Author Archives: Anna Highfield

Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) has beaten Foster + Partners in the competition to design a replacement for Florida’s famous Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

Kingston Council has rejected revised plans by 3DReid to transform Richard Seifert’s Tolworth Tower in Surbiton, south-west London

GPAD Architects has hit out after Harrow Council refused its plans for an 18-home project in north-west London, despite the application being tipped for approval

A ‘crisis in recruitment’ within local planning authorities has created a bottleneck which is slowing down the progress of projects, according to the Local Government Association (LGA)’s planning expert

Alec French Architects has submitted its highly anticipated plans to demolish Bristol’s Rupert Street Car Park and replace it with a mixed-use scheme featuring a new car park of a ‘very similar’ scale

Last month, built-environment professionals from across the country took to the streets, demanding urgent government action on carbon emissions. They were met with near-silence. So were the protests pointless?

RSHP has been announced winner of a competition to redesign the Bayeux Tapestry Museum in northern France

The government has stepped in to support residents of a north London housing block after it was deemed ‘not fit for purpose’ less than six years after completion

Construction work on a residential scheme in east London has been halted mid-build because of fears it won’t meet new second-staircase regulations

The DHaus Company has submitted plans to redevelop a disused piano factory and a warehouse in Tottenham into a mixed-used scheme with 36 houses