In the AJ: New decision date. New secretary of state on China's London embassy www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/chinese...

The naming of a winner for the Grenfell Tower memorial design contest has slipped back, while, separately, the government has set out details of the tower’s deconstruction

Plans to improve Peckham Rye station, despite the project team being ready to go, have been stalled by a government funding pause. Unsurprisingly, the architect behind the £40m project has been among the voices to criticise that decision, here:

When there's a will, there's a third way... Herzog & de Meuron have been working on another rival scheme with Sellar for overhauling Liverpool Street station Will this eclipse Herzog's own 2023 application and Network Rail's ACME scheme, validated just last month? Time will tell

Enjoyed this by @ginospoc.bsky.social for @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Unless you're a corporate megafestival feels anyone in nightlife, especially LGBTQ+, has been having a tough time. So great to read success stories from across the UK www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/please-...

Writing in an open letter addressed to LGBTQ+ architects, planners, engineers and others, which was shared exclusively with the AJ, the UK’s largest built environment institutions said they acknowledged concerns raised over the court’s decision last month:

ACME has submitted long-awaited proposals to overhaul London’s Liverpool Street station following the departure of star architect Herzog & de Meuron from the job last year

Are you a budding news reporter? Do you want to work with me and the lovely AJ team? @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Then have a nosey at this: www.emap.com/job/reporter...

Hollaway Studio’s proposals to convert a seaside cottage in Dungeness into a holiday home for cartoonist Mr Doodle have been granted planning consent.

MIPIM kicks off in Cannes today – the AJ's @ginospoc.bsky.social takes a first look around. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/mipim-2... #MIPIM2025

AJ Exclusive: Landsec does a 'Threesixty' on its earlier redevelopment proposals for Glasgow's 26-year-old Buchanan Galleries, with local architects replacing Foster + Partners on the job

This week's Lords debate on the Holocaust Memorial Bill, featuring a comparison of Adjaye and Arad to... Pablo Picasso

Peckham isn't happy about Berkeley's plans for the 1980s Aylesham Centre, drawn-up by dRMM The scheme has just 77 proposed social and affordable homes out of 877 In 2023, Berkeley told the AJ that its scheme would have a ‘hugely positive impact; Particularly the hundreds of affordable homes'

Another Friday, another AJ scoop: The LSA becomes part of the University College of Estate Management (UCEM), an online university Happens 3 months after the LSA had its validating partnership with Uni of Liverpool terminated, and 3 weeks after the departure of its leader, Neal Shasore

NEWS | Single post-Grenfell construction regulator confirmed by Rayner www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/single-...

NEWS | Zaha Hadid Architects wins Naples regeneration competition www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/zaha-ha...

Hard perimeter you say? David Chipperfield Architects told the inquiry that the openness of a proposed cultural centre and forecourt was 'fundamental' to its hugely controversial designs for a new China embassy at Royal Mint Court. Rayner will now make a decision on the scheme.

you heard it here first

‘Mr Foster, this case has not been closed. There is one victim still alive, which is me’ — Hanan Khashoggi in @news.architectsjournal.co.uk

They're the third design team to take on the job of transforming Peckham Square in a decade here's what Graeme Massie and Scott Whitby have in store - and say goodbye to McAslan's Peckham Arch in the process bound to be controversially locally

Half a decade after Scotland's national architecture centre shut during the pandemic, plans emerge for a tech hub to take its place the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland says the loss would be a 'tragedy'

COMPETITION | Competition launched for St Pancras reconfiguration www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions...

nice little AJ credit in a very long long-read on the big man himself

Councillors in Folkestone say 'no' to A IS FOR_'s highly anticipated, ambitious, simplified and divisive proposals for 410 homes on the Kent seaside town's harbour makes a joke about shockwaves

NEWS | LA fires destroy Modernist landmarks www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/la-fire...

An @news.architectsjournal.co.uk exclusive: Populous is understood to be leading on designs for the 2034 Saudi Arabia FIFA World Cup stadium in the Line, in NEOM. The London-based, global sports specialists are officially working on four other arenas. And possibly a few others to boot...

The AJ100's largest practice is unleashed, or should I say, leased Foster + Partners is snapping up office space at Electric Boulevard, right next-door to Battersea Power Station, to support its global domination

NEWS | Zaha Hadid Architects must keep paying to use name, High Court says www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/zaha-ha...

Its almost 2025, so here's a selection of AJ stories from the past 12 months I thought weren't that bad* *by which I mean I liked writing them, or AJ readers really liked them

a win for the Slab

they gave us 'pluriversal' spaces (thanks David Chipperfield) and washing the British Museum's mummies in Brat green (thanks even more OMA) A winner will be announced in February

Woop! The winner of the Falcon Rd, Battersea underpass makeover contest has been revealed... and its GPAD with POoR Collective 🎉 So cool to see this important part of the Clapham Junction area getting a major upgrade 🌃✨ www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/batters...

Southwark has - once again - found itself condemning Berkeley Homes proposals for Peckham's Aylesham centre. Proposed 'affordable' units are being slashed from 270 of 877 to 77! Totally the opposite of what some campaigners had asked for and 71% less 'affordable' units than the submitted scheme

OPINION We need to talk about Saudi Arabia, says Jeremy Till www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

Amid Berlin's deepening housing crisis, a new -- and quite contentious -- contest is being held for peripheral development of housing on parts of the 400ha disused Tempelhof airport! Just ten years after similar development was vetoed by referendum 🌃 www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions...

Will she or wont she? Angela Rayner considers deciding on Stiff + T's slightly shorter City tower amid fury from a rabbi, Historic England and plenty more

giddy up!

What does £58.8 million get you? Benedetti shows off some more visuals for RIBA HQ this morning, ahead of an early 2025 planning application and 3 year closure of 66 Portland Place

NEOM's long-standing boss has departed after he allegedly threatened to bury an employee in the desert and ­urinate on their grave. Shocking and import journalism from the WSJ yesterday: