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Scottish practice Brown and Brown has come under fire over its designs for a modernist home for Stella McCartney on a secluded plot in The Highlands
Brown & Brown-designed home for Stella McCartney prompts outrage
Inter Milan unveils images of new Populous stadium
Inter Milan has released images of what a new 70,000-seater stadium away from the San Siro site could look like after plans for redeveloping the footballing landmark fell through
Public Practice names its ‘first national cohort’ of local authority placements
Public Practice has named the architects and designers being placed into local planning departments as part of the programme’s autumn cohort
Cost of HS2 London-to-Birmingham phase soars to £68bn
The cost of building HS2’s London to Birmingham leg has jumped up to £68 billion, new estimates suggest
Starmer’s proposed planning reforms welcomed by the profession
The built environment profession has broadly welcomed Labour’s plans to overhaul the planning system and deliver the next new towns
Labour promises to overhaul UK’s ‘antiquated’ planning system
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves has promised sweeping changes to the UK’s planning system in a bid to deliver homes and low-carbon infrastructure
Bartlett and John McAslan report calls for 72,000 more social homes a year
The government should fund councils to build an extra 72,000 social and affordable homes a year, the Bartlett and John McAslan + Partners have urged in a new report
Chipperfield calls for new embodied carbon rules: ‘Don’t knock a building down’
Pritzker Prize-winning architect David Chipperfield has called for new RetroFirst-based planning regulations, adding he no longer likes cantilevers because of their energy cost
Gove postpones decision on Make’s South Bank tower – again
Michael Gove has further delayed his decision on Make’s controversial proposals to redevelop the former ITV Studios on London’s South Bank
Grimshaw’s Euston HS2 station loses more platforms under Sunak rethink
Grimshaw’s London Euston HS2 station will be shrunk to just six platforms under Rishi Sunak's latest vision for the flagging project