UK cities could soon be sprouting upwards with new ‘timber canopies’ following the launch of ‘Optoppen’ – a viability tool intended to spread the practice of extending existing buildings vertically
Optoppen – the practice of adding storeys to existing buildings – not only avoids creating more car-reliant communities but favours lightweight timber construction, which also captures carbon, writes Joe Giddings
The UK is falling tens of thousands of homes short on delivering the quantity of housing needed for its ageing population, a government task force has warned
Home Group has launched a new £1.345 million construction consultancy services framework [Deadline: 19 December 2024]
Plans by Maccreanor Lavington for 151 homes on the site of a former gasholder in Rotherhithe, south London, have been approved
Mikhail Riches, a previous Stirling Prize-winner and a contender again this year, has been picked to deliver around 1,000 homes in Manchester for the local authority’s development arm, This City
Work has begun to flatten Maydew House, a 1960s residential tower in south London, 18 months after Southwark Council scrapped a proposed retrofit scheme by Haworth Tompkins
The Office for Place, the government body set up in 2021 to champion good design and placemaking, is to be scrapped, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has announced
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
Lewisham Council has approved dMFK Architects’ proposals for 262 homes on the site of a former gasworks in Sydenham, south London
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