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Chief Reporter at Architects' Journal I @news.architectsjournal.co.uk

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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
In the AJ: New decision date. New secretary of state on China's London embassy www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/chinese...
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Chinese embassy decision delayed as new housing secretary takes post
The new housing secretary, Steve Reed, is expected to make a decision next month on China’s contentious London embassy plans
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 04/08/2025
The naming of a winner for the Grenfell Tower memorial design contest has slipped back, while, separately, the government has set out details of the tower’s deconstruction
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Grenfell memorial winner announcement is delayed
Grenfell memorial winner announcement is delayed
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Plans to improve Peckham Rye station, despite the project team being ready to go, have been stalled by a government funding pause. Unsurprisingly, the architect behind the £40m project has been among the voices to criticise that decision, here:
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‘Disastrous’: Landolt + Brown slams Peckham Rye station funding snub
The government’s decision to pull funding for the long-awaited overhaul of Peckham Rye station in south-east London has been labelled ‘disastrous’ by its architect, Landolt + Brown co-founder Adam Bro...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
When there's a will, there's a third way... Herzog & de Meuron have been working on another rival scheme with Sellar for overhauling Liverpool Street station Will this eclipse Herzog's own 2023 application and Network Rail's ACME scheme, validated just last month? Time will tell
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Exclusive: Herzog and de Meuron working on all-new rival Liverpool Street plans
Herzog & de Meuron is working on all-new proposals for redeveloping Liverpool Street Station as a rival proposal to ACME’s current Network Rail-backed scheme, the AJ can reveal
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Bobby Jewell @bobbyjewell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Enjoyed this by @ginospoc.bsky.social for @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Unless you're a corporate megafestival feels anyone in nightlife, especially LGBTQ+, has been having a tough time. So great to read success stories from across the UK www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/please-...
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LGBTQ+ nightlife is going back to its counter-cultural roots
Pushing back against Covid’s decimation of British nightlife, queer architects, designers and campaigners are taking LGBTQ+ nighttime back to its counter-cultural origins. Gino Spocchia reports
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Writing in an open letter addressed to LGBTQ+ architects, planners, engineers and others, which was shared exclusively with the AJ, the UK’s largest built environment institutions said they acknowledged concerns raised over the court’s decision last month:
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RIBA ‘committed to inclusivity’ after Supreme Court gender ruling
The RIBA has joined other built environment bodies in expressing a commitment to inclusivity following the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on gender
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 07/04/2025
ACME has submitted long-awaited proposals to overhaul London’s Liverpool Street station following the departure of star architect Herzog & de Meuron from the job last year
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Liverpool Street station replacement scheme submitted for planning
Liverpool Street station replacement scheme submitted for planning
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Richard Waite @waitey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Are you a budding news reporter? Do you want to work with me and the lovely AJ team? @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Then have a nosey at this: www.emap.com/job/reporter...
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 19/03/2025
Hollaway Studio’s proposals to convert a seaside cottage in Dungeness into a holiday home for cartoonist Mr Doodle have been granted planning consent.
