Russian Buyer Spends £140 million on Britain’s Most Expensive House

Mike Spink, figurehead of Spink Properties and renowned developer of breathtakingly expensive properties has secured what must be a very satisfying sale – the £47 million he paid for Park Place in the village of Remenham, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxon has passed to a new owner for a consideration of *eek* £140 million. That’s pounds sterling folks. Naturally, the buyer hasn’t put his or her hand in the air but is (almost inevitably)... Read More

Treasure trove of Soviet architecture in line for a revamp

The faded Soviet glory of VDNKh is to change as developers want to make it a jewel in the crown of the Moscow tourist trail. http://bit.ly/moscow-VDNKh-redevelopment         83ETX4TYZFPU Share thisTweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious Read More

The Russia Thing – an architect abroad

Steve Brown, Swanke Hayden Connell Architects Russia has been, and always will be to many in business, an object of wary curiosity. Visiting in 1992, a traveller would likely be met by some bleak realities – crumbling housing and infrastructure, infuriating beaurocracy attached to the simplest operations and teenage conscripts in over-sized military uniform manning the corridors of the empty, ancient airport. Nearly twenty years on, Russia... Read More