Tom Lowe

London

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Smith Mordak replaced by Simon McWhirter as boss of UKGBC

3 days ago | bdonline.co.uk | Tom Lowe

Mordak served just two years as chief executive of industry charity that campaigns on sustainability issuesSmith Mordak is no longer chief executive at the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), the organisation has said without giving a reason for their departure. Mordak, who was appointed chief executive by the charity’s board of trustees in June 2023, was replaced by former deputy chief executive Simon McWhirter at the end of May.
Green light for Levitt Bernstein’s Islington housing state expansion

4 days ago | bdonline.co.uk | Tom Lowe

Council plans to add 54 homes to 1970s Bemerton Estate Islington council has unanimously approved its own plans to expand a north London housing estate. Proposals designed by Levitt Bernstein to add 54 homes to the Bemerton Estate on Caledonian Road were given sign off at a planning committee yesterday evening. Built in the early 1970s, the estate consists of a communal garden surrounded by around 700 homes in 14 blocks, including a garage building with a ball games court on its roof.
Green light for Levitt Bernstein’s Islington housing estate expansion

4 days ago | bdonline.co.uk | Tom Lowe

Council plans to add 54 homes to 1970s Bemerton Estate Islington council has unanimously approved its own plans to expand a north London housing estate. Proposals designed by Levitt Bernstein to add 54 homes to the Bemerton Estate on Caledonian Road were given sign off at a planning committee yesterday evening. Built in the early 1970s, the estate consists of a communal garden surrounded by around 700 homes in 14 blocks, including a garage building with a ball games court on its roof.
Selldorf appointed to lead ‘transformational’ rethink of Wallace Collection

5 days ago | bdonline.co.uk | Tom Lowe

London art gallery’s grade II-listed base to be restored and enhanced by practice behind recent overhaul of the Sainsbury Wing The Wallace Collection has appointed Selldorf Architects to overhaul the museum’s historic base in central London. The New York-based practice behind the recently completed facelift of the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing will work with Purcell on a “transformational” rethink of Hertford House, the museum said.
Adjaye Associates unveils design for children’s cancer centre in Ghana

1 week ago | bdonline.co.uk | Tom Lowe

Campus to be built out of local materials including rammed earth and timber Adjaye Associates has unveiled its designs for a research centre in Ghana which will be West Africa’s first institution dedicated entirely to the treated of childhood cancers. The 225,000sq m International Children’s Cancer Research Centre (ICCRC) in Kyebi has been designed for the Wish4Life Foundation, a US nonprofit based in New York.
Manalo & White’s Bangor theatre wins 2025 RSAW Building of the Year

1 week ago | bdonline.co.uk | Tom Lowe

Pair of family homes in the countryside and a railway bridge by Grimshaw make final list A community arts venue and Welsh-language theatre designed by Manalo & White has been named as the best new building in Wales. The Royal Society of Architects in Wales said the scheme, called Nyth, in a former church in Bangor was a “refreshing” approach to conservation, describing it as a “sophisticated and at times delightful architectural collage”.
Key talking points from UKREiiF 2025

2 weeks ago | bdonline.co.uk | Tom Lowe

Building safety regulator delays, new towns and infrastructure were the biggest topics at this year’s gathering of construction professionals in Leeds as the industry debated the degree to which a huge amount of work could be threatened by systemic challenges UKREiiF is getting bigger by the year, with more than 16,000 professionals attending the 2025 construction conference in Leeds this week during three days of sunny weather, networking, panel discussions and robust amounts of booze.
Don't scrimp on design for new towns, taskforce chair tells housebuilders

2 weeks ago | bdonline.co.uk | Tom Lowe

Michael Lyons tells UKREiiF conference that working on government’s 10,000-home developments will come with ‘clear expectations’ around design and mix Housebuilders working on the government’s new towns programme will need to provide assurances that housing mix and design will not be “diluted under market pressures”, the chair of the taskforce appointed to oversee the programme has said.
New images of Acme’s £1bn Liverpool Street station plans as City publishes planning application

3 weeks ago | bdonline.co.uk | Tom Lowe

Documents reveal team tested options including building over station’s entire listed trainshed The City of London has published the planning application for Network Rail’s proposed redevelopment of Liverpool Station, revealing new images of how the scheme could look when built. The £1bn Acme designed scheme was submitted at the beginning of April and has been validated by Square Mile planners in the space of just six weeks.
RIBA names winners of Yorkshire and South West awards

4 weeks ago | bdonline.co.uk | Tom Lowe

Projects by De Matos Ryan and Stonewood Design named buildings of the year in the two regions Projects by De Matos Ryan and Stonewood Design have been named as the winners of RIBA’s latest two RIBA regional awards. De Matos Ryan’s Wonderlab: The Bramall Gallery, an interactive exhibition at the National Railway Museum in York, is RIBA’s Building of the Year for Yorkshire.