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By Dave Rogers2021-08-04T05:00:00+01:00 Deal is one of biggest building jobs to come up for grabs in capital in past few months One of the biggest London building jobs to come up for grabs in recent months has attracted five bidders, Building can reveal. Proposals for client, the City of London Corporation, by architect Eric Parry for a £170m judicial complex in the Square Mile were given the green light in the spring. The development, which will replace an entire city block in a conservatio...

“There’s some very aggressive bidding going on at the moment,” says Alinea partner Mark Lacey. The firm, which is still best known as a cost consultant on London commercial despite plans to diversify into other areas, says the pandemic has put the squeeze on what contractors, particularly the specialists, can bid for in the future. In short, lots are chasing not much. The London office market is around 40% of Alinea’s £15.2m income. Lacey says the market is resilient but admits the num...

Show Fullscreen CGI projection of the City of London skyline in the mid-2020s The City of London Corporation has released new images showing how the skyline could look in the mid-2020s. The majority of the tall buildings in the updated views will be in the so-called eastern cluster and will “fill in the gap” towards Rafael Vinoly’s Walkie Talkie which, despite being much closer to the Tower of London World Heritage Site than the rest of the cluster, was approved because of its “high-qua...

Show Fullscreen CGI projection of the City of London skyline in the mid-2020s The City of London Corporation has released new images showing how the skyline could look in the mid-2020s. The majority of the tall buildings in the updated views will be in the so-called eastern cluster and will fill the gap towards Rafael Vinoly’s Walkie Talkie which, despite being much closer to the Tower of London World Heritage Site than the rest of the cluster, was approved because of its “high-quality desi...

By Dave Rogers 2021-04-30T06:17:00+01:00 Architect also cleared Midlands planning with student flats scheme Glenn Howells Architects has been given the green light by Birmingham planners for a 49-storey residential tower at Argent’s Paradise scheme in the city. The 155m tall building is called Octagon because of its shape and will be one of the tallest in a glut of towers planned for the city. The scheme has earned its Octagon name because of its shape The tallest will be a 61-storey bl...

By Dave Rogers2021-04-29T16:14:00+01:00 Octagon scheme designed by local practice Glenn Howells Contractors are on alert after Argent was given the green light this morning by Birmingham planners for a 49-storey residential tower at its Paradise scheme in the city. Designed by local practice Glenn Howells Architects, the 155m tall building is called Octagon because of its shape and will be one of the tallest in a glut of towers planned for the city. The scheme has earned its Octagon name beca...

Allies and Morrison’s 100 Bishopsgate: ‘The first of its kind… and maybe the last’ Graham Morrison hails the tower as ‘the first of a new generation of offices’, offering Canary Wharf-scale space in the City of London. But have the crash, Covid, Brexit and the climate crisis changed the game? 26 April 2021 By Rob Wilson. Photography by Jason Hawkes and Nick Guttridge comment and share ‘It goes from Medieval to Miesian,’ says Allies and Morrison’s Graham Morrison, a...

Source: DBox Source: DBox Fleet Street looking west. The first building on the left is an existing building that is not part of the scheme. Opposite is the art deco Daily Express building Source: DBox Source: DBox Eric Parry Architects’ proposals for a £170m judicial complex in the City of London were approved today. The City Corporation’s planning committee approved the scheme despite uproar over the proposed loss of historic buildings including cherished facades on Fleet Street, London�...

City faces backlash after ‘destructive’ Parry scheme is tipped for approval 1/7 Fleet Street looking west: The proposed new courts building on Fleet Street Source:&nbspDbox for Eric Parry Architects 2/7 Aerial sketch of the proposed Salisbury Square development Source:&nbspEric Parry Architects 3/7 East elevation – Salisbury Square.The three proposed buildings will face onto an enlarged, landscaped Salisbury Square Source:&nbspDbox for Eric Parry Architects 4/7 A new east-west passage t...

/ Founded in 1999, Modus Operandi, an independent arts unit with a track record of curating and producing high-quality art in the public realm, recently celebrated its 21st birthday. To mark this milestone, the company selected 21 projects at random, spanning the years since Vivien Lovell soft-launched the company. Vivien is a visual arts curator with established expertise in commissioning permanent and temporary art within the public realm Prior to founding Modus Operandi, she had been Founde...