Fans of tall buildings can rejoice. After the depressing news of a delay to the Cheesegrater, thrusting progress is finally apparent on one of the City’s other nascent skyscrapers. The Heron Tower on Bishopsgate is reaching for the sky, with the first steelwork surpassing ground …
London is a centric city. The typical commute heads inwards towards a Zone 1 workplace. But London can also be seen as a collection of smaller towns, each with its own central area. The latest exhibition at New London Architecture looks at plans to regenerate …
Two days until Open House Weekend, the premier event in London’s architectural calendar. With bit noticeably chomped and anticipation status set to ‘moist’, we round up our highlights from previous years. Please, please, we want your suggestions in the comments. Diligent and dogged though we …
Kings Place is all but finished, and ready to receive visitors from 1 October. This apostrophe-shy centre of arts on York Way will also be home to two orchestras and the Guardian from the end of the year. We got a sneak peek of the …
Since it finally shut up shop in 1983, Battersea Power Station has been reimagined by excitable developers as a theme park, circus, and luxury housing complex, whilst moonlighting as a cover star on iconic albums, surviving a hostile takeover by Cybermen, and finding time to …
Waterfront London, which opened today, looks at waterside development in London; recently completed, underway or in the pipeline. It considers how our waterfronts are transforming and being embraced as essential public spaces whereas, not long ago, we buried rivers, turned them into sewers or filled …
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