The O2 has become one of the capital's best known landmarks. Now Londoners who dare will have the chance to get a whole new view of the dome - from above... more
The Lloyd's Building is set to become the first postmodern structure in the City to be listed - at a time when it is threatened with being dwarfed by its upstart neighbours... more
Labour-controlled Southwark decreed last week that the rich need no longer suffer from poor neighbours in new housing developments in the north of the borough... more
Prince Charles will not stand in the way of the revised planning application for the £3 billion Chelsea Barracks development, the Standard has learned... more
The new Marks & Spencer offices at 5 Merchant Square are thoughtful, elegant, even public-spirited — but the building reveals deeper problems with the £750 million Paddington Basin redevelopment... more
The boyfriend who wrongly they thought was "the one" is to blame for the epidemic of beautiful, successful women inching their way to infertility... more
Prince Charles's letter to the Qatari prime minister expressing his impassioned opposition to the Chelsea Barracks development revealed in full... more
Architects love a good row. But it is unlikely that the new US embassy in Nine Elms will be reshaped by the views of Richard Rogers - or even the less eminent critics who have snootily dismissed the frosted cube perched in a saucer of water. ... more
Extraordinary row between Boris Johnson and one of the world's leading architects led to resignation over controversial Chelsea Barracks redevelopment... more
Leading architect Richard Rogers announces that he is to quit his City Hall role as design adviser to Boris Johnson as it did not give him 'sufficient scope'... more
It's a hard time to be young right now, at least in economic terms. Unemployment figures released today suggest that one in five people under 25 is without work ... more
Last weekend I visited Poundbury, the village which embodies Prince Charles's vision of what modern architecture should be like. It's more like the fake town in Jim Carrey's The Truman Show than an English village... more
The second most popular attraction on Earth is in dire need of expansion. Plans exclusively revealed here should see a major new extension with exhibition space by 2012.
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The age of the look-at-me building is drawing to a close as projects flounder and Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Richard Rogers make cutbacks — but there is a silver lining... more
Gordon Ramsay’s T5 restaurant - Plane Food - may be big on formality and portion control but by using a bit of brass neck there may be a better way to enjoy it.... more
Leading architects are fighting to save a dilapidated concrete council block from demolition because they think it is reminiscent of the Royal Crescent in Bath... more
As a legal battle that threatened one of London's most iconic restaurants is resolved Ruth Rogers tells Lucy Cavendish why she can't imagine cooking anywhere else.... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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