Tom Lowe
Tom Lowe is the senior reporter at Building Design and Building.
Areas of focus include politics and how trends in Westminster affect the industry, how buildings are built and what materials go into making them.
He also leads the titles' Grenfell Inquiry coverage and follows the latest developments in the industry's progress towards net zero.
Contact info
- Tel:
- 020 3011 3133
- Email:
- tom.lowe@building.co.uk
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Exterior view of the approved scheme
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NewsBirmingham 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
NewsWhite Arkitekter hires passivhaus expert as UK sustainability chief
Christian Dimbleby joins Nordic practice after 20 years at passivhaus specialist Architype
NewsManchester 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
NewsSquire & Partners’ profit and turnover falls
Operating profit down by 90% and turnover 14% in eight months to March last year
NewsAllies & 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’
NewsPatel Taylor working up plans for 220m Canary Wharf tower
Proposals for 77 Marsh Wall site to contain 925 homes and a mixed-use podium
NewsConstruction 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
NewsGreen light for Stanton Williams’s plans to extend Seifert tower in Knightbridge
View of the proposed new podium
NewsNetwork 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
NewsGovernment rules out plan to demolish Hammersmith Bridge
Plan to keep stricken grade II*-listed structure as a “monument” also scrapped in taskforce meeting
NewsLondon’s £2.2bn Silvertown tunnel opens today
Scheme includes two portal buildings designed by dRMM
NewsTrump 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
NewsAllies & Morrison unveils plans to revamp Wimbledon’s Henman Hill
Seating to be expanded by 20% with a new pergola and terraced areas
NewsOrms 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
NewsAllies & 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
FeaturesWhy 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