Gino Spocchia
@ginospoc.bsky.social
Chief Reporter at Architects' Journal I @news.architectsjournal.co.uk
In the AJ: New decision date. New secretary of state on China's London embassy
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Chinese embassy decision delayed as new housing secretary takes post
The new housing secretary, Steve Reed, is expected to make a decision next month on China’s contentious London embassy plans
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September 8, 2025 at 10:27 AM
In the AJ: New decision date. New secretary of state on China's London embassy
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The naming of a winner for the Grenfell Tower memorial design contest has slipped back, while, separately, the government has set out details of the tower’s deconstruction
Grenfell memorial winner announcement is delayed
Grenfell memorial winner announcement is delayed
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August 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The naming of a winner for the Grenfell Tower memorial design contest has slipped back, while, separately, the government has set out details of the tower’s deconstruction
Plans to improve Peckham Rye station, despite the project team being ready to go, have been stalled by a government funding pause.
Unsurprisingly, the architect behind the £40m project has been among the voices to criticise that decision, here:
Unsurprisingly, the architect behind the £40m project has been among the voices to criticise that decision, here:
‘Disastrous’: Landolt + Brown slams Peckham Rye station funding snub
The government’s decision to pull funding for the long-awaited overhaul of Peckham Rye station in south-east London has been labelled ‘disastrous’ by its architect, Landolt + Brown co-founder Adam Bro...
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July 15, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Plans to improve Peckham Rye station, despite the project team being ready to go, have been stalled by a government funding pause.
Unsurprisingly, the architect behind the £40m project has been among the voices to criticise that decision, here:
Unsurprisingly, the architect behind the £40m project has been among the voices to criticise that decision, here:
When there's a will, there's a third way...
Herzog & de Meuron have been working on another rival scheme with Sellar for overhauling Liverpool Street station
Will this eclipse Herzog's own 2023 application and Network Rail's ACME scheme, validated just last month? Time will tell
Herzog & de Meuron have been working on another rival scheme with Sellar for overhauling Liverpool Street station
Will this eclipse Herzog's own 2023 application and Network Rail's ACME scheme, validated just last month? Time will tell
Exclusive: Herzog and de Meuron working on all-new rival Liverpool Street plans
Herzog & de Meuron is working on all-new proposals for redeveloping Liverpool Street Station as a rival proposal to ACME’s current Network Rail-backed scheme, the AJ can reveal
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June 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
When there's a will, there's a third way...
Herzog & de Meuron have been working on another rival scheme with Sellar for overhauling Liverpool Street station
Will this eclipse Herzog's own 2023 application and Network Rail's ACME scheme, validated just last month? Time will tell
Herzog & de Meuron have been working on another rival scheme with Sellar for overhauling Liverpool Street station
Will this eclipse Herzog's own 2023 application and Network Rail's ACME scheme, validated just last month? Time will tell
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Unless you're a corporate megafestival feels anyone in nightlife, especially LGBTQ+, has been having a tough time. So great to read success stories from across the UK
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Unless you're a corporate megafestival feels anyone in nightlife, especially LGBTQ+, has been having a tough time. So great to read success stories from across the UK
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LGBTQ+ nightlife is going back to its counter-cultural roots
Pushing back against Covid’s decimation of British nightlife, queer architects, designers and campaigners are taking LGBTQ+ nighttime back to its counter-cultural origins. Gino Spocchia reports
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May 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Unless you're a corporate megafestival feels anyone in nightlife, especially LGBTQ+, has been having a tough time. So great to read success stories from across the UK
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/please-...
Unless you're a corporate megafestival feels anyone in nightlife, especially LGBTQ+, has been having a tough time. So great to read success stories from across the UK
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Writing in an open letter addressed to LGBTQ+ architects, planners, engineers and others, which was shared exclusively with the AJ, the UK’s largest built environment institutions said they acknowledged concerns raised over the court’s decision last month:
RIBA ‘committed to inclusivity’ after Supreme Court gender ruling
The RIBA has joined other built environment bodies in expressing a commitment to inclusivity following the recent UK Supreme Court ruling on gender
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May 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Writing in an open letter addressed to LGBTQ+ architects, planners, engineers and others, which was shared exclusively with the AJ, the UK’s largest built environment institutions said they acknowledged concerns raised over the court’s decision last month:
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ACME has submitted long-awaited proposals to overhaul London’s Liverpool Street station following the departure of star architect Herzog & de Meuron from the job last year
Liverpool Street station replacement scheme submitted for planning
Liverpool Street station replacement scheme submitted for planning
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April 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
ACME has submitted long-awaited proposals to overhaul London’s Liverpool Street station following the departure of star architect Herzog & de Meuron from the job last year
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Are you a budding news reporter? Do you want to work with me and the lovely AJ team? @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Then have a nosey at this:
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April 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Are you a budding news reporter? Do you want to work with me and the lovely AJ team? @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Then have a nosey at this:
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Hollaway Studio’s proposals to convert a seaside cottage in Dungeness into a holiday home for cartoonist Mr Doodle have been granted planning consent.
