Author Archives: Gino Spocchia

Foster + Partners has won a competition to design a new airport in Poland, beating six leading global practices in the process

The founder and chairman of a Classical architecture charity has been dismissed ‘without warning’ by the organisation he established

Hammersmith & Fulham Council has approved an AHMM scheme for 60 affordable homes for women and an 18-storey co-living tower block after initially blocking the scheme

A 35-storey residential tower designed by RMJM close to the Burj Khalifa in downtown Dubai has been left badly damaged after its façade caught fire

Brighton & Hove City Council has given Purcell the go-ahead to restore 30 of the 151 Victorian arches forming the Grade II-listed Madeira Terrace on Brighton seafront

The public has been invited to comment on proposals for a new office tower in central Manchester designed by Glenn Howells Architects

A low-carbon energy tower in Manchester by Tonkin Liu and a house-cum-playgroup centre by Sam Jacob have been shortlisted in the inaugural Building Beauty Awards

White Arkitekter has submitted designs for a cancer centre in Wales, which the practice claims is ‘the UK’s most sustainable hospital’

Metropolitan Workshop has put forward plans for a residential tower rising to 48 storeys in the centre of Birmingham

An architect of more than 35 years has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for arson following a violent dispute with a former friend and client