Anna Highfield
Senior News Reporter at The Architects' Journal
Senior News Reporter at the Architects’ Journal | @ArchitectsJrnal | (she/her)
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1 month ago |
architectsjournal.co.uk | Anna Highfield
The allegedly offending structure is the 19-storey Arbor Tower, a £34.9 million office block built for developer Native Land, which opened in 2023. Stephen and Jennifer Powell, who live in th CZWG-designed Bankside Lofts (1999), a neighbouring building by the River Thames, are seeking a court order to demolish Arbor Tower on the grounds that it blocks out their light, The Times reports.
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1 month ago |
architectsjournal.co.uk | Anna Highfield
The Danish practice’s part-retrofit, part-rebuild of the modernist tower for British Land will see the landmark turned into a science and tech-led workplace, with lab-enabled spaces ‘for cutting-edge businesses of all sizes’. A significantly reworked version of the proposal, already redrawn once in 2023, was submitted in December last year. Camden Council’s planning committee voted to approve the project on Thursday evening (21 March), subject to secondary approval from the Mayor of London.
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1 month ago |
architectsjournal.co.uk | Anna Highfield
The buildings, a 29-storey tower and a 13-storey tower, will provide 355 homes (83 designated ‘affordable’) as well as a 410m² community café and music venue, which will be occupied by a local jazz club, Jazz East, at 50 per cent market rent. Backed by the Pickstock Group, the development will be built near Pudding Mill Lane DLR station on a vacant 0.42ha plot at 68-70 High Street Stratford, previously home to a Porsche showroom.
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1 month ago |
architectsjournal.co.uk | Anna Highfield
Tokyo-based real estate company Mitsui Fudosan confirmed on Wednesday (19 March) that it will fund the £1.1 billion project. Work to deliver the development will be able to proceed ‘as soon as possible’, according to the company. Detailed design will start now and initial works are scheduled to begin in 2026 for an estimated completion in 2032.
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1 month ago |
architectsjournal.co.uk | Anna Highfield
It all sounds so simple, so commendable. When you build something new, you must make sure there is more natural habitat on the site – ‘measurably better’, as the legislation puts it – than before the contractors’ shovels went into the ground. But the seeds of good ideas take time to blossom, and the first year of the Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) regime has not been without its hiccups.
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