Author Archives: Gino Spocchia

Hawkins\Brown has unveiled updated proposals for a 784-bed student accommodation scheme in Glasgow, reaching a potentially record-breaking 36-storeys

ACME’s controversial 18-storey office proposal for Elephant and Castle has been approved on appeal – a year after Southwark councillors rejected the scheme

Southwark Council has cancelled two housing-led regeneration schemes – one by Weston Williamson + Partners, the other by Pitman Tozer Architects – due to cost increases

Associated Architects has submitted designs for a 34-storey tower to expand University College Birmingham’s student accommodation

Southwark Council has approved a 688-room student scheme by tp bennett, which replaces an earlier 219-home scheme for the site by HTA Design

Communities secretary Michael Gove is considering calling in the Populous-designed Sphere in east London even though its backer, Madison Square Garden (MSG), looks to have all but given up on the project

Ann Nisbet Studio has won the £10,000 Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award 2023 for Cuddymoss, a home within a ruin in Ayrshire

Long-term maintenance of the Palace of Westminster will be presented as a third option to MPs when restoration plans are put before parliament next year, officials have said

The City of London has approved Fletcher Priest Architects’ part-demolition, part-retrofit and extension of a 1970s office building

Canary Wharf, the most visible built expression of the 1980s boom, is evolving away from the corporate monoculture of its birth. Gino Spocchia speaks to the architects creating a more diverse, more sustainable future