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

The Heron, LondonThe 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

Dragonfly, New YorkConceptual 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.

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06-09-2010 > Land Sec Looks To Walkie Talkie Partnership

20 Fenchurch Street, LondonLand Securities is about to sign up the Canary Wharf Group as the partner in a joint venture to construct a new skyscraper in the City of London, 20 Fenchurch Street.

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03-09-2010 > Barking Proposals Scaled Back

No ImageJestico + 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.

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01-09-2010 > Nash Houses Hulking Replacement

Nash House, LondonThe regeneration of the London borough of Ealing is continuing apace with plans from architecture firm Tate Hindle for the demolition of the existing Nash House office building and the construction of a new more modern mixed-use replacement.

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23-08-2010 > A Look At Wood Wharfs Tallest

Plots W02 and W03, Wood WharfLeading architecture firm Pelli Clarke Pelli has penned a new skyscraper and low-rise podium to stand on plots W02 and W03 of Wood Wharf in east London by combining them into one monster development.

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14-08-2010 > Westminster Approves BFLS Regent Street Plans

Marcol House, LondonThe City of Westminster has approved the latest plans by BFLS for the regeneration of one of the buildings that is part of the prime London shopping fare of Regent Street called Marcol House.

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09-08-2010 > Mayors Office Rejects Tidal Basin Towers

24-28 Tidal Basin, LondonSkidmore Owings and Merrill has hit a bump with their plans for two towers on Tidal Basin Road in the London Borough of Newham following criticism from the Mayor's office.

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

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

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

Edward Woods Estate, LondonAs 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.

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11-08-2010 > Fishy Business At Heron Tower

Heron Tower fish tankOne of the final landmarks has been achieved in the construction of Heron Tower in the City of London - the delivery of the largest fish tank of any office building in Europe.

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04-08-2010 > How To Read A Church

St Wulfram's, GranthamChurches are the original skyscrapers, at least in England, with some regions such as the East Midlands still boasting medieval places of worship as their tallest buildings, but just how does one understand them in a secular age?

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