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Mr Doodle: Dungeness holiday bungalow by Hollaway Studio OK’d
Mr Doodle: Dungeness holiday bungalow by Hollaway Studio OK’d
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 11/03/2025
MIPIM kicks off in Cannes today – the AJ's @ginospoc.bsky.social takes a first look around. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/mipim-2... #MIPIM2025
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MIPIM 2025: a sneak peek at the world’s largest property show
The annual international property jamboree, MIPIM, kicks off in Cannes today (11 March). The AJ's Gino Spocchia takes a first look at what the attendees can expect to find
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
AJ Exclusive: Landsec does a 'Threesixty' on its earlier redevelopment proposals for Glasgow's 26-year-old Buchanan Galleries, with local architects replacing Foster + Partners on the job
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Glasgow’s Threesixty replaces Foster + Partners on Buchanan Galleries plans
Glasgow-based Threesixty Architecture is drawing-up fresh plans for the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre — replacing Foster + Partners on the job
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This week's Lords debate on the Holocaust Memorial Bill, featuring a comparison of Adjaye and Arad to... Pablo Picasso
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Tory peer brands ‘discredited’ Adjaye’s Holocaust memorial ‘grotesquely ugly’
David Adjaye’s Holocaust memorial design has been slammed as ‘grotesquely ugly’ and the architect described as ‘descredited’ by a shadow minister in the House of Lords
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Peckham isn't happy about Berkeley's plans for the 1980s Aylesham Centre, drawn-up by dRMM The scheme has just 77 proposed social and affordable homes out of 877 In 2023, Berkeley told the AJ that its scheme would have a ‘hugely positive impact; Particularly the hundreds of affordable homes'
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Hundreds protest against dRMM-led Peckham regeneration scheme
Hundreds of people have demonstrated against Berkeley’s dRMM-led plans to redevelop Peckham’s Aylesham Centre, protesting over the lack of affordable and social housing
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Another Friday, another AJ scoop: The LSA becomes part of the University College of Estate Management (UCEM), an online university Happens 3 months after the LSA had its validating partnership with Uni of Liverpool terminated, and 3 weeks after the departure of its leader, Neal Shasore
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London School of Architecture becomes part of online university
The London School of Architecture (LSA) is set to become a part of online university the University College of Estate Management (UCEM)
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 26/02/2025
NEWS | Single post-Grenfell construction regulator confirmed by Rayner www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/single-...
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Single post-Grenfell construction regulator confirmed by Rayner
The construction industry will have a single regulator, the deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has announced as part of the government’s full response to the Grenfell Inquiry
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 25/02/2025
NEWS | Zaha Hadid Architects wins Naples regeneration competition www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/zaha-ha...
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Zaha Hadid Architects wins Naples regeneration competition
Zaha Hadid Architects’ (ZHA) has unveiled its vision for a new headquarters in Naples for the Campania region, comprising two swooping towers and an urban park
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Hard perimeter you say? David Chipperfield Architects told the inquiry that the openness of a proposed cultural centre and forecourt was 'fundamental' to its hugely controversial designs for a new China embassy at Royal Mint Court. Rayner will now make a decision on the scheme.
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Inquiry closes on Chipperfield’s Chinese embassy plans
The six-day-long inquiry into David Chipperfield Architects’ (DCA) controversial proposals for a 2.4ha Chinese embassy at Royal Mint Court ended this week
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
you heard it here first
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
‘Mr Foster, this case has not been closed. There is one victim still alive, which is me’ — Hanan Khashoggi in @news.architectsjournal.co.uk
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Khashoggi’s widow challenges architects to raise his brutal murder with Saudis
Talking to the AJ from her apartment in Washington DC – where she has been granted asylum since Dece...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
important to add that removal of Peckham Arch is a Southwark Council decision following an unseen structural survey - not the decision of the architects, I am told
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
They're the third design team to take on the job of transforming Peckham Square in a decade here's what Graeme Massie and Scott Whitby have in store - and say goodbye to McAslan's Peckham Arch in the process bound to be controversially locally
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Peckham Arch gone in Graeme Massie and Scott Whitby revamp plans
Designs went on display this week showing the long-awaited plans to revamp the square facing Peckham...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Half a decade after Scotland's national architecture centre shut during the pandemic, plans emerge for a tech hub to take its place the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland says the loss would be a 'tragedy'
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RIAS warns of ‘tragedy’ over tech hub plans for Mackintosh’s Lighthouse
The centre in Mitchell Lane, which opened in 1999 and is run by Glasgow City Council (GCC), shut its...
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 28/01/2025
COMPETITION | Competition launched for St Pancras reconfiguration www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions...
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Competition launched for St Pancras reconfiguration
The company – which has a 30-year concession to run the 109km rail line between St Pancras Internati...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
nice little AJ credit in a very long long-read on the big man himself
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Councillors in Folkestone say 'no' to A IS FOR_'s highly anticipated, ambitious, simplified and divisive proposals for 410 homes on the Kent seaside town's harbour makes a joke about shockwaves
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Surprise rejection for A IS FOR_’s Folkestone harbour plans
Councillors on Folkestone & Hythe’s planning committee narrowly turned down the London-based...
