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MPs ‘sceptical’ that private investors will back £6bn HS2 Euston scheme

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Rail scheme has become a ‘reputational risk’ to UK, public accounts committee says

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LDA’s Union Terrace Gardens among 21 projects shortlisted for RIAS Awards

Long-delayed Aberdeen scheme joined on list by Moxon bridge and Ptolemy Dean castle refurbishment

  • Eradicating the issue of siloes in renovation projects

  • Mailen Design unveils Lee Terrace in Blackheath

  • Education on the misconceptions of fire safety in riser shafts needs to happen now

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A fresh start for the Oxford-Cambridge corridor – or will it be déjà vu all over again?

2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00By

The chancellor has given her backing to an expansion plan for the corridor connecting Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge, including thousands of homes, which the previous government dropped. Joey Gardiner asks what hope the industry can have

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WA100 2025: Digital edition

2025-01-17T06:00:00+00:00

Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • What made this project… Gateway to Nature Centre by Oberlanders

  • What made this project… The OWO by EPR Architects

  • What made this project… Maple House by Gibson Thornley

  • What made this project… Francis House by Gensler

  • What made this project… NMIS interiors by HLM Architects

  • What made this project… Barn X by LOM architecture and design

  • What made this project… n2 by Lynch Architects

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • Designing workplaces that work for everyone

  • The future faces of UK architecture

  • Paul Vick Architects secures planning for redevelopment of historic Chiswick care home

  • Youth-designed pavilion unveiled in Camden’s HS2 meanwhile garden

  • Rayner vows to ‘fix the system’ after report links 74 child deaths to temporary accommodation

  • Compact living, big impact: Dovehouse Court’s lesson in sustainability and community

  • Why inclusive housing design benefits us all

  • Putting children and young people at the heart of housing design

  • Closing the skills gap: Alison Watson on transforming built environment education

  • UK nightlife faces extinction by 2029 if venue closures persist, warns industry body

In Pictures

  • Squire & Partners retrofits Hopkins’ grade II-listed former Conran HQ

  • Mailen Design unveils Lee Terrace in Blackheath

  • ZHA unveils one of Zaha Hadid’s last projects

  • Dan Meis and BDP Pattern realise Everton’s vision for Bramley-Moore Dock

  • DLA completes new construction and engineering facility at Oaklands College

  • Loader Monteith completes rural home in Angus

  • Levitt Bernstein completes Newham’s first Passivhaus-certified social housing

  • Fletcher Priest completes refurbishment of former BHS headquarters in Marylebone

  • In pictures: KPF completes Istanbul bank headquarters

  • ZHA metro station opens as key hub in Riyadh transit system

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Architecture and the ethics of harm: design, responsibility, and the cost of inaction

2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00By

Architectural practice is shaped not just by technical proficiency but by ethical choices, writes Amin Taha

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Amid all the uncertainty, architects are already working to rebuild Gaza

2025-02-25T07:41:00+00:00By

While Donald Trump sets out his contested vision for Gaza’s future, Palestinians are seeking to reanimate their devastated landscape, writes Emma Dent Coad

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Better housing, not just more housing, must be the goal

2025-02-24T05:00:00+00:00By 1 comments

The government – and housebuilders – must be given the best possible chance of achieving its ambitious target writes Ben Derbyshire

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Designing workplaces that work for everyone

2025-02-24T05:00:00+00:00By

Investing in well-designed environments isn’t just a matter of preference – it’s a strategic advantage that enhances productivity and employee wellbeing, writes Sam Carey-Smith

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A stint in construction could be what architectural education is missing

2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00By

Urna Sodnomjamts on why hands-on construction experience helps architects bridge the gap between design and delivery

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A legacy approach to building new towns

2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00By

Hugh Petter argues that new towns should be delivered through legacy development to ensure sustainable, well-designed communities

  • Digging deep: The radical engineering underpinning Stiff + Trevillion’s 65 Holborn Viaduct project

  • Compact living, big impact: Dovehouse Court’s lesson in sustainability and community

  • How Bennetts Associates transformed a Victorian hospital into a forward-focused university department

  • Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context

  • Space House: 1960s icon gets another chance to shine

  • Midland Metropolitan University Hospital: Inside the long, costly journey to deliver Birmingham and Sandwell’s new £1bn ‘super hospital’

  • A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross

  • A decade in the making: Norton Folgate’s controversial redevelopment unveiled

  • ‘A glimpse of new horizons’: Cooke Fawcett’s reworking of Cockpit’s craft incubator

  • A harmonious blend of context and concept: Mass Studies reimagines the Serpentine Pavilion

Reviews

  • Vector Architects: Gong Dong and the Art of Building

  • Outrage lives on: Ian Nairn’s critique still haunts Britain’s landscapes

  • Saint, state and stone: the politics of preserving Old Goa’s Basilica de Bom Jesus

  • Film review: The Brutalist – It isn’t really about brutalism…

  • The bold brilliance of Edwardian Baroque: rediscovering Edwin Rickards

  • Rogue Goths: the flamboyant and eccentric architects who reimagined Victorian Gothic Revival

  • ‘Where sculpture and building come together’: a history of collaboration between sculptors and architects

  • Why inclusive housing design benefits us all

  • ‘New methods for the old’: how Minnette de Silva redefined modernity

  • Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era