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Foster + Partners’ plans to retrofit Westminster offices for US tech billionaire approved

Foster + Partners has won approval to revamp connected Grade II and Grade II*-listed offices in Westminster for a billionaire-backed science and technology company

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Josh Butler

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Govt outlines £422m plans to end rough sleeping by Christmas

Prime minister Andy Burnham has pledged to end rough sleeping by Christmas with a £442 million funding package for emergency accommodation, settled homes and support

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Gino Spocchia

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Stiff + Trevillion gets the go-ahead for City office-to-hotel conversion

Stiff + Trevillion has won approval for a retrofit conversion of a six-storey PoMo office building in the City of London into a hotel, adding four storeys

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Ian Weinfass

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Five things we learnt from the new NPPF

The eighth National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in 14 years was published earlier this week, prompting both excitement and apprehension. Here are the AJ’s key takeaways

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James Wilmore

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AJ Architecture Awards 2026 shortlists Part 4: Higher education, school and health

The fourth set of finalists to be exclusively revealed for this year’s AJ Architecture Awards are in the Higher Education, School, and Health and Wellbeing categories

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Fran Williams

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SimpsonHaugh lops five storeys off rejected Manchester tower proposal

SimpsonHaugh has taken five storeys off a Manchester skyscraper proposal following a refusal earlier this year

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Josh Butler

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PRP submits plans for 245 homes on Old Kent Road

PRP has put forward plans for 245 homes, 59 earmarked for social rent, on Old Kent Road in Southwark, south London

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Gino Spocchia

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Architects should focus on places, not just buildings

The profession has done well to adopt a philosophy of retrofit-first. At the outset of every such project we mustn’t forget what makes this particular place meaningful, argues Lee Davies

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will hurst

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David Miller Architects to overhaul children’s hospice in former nunnery

David Miller Architects is to revamp an Edwardian former convent on Merseyside to boost its current function as a children’s hospice

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Greg Pitcher