A planning application has been filed with the Olympic Development Authority for a new residential tower and attached hotel building by architects, Skidmore Owings & Merrill.
Plans are being considered to scale up the proposed development by Stock Woolstencroft Architects at 2-12 Stratford High Street near the 2010 Olympic campus.
The housing industry may be down in the dumps but one development that's definitely not affected is The Heron in the City of London, a tower that takes its name from the property company developing it.
Conceptual futurism lover Vincent Callebaut has dreamed up another idea of monumental green architecture - Dragonfly Vertical Farm - so called because the structure is conceived in a similar manner to dragonfly wings.
Land Securities is about to sign up the Canary Wharf Group as the partner in a joint venture to construct a new skyscraper in the City of London, 20 Fenchurch Street.
The regeneration of the London borough of Ealing is continuing apace with plans from architecture firm Tate Hindle for the demolition of the existing Nash House office building and the construction of a new more modern mixed-use replacement.
Leading architecture firm Pelli Clarke Pelli has penned a new skyscraper and low-rise podium to stand on plots W02 and W03 of Wood Wharf in east London by combining them into one monster development.
Jestico + Whiles and Glenn Howells Architects are working together on plans by Countryside Properties and Fresh Wharf developments for a new project in the London area of Barking.
Plans for the so-called Glass Needle in Cardiff seem to have fallen by the wayside to be replaced by a proposal from Archial for a new 12-storey hotel building split into two distinct sections catering for different parts of the market with a maximum height of 45 metres.
It's been a long time coming but the Conran and Partners designed City Lofts St Paul's Tower in Sheffield has finally been completed and is now fit for habitation.
The expanding the budget hotel sector in the face of recession seems one of the few things to just about be keeping the construction industry off its knees right now. The latest of these is a ten floor new Holiday Inn Express sited off Higher Oswald Street and Goadsby Street in central Manchester's Northern Quarter that has seen a constant stream of development over the last decade or so although little new work starting since the recession hit in 2008.