SimpsonHaugh has drawn up plans for a skyline-dominating 71-storey tower within Manchester’s growing Great Jackson Street cluster
Green signal for Glenn Howells’ Birmingham HS2 depot
Birmingham councillors have given the green light to Glenn Howells Architects' plans for an industrial complex key to the running of High Speed 2 (HS2)
MPs to scrutinise Gove’s proposed planning reforms
A high-profile panel of MPs is to consider Michael Gove’s proposals to reform planning policy
Zaha Hadid Architects sees profits eaten up by soaring staff costs
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) saw its pre-tax profit plummet by more than 90 per cent last year, according to results filed with Companies House this week
AHMM wins approval to replace post-war London housing with science hub
Lambeth councillors have unanimously approved controversial AHMM-led plans that include demolishing two post-war buildings in central London to make way for a major life sciences hub
Alsop’s Peckham Library targeted to be first 21st-century listed building
Campaigners have demanded Grade II* status for Alsop & Störmer’s 2000 Stirling Prize-winning Peckham Library, a move that could make it the first 21st-century building to be listed
Worsening ethnic and gender paygaps show ‘systemic discrimination’, warns former RIBA chief
The RIBA’s former diversity director has warned of ‘systemic discrimination’ in architecture after data showed a widening of gender and ethnicity pay disparity at big practices
Urbed to close in January with key staff joining BDP
Manchester practice Urbed is to close down after 46 years with its principal, David Rudlin, joining BDP as director of urban design
PRP’s Lancaster housing scheme among winners of government brownfield grants
A 580-home mixed-use scheme in Lancaster by PRP has received £1.6 million as part of a £35 million government cash handout
Fosters wins planning for timber-framed replacement of 1950s housing block
Westminster City Council has approved Foster + Partners’ plan to demolish a 1950s housing block in west London and replace it with two seven-storey buildings as part of a major mixed-use development