Anna Highfield

Asif Khan’s designs for a new culture centre in Kazakhstan, opening in April, have been released

Harp & Harp has won planning consent for ‘Sunnyside’, a contemporary housing development in east London

Shetland-based architect Richard Gibson, famous for his remote architecture ‘characterised by care’, has died aged 89

Environmental ‘quangos’ will be stripped of their powers to delay major housing and infrastructure projects under new government plans

As an Australian state gears up to launch a housing ‘pattern book’ to fast-track the delivery of new homes, Anna Highfield asks architects and developers whether the UK should follow suit

Cardiff practice Benjamin Hale Architects, working with Anthony Cowan of Co&Co Architects, has won approval to convert a wartime watchtower near Cardiff into a Passivhaus-standard family home

Westminster City Council has refused for a second time to grant planning permission to a major student housing scheme by Make Architects at Baltic Wharf in Paddington

Shaw and Jagger Architects has won planning approval for a contemporary family home in rural Lancashire through the ‘country house clause’ planning exemption

A Brutalist building once declared ‘Eyesore of the Year’ in Bangor, north Wales, has been listed

Sheffield University has sparked outrage after going ‘behind the backs of students’ with plans to scrap a combined architecture and landscape Masters course