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Evening Standard wins commentary awards

20.10.11
The Evening Standard has been honoured for the quality of its comment by Editorial Intelligence, the latest of a string of prestigious awards for the paper... more

City Spy: UBS and a curious way to recruit staff

20.09.11
A well-connected City Spy reader gets in touch about the UBS scandal and alleged rogue trader Kweku Adoboli. "Perhaps people are looking the wrong way for who caused UBS's losses," he says... more

Anyone game for the media centre?

16.09.11
I wandered awestruck through Westfield Stratford City's 1.9 million square-foot mega-mall on Tuesday morning. After lunch in the shell of Aspers Casino, it was out to a terrace overlooking the Olympic Park.... more

'A young man of promise... killed because of the colour of his skin'

18.05.11
Stephen was a 'young black man of great promise' killed 'just because of the colour of his skin,' a court heard... more

Zaha Hadid: making waves

15.10.10
Zaha Hadid lives in a pristine white pod, has sacrificed her personal life to architecture, and will brook no opposition from underlings or the establishment. Harry Mount has an audience with the newly crowned winner of the Stirling Prize... more

Wine, dine and be inspired at Whitechapel Gallery Dining Room

09.09.10
It may be tiny but the Whitechapel Dining Room is a sophisticated pleasure, says Liz Hoggard... more

City Spy: Riba’s fine idea to aid star architects

19.08.10
The Royal Institute of British Architects has devised a whizzo scheme to help its members as they struggle to survive... more

Schools in the running for architecture’s leading prize

22.07.10
Two schools have been shortlisted for a leading architecture award, the Royal Institute of British Architects' Stirling Prize... more

Ben Moore is going underground with art

25.05.10
Artist entrepreneur Ben Moore has a scheme to display new art at Tube stations — anyone can apply, he says, from Banksy to a granny with a watercolour. ... more

Circular loo for bus drivers wins award

20.05.10
Circular lavatory for bus drivers and a substation for the 2012 Olympics are among 30 London buildings to win top architecture prizes... more

Prince Charles' letter on Chelsea Barracks plan was ignorant, says top architect

01.03.10
Leading British architect rounds on Prince Charles over his involvement in the scrapped £3 billion Chelsea Barracks project... more

US embassy with ramparts and moat becomes Thames castle

24.02.10
Ken Livingstone leads chorus of disapproval at the winning design for the new American embassy in Battersea... more

Prince Charles is 'abusing position' to influence planning decisions

02.09.09
The Prince of Wales uses his position to exert "undue influence" to sway planning decisions, according to a senior architect... more

Prince's 'twee' plans for Kensington Palace rejected

27.08.09
Prince Charles suffered an embarrassing defeat as plans for a 'twee' addition to Kensington Palace were rejected.... more

Top hotels give up their secrets for Open House weekend

17.08.09
Two Park Lane hotels are unlocking their secrets to the public for the first time... more

London Bridge is going green

09.07.09
This is London Bridge as you have never seen it before - crowned with two fantastical glass spires and surrounded by mini-gardens floating on the Thames... more

Does London really need more housing restrictions?

08.07.09
Today the Mayor unveils his proposals to stop developers building tiny 'Hobbit homes'. But are more restrictions what London really needs?... more

Prince Charles: When I said monstrous carbuncle...

13.05.09
Prince Charles apologises for starting a style war but then renews attack on modernist architecture... more

Gordon has got private jet bug

12.05.09
Air Partner, the listed aircraft-charter company that has hitherto been famous for supply the Boeing jetliners to transport guests of Sir Philip Green to his various Indian Ocean parties, has signed up two new clients: Gordon Brown and David Miliband ... more

Prince Charles's lecture urges architects to respect the past

12.05.09
Prince Charles will risk the further wrath of modern architects tonight when he urges them to look to the past when designing buildings in the future... more

Architect urges Charles to end barracks row

11.05.09
The head of the Royal Institute of British Architects has called on Prince Charles to use a speech to mend relations with the profession... more

Classic architects back Prince Charles over barracks

23.04.09
The row over the Chelsea Barracks scheme deepened as an influential group of architects broke ranks to back Prince Charles... more

What has Prince Charles given architecture?

21.04.09
The Prince of Wales may no longer be the most influential voice in British building design but his latest intervention over Chelsea Barracks is to be feared for a different reason... more

Students urged to boycott terror attack competition

24.11.08
A leading architect has demanded students boycott a Home Office competition to redesign a hypothetical terrorist bomb site... more

Off the record

19.09.08
From Coldplay to KT Tunstall — charities are finding that enlisting musicians is the ideal way to get their message to a jaded public.... more

Open House takes public behind the capital's green doors

09.09.08
From landmark office towers to historic almshouses, a record number of buildings will admit the public this month for Open House weekend... more

Money rules as Prince builds a new strategy

04.07.08
Prince Charles has taken 20 years to discover it is men with money, not men with ideas, who can help shape his vision of Britain... more

New St Pancras wins major award for architecture

29.05.08
The transformed St Pancras station and refurbished Royal Festival Hall are among 29 winners at the 2008 London awards of the Royal Institute of British Architects... more

High praise for rooftop nursery

16.05.07
A children's playground built on top of an east London nursery school is in line for a prestigious award. ... more

Kew Palace in line for £100,000 arts award

04.04.07
Britain's smallest royal palace has been shortlisted for the Gulbenkian Prize for museums and galleries.... more


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