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David Adjaye sued by Ghana office’s ex-director over ‘unfair’ sacking
David Adjaye is being sued in Ghana’s High Court by a former Adjaye Associates director who claims she was sacked after more than a decade at the practice → Read More
Feilden Fowles’ York museum extension faces legal challenge
Local resident Paul Clarke has hired lawyers to start judicial review proceedings against City of York Council’s decision to give consent to the scheme → Read More
Opposition mounts to ‘wasteful’ demolition of post-war Glasgow towers
Campaigners are urging Scotland’s biggest social housing landlord to rethink its plans to demolish four high-rise towers at the heart of a Glasgow housing estate → Read More
New housing minister announced as Lee Rowley
The MP for North East Derbyshire replaces Marcus Jones, who was only in the role for two months. Jones was given the brief in July after his predecessor → Read More
New housing minister announced as Lee Rowley
The MP for North East Derbyshire replaces Marcus Jones, who was only in the role for two months. Jones was given the brief in July after his predecessor → Read More
Hawkins\Brown adds extra staircase to Camden estate tower
HawkinsBrown has redesigned a proposed Camden estate tower block to include additional staircases in a bid to ‘future-proof’ the scheme in view of changes to fire safety laws → Read More
Archio gets OK for pink Passivhaus homes in east London
The Hackney-based practice’s 300m² infill scheme replaces garages at the end of a row of terrace houses on the corner of Kempton Road and Burges Road at → Read More
Gibberd’s ‘light-filled’ Nuneaton Library faces demolition
Conservationists are fighting ‘needless’ plans to demolish Modernist architect Frederick Gibberd’s 1960s library in the Warwickshire market town of Nuneaton → Read More
Atomik Architecture staff to ballot over strike action
Staff at London practice Atomik Architecture are balloting over whether to strike for better pay and working conditions, in what their union describes as the UK’s first strike in a private sector practice → Read More
MJ Long Prize winner Fiona Monkman: ‘As a council architect you don’t expect to win big awards’
This year’s MJ Long Prize winner, Fiona Monkman, is more familiar with picket lines than the podium. She talks to Ella Jessel about designing for ‘undevelopable’ sites and why architects should take collective action → Read More
How has Covid-19 has reshaped architecture’s working culture?
An AJ/AR survey reveals how the pandemic has affected those working in architecture, as well as revealing a generational divide between architectural assistants and more senior staff → Read More
Project starts slump amid weakening economy and rising costs
Project starts have slumped over the past three months amid the weakening economy and rising construction costs, according to industry analyst Glenigan → Read More
PRP takes over Karakusevic Carson’s Broadwater Farm Estate retrofit pilot
Client Haringey Council has appointed the London-based practice to the Tottenham scheme, which aims to explore retrofit options for two 1960s Large Panel → Read More
Ministers raise concern over design of single-stair skyscrapers
Ministers have warned that single-stair residential skyscrapers are unlikely to meet building regulations and will require robust fire-safety provisions → Read More
First Goldsmith Street council home to be sold off under Right to Buy
Mikhail Riches’ Stirling Prize-winning housing project will soon see its first home sold off under Right to Buy, amid growing outrage over government plans to expand the policy → Read More
Council approves rival community-led lido and ‘tiny houses’ proposal in Frome
Andrew Kirby Architects and Studio Saar’s rival community-led masterplan for a controversial redevelopment in Somerset has been granted planning consent → Read More
Fosters reveals new tower plans in ‘complete rethink’ for Blackfriars site
Foster + Partners has unveiled plans for a new tower scheme on an empty site near Blackfriars Bridge in a ‘complete rethink’ of WilkinsonEyre’s earlier scheme → Read More
Aylesbury Estate: new plans in as council approves compulsory purchase powers
A Maccreanor Lavington-led team has submitted the latest phase of a huge estate overhaul in south London despite the refusal by some residents to sell their homes → Read More
Practice Architecture gets OK to expand urban farm project in Waltham Forest
Hackney-based Practice Architecture’s plans to expand Hawkwood Plant Nursery in suburban Chingford, run by Community Interest Company (CIC) OrganicLea, → Read More
Mikhail Riches’ Stratford housing to go ahead despite overshadowing allotments
The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) has approved Mikhail Riches’ 575-home housing scheme on an island site in the Olympic Park, despite fears the development will loom ‘aggressively’ over neighbouring allotments → Read More