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 14/01/2025
NEWS | LA fires destroy Modernist landmarks www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/la-fire...
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LA fires destroy Modernist landmarks
Fires that spread through the Los Angeles suburbs of Palisades, Altadana, and Sylmar last week burne...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
An @news.architectsjournal.co.uk exclusive: Populous is understood to be leading on designs for the 2034 Saudi Arabia FIFA World Cup stadium in the Line, in NEOM. The London-based, global sports specialists are officially working on four other arenas. And possibly a few others to boot...
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Revealed: Populous leading on Saudi World Cup stadium at the Line
Although it is understood Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) delivered an earlier concept, it is unclear whet...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The AJ100's largest practice is unleashed, or should I say, leased Foster + Partners is snapping up office space at Electric Boulevard, right next-door to Battersea Power Station, to support its global domination
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Foster + Partners expands to Battersea Power Station to handle overseas work
The AJ100-topping practice said yesterday (6 January) that it had agreed to occupy three floors at 5...
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 06/01/2025
NEWS | Zaha Hadid Architects must keep paying to use name, High Court says www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/zaha-ha...
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Zaha Hadid Architects must keep paying to use name, High Court says
The AJ100 practice’s directors had sought a legal declaration that it should be able to give 12 mont...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
For the point of not conforming with 12 choices, here's 11th pick from the year A stellar line up of news featured on my debut stint on Open City's podcast in August, including a Chippo Chinese embassy, Retrofit controversy, and redevelopment of Old Trafford. Talk about a hat-trick
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‘Retrofit-first’ council approves five demolitions in one scheme
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Exposing the Labour government's over-ambitious (?) ambitions for 1.5 million new homes is Southwark's housing department The Labour-run authority went from claiming 1-in-3 new council homes in England in 2022 to just 28 new units this year. Crikey
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Housing crisis: If Southwark Council can’t build homes, who can?
Until earlier this month, the 28-unit social housing scheme at 66 Linden Grove in Nunhead, south-eas...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Glasgow has waited 11 years for another Foster + Partners special after the Hydro arena, and it'll be waiting even longer In October, an AJ exclusive revealed that Fosters had departed the controversial Buchanan Galleries redevelopment
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Foster checks out of Glasgow Buchanan Galleries scheme amid major rethink
A proposal for developer and site owner Landsec, led by the top AJ100 practice, would have seen the ...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Many things are "long anticipated", then there's the second report from the Grenfell Inquiry in September Its aftermath and the reckoning for the profession are still to be worked out, with only cladding firms behind the fatal refurbishment arguably coming out worse in the report's 1,700 pages
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Studio E bears ‘very significant’ responsibility for disaster, says Grenfell Tower inquiry
The seven-volume probe into the cause of the blaze at the 24-storey tower in North Kensington, w...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
With iron resolve, Antony Gormley's objection to the proposed Coal Drops Yard pavilion paved the way for its demise not long after he's comments appeared in the AJ One of a few Monday mornings where I've found emails from senders with OBEs in my inbox
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Antony Gormley slams Coal Drops Yard pavilion proposal as ‘simply a bad idea’
Plans drawn-up by Fathom Architects for the King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership (KCCLP) and Rel...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Boomeranging back to Saudi and this time an interview with incoming RIBA president Chris Williamson, which many other titles kindly reported on Talk about agenda setting
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‘It is not a decision I take lightly’: RIBA’s next president on working in Saudi
Chris Williamson, 68, who is set to officially become RIBA president-elect next month, has worked on...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
One of Michael Gove's last major acts as communities secretary was to not intervene in the demolition of the Museum of London and Bastion House, two 1970s pièces de résistance The City of London controversially approved the demolition scheme despite carrying out its own retrofit exploration
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Museum of London set for demolition after Gove lifts holding directive
The secretary of state for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities informed the City of London today (...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Not another one. But yes, another competition for restoring the 'Notre Dame of Glasgow' aka the Mac, sort of The Glasgow School of Art broke a year-long silence in May with the twin announcement that it had begun a dispute with its insurers and was again looking for architects
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Mac to begin new architect search as spat with insurers heads to arbitration
In a major announcement made today (10 May). the school said it is, once again, seeking architects t...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Given the ongoing Saudi Arabia and UK architecture love-in, I asked - and tried to answer - some tough questions about the pros, cons, and ethics of taking money from abroad Sorry to any non-architects searching for advice on working in Saudi on Google, this piece has excellent SEO, it turns out
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Would you work in Saudi Arabia?
