Author Archives: Anna Highfield

The latest in an AJ series looking at architects who have saved buildings from demolition or given them a new lease of life

Büro Ole Scheeren has won a major contest to design Tencent’s new headquarters in Shenzhen, China, selected from a shortlist which included Heatherwick Studio, Zaha Hadid Architects and Foster + Partners - some of the UK's biggest names

Six years after Grenfell, the Building Safety Act is changing the way the industry works. Anna Highfield and Scott Brownrigg Architects’ Neal Morgan-Collins ask whether the changes will prove insurmountable for some

The government is set to announce a timber-house-building roadmap to push for lower embodied carbon in the construction of England’s homes

Communities secretary Michael Gove has, for a third time, postponed his decision on whether to block Make’s controversial plans to redevelop the former South Bank ITV Studios

As of Tuesday morning (5 December), nearly 300 architects have joined a campaign calling for an immediate permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the Palestinian territory to be rebuilt

Hawkins\Brown has been given planning permission to carry out a campus-wide overhaul of the Edinburgh College of Art (ECA)

A floating forest school in China by Bejing-based Approach Design Studio has been named World Building of the Year at this year’s World Architecture Festival

A climate tech start-up has teamed up with Carmody Groarke after developing a ‘carbon-neutral’ brick prototype, which it says looks and feels like a conventional brick

The government says it is slashing the current red tape around planning permission for solar panels under new rules announced last week