Richard Waite

The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone

All but one of the six finalists battling it out for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize – the highest accolade in UK architecture – are in London

Former RIBA president Jack Pringle has called for a return to private finance initiatives (PFI) to fund a huge school building programme to prevent a repeat of the current crisis

The outgoing RIBA president talks about his attempts to change the course of the Portland Place ‘supertanker’ and why he is staying around to see through his House of Architecture plans

Up-and-coming practice Built.Works has unveiled designs for prefabricated holiday homes to be built in the Sussex countryside

Architectural writer Peter Buchanan, best known for the year-long series of critical essays The Big Rethink published by the AR, has died aged 80

Communities secretary Michael Gove has postponed a decision on long-awaited plans by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) for an office-led tower close to the Shard at London Bridge

Dowen Farmer has submitted plans for a new ‘dark kitchens’ scheme in north-west London – its second of a ‘new typology’ of multistorey food production projects lodged in less than a month

The government has temporarily halted controversial Allford Hall Monaghan Morris-led plans, which include the demolition of two post-war buildings near Waterloo, central London, to make way for a major life sciences hub

Construction is due to begin this month on a £1.2million scheme to replace 17 garages in north-east London with new homes under designs by Metashape Architects