Mr Doodle: Dungeness holiday bungalow by Hollaway Studio OK’d
Mr Doodle: Dungeness holiday bungalow by Hollaway Studio OK’d
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March 19, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Hollaway Studio’s proposals to convert a seaside cottage in Dungeness into a holiday home for cartoonist Mr Doodle have been granted planning consent.
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MIPIM kicks off in Cannes today – the AJ's @ginospoc.bsky.social takes a first look around. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/mipim-2... #MIPIM2025
MIPIM 2025: a sneak peek at the world’s largest property show
The annual international property jamboree, MIPIM, kicks off in Cannes today (11 March). The AJ's Gino Spocchia takes a first look at what the attendees can expect to find
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March 11, 2025 at 11:28 AM
MIPIM kicks off in Cannes today – the AJ's @ginospoc.bsky.social takes a first look around. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/mipim-2... #MIPIM2025
AJ Exclusive: Landsec does a 'Threesixty' on its earlier redevelopment proposals for Glasgow's 26-year-old Buchanan Galleries, with local architects replacing Foster + Partners on the job
Glasgow’s Threesixty replaces Foster + Partners on Buchanan Galleries plans
Glasgow-based Threesixty Architecture is drawing-up fresh plans for the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre — replacing Foster + Partners on the job
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March 10, 2025 at 11:39 AM
AJ Exclusive: Landsec does a 'Threesixty' on its earlier redevelopment proposals for Glasgow's 26-year-old Buchanan Galleries, with local architects replacing Foster + Partners on the job
This week's Lords debate on the Holocaust Memorial Bill, featuring a comparison of Adjaye and Arad to... Pablo Picasso
Tory peer brands ‘discredited’ Adjaye’s Holocaust memorial ‘grotesquely ugly’
David Adjaye’s Holocaust memorial design has been slammed as ‘grotesquely ugly’ and the architect described as ‘descredited’ by a shadow minister in the House of Lords
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March 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This week's Lords debate on the Holocaust Memorial Bill, featuring a comparison of Adjaye and Arad to... Pablo Picasso
Peckham isn't happy about Berkeley's plans for the 1980s Aylesham Centre, drawn-up by dRMM
The scheme has just 77 proposed social and affordable homes out of 877
In 2023, Berkeley told the AJ that its scheme would have a ‘hugely positive impact; Particularly the hundreds of affordable homes'
The scheme has just 77 proposed social and affordable homes out of 877
In 2023, Berkeley told the AJ that its scheme would have a ‘hugely positive impact; Particularly the hundreds of affordable homes'
Hundreds protest against dRMM-led Peckham regeneration scheme
Hundreds of people have demonstrated against Berkeley’s dRMM-led plans to redevelop Peckham’s Aylesham Centre, protesting over the lack of affordable and social housing
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March 4, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Peckham isn't happy about Berkeley's plans for the 1980s Aylesham Centre, drawn-up by dRMM
The scheme has just 77 proposed social and affordable homes out of 877
In 2023, Berkeley told the AJ that its scheme would have a ‘hugely positive impact; Particularly the hundreds of affordable homes'
The scheme has just 77 proposed social and affordable homes out of 877
In 2023, Berkeley told the AJ that its scheme would have a ‘hugely positive impact; Particularly the hundreds of affordable homes'
Another Friday, another AJ scoop:
The LSA becomes part of the University College of Estate Management (UCEM), an online university
Happens 3 months after the LSA had its validating partnership with Uni of Liverpool terminated, and 3 weeks after the departure of its leader, Neal Shasore
The LSA becomes part of the University College of Estate Management (UCEM), an online university
Happens 3 months after the LSA had its validating partnership with Uni of Liverpool terminated, and 3 weeks after the departure of its leader, Neal Shasore
London School of Architecture becomes part of online university
The London School of Architecture (LSA) is set to become a part of online university the University College of Estate Management (UCEM)
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February 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Another Friday, another AJ scoop:
The LSA becomes part of the University College of Estate Management (UCEM), an online university
Happens 3 months after the LSA had its validating partnership with Uni of Liverpool terminated, and 3 weeks after the departure of its leader, Neal Shasore
The LSA becomes part of the University College of Estate Management (UCEM), an online university
Happens 3 months after the LSA had its validating partnership with Uni of Liverpool terminated, and 3 weeks after the departure of its leader, Neal Shasore
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NEWS | Single post-Grenfell construction regulator confirmed by Rayner www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/single-...
Single post-Grenfell construction regulator confirmed by Rayner
The construction industry will have a single regulator, the deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has announced as part of the government’s full response to the Grenfell Inquiry
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February 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
NEWS | Single post-Grenfell construction regulator confirmed by Rayner www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/single-...
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NEWS | Zaha Hadid Architects wins Naples regeneration competition
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Zaha Hadid Architects wins Naples regeneration competition
Zaha Hadid Architects’ (ZHA) has unveiled its vision for a new headquarters in Naples for the Campania region, comprising two swooping towers and an urban park
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February 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
NEWS | Zaha Hadid Architects wins Naples regeneration competition
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Hard perimeter you say?
