Author Archives: Gino Spocchia

The government has pledged to spend £6 billion on home insulation – but RIBA president Simon Allford said the investment must be ‘accelerated’ to combat the UK’s poor energy efficiency

Emanuel School in Battersea, south London, has chosen Design Engine Architects to design a new science block

Only one of the 20 projects longlisted for this year’s RIBA House of the Year award has an A-rated energy performance certificate (EPC), according to research shared with the AJ

Bristol City Council is to reclad more than half of its 64 residential tower blocks following two high-rise fires

Housing and levelling up secretary Michael Gove has said the government will call-in new builds that are not ‘beautiful’ so as to reduce opposition to residential developments

Edinburgh City Council has approved a shedkm-designed scheme for 205 homes north of the city centre, 52 of which will be affordable

Stirling Prize-winner Haworth Tompkins has landed another prized cultural project in Liverpool: the refurbishment of the city’s 156-year-old Playhouse Theatre

Stolon Studio and a team at the University of Manchester have won nearly £770,000 in funding to research the benefits of urban biodiversity

Architect Daniel Libeskind has condemned plans to auction off artist Kurt Schwitters’ Merz Barn in Cumbria to private developers

A local authority in Renfrewshire, Scotland, has admitted that a new primary school designed by Holmes Miller does not have enough room for future pupils