The government’s new National Infrastructure Commission, announced Monday, will not have a remit covering large-scale housing development.
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ADP to open new Edinburgh office
AJ120 big hitter ADP has announced it is opening a new Edinburgh office, just days after celebrating its 50th birthday
Scotland launches hunt for 2016 Venice Biennale team
The search has begun for a team to deliver Scotland’s showpiece at next year’s Venice Biennale – the first time since 2008 that the country will have been represented formally
On film: all six of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2015 finalists
Over the next six days the AJ will reveal videos of each of the schemes shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2015
Housing associations back Right to Buy extension
Housing associations have overwhelmingly voted for a proposal that could see them voluntarily introduce the Right to Buy for their tenants
AJ shortlisted for six media awards
The AJ has been shortlisted for half a dozen top honours in this year’s International Building Press (IBP) awards
Row ignites over retractable seating at Olympic Stadium
A subcontractor which helped install retractable seating at the Olympic Stadium has threatened to sabotage equipment to disrupt the Rugby World Cup in a dispute over an upaid bill
Council set to refuse ‘alien’ rocket-shaped flats
Planners have panned a rocket-shaped tower proposed for a site in Southwark by Russian practice Studio 44, saying it would be a ‘wilfully insensitive insertion on the skyline’
Obituary: Alec Gillies (1957-2015)
Bob Wallbridge pays tribute to the ‘truly great’ Hampshire County Council architect Alec Gillies who has died, aged 58, after a short and sudden illness
The Artesian Spatial Effect
Ian Martin develops atrium maximisation for doughnuts