David Chipperfield Architects told the inquiry that the openness of a proposed cultural centre and forecourt was 'fundamental' to its hugely controversial designs for a new China embassy at Royal Mint Court.
Rayner will now make a decision on the scheme.
David Chipperfield Architects told the inquiry that the openness of a proposed cultural centre and forecourt was 'fundamental' to its hugely controversial designs for a new China embassy at Royal Mint Court.
Rayner will now make a decision on the scheme.
Inquiry closes on Chipperfield’s Chinese embassy plans
The six-day-long inquiry into David Chipperfield Architects’ (DCA) controversial proposals for a 2.4ha Chinese embassy at Royal Mint Court ended this week
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February 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Hard perimeter you say?
David Chipperfield Architects told the inquiry that the openness of a proposed cultural centre and forecourt was 'fundamental' to its hugely controversial designs for a new China embassy at Royal Mint Court.
Rayner will now make a decision on the scheme.
David Chipperfield Architects told the inquiry that the openness of a proposed cultural centre and forecourt was 'fundamental' to its hugely controversial designs for a new China embassy at Royal Mint Court.
Rayner will now make a decision on the scheme.
you heard it here first
A scoop doesn't last very long in this digital day and age, but this was one a few hours ago - Lebanese-born, Paris-based rising star Lina Ghotmeh has won the competition to redesign the British Museum's Western range. @news.architectsjournal.co.uk
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Rising star pips big names to win British Museum contest
Lebanese-born, Paris-based Lina Ghotmeh has been named winner of the high-profile competition to overhaul more than a third of the gallery spaces and behind-the-scenes areas at the British Museum
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February 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
you heard it here first
‘Mr Foster, this case has not been closed. There is one victim still alive, which is me’ — Hanan Khashoggi in @news.architectsjournal.co.uk
Khashoggi’s widow challenges architects to raise his brutal murder with Saudis
Talking to the AJ from her apartment in Washington DC – where she has been granted asylum since Dece...
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February 17, 2025 at 10:32 AM
‘Mr Foster, this case has not been closed. There is one victim still alive, which is me’ — Hanan Khashoggi in @news.architectsjournal.co.uk
They're the third design team to take on the job of transforming Peckham Square in a decade
here's what Graeme Massie and Scott Whitby have in store - and say goodbye to McAslan's Peckham Arch in the process
bound to be controversially locally
here's what Graeme Massie and Scott Whitby have in store - and say goodbye to McAslan's Peckham Arch in the process
bound to be controversially locally
Peckham Arch gone in Graeme Massie and Scott Whitby revamp plans
Designs went on display this week showing the long-awaited plans to revamp the square facing Peckham...
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February 14, 2025 at 12:53 PM
They're the third design team to take on the job of transforming Peckham Square in a decade
here's what Graeme Massie and Scott Whitby have in store - and say goodbye to McAslan's Peckham Arch in the process
bound to be controversially locally
here's what Graeme Massie and Scott Whitby have in store - and say goodbye to McAslan's Peckham Arch in the process
bound to be controversially locally
Half a decade after Scotland's national architecture centre shut during the pandemic, plans emerge for a tech hub to take its place
the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland says the loss would be a 'tragedy'
the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland says the loss would be a 'tragedy'
RIAS warns of ‘tragedy’ over tech hub plans for Mackintosh’s Lighthouse
The centre in Mitchell Lane, which opened in 1999 and is run by Glasgow City Council (GCC), shut its...
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January 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Half a decade after Scotland's national architecture centre shut during the pandemic, plans emerge for a tech hub to take its place
the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland says the loss would be a 'tragedy'
the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland says the loss would be a 'tragedy'
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COMPETITION | Competition launched for St Pancras reconfiguration
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Competition launched for St Pancras reconfiguration
The company – which has a 30-year concession to run the 109km rail line between St Pancras Internati...
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January 28, 2025 at 12:40 PM
COMPETITION | Competition launched for St Pancras reconfiguration
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nice little AJ credit in a very long long-read on the big man himself
January 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
nice little AJ credit in a very long long-read on the big man himself
Councillors in Folkestone say 'no' to A IS FOR_'s highly anticipated, ambitious, simplified and divisive proposals for 410 homes on the Kent seaside town's harbour
makes a joke about shockwaves
makes a joke about shockwaves
Surprise rejection for A IS FOR_’s Folkestone harbour plans
Councillors on Folkestone & Hythe’s planning committee narrowly turned down the London-based...
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January 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Councillors in Folkestone say 'no' to A IS FOR_'s highly anticipated, ambitious, simplified and divisive proposals for 410 homes on the Kent seaside town's harbour
makes a joke about shockwaves
makes a joke about shockwaves
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NEWS | LA fires destroy Modernist landmarks
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LA fires destroy Modernist landmarks
Fires that spread through the Los Angeles suburbs of Palisades, Altadana, and Sylmar last week burne...
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January 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
NEWS | LA fires destroy Modernist landmarks
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