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Marks and Spencer has launched a legal bid to overturn Michael Gove’s rejection of its Pilbrow and Partners-designed plan to demolish and redevelop its Oxford Street store
M&S launches High Court appeal against Gove’s Oxford Street refusal
Michael Gove has been bold over M&S Oxford Street. But it’s not enough
The government urgently needs to join the dots between its landmark verdict on Marks & Spencer’s demolition proposal and the policy vacuum on limiting embodied carbon in construction, writes Will Hurst
BREAKING: Gove rejects M&S Oxford Street demolition
Michael Gove has rejected controversial plans by Pilbrow + Partners to demolish and redevelop Marks and Spencer’s flagship Oxford Street store, overruling a planning inspector’s verdict
Haworth Tompkins’ Modular Auditorium named AJ100 Innovation of the Year
Modular Auditorium, featured in Haworth Tompkins’ new theatre on Tottenham Court Road, has won the 2023 AJ100 Innovation of the Year award
Grosvenor’s Andy Haigh: ‘There’s very little carbon literacy in early design decisions’
Ahead of a RetroFirst-themed panel debate at the Ecocity World Summit this week, Grosvenor's director of climate positive solutions Andy Haigh discusses his work and the role of architecture
Get up to speed on embodied carbon now, say leading developers
Grosvenor, Lendlease, Stanhope, L&G, Mace, British Land, SEGRO, Berkeley and Igloo are demanding architects get to grips with construction’s carbon emissions
From banks to bamboo: Pakistan’s first female architect Yasmeen Lari
How the RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner swapped rich corporate clients for community-driven architecture that helps the poorest on the frontline of climate change
Gove delays M&S Oxford Street demolition ruling until July
Michael Gove has postponed his much-anticipated decision on Pilbrow + Partners’ plans to demolish and rebuild Marks & Spencer Oxford Street until July
Mayor to investigate London’s housing demolition ‘loophole’
London mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged to investigate a claim that around 1,000 homes in the capital have been wrongly labelled ‘obsolete’ and earmarked for demolition
‘Architects need a Hippocratic oath to stop them trashing the planet’
The profession needs to sign up to an Hippocratic oath to pledge to do no harm to the environment, architect Simon Sturgis has said at the SAVE Britain’s Heritage annual lecture