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Surface Design Show, the premier UK event that provides a platform for architects, designers and specifiers to explore the best in interior and exterior surface materials, returns to London’s Business Design Centre from 11-13 February 2020 A key theme for... View Article

The Start-Up exhibition and conference centre, the first building within Chengdu’s Unicorn Island masterplan, is nearing completion With China’s economy evolving from traditional industries to internet and technology-based organisations, the country is now home to a third of the world’s... View Article

Rockwell, a London-focussed mixed-use property developer with a track record of high-quality development projects, has today announced the completion of a £106m investment deal with Aviva Investors to fund the delivery of a 400-bed Premier Inn hotel adjacent to Westferry... View Article

Plans submitted to Gateshead Council for Brett Wharf, a transformative £35m residential-led development on the south bank of the River Tyne, have received planning approval. Designed by FaulknerBrowns Architects on behalf of The High Street Group, the scheme represents a... View Article

Award-winning, multi-disciplinary design practice, rg+p has launched its third studio in the heart of Birmingham’s business district rg+p has taken space at 1 Newhall Street, the contemporary glazed fronted building located at the junction with Colmore Row. Initially, the practice... View Article

Following a two-year process, today MVRDV is revealing their competition entry and research process for the next Tencent headquarters campus. Located on a 133-hectare site in a prominent location in Qianhai Bay, Shenzhen, Tencent’s brief called for what is nothing... View Article

Jaeger Kahlen Partner is one of the joint winners at the international competition for Bao’An Bay Industrial Investment Tower in Shenzhen, China. The office building is a set of shifting volumes that break the tower into a series of terraced... View Article

The completion of Principal Tower is the final piece of the Principal Place masterplan, a comprehensively planned mixed-use scheme on the border of Shoreditch and the City of London that creates a thriving new neighbourhood, drawing on the rich industrial... View Article

Award-winning architectural practice gpad london and Tellon Capital have secured planning permission to progress with the rooftop extension and refurbishment of 16-18 Eastcheap, a late Victorian building in the heart of the City of London’s insurance district. The interior will... View Article

Foster + Partners has won the competition to design the new headquarters for Alibaba – the Chinese ecommerce giant – in Shanghai. As a new signature building for the company, it is set to showcase their unique working culture to... View Article

Seaton Beach, an innovative seafront development of eight luxury apartments at Seaton in Devon, built to Passivhaus standards, has won ‘Best Apartment Devon’ for the Penthouse and ‘Best Sustainable Residential Development in the UK’ in the International Property Awards and... View Article

Designed and built according to innovative prefabricated construction systems and technologies, Axiom Desert House is characterised by a pillar and beam construction with a large open room that opens onto a private courtyard, just as in the Californian lifestyle and... View Article

CEG has submitted a reserved matters (detailed) planning application for the next 200,000 sq ft of commercial space at the £400 million Kirkstall Forge development in Leeds Designed by Cooper Cromar architects, it will provide bold, contemporary space with leisure/retail... View Article

Toyota has revealed plans to build a prototype “city” of the future on a 175-acre site at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan. Announced at CES 2020, the global consumer technology show in Las Vegas, the Woven City will... View Article