Office complex nicknamed the Slab given go-ahead despite fierce opposition from green and modernist architecture campaigners A £400m office complex nicknamed “the Slab” has been given the go-ahead to replace...
Read MoreWhitehall officials were told that at-risk buildings have not been remediated, with the market ‘prioritising profit over safety’Government safety experts last year warned that many tower blocks built from concrete...
Read More‘Blight on the landscape’ in Greenwich lacks promised gardens, children’s play areas and accessibility for wheelchair usersBuildings rarely look as good as the airbrushed architects’ visualisations...
Read MoreBuilding material assessed to be at risk of collapse was used in thousands of UK public structures from 1950s to 1990sUK politics live – latest updates Continue...
Read MoreThe Westminster office block, predicted to last 120 years, has suffered with faulty glazing from the beginningWhen the parliamentary office building, Portcullis House, was completed in August 2000 at a cost of £235m, it...
Read MoreK8s installed on tube stations between 1968 and 1983 are listed for architectural and historic interestFour rare phone boxes on London Underground stations have been given Grade II-listed status by the government for their...
Read MoreTeachers and parents voice fury over risk to life in England’s crumbling classrooms as DfE keeps survey details from public scrutinyMinisters sparked a furious row over the safety of thousands of dilapidated school...
Read MoreLabour government received bid to relocate controversial London building before it was rebranded as the O2The “Swindon Dome” does have a ring to it. It has emerged Tony Blair’s government received a proposition...
Read MoreTech giant’s King’s Cross HQ replete with pool, nap pods and rooftop exercise track marks its topping out phaseA lunchtime basketball game, a walk around the rooftop exercise trail or 40 winks in a “nap...
Read MoreWe are raiding the Audio Long Read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors.This week, from 2017: As politicians dither over repairs, the risk of fire, flood or a deluge...
Read MoreMinisters’ ‘unbridled passion for deregulation’ made them ‘junior partner’ of construction industryThe government may be guilty of a “deliberate cover-up” over the dangers posed by...
Read MoreHome where he wrote Jerusalem, in Felpham, West Sussex, one of 130 places on 2021 at-risk registerA 17th-century thatched cottage where William Blake wrote the words to Jerusalem, the hymn that has become a symbol of hope and...
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