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Novak Hiles lodges plans for house in Barnet back garden
Novak Hiles Architects has submitted plans for a three-bedroom house on a ‘oversized and underutilised’ back garden plot in suburban Barnet, north London
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AJ100 survey now open
The 2024 AJ100 survey and awards programme is now open for entries
Haworth Tompkins founders step down
Graham Haworth and Steve Tompkins have announced they are stepping back from Haworth Tompkins, more than three decades after co-founding the practice
Weston Williamson puts HS2 viaduct design to public vote
Weston Williamson + Partners and HS2 are giving the public a final say on the appearance of a viaduct for the high speed rail link in the West Midlands
Jo Cowen to redesign OMA’s Greenwich Morden Wharf tower plans
Jo Cowen Architects has been brought in to rework OMA’s approved plans for 1,500 homes in a cluster of towers close to the O2 Arena on the Greenwich Peninsula
Mackintosh tea rooms saved from closure five years after £10m revamp
The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has come to the rescue of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Willow Tea Rooms, which had been threatened with closure just five years after it underwent a £10 million revamp
7N submits plans for 7,000-home neighbourhood on Edinburgh outskirts
7N Architects has submitted plans for a massive 7,000-home neighbourhood on the western edge of Edinburgh
Alexander Hills Architects reconfigures Norfolk flint farmhouse
The practice has completed the first phase of retrofitting a traditional farmhouse in Norfolk with the addition of a contemporary zinc roof
Clear Architects wins planning for Chingford riverside ‘tree houses’
Waltham Forest Council has approved plans by Clear Architects to turn a 0.13ha brownfield plot in Chingford into five riverside homes
Architect struck off after ghosting five different clients
The ARB has removed a Kent-based man from the Architects Register after five different complaints were filed against him by clients who said he messed them around on projects and repeatedly ghosted them