Transport for London (TfL) has appointed Andy Lord as its new Managing Director of London Underground and TfL Engineering. The new MD has been appointed on a basic annual salary of £285,000 pa and will take up his new role from 4 November 2019.

London's first high-end “build-torent” development aimed at wealthy finance and tech bosses has been launched in St John’s Wood. 

Bryden Wood, Cast, and the Mayor of London have launched a new app to speed up the capital’s home building. The freely-available app, titled PRISM, is aimed at the design and construction of high-quality, factory-built homes to address the current demand of 50,000+ houses per year.

Plans have been submitted to Wandsworth Council to turn the 31 acre Alton Estate – one of the largest council estates in the country – into a thriving community hub to be called Alton Green.

Inspired by the glamorous long-term residents of New York’s legendary hotels in the 1950s, Handelsman is on a mission to freshen up traditional hospitality and high-rise living, by merging both the The Lofts, The Stratford hotel and the public spaces in an innovative, immersive concept.

The club have won an appeal against Haringey Council for the new construction. Spurs plan to transform it into 330 new homes, with 35% of them affordable homes, along with new retail and office space and a public space backing on to the street.

Second Home, the membership-only creative workspace community, unveiled their fourth London location in London Fields. In order to provide members with a better work/life balance, the co-founders Rohan Silva and Sam Aldenton, who are both fathers to newborns, set out to make the venue more appealing by having childcare right on site.

London’s housing crisis has sparked a revolution in the suburbs, as housebuilders start to invest billions of pounds into neglected and far-flung postcodes that have room to build. The regeneration of three council estates with thousands of new homes is just the start in Mitcham.

The first phase of The Tide, London’s version of the High Line, officially opened to the public on Friday. Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in collaboration with local firm Neiheiser Argyros, the inaugural section of the linear park marks one-fifth of the overall three-mile-long landscape coming to the banks of the River Thames.

Yesterday, the government announced it is investing £37 million into British engineering to transform electric chargepoint infrastructure, revolutionising the experience for the record levels of ultra-low emission vehicle drivers on UK roads.

As highlighted at the recent National Housing Federation annual conference, Housing 2019, bringing modular construction into the mainstream will be essential if we are to build more homes and to build them better.

With another 2.5 billion urban dwellers predicted within the next 30 years, should we expand existing cities? Or is there a case for starting afresh?

From transforming the Northern Line to getting Crossrail 2 built, TfL boss Mike Brown's job is to keep our transport system moving forward. He meets Julian Glover at a new station in Battersea.

The winning ‘Under One Roof’ design in a competition organised by the London Festival of Architecture (LFA) and Architecture LGBT+ joined the Pride parade last Saturday (6 July).

The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham is the first council in London to support Unite the union’s Construction Charter.

London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) has revealed that Graham has been awarded a £3.5m contract to deliver a new pedestrian and cycle bridge – Carpenters Land Bridge.

Architecture for London’s subtle details and comforting design made its way into a designer duo’s home in north London. The project, made for a boutique stationer and graphic designer, extends a maisonette that had previously been converted from an early Victorian house and turns it into a light and open space, filled with natural materials and warm light.

Balfour Beatty has won the next phase of the £375m Lewisham Gateway scheme in south-east London, Building understands.

Survey finds average industry pay packet rose 9% to £45,900

Homes England has agreed a £150m loan deal with Barclays Bank to help accelerate the construction of more than 600 new homes on a site in west London to be partly developed by housing association Catalyst, the housing minister will reveal today.