Former RIBA president Jack Pringle has called for a return to private finance initiatives (PFI) to fund a huge school building programme to prevent a repeat of the current crisis
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Simon Allford: ‘The RIBA was failing, inexcusably caused by those meant to be leading it’
The outgoing RIBA president talks about his attempts to change the course of the Portland Place ‘supertanker’ and why he is staying around to see through his House of Architecture plans
Cabin fever: Built.Works reveals prefabricated holiday home designs
Up-and-coming practice Built.Works has unveiled designs for prefabricated holiday homes to be built in the Sussex countryside
Architecture critic and author Peter Buchanan dies
Architectural writer Peter Buchanan, best known for the year-long series of critical essays The Big Rethink published by the AR, has died aged 80
Gove delays decision on AHMM’s London Bridge tower proposals
Communities secretary Michael Gove has postponed a decision on long-awaited plans by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) for an office-led tower close to the Shard at London Bridge
Dowen Farmer serves up plans for more multistorey ‘dark kitchens’
Dowen Farmer has submitted plans for a new ‘dark kitchens’ scheme in north-west London – its second of a ‘new typology’ of multistorey food production projects lodged in less than a month
Government halts contentious AHMM-led Royal Street proposals
The government has temporarily halted controversial Allford Hall Monaghan Morris-led plans, which include the demolition of two post-war buildings near Waterloo, central London, to make way for a major life sciences hub
Metashape’s backland housing set to start on Walthamstow garages site
Construction is due to begin this month on a £1.2million scheme to replace 17 garages in north-east London with new homes under designs by Metashape Architects
Campaigners call for listing to save 1960s synagogue from demolition
The Twentieth Century Society has made a listing application in a bid to prevent the demolition of the 1968 Brighton and Hove Reform Synagogue and its ‘extraordinary’ stained glass windows
‘A big step forward’: insurer opens door to more engineered timber buildings
Architects have welcomed insurer Aviva’s decision to ‘expanding its appetite’ to include engineered timber in commercial property developments