Reaction on social media to news of Foster + Partners’ role on a proposed 2km-tall tower in the Saud...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
The most read story on the AJ in 2024 was this one on redundancies It wasn't the only cuts made by UK practices in the past 12 months either. Here's hoping for better job security in 2025, and some actual work
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‘Difficult and uncertain times’: Wave of redundancies hits top architects
AJ100 practices Buckley Gray Yeoman, Piercy&Company, Hawkins\Brown and HTA have all confirme...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Rude not to start on a 2km-tall high, just outside of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia The AJ exclusive from March that Foster + Partners is working on a building so big its about 6.5 Renzo Piano Shards
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Foster + Partners behind plans for 2km-tall Saudi tower
The scheme, reportedly backed by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), would be more than dou...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Its almost 2025, so here's a selection of AJ stories from the past 12 months I thought weren't that bad* *by which I mean I liked writing them, or AJ readers really liked them
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
a win for the Slab
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High Court upholds approval of Make’s controversial South Bank tower
Handing down a long-awaited decision this morning, High Court justice Timothy Mould upheld the decis...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
they gave us 'pluriversal' spaces (thanks David Chipperfield) and washing the British Museum's mummies in Brat green (thanks even more OMA) A winner will be announced in February
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British Museum shows off early concepts in major revamp competition
Unveiled yesterday (19 December), the visuals show each of the shortlisted teams’ responses to a des...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Woop! The winner of the Falcon Rd, Battersea underpass makeover contest has been revealed... and its GPAD with POoR Collective 🎉 So cool to see this important part of the Clapham Junction area getting a major upgrade 🌃✨ www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/batters...
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Battersea underpass competition winner revealed
The winner is GPAD, POoR Collective, MRG Studio, Sutton Vane Associates, Cundall, and MDA Consulting...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Southwark has - once again - found itself condemning Berkeley Homes proposals for Peckham's Aylesham centre. Proposed 'affordable' units are being slashed from 270 of 877 to 77! Totally the opposite of what some campaigners had asked for and 71% less 'affordable' units than the submitted scheme
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dRMM-led Peckham scheme criticised as affordable homes are slashed by 71%
The Aylesham scheme, designed by a team led by dRMM, was submitted in August on behalf of developer ...
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 16/12/2024
OPINION We need to talk about Saudi Arabia, says Jeremy Till www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...
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We need to talk about Saudi Arabia
Recent posts on LinkedIn (including those by RIBA chair Jack Pringle and former NLA chief Peter Murr...
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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Amid Berlin's deepening housing crisis, a new -- and quite contentious -- contest is being held for peripheral development of housing on parts of the 400ha disused Tempelhof airport! Just ten years after similar development was vetoed by referendum 🌃 www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions...
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Tempelhof Field, Berlin
The contest – organised by Berlin’s Senate Department for Urban Development, Building, and Housing –...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Will she or wont she? Angela Rayner considers deciding on Stiff + T's slightly shorter City tower amid fury from a rabbi, Historic England and plenty more
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Rayner intervenes over Stiff + Trevillion’s reworked City tower
Rayner issued an Article 31 holding directive against the scheme last week (19 November) after oppon...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
giddy up!
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Holloway Studio’s museum for late Queen’s rocking horse maker approved
The Kent-based architects' proposals for a new 1,439m2 workshop and museum for rocking horse maker t...
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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The consultation also includes some forgotten gems from 1934 (Credit: RIBA Collections)
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