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Novak Hiles Architects submits grey belt housing scheme in Barking and Dagenham
GPE ‘considering further amendments’ to Orms’ London Bridge office scheme mired in planning row
What made this project… Melamar by Paper Igloo
New RIBA North exhibitions in Liverpool examine stadium design and colonial-era planning in West Africa
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GPE ‘considering further amendments’ to Orms’ London Bridge office scheme mired in planning row
Decision on St Thomas Yard redevelopment was deferred this week amid concerns over scheme’s impact on heritage assets
PLP submits plans for student resi tower next to Waterloo station
Proposals replace plan for affordable housing designed by BPTW
Mastering the detail: Episode 4
Nassimi claims Hyphyn is the first biodegradable performance vinyl
CPD 06 2025: How glass mineral wool insulation supports net zero building design
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Nansledan: can design codes and long-term stewardship deliver better housing?
As part of Building Design’s Designing Tomorrow’s Housing campaign, Mary Richardson visits Nansledan, the Duchy of Cornwall’s urban extension to Newquay. While its traditional architecture divides opinion, she finds that the project raises important questions about stewardship, planning and designing new housing at scale
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Barr Gazetas delivers retrofit of London office for GPE
The 1990s office building – now rebranded as SIX – delivers over 48,000 sq ft of workspace across eight floors
What made this project… De Valera Library and Súil Gallery by Keith Williams Architects
Finalist for Public Building Architect of the Year Award 2025, Keith Williams Architects guides us through the specification challenges present at De Valera Library
It’s time to stop letting bad data undermine good design
Despite significant investment in digital innovation, the industry remains hindered by fragmented, inconsistent data
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Architect of the Year Awards 2024
What made this project… Melamar by Paper Igloo
What made this project… De Valera Library and Súil Gallery by Keith Williams Architects
What made this project… Regional Science Centre by INI Design Studio
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Boomers to Zoomers
Barratt Redrow commits to accessible playgrounds on all new developments
Report calls for national play strategy to reshape neighbourhoods for children
Seventeen years on: why England needs a new National Play Strategy
England is failing to plan for its ageing population – the spending review must put that right
The quiet revolution in built environment education and engagement – starting with children
The Coach: Why age isn’t the issue – it’s the life stage that counts
2,000 young people, one mission: Rethinking access to architecture at the Festival of the Future
More than a masterplan: the people power behind Earls Court’s next chapter
The built environment belongs to everyone – so why are young voices so often excluded?
Westminster’s public toilets get a designer makeover as Hugh Broughton Architects completes first upgrade in £12.7m programme
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Allies and Morrison’s leisure centre completes at Canada Water redevelopment
HTA Design completes two new residential buildings at Wood Wharf
In pictures: TP Bennett completes Stonecutter City office development
In pictures: Howells completes Uncle Wembley Gardens BTR scheme in Brent
In pictures: Emrys Architects completes Berners and Wells mixed-use scheme in Fitzrovia
In pictures: Renzo Piano’s Shard Place reaches practical completion
Wright & Wright completes £40m masterplan project at Lambeth Palace
In pictures: dRMM’s mixed-use industrial and residential scheme in Hackney Wick
In pictures: Mowat & Company redesigns Flint HQ in south London
In pictures: Kimbell Pike Architects converts listed Arts and Crafts building into Montessori nursery
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Don’t defund thinking: why architectural education needs space to question, not just produce ‘practice ready’ graduates
As pressure mounts to streamline architectural education, Emily Crompton and Sam Higgins argue that universities remain essential spaces for reflection, critique and experimentation – and should not be reduced to training centres for industry
The great allocation myth: why so few homes are actually built where we plan them
Looking back at research from the 1990s and comparing it with today’s data, David Rudlin explores the persistent failure of site allocations to deliver housing
Engineering the future: Rethinking systems, reducing carbon
Elisa Sartori explores how low-carbon solutions are often as much about what we leave out as what we choose to specify
One year on from the general election, how much closer are we to delivering 1.5 million new homes?
This month marked a year since Labour won a historic landslide in the general election. Paul Smith assesses how the government has fared against its key housing delivery pledge
If architects want to lead the housing debate, they must relearn the vernacular
As part of BD’s Designing Tomorrow’s Housing campaign, James Soane explores how architects can reclaim relevance in the housing debate by rethinking the vernacular as a regenerative and ethical form of practice
ARB’s new code of conduct treats architects like professionals
Eleanor Jolliffe on how the streamlined 2025 code of conduct signals a more grown-up relationship between architects and their regulator
Nansledan: can design codes and long-term stewardship deliver better housing?
As part of Building Design’s Designing Tomorrow’s Housing campaign, Mary Richardson visits Nansledan, the Duchy of Cornwall’s urban extension to Newquay. While its traditional architecture divides opinion, she finds that the project raises important questions about stewardship, planning and designing new housing at scale
Will the Building Safety Regulator overhaul be enough to tackle the delays?
The government has promised to speed up approvals for high-rise residential schemes which have been languishing for up to a year in the new building safety regime. The industry’s reponse so far has been muted. With patience running out and costs mounting, Tom Lowe speaks to the people caught up ...
Designing Tomorrow’s Housing - meet the campaign’s advisory panel
As part of Building Design’s Designing Tomorrow’s Housing campaign, Ben Flatman introduces the expert advisory panel whose breadth of experience will help guide the discussion on how to raise housing quality while delivering the homes the country needs
Designing Tomorrow’s Housing: Putting quality at the heart of 1.5 million homes
Ben Flatman introduces Building Design’s new campaign, which asks how we can raise the quality of housing while meeting the government’s pledge to build 1.5 million new homes
Building faith – Britain’s mosque architecture as cultural resistance
Oriana Fernandez reflects on the ideas in Shahed Saleem’s new book, The Counter-Architecture of the British Mosque
Ursula Bowyer, 1925–2025: from émigré to architect and campaigner in postwar London
Architect and heritage advocate Ursula Bowyer, who has died aged 99, pursued a career in postwar London and contributed to the conservation of Greenwich and Blackheath. Ana Francisco Sutherland reflects on a life shaped by resilience and civic engagement
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76 Upper Ground: Denys Lasdun’s 1960s South Bank vision is realised at last
Designing, building and growing the natural way: Wolves Lane community centre unveiled by Studio Gil and Material Cultures
Unpacking the museum: the V&A Storehouse in Stratford opens its doors
A Serpentine Pavilion for anxious times – but is that enough?
Bennetts’ timber and straw robotics lab pilots new net zero carbon building standard
From complexity to clarity: The Sainsbury Wing transformed
A cauldron on the Mersey: how Everton built their new stadium in just five years (Manchester United take note)
Designing from first principles: Inside David Kohn Architects’ Gradel Quadrangles
Industrial remix: how Hawkins\Brown retuned Wakefield’s Tileyard North for the creative economy
Designing for dance: inside O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Sadler’s Wells East
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The Manifesto House: Buildings that changed the future of architecture
Form Follows Love: Anna Heringer on building with empathy, intuition and mud
Nuts, bolts and preservation: High Tech as heritage
RA Summer Exhibition: with no designated space, architecture is overshadowed
Surface Reflections: a quieter, more thoughtful London Design Biennale
Architecture and Social Change: Shaping an Impactful Practice
Beyond the optics: identity, class and the politics of equality in architecture and the arts
Faith, reuse and surveillance: Birmingham’s mosques through Mahtab Hussain’s lens
Between colonialism and nation-building: rethinking African modernism
Speedos, lidos and lost pools: a stylish look at swimming’s social past
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