All articles by Alex Funk
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NewsLDA Design’s 4,500-home South Cambridgeshire masterplan gets green light after four-year delay
A complaint from the Enviroment Agency put scheme on back burner in January 2021
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NewsHistoric England rounds up most ‘remarkable’ 2024 heritage listings
A brutalist church, a 1930s house and a mock Tudor pub among highlights of buildings given protection this year
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NewsLocal groups raise concern over height of towers at Earls Court redevelopment
Tallest building will be 42 storeys
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NewsBDP wins approval for Swansea council houses
The 156-unit energy efficient scheme forms part of the council’s wider efforts to increase affordable housing supply
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NewsPlans approved for FCB Studios’ new affordable neighbourhood in Greater Manchester
English Cities Fund (ECF) will deliver 90 affordable homes built to Passivhaus standards on brownfield land
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NewsPractices ‘increasingly cautious’ about staffing as sector confidence weakens, says RIBA report
October has seen rising pessimism across workloads and recruitment compared to the previous month
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NewsFounder’s retirement prompts sale of Scottish architecture practice
Stewart Davidson sells DBP to employee-owned CSY Architects
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NewsAlt Studios announces courtyard mews plans for failing hotel site
The “sustainable” proposals include eight dwellings and a private courtyard
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NewsGreen light for dMFK’s plans to repurpose grade-II listed Camden police station
Court rooms and prison cells from the 1913 law enforcement centre will be restored or converted for modern day use
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NewsCouncils holding £8bn of builder contributions meant for vital infrastructure, says HBF
Local authorities hit hard by the housing crisis are sitting on the highest sums of affordable home funding
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NewsRIBA Special Awards 2024 winners announced
Stephen Lawrence Prize, Reinvention Award, Neave Brown Award for Housing and Client of the Year winners revealed
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NewsSheppard Robson’s University of Southampton student hub gets green light
A car park will become a new campus destination with wildflower roofs and a cafe
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NewsCorstorphine & Wright submits housing scheme for former Coventry car plant site
Proposals at Daimler factory include 250 homes
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NewsFresh hope for Bakerloo line extension as Aecom and Weston Williamson asked to carry out stations study
Scheme involves adding four stations south of current terminus at Elephant & Castle
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NewsSustainable office retrofit to transform former Lipton Tea HQ
Stiff and Trevillion Architects’ consented design retains 70% of the heritage building’s original structure
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NewsIn Pictures: Bennetts Associates’ University of Edinburgh learning centre
The category A listed building underwent a transformation from dilapidated former hospital to study facility
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NewsWe Made That co-founder appointed as Hackney council town architect
Holly Lewis is one of ten new town architects tasked with levelling up London boroughs
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NewsHS2 team to trial clay as low-carbon alternative to concrete
Funding from Innovate UK seeks to reduce carbon emissions across infrastructure projects
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FeaturesNot in my Brick Lane: Truman Brewery’s uphill struggle to win support for development plans
The last time the East End land owner tried to bring change to the iconic London thoroughfare, it was met by fierce resistance. With even more ambitious plans now lodged with the council, what are the odds of them winning the locals over? Alex Funk went to find out
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NewsStride Treglown gets go-ahead for 435 new homes in Bristol
Scheme will be built opposite city’s main railway station