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Plans have been approved by Medway Council for Docking Station, a new hub for the cultural and creative industries for the University of Kent in partnership with Medway Council and Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust, with a focus on immersive digital... View Article

In fall 2023, the world-renowned architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) ran the design studio of the Masters of Tall Buildings and Vertical Urbanism (MTBVU) program, a first-of-its-kind collaboration between the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and the Illinois Institute... View Article

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Grant Associates have worked with conservation and education charity Bristol Zoological Society to secure planning approval for the new Central African Forest habitat at its Bristol Zoo Project site, to home some of the world’s... View Article

Scott Brownrigg’s design for a new life sciences campus on a 15 acre site on the outer edge of Cambridge have received planning approval. Designed for BioMed Realty, the new park provides over 500,000 sq ft flexible laboratory and office... View Article

MVRDV has won the competition to design two buildings in the Tianfu Software Park in Chengdu, including a 150-metre-tall tower that provides the dramatic centrepiece of the campus. One corner of this tower is dedicated to a full-height atrium that... View Article

The adaptive reuse of the Gibson and Harkness buildings in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter will provide a highly sustainable home for the newly established Oxford Institute of Digital Health. Following an invited design competition, the University of Oxford has tasked... View Article

A former business park alongside the railway station in the Dutch city of Zwolle will soon become a vibrant innovation district, thanks to plans assigned by area developer AM and developed by a team including MVRDV, Orange Architects, and LOLA... View Article

Developed around the concept of a ‘village campus’, a new medium secure hospital at the heart of the £60m redevelopment of Northgate Park Hospital, provides a wide variety of indoor and outdoor settings for relaxation and activity, relieving boredom and... View Article

With James Parker In this special episode of Building Insights we captures some of the key highlights from our October 2023 industry round table, ‘Solutions for Stormwater Management.’ The sponsored event held at the Building Centre in London saw a... View Article

Award-winning architecture and design firm BTP have announced three staff promotions following a period of sustained growth. Josh Pearson, who joined BTP in 2020 as an architectural assistant has been promoted to associate. Over his time at the Stockport-based firm,... View Article

Holmes Miller Architects has been appointed by Dundee Football Club to begin work on designing a new stadium for the club. The project will see the development of plans for a proposed new, state-of-the-art stadium as part of a mixed-use... View Article

Danish and Swedish architecture firms Cobe and Yellon have been announced as winners in the competition to design ‘Stadsljus’, a new residential tower rising 110 meters above sea level situated on the site of Stockholm’s former historic gasworks. Announced today... View Article

The Government has finally released the draft version of the Future Homes Standard and the Future Buildings Standard for non-domestic projects, for consultation with the wider construction industry. Due to be implemented in 2025, the standards will require a significant... View Article

With its facades now completed, the Masaryčka building in Prague is defined by circulation routes which will provide access to new civic spaces for the city. Accommodating the continued growth of the city’s corporate sector with office spaces designed to... View Article

Plans for a BDP-designed eco-friendly neighbourhood in Plymouth city centre have been approved. Full planning permission was granted to Plymouth Community Homes (PCH) to develop land off Bath Street in the Millbay regeneration area and deliver 136 much-needed new affordable... View Article

This landmark commercial scheme in the centre of Athens is now fully occupied. Comprising two eight-storey buildings, the first achieved LEED Platinum, through close collaboration between the developer, new owner, and professional team. Platinum exceeds the project’s target of Gold... View Article

The new retirement homes at Brabazon, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios for YTL Developments, have been approved subject to a S106 Agreement. YTL Developments is transforming the historic former Filton Airfield – birthplace of Concorde and supersonic travel –... View Article

An innovative new Architect + Designer’s Guide to Architectural Ironmongery has been published by the GAI. The guide has been produced to bring together all the information that architects, designers and other specifiers need to make the scheduling and specification of an... View Article