Rory Olcayto

The Shard will begin on site next year despite the economic downtown, developer Sellar Property Group has said.

The Shard will begin on site next year despite the economic downtown, developer Sellar Property Group has said.

In one of the most inventive townscape regeneration projects in recent years, this spring Liverpool-based BCA Landscape completed a £1 million environmental improvement project for the Lancashire village of Burscough Bridge.

Britain’s biggest practice has an image problem. Rory Olcayto visits BDP’s Manchester HQ to try to understand the firm’s design and culture. Photography by Martine Hamilton Knight

It’s great to see these images of 'Gathering Space'. Gareth Hoskins’ design is Scotland’s first purpose-built exhibition space for the Venice Biennale.

Tony Fretton's housing and medical centre in London epitomises the 'peculiar conditions' of housing provision in the UK.Photography by Peter Cook.

David Chipperfield’s Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield is now midway through its construction programme.