All articles by Tom Lowe – Page 25
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FeaturesFrom the archives: The Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building, 1930
New York’s tower craze restarts following a 15-year lull as two of the city’s most famous towers race to become the world’s tallest
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NewsWinners of Building’s Future Thinkers competition revealed
Six up and coming construction professionals recognised for ideas on how future proof the industry
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NewsProduct industry entering a ‘brave new world’ due to new liabilities, CPA chief says
Peter Caplehorn told Building the Future panel that industry must push towards digitalisation to back up future claims
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NewsStandardisation only way to persuade households to pay for retrofit works, chief says
National Retrofit Hub chair said categorising schemes by building type was the only way to bring down costs
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NewsWilkinson Eyre unveils plans to transform secret London spy tunnels into £220m visitor attraction
Labyrinthine spy headquarters beneath High Holborn had been kept secret for nearly 70 years
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NewsSunak weighing up funding Manchester underground station to bring Burnham on side
Prime minister wants win over Manchester mayor amid backlash against expected HS2 cuts
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NewsHousing specialist looking to replace collapsed Ilke on delayed 120-homes scheme
“Buildability issues” had forced housing association back to the drawing board on 120-home site
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NewsGatwick refreshing £60m design framework as airport architect sees numbers jump
Airport planning to bring to bring second runway into routine use while Pascall & Watson reports workloads doubled last year
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NewsHousing association starts search for consultants on £2bn development framework
G15 housing association planning to ramp up development work under new chief executive Andy Hulme
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NewsBirmingham’s Ringway Centre set for wrecking ball as council considers three tower plan
Corstorphine & Wright proposals would replace brutalist landmark with blocks up to 56 storeys in height
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FeaturesFrom the archives: The construction of New York’s Woolworth Building, 1911-13
How Building charted the rise of the Big Apple’s tallest pre-First World War skyscraper
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NewsAston Villa delays events space plan to accelerate start on £100m stadium expansion
Villa Live scheme next to ground mothballed under plan to quicken up North Stand work
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NewsSunak says gas boilers can stay and delays ban on oil-fuelled heating
Heat pump grants also increased by 50% in major net zero policy shake-up
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NewsThree more green lights on Stanhope’s £700m Oxford science campus
Fletcher Priest, Wilkinson Eyre and Gort Scott behind designs for more than 40,000sq m of life sciences and office space at Oxford North site
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NewsIndustry dismay over Sunak’s expected net zero U-turn
Government set to roll back pledge to ban new gas boilers by 2030 and set tougher energy efficiency targets for landlords
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NewsSearch begins to replace Adjaye Associates on £58m slavery museum scheme in Liverpool
National Museums Liverpool posts contract notice for £1.1m job to lead project following sexual assault allegations against David Adjaye
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NewsUnesco tells government to change £1.7bn Stonehenge tunnel plans
Road scheme was approved for the second time in July
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NewsSummer slump sees main contract awards fall by 37%
Most sectors saw fewer starts than a year ago, gloomy Glenigan report finds
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NewsRICS publishes second edition of whole life carbon assessments standard
Updated version expanded to encompass all built assets across the world
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NewsRevised Fletcher Priest plan for £250m Manchester spa resort approved
Therme Manchester to include more than 25 pools, 30 multi-sensory saunas, a snow room and a “garden of wellbeing”