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  • Housing commission final report recommends fruit trees and "fast track for beauty"

    The UK government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, has recommended urban orchards and incentivising developers by fast-tracking planning for attractive housing. More

    India Block | 30 January 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Philosopher and architecture writer Roger Scruton dies aged 75

    Roger Scruton, the British conservative thinker, author and architecture critic who was co-chair of Building Better, Building Beautiful, has passed away at the age of 75. More

    India Block | 13 January 2020 | Leave a comment
  • Roger Scruton returns to head up UK housing commission

    British philosopher Roger Scruton has returned to the Building Better Building Beautiful housing commission, from which he was sacked three months ago for making controversial comments about Chinese people and Jewish philanthropist George Soros. More

    India Block | 24 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • UK housing commission urges planners to "say no to ugliness”

    The Building Better Building Beautiful Commission has urged UK councils to reject "ugly" housing schemes and prioritise low car developments in its latest report. More

    India Block | 9 July 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission gets new chair after Scruton sacking

    Create Streets founder Nicholas Boys Smith has been named interim chair of the UK's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, after Roger Scruton's removal. More

    India Block | 1 May 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Roger Scruton fired from housing commission for "completely unacceptable" comments

    Chair of the UK government's Building Better Building Beautiful Commission Roger Scruton has been fired for calling Chinese people "robots" and claiming Islamaphobia was "invented by the Muslim Brotherhood". More

    India Block | 10 April 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Architects should "meet us half way" on Building Better Building Beautiful Commission says UK housing minister

    UK minister for housing Kit Malthouse has defended the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission, calling on architects to work with him to resist bland, developer-led housing. More

    India Block | 12 February 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Grenfell Tower fire wouldn't have happened "if it hadn't been so ugly" says Roger Scruton

    Roger Scruton, chair of the UK government's Building Better Building Beautiful Commission, says that bad design was behind the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people. More

    India Block | 31 January 2019 | Leave a comment
  • Roger Scruton calls for "necessary change of culture" in UK architecture

    Roger Scruton, chair of the UK government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, has called on architects to reject modernism in order to save cities. More

    India Block | 15 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • "The beautiful buildings commission is just a front for the continuing attack on progressive ideas"

    The historicism of the UK's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission is no laughing matter, says Sam Jacob. More

    Sam Jacob | 14 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • Government urged to sack Roger Scruton over controversial comments on Jewish people, rape and homosexuality

    The chair of the UK's Building Better, Building Beautiful commission is under fire for saying homosexuality is "not normal" and accusing jews in Budapest of being part of a "Soros empire". More

    India Block | 8 November 2018 | Leave a comment
  • UK's new commission for beautiful buildings is "tedious hangover from 1980s" say architects

    UK architects have attacked the government's new Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, which has been set up to improve the design quality of homes and places. More

    India Block | 6 November 2018 | Leave a comment

Foster + Partners embodies "creative spirit of Mumbai" with first Apple Store in India

Apple Store Mumbai by Foster + Partners

Worrell Yeung renovates New York farm with collection of "cousin" wood-clad buildings

Two black timber barn-style buildings by Worrell Yeung

Aron Himmelfarb extends Hudson Valley brewery with Corten-steel tasting room

Two-storey Corten steel tasting room at the Lasting Joy Brewery

Foster + Partners designs sweeping terminal for "air taxi services" in Dubai

Render of the Dubai International Airport vertiport
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