Author Archives: Gino Spocchia

The government has scrapped plans for an office hub set to be housed in Make Architects’ 5 Centenary Square scheme in Birmingham – casting doubt over the future of the unbuilt block

Arup has made a wave of redundancies – including senior staff – after encountering a ‘slowdown’ in work, including the pause in construction of HS2

China appears to have walked away from hugely controversial proposals designed by David Chipperfield Architects for a massive embassy complex close to Tower Bridge

A remote house in the Scottish Highlands by Ann Nisbet Studio and a Grade II-listed London pub-to-home conversion by Erbar Mattes are among the schemes in the running for the 2023 RIBA House of the Year award

Parliament is set to outline the upgrades needed to Hopkins’ Portcullis House later this month following a series of breakages and leaks in its main atrium  

Populous is expected to continue working with Italian football club Inter Milan on plans for a new stadium away from the San Siro following the apparent failure of proposals for a shared home with AC Milan at the original ground

Camden Council has approved Gibson Thornley Architects’ plans to remodel a Richard Seifert building in London’s West End

Counter-proposals for a 1960s building currently earmarked for a DSDHA-designed scheme have been backed by architect Simon Sturgis and Victorian Society president Griff Rhys Jones

Barbican artistic director Will Gompertz is leaving his job at the performing arts centre to become director of Sir John Soane’s Museum

Pollard Thomas Edwards has secured planning on the next 160-home phase of its masterplan for the former MG Rover factory site at Longbridge in Birmingham