The shadow housing secretary has endorsed calls for “beauty” to be put at the heart of the Government’s planning policy.

Originally released in 1986, the reissue of High Rise II shines a light on an important and fiery document of Japanese psych rock. The pair started playing as Psychedelic Speed Freaks, a name obvious ...

The application for a development at the disused Centrum Business Park in East Street, Farnham, was rejected by Waverley Borough Council's planning committee after being deferred in September. The ...

A vast number of UK housing tower blocks arose from often ignoble motives and shaky logic, writes LSE professor Patrick Dunleavy Between 1945 and 1975, the UK built 440,000 high-rise flats for public ...

This review contains no spoilers and is based on all 12 episodes of High-Rise Invasion season 1. “I refuse to die. I won’t lose to a world like this.” There’s nothing quite like a good, heightened ...

Prefabricated buildings are designed to be put together very quickly – that's a big part of their appeal, after all. However, you'd be hard-pressed to find a building that goes up as quickly as this ...

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The City of London’s pipeline of tall buildings remains ‘vigorous’, despite growing concerns around embodied carbon and calls to retrofit, according to a new report Published earlier this month by the ...

This article contains spoilers for High-Rise Invasion season 1. Television currently exists in a place where there’s a constant stream of new shows and it becomes incredibly easy for some series to ...

A multi-storey solution for the everyman and his every need: a Brutalist monument to utilitarian modernism is erected by Royal Architects on the outskirts of an English metropolis. Dr Robert Laing ...

When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents any other ...