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Keeping the city alive: Landlords turn over 'slack space' to creative projects

24.08.09
Property owners are loaning or cheaply leasing empty retail space or buildings on stalled development sites - known as "slack space" - to galleries and creative enterprises... more

British Museum caught up in human rights row

24.08.09
British Museum urged to 'take a stand' over the rights of migrant workers in the oil-rich desert sheikdom of Abu Dhabi... more

Setback for Norman Foster-designed development

03.08.09
The long-awaited redevelopment of Bucklersbury House and Temple Court in the City was kicked further into the long grass today as the developer pulled out of the project ... more

Oil producer is going green for a good reason

01.07.09
Abu Dhabi is taking the green shoots of recovery a step further, winning the race to host the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena). Abu Dhabi hopes it will add fuel to its Masdar project - a $15 billion (£9 billion) green city designed by Sir Norman Foster ... more

Aldwych is the new Shoreditch

29.06.09
London Fashion Week is moving to creative hot spot Aldwych, while Terence Conran opens his latest restaurant. But Aldwych is still something of a secret.... more

Take a walk on the tame side with Richard Long

11.06.09
Richard Long made an art form out of rambling but, his beautiful “walks of art” lose some of their magic at Tate Britain.... more

Abstract America goes back to New York school

04.06.09
There is no shock of the new at Charles Saatchi’s latest show, Abstract America, but there is pleasure to be found in old ideas.... more

Tom Stoppard: My passion

01.06.09
As Arcadia is revived in the West End and his translation of The Cherry Orchard opens at the Old Vic, the playwright lets down his guard.... more

The ‘nice’ Prince was building bridges, but ego twin is still alive

13.05.09
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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

The end of the icon

17.03.09
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

Gods are failing to smile on the works of minerva

06.03.09
Whatever happens to Minerva, the property company named after the Roman "goddess of 1000 works" will leave at least two monuments to its labours in the City... more

Developer defaults on City Hall mortgage

02.03.09
The developer that owns Boris Johnson's offices has defaulted on its mortgage, it was revealed... more

Linklaters gets tough as City downturn hits

26.01.09
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Lord's 'UFO' architect Jan Kaplicky dies

16.01.09
Jan Kaplicky, one of the most original and inventive London architects, has died aged 71... more

Campaign is on to quell barracks-plan rebellion

07.11.08
It is nice to see the Qataris wish to be good neighbours with the residents of Chelsea and Belgravia. A very English representative of the oil-state's development arm, Qatari Diar, took morning tea last Friday with members of the Belgravia Residents Association... more

Routemaster will soon be back on our streets

24.10.08
London's new Routemaster bus will operate on a scale far wider than expected but the much-hyped public competition to design it is a sideshow, according to a senior TfL manager... more

Property

08.10.08
The super-rich still love London, keeping prices at the top end high. Across the city there remains a shortage of homes but building is slowing in the crunch. ... more

Credit crunch threatens the Olympic plans

29.09.08
The 2012 Games are meant to leave London with a range of world class facilities but as the economy falters and vital private money vanishes the legacy looks far from certain... more

Should Lloyd’s be listed?

09.09.08
English Heritage believes that Richard Rogers’s City landmark needs protecting — but it was never intended to be a monument.... more

Beijing on Thames

06.08.08
On the eve of the Olympics, Sir David Tang tells how the Chinese are creating a cultural - and business - revolution in London. We pick 20 names to watch... more

Big ideas are fine but the small things matter too

24.07.08
This week saw the 'final go-ahead' for Crossrail. But it is the everyday irritations and inadequacies of our transport system, not the grand projects, that concern people most... more

The Games need Zaha's icon

08.07.08
The Aquatics Centre has become a target for criticism of the London Olympics. But here, on the day of the Standard debate on 2012, one critic argues it is an outstanding landmark building... more

Welcome to the court of King Newt

02.07.08
Ken Livingstone is plotting his political comeback from a small north London office, even answering his own telephone... more

London's 'third city' at a planning crossroads

16.05.08
Examination of plans for the redevelopment of Croydon reveal both naïve optimism and a refusal to face uncomfortable truths... more

Think small if we want to keep this city great

03.03.08
Time Out is rather a shallow magazine and its coverage of politics verges on the puerile. But when its editor-atlarge, Michael Hodges, announced he was standing as a mayoral candidate, he struck a chord... more

Prefab utopia - for the discerning jungle dweller

06.02.08
Maison Tropicale is a perfect work of architecture, with form, beauty and technology in perfect harmony.... more

Why I am leaving the Royal Academy

05.02.08
In his first interview since announcing his departure, Sir Norman Rosenthal talks about leaving the institution he still loves.... more

V&A marks 150 years of inspiration

26.06.07
The Victoria and Albert Museum is as great an inspiration to Britain's artists and designers as it was when Henry Cole founded it 150 years ago...... more

Shedding new light on the menu

18.10.06
Norman Foster's soaring glazed dome over the Court restaurant at the British Museum has created an eerie, other-worldly realm. But does the food match the surroundings?... more

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