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Haworth Tompkins has been brought in to work on the replacement for Alison and Peter Smithson’s soon-to-be-demolished Robin Hood Gardens estate in Tower Hamlets

The Architects Registration Board (ARB) has struck almost 20 per cent fewer architects off the register for non-payment of fees

Adrian Lahoud has been appointed as dean of the Royal College of Art’s School of Architecture.

Tower Hamlets councillors have given the go-ahead to the controversial reconfiguration of Erno Goldfinger’s 1960s Balfron Tower in east London

Buckley Gray Yeoman (BGY) has been granted planning permission for an office scheme incorporating a ‘tatty shop front’, described by Ian Nairn as ‘one of the best visual jokes in London‘

Liverpool City Council and Plus Dane housing association have withdrawn their legal challenge to the government’s decision in January to refuse permission for the demolition of 440 homes 

Gensler has won planning permission for a 31-storey ‘stacked box’ mixed-use skyscraper in Shoreditch

Eric Parry has revealed proposals for a new 73-storey skyscraper which is set to become the tallest building in the City of London

Hackney and Tower Hamlets councils look set to ‘refuse’ plans for Bishopsgate Goodsyard - even though the final decision has been taken out of their hands by London mayor Boris Johnson

St Mary Redcliffe’s new visitor centre, a cycle hub for Leyton Jubilee Park and an artistic installation within England’s forests. The editor’s pick of this week’s leading competitions