A recent announcement stated that the go-ahead has been given for a new £4.7m project to build a youth centre in the London borough of Havering. The buildings caterpillar shape has been developed to be ‘future-proof’ with alterations and development very much in the forefront of thinking.
The building is planned to the Borough’s first carbon-neutral [...]

At the back end of 2009, the climax of Russia’s Building Festival resulted in the announcement of their annual Building Award. The award is presented to the best building that has been constructed within the previous seven years. Furthermore, the building must have been in use for a period of at least 12 months.
The process [...]

Following on from my post recently about TV shows raising awareness of architecture in young people, schoolchildren in Edinburgh are being encouraged to take note of the buildings around them. The Looking Up! project is a five week programme that take high school students around the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh examining the architecture [...]

From March until May of this year, a new exhibition will take place in the J Paul Getty Museum entitled Building the Medieval World: Architecture in Illuminated Manuscripts. This exhibition combines the art and literature from medieval and renaissance periods with the architecture of the time.
This fascinating exhibition will display how the artists and writers [...]

828M or 2717 ft
Formerly known as Burj Dubai, Renamed after the man in the suit of aurmour who paid for it to be finished after Funding dried up. This my friends is the biggest thing ever made by man., at 828 m (2,717 ft) It took 5 years to build with Construction [...]

This building is actually 1,076 ft tall if you include the ariel. Set on the stylish Rajprarop Road in the district of Bangkok known as Ratchathewi. (Is that where they got the name for the film Rattatui perhaps?) Built including 86 floors, the 85th floor actually rotates; this is the only hotel outside of Dubai [...]

The dwindling awareness within the younger generation of many of our most famous and prodigious architects can be dispiriting but understandable. However, I was pleasantly surprised the other day to come across an aspiring young architect by the name of Ted Mosby.
This is one young man who is rapidly becoming extremely well known within the [...]

You may already know about the huge redevelopment of Canada Water in South East London. As a design centre piece for the scheme, Glen Howells has finalised the design for a trademark tower to complement the housing scheme being developed by Barratt homes.
Phase A of the development will see 688 new homes added to [...]

Regardless of the public outcry at plans to build a skyscraper in Russia’s former imperial capital St Petersburg, the go ahead for the project has finally been given the green light. The proposed tower will be 1,322 feet tall and is to be named the Okhta Centre.
The tower will be visable from St Petersburg’s historic [...]

The Millennium Dome is the largest of its type in the world. The concept of the exhibition arena opened to the public on the 1st of January 2000 (hence the name) and is located on the Greenwich Peninsula.
In its early career the dome was classed as a flop by the press and general public [...]