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Grimshaw Architects is to carry out feasibility work on a proposal to create a new £100 million version of Cornwall’s Eden Project in China, it has announced

London Borough of Lambeth has submitted plans for a mixed use scheme in Brixton comprising 303 new homes designed by a consortium of architects and ‘shaped’ by local residents

David Chipperfield Architects made an £18,000 loss after tax and saw staff numbers drop again following a ‘transitional year’, according to the company’s latest accounts

Work has finished on this 31,000m² block in Chiswick Park by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (RSHP) - one of the largest speculative office buildings to be completed in London this year

Watered down proposals to extend the right-to-buy to housing association tenants will still ‘fatally undermine’ councils’ abilities to deliver social housing, according to leading local government figures.

A 1960s power station near Edinburgh designed by Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall & Partners (RMJM) was flattened at the weekend

Councils will have to build up to 1,600 new primary schools in the next nine years to cope with the UK’s growing population, according to new research from Scape Group

London mayor Boris Johnson has used his special planning powers to call in the high-rise proposals for Bishopsgate Goodsyard, claiming the plans had not been assessed quickly enough

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has reiterated his party’s commitment to building 300,000 homes a year during his speech to the Liberal Democrat annual conference

Foster + Partners New York has been shortlisted by US space agency NASA in a competition to design a new astronaut base which could be used on Mars