The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Assael gets the go-ahead for John Lewis homes in south London
John Lewis Partnership plans for 353 homes above a Waitrose store in the south London borough of Bromley have won planning approval
Tag: Housing
Curl la Tourelle Head wins planning for Essex social homes
Thurrock Council has approved Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture’s proposals to replace an Essex council estate with 48 social units
GPAD scrapes approval for ‘traditional’ redesign of previously refused flats
GPAD has narrowly won approval for a housing scheme in north-west London, 14 months after its previous proposal for the site was refused
Health of housing market ‘worse than 20 years ago’ says new Barker review
Housing expert Kate Barker has said UK housing is in a worse state now than when she wrote her flagship report on it 20 years ago
Weston Williamson and Allies’ Ebbsfleet garden city gets green light
Allies and Morrison and Weston Williamson + Partners’ 2,100-home proposals for Ebbsfleet Garden City in Kent have been given the go-ahead
Gouldstone & Co wins consent for housing on ‘tricky’ Greenwich site
Gouldstone & Co has received planning permission for a housing scheme on a challenging backland site in Greenwich, south London
Peter Barber gets go-ahead for 139-home scheme in Barnet
Barnet Council has approved Peter Barber Architects’ plans for 139 homes on the site of a car showroom in north London
Stolon Studio creates ‘sociable’ housing from farm buildings
The Parks in Herefordshire transforms a group of neglected agricultural buildings into eight sustainable rural homes
PTE says its pilot scheme shows Future Homes Standard is deliverable
Pollard Thomas Edwards (PTE) has completed a pilot housing scheme built to the Future Homes Standard, which it says shows the standard is deliverable and scalable
Alta Tower rises up over Le Havre’s postwar Modernism
The 64-apartment building by Hamonic+Masson & Associés stands out against the horizon in Le Havre – a city that was rebuilt, postwar, to Auguste Perret’s Modernist vision, writes Fran Williams. Photography by Takuji Shimmura, Clément Bonnérat and Hamonic+Masson & Associés