All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 3
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FeaturesBuilding archives: The Festival of Britain, 1951
A summer event showcasing the best of Britain’s modernist architecture helps London to embrace its postwar future
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NewsJohn McAslan & Partners’ Burrell Collection refurbishment named Scotland’s building of the year
Scheme is most significant revamp of grade A-listed building since it opened in 1983
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NewsManchester approves nearly 1,500 homes by Hawkins Brown, Bell Phillips and Simpson Haugh
Approved schemes include two towers
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NewsRenzo Piano and Selldorf shortlisted for $170m US museum expansion job
Kengo Kuma, Weiss Manfredi Architecture, Studio Gang and Why Architecture also reach second stage of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art competition
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NewsArb research uncovers ‘staggering’ levels of discrimination and sexual misconduct in the architecture profession
A survey of nearly 900 professionals found more than a third had experienced insults relating to protected characteristics
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NewsRIBA headquarters to close from June next year while refurb is carried out
Work expected to take around two and a half years
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NewsBDP completes £63m STEM building for University of Hertfordshire
Five-storey Spectra building to include robotics labs, destructive testing spaces and wind tunnels
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NewsHugh Broughton Architects appointed on Westminster public toilets job
Eight toilets to be refurbished across the borough in bid to replicate “Victorian civic pride” in public sanitation
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NewsRIBA issues ‘cautionary note’ for practices not paying staff the Real Living Wage
New Real Living Wage for London and the UK set last month
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NewsSaltdean Lido removed from Historic England’s heritage at risk register following restoration
But 155 sites added in updated 2024 list, including a 15th century school house which survived an arson attack by suffragettes
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NewsMake’s City fringe office overhaul deferred over height policy breach
Councillors said scheme’s “tenuous” community benefits did not justify proposed two-storey roof extension
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NewsBureau Proberts opens London office
Brisbane-based firm appoints former Neom project lead to run UK base
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NewsNBBJ and Purcell win planning for Oxford healthcare research centre
Scheme to link two existing buildings with glazed atrium
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NewsStride Treglown tables plan to extend listed university building within Greenwich world heritage site
Practice working with Purcell on plans to add three-storey extension to 1920s building
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NewsDecision to scrap government design advisor Office for Place a ‘mistake’, says Nicholas Boys Smith
Body’s interim chair said move risks ministers “marking their own homework” on housing design
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Features‘We hope to be a good neighbour’: how the new Liverpool Street station team is rethinking London’s most controversial project
A week after Herzog & de Meuron’s proposals were dropped, Building speaks to Network Rail and the scheme’s new architect Acme about the redesign of the listed station and what exactly has happened to development partner Sellar
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NewsGensler and DMAA handed senior roles on first phase of The Line
Two practices to work with UK engineering firm Mott MacDonald on first three modules of controversial Saudi megaproject
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NewsMore than half of people who are often lonely believe architects are out of touch, poll finds
Report for the Centre for Social Justice found 52% of frequently lonely adults did not believe buildings are designed to encourage community
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NewsNetwork Rail to appoint new development partner for Liverpool Street station only after it gets planning
Acme’s scaled back proposals to cost a third less than previous plans and will be submitted within next two months
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NewsHackney approves plans for Old Street office tower
Studio Kyson’s 14-storey scheme the third to be approved on site since 2013