Gino Spocchia

Acquisition-hungry Egis, the multinational architecture and engineering giant which owns Weston Williamson + Partners (WW+P), has snapped up Madrid-based sports specialist Fenwick Iribarren Architects (FIA)

Transport secretary Louise Haigh has called £100 million spent on Moxon’s HS2 bat tunnel ‘the tip of the iceberg’ in the high-speed rail line’s project mismanagement

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has called in a planned 8,400-home ‘garden village’ near Sittingbourne, Kent, which was set to be rejected by the local council

Gensler’s London office has been named as one of three firms leading on detailed designs for the first phase of Saudi Arabia’s controversial 170km-long linear city, The Line

Stiff + Trevillion has unveiled plans to overhaul Maida Vale Studios, formerly owned by the BBC, following a competition to transform the 115-year-old building

China is blocking Eric Parry Architects’ proposals for a new British ambassador’s residence in Beijing in response to delays to China’s own London embassy plans, designed by David Chipperfield Architects

No prize money will be given to the winner of this year’s Building Beauty Awards, which is being contested by Níall McLaughlin Architects, Lynch Architects, Grimshaw and Daewha Kang Design

Lewisham Council has approved dMFK Architects’ proposals for 262 homes on the site of a former gasworks in Sydenham, south London

Manchester United bosses will not make a decision on redeveloping Old Trafford until midway through next year, following a consultation involving Foster + Partners

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has voiced his opposition to Níall McLaughlin Architects’ plans for a 27-storey student tower in Archway, north London