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09-09-2010 > SOM Design New Olympic Site Tower

A planning application has been filed with the Olympic Development Authority for a new residential tower and attached hotel building by architects, Skidmore Owings & Merrill.

09-09-2010 > 2-12 Stratford Set For Height Boost

Plans are being considered to scale up the proposed development by Stock Woolstencroft Architects at 2-12 Stratford High Street near the 2010 Olympic campus.

09-09-2010 > Climbing Great Buildings

A new series shown every week on BBC Two shows some unique new ways of looking at some of the most famous tall buildings in the country.

08-09-2010 > Strong Sales Drive The Heron Upwards

The housing industry may be down in the dumps but one development that's definitely not affected is The Heron in the City of London, a tower that takes its name from the property company developing it.

08-09-2010 > Callebaut Dreams Up 600m Tall Vertical Farm

Conceptual futurism lover Vincent Callebaut has dreamed up another idea of monumental green architecture - Dragonfly Vertical Farm - so called because the structure is conceived in a similar manner to dragonfly wings.

03-09-2010 > Barking Proposals Scaled Back

Jestico + Whiles and Glenn Howells Architects are working together on plans by Countryside Properties and Fresh Wharf developments for a new project in the London area of Barking.

31-08-2010 > Work To Start On IYLO Again

First it was on, and they started building it, then the recession hit and it was off, and now it's back on again.

18-08-2010 > Take Two For Edward Woods Estate

As part of the refreshing of some of Hammersmith and Fulham's dated post-war housing stock, refurbishment work is finally beginning on the Edward Woods Estate in west London, a sixties housing development that sadly doesn't take its name from the infamous film director.