Celebrities including Bill Bryson, Kevin McCloud, George Clarke and Griff Rhys Jones have signed an open letter to Angela Rayner demanding that M&S Oxford Street be saved from demolition
Uproar as Scottish council meets to approve demolition of 500 RAAC homes
Residents of an estate in Aberdeen are in uproar over their council’s plans to demolish more than 500 RAAC-affected homes
Studio Weave gets consent for ‘deep reuse’ of Walthamstow museum
Studio Weave has been granted planning approval for a £4.5 million transformation of the Vestry House Museum in Walthamstow, north-east London
Modernist Somerset library with octagonal reading room listed
A Modernist Somerset library with an octagonal reading room has been listed along with a neighbouring monks’ refectory
BDP to revamp three major cricket stadiums in Pakistan
The Pakistan Cricket Board has selected BDP to overhaul three of the country’s major cricket stadiums
GPAD submits plans for ‘sculpted’ housing block in Wembley
GPAD has put forward plans for a ‘bold, contemporary’ housing block in north-west London in collaboration with design-led developer Caswell&Dainow
Designing for women – does one handbook hail a new era?
Terms such as ‘gender mainstreaming’, ‘gender-sensitive design’ and ‘feminist urbanism’ are creeping into use in architectural dialogue. But, jargon aside, how is policy actually starting to shift? And what does it mean for architects?
Pay 100 urges ‘full industry-wide transparency’ as it launches 2024 architecture salaries survey
The organisers of the Pay 100 survey have called for fully transparent disclosure as they launched their architecture salary survey for its third year
Foster + Partners submits plans to expand its ‘outdated’ Spitalfields giant
Foster + Partners has submitted plans for a major overhaul of its own ‘outdated and outmoded’ 20-year-old building in London’s Spitalfields
Retired architect struck off after failing to comply with ARB investigations
A Scottish man has been struck off the Architects Register after he failed to cooperate with ARB investigations following a complaint against him, and failed to provide evidence of his professional indemnity insurance (PII)