Author Archives: Gino Spocchia

SimpsonHaugh's refused designs for two residential skyscrapers in Blackwall, east London, have been approved by a planning inspector after an appeal

A kinetic glasshouse by Heatherwick Studio has been shortlisted in the second Building Beauty Awards

Conrad Koslowsky Architects has won the RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize 2023 for a £1 million transformation of a children’s home in south-west London

Co-design has become a buzzword, used widely by architects and developers – but not always accurately. Gino Spocchia reports on what true community empowerment looks like

Lambeth Council has given Buckley Gray Yeoman planning permission for a 20-storey office building in Waterloo, central London, including a four-storey podium designed by MATT Architecture

Haptic Architects has won consent for an office retrofit in Holborn, central London, adding seven new apartments in a two-storey extension

Scottish practice Brown and Brown has come under fire over its designs for a modernist home for Stella McCartney on a secluded plot in The Highlands

Inter Milan has released images of what a new 70,000-seater stadium away from the San Siro site could look like after plans for redeveloping the footballing landmark fell through

Public Practice has named the architects and designers being placed into local planning departments as part of the programme’s autumn cohort

The cost of building HS2’s London to Birmingham leg has jumped up to £68 billion, new estimates suggest