas
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Orms and Richard Griffiths Architects replace Squire & Partners on Custom House hotel plans
Application submitted for 180-bed conversion of grade I-listed site two years after rejection of previous scheme
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Allies & Morrison and DSDHA submit plans for £350m London Bridge life sciences complex
Three blocks to provide laboratory and office space next to Guy’s Hospital
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Features
Why most new homes still fail to meet the latest standards
Almost two in three new homes are still being built to regulations that applied in 2013, over a year and a half after the end of the transition period for the new part L and other requirements. How has the government got its projections so wrong? Tom Lowe reports