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Barely 10% of building safety gateway 2 submissions for new builds have been approved, latest figures say
Date provided by Cast says the average cost of getting green light at this stage is close to £28,000
Plans in for Grafton Architects’ Christ’s College Cambridge library
Stirling Prize winner’s proposals replace scrapped scheme designed by Rick Mather Architects
A stronger future in timber: Dale Joinery and Mumford & Wood unite
Petrarch launches slimline facade panel with focus on sustainability and reuse
Office Ten Architecture proposes scalable retrofit model to tackle housing and climate crises
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Designing through the storm: Rethinking sustainable construction in an age of crisis
Mitakshi Sirsi reflects on the fragility exposed by recent global events and outlines five strategies for embedding long-term value and ecological responsibility in built environment practice
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In pictures: John Puttick Associates retrofit Victorian power station into youth hub in Blackburn
John Puttick Associates has completed the retrofit and expansion of a historic Victorian power station in Blackburn, converting the once-derelict building into Fusebox – a dedicated facility for young people aged 16 to 25. Located in the town centre, Fusebox now forms part of Blackburn Youth Zone and responds to ...
Designing with timber from day one
The construction industry stands at a critical juncture. If the UK is to meet its commitment to achieve Net Zero by 2050 and reduce embodied carbon in construction, the industry must improve the sustainability credentials of the buildings it constructs. This is likely to involve a move to a more ...
Can architecture help the built environment understand its purpose?
The built environment is being pulled in many different directions. Earlier this year the government proposed a new Planning and Infrastructure Bill, as part of its ambition to build 1.5 million new homes over the next several years.
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WA100 Digital Edition
Architect of the Year Awards 2024
What made this project… Skylight by Buckley Gray Yeoman
What made this project… University of Cambridge West Hub by Jestico + Whiles
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Boomers to Zoomers
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
Designing workplaces that work for everyone
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In Pictures
In pictures: Kimbell Pike Architects converts listed Arts and Crafts building into Montessori nursery
In pictures: Scott Brownrigg’s flexible laboratory building at Peterhouse Technology Park
In pictures: Fraser Brown MacKenna completes 33-home development in Bethnal Green
In pictures: John Puttick Associates retrofit Victorian power station into youth hub in Blackburn
Grimshaw completes LA metro station at city’s largest airport
GT3 Architects completes UK’s ‘largest Passivhaus leisure centre’
GRID Architects unveils Dolphin Square refurbishment
First look at Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s V&A East Storehouse
In pictures: Fathom completes one of Clerkenwell’s largest heritage office projects
Repairing the urban fabric: Chris Dyson Architects restores Shoreditch weavers’ houses
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WA100 2025
WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble
WA100 2025: Digital edition
WA100 2025: The big list
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What if buildings made us feel better? Rethinking design through the lens of health
Tye Farrow makes the case for how a salutogenic approach to design can support neurological health, emotional well-being and human performance
Designing through the storm: Rethinking sustainable construction in an age of crisis
Mitakshi Sirsi reflects on the fragility exposed by recent global events and outlines five strategies for embedding long-term value and ecological responsibility in built environment practice
Demolition, density and distrust in Birmingham: estate renewal in a bankrupt city
With Birmingham in financial crisis, Joe Holyoak explores how plans for Ladywood and Druids Heath risk repeating past mistakes, and excluding the very residents they are intended to serve
We cannot protect historic buildings without protecting the skills to care for them
We think we’re protecting our heritage — but are we really? After a week learning from conservation specialists, Eleanor Jolliffe explores what we’re getting right, and what we’re missing
Grenfell revealed the dangers of a siloed industry, and why we must rethink design and construction education
Our industry is full of specialists who tend to be siloed in their thinking. A new qualification at the University of Leeds aims to produce graduates with a broader range of skills across architecture, building services and structural engineering, writes course leader Justin Lunn
The spending review offers hope for housing, but delivery systems must be fixed
Chloë Phelps welcomes new funding commitments for housing, but warns we also need urgent reform of procurement and planning processes
5 minutes with … Chris Pollard at Fereday Pollard
The 30-year-old firm’s founder and managing director on improving the design quality of transport and infrastructure projects, the frustrations of the consents process, the importance of perseverence and his love of pizza
Designing for every body: Jos Boys and the radical potential of disability-led design
Architectural activist, teacher and campaigner Jos Boys has spent decades questioning who architecture is really for. In this profile, Mary Richardson explores how her latest work reframes access as a political, creative and collaborative practice
Why the real carbon cost of our homes lies in how we build them
Thomas Lane asks whether the Future Homes Hub’s plan to tackle embodied carbon in housebuilding will have real impact
The regulator steps into the spotlight
Ben Flatman meets Hugh Simpson, chief executive of the Architects Registration Board, to discuss education reform, CPD and the future of regulation – and why he is happy for ARB to be an “activist regulator”
‘We’re like the Borrowers, nobody knows we’re here’: How Populous’ new Man City stand will be built without the fans noticing
The contactor has been busy working behind the scenes at the Etihad. This summer the team will finally get their time on the pitch - and will have to make it count
Why Nicholas Boys Smith’s ideas still matter in the age of Keir Starmer
Mary Richardson speaks to the founder of Create Streets about popular taste, the design challenges facing Labour’s housebuilding push, and why architects still struggle to engage with what ‘normal’ people really want
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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
Digging deep: The radical engineering underpinning Stiff + Trevillion’s 65 Holborn Viaduct project
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Reviews
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
‘Would you rather be sold religion or soap?’: Venturi and Scott Brown’s story
Vector Architects: Gong Dong and the Art of Building
Outrage lives on: Ian Nairn’s critique still haunts Britain’s landscapes
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