The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
O’DonnellBrown Architects has been given planning permission for a £1.2 million retrofit of a Scottish community centre
O’DonnellBrown gets go-ahead for £1.2m community centre retrofit
Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for curving skyscraper in China
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has runveiled designs for a 210m-tall office tower in Xi’an, the capital of China's central Shaanxi Province
‘Striking’ 1960s Essex church handed Grade II* listing
A church in Essex has been given a Grade II* listing by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Pre-WWII steel beams from Oxford Street salvaged for office retrofit
Developer FORE Partnership is salvaging 100 tonnes of 1930s steel from the former House of Fraser on London’s Oxford Street to re-use in a Stiff + Trevillion office retrofit by Tower Bridge
JTP submits plans for 1,100-home Old Kent Road tower quartet
JTP has put forward detailed plans for four residential towers on London’s Old Kent Road, featuring more than 40 per cent affordable housing
Norman Foster-designed Bond film building set for £4.7m refurb
A Norman Foster-designed, Grade II*-listed building made famous by a Bond film is in line for a major £4.7 million refurb
DLG Architects gets the go-ahead for two Leeds masterplans
DLG Architects has won planning permission for two major masterplans in Leeds
Award-winning Bristol modular houses dismantled over faulty foundations
Legal & General (L&G) is dismantling an award-winning modular housing scheme in Bristol after its foundations were found to be faulty
Glasgow’s new practices, six years on: McGinlay Bell
The AJ catches up with Glasgow’s smaller architecture practices, six years after we first spoke to them in 2017, to see how they have fared
Architects face ‘constant undercutting’ and competition from non-architects
Architects are facing growing threats from competition with non-architects and undercutting by other firms as the projects market slumps