Anna Highfield

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS) has won planning permission for a new research centre for the Natural History Museum

Anna Highfield speaks to architects welcoming the biodiversity rule changes – and those eyeing the potential barrage of pitfalls and challenges

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF) has revealed emerging plans for a mixed-use masterplan incorporating a 19-storey tower in Shoreditch, east London

Dowen Farmer Architects has been granted planning permission for a multistorey kitchen ‘cube’ in west London

Bristol City Council has approved Hodder + Partners’ plans to demolish a ‘dated’ high-rise Premier Inn and replace it with a major co-living and student housing scheme 10 storeys taller

Allies and Morrison has been granted planning permission to retrofit a ‘poorly performing’ vacant 1980s office building in Cambridge

Architects have 196 times the power to slash carbon emissions through work on large projects than through changes to their own lifestyles, according to a member of Architype's climate action team

Dowen Farmer Architects has won planning approval for five homes on a ‘tricky’ backland brownfield site in north London

The chair of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has said UK design leadership ‘should start from school’, with students being shown the difference between good and bad design from a young age

Southwark Council has approved plans by HTA Design, AFK and Hawkins\Brown for a £500 million Bermondsey biscuit factory housing-led scheme in south London