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Gensler’s UK turnover up 30% as EMEA profit dips
Total turnover for firm’s Europe business ticks up to £75m
Designing Tomorrow's Housing
Allies and Morrison completes passivhaus student townhouses in Cambridge
Why we need to rediscover council housing
How popular, traditional architecture arrived in the Netherlands
We must encourage the building of urban one-home wonders
How the viability crunch is putting Britain’s housing ambitions – and design quality – under strain
Come with me to Clamart: a postcard from a Parisian regenerative development that really works
Britain’s lost builders: making housing viable again for SMEs
Good housing starts with good urban design
Beyond the quick fix: why permitted development needs strategic guidance
New towns. Old wisdom?
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Where, then, do we really wish to live?
Hundreds of studies into what people like and why have produced clear and consistent results. So it is beholden on us to build places that give residents what they want and need, writes Nicholas Boys Smith
CPD 24 2025: Navigating the Building Safety Act
CPD 23 2025: Landscaping mixed-use developments – balancing aesthetics and functionality
CPD 17 2025: Specifying fire-rated doorsets – navigating standards, legislation and best practice
CPD 22 2025: Terrazzo – traditional flooring reinvented to meet modern sustainability challenges
27 interesting innovations and prototypes from the Venice Biennale
Air quality in green building certification: what you need to know
The future of high-rise: why restoring public trust means redefining value
25 years of Northern Ireland’s best builds
Concealed fixings for Hardie panels now available
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Focus
WA100 2026: Heading on up
WA100 2026: The big list
Jewry Wall Museum, Leicester: Levitate’s sensitive refurbishment of Trevor Dannatt’s brutalist former college
Birdcage of Paradise: Three Chamberlain Square
Scott Brownrigg’s Darren Comber: ‘The UK has done nothing to support us’
Best of 2025: building studies
Best of 2025: analysis
Best of 2025: news
Best of 2025: opinion
Best of 2025: interviews
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Specification
In pictures: Hartdene Barns
Nissen Richards Studio’s Hartdene Barns is a collection of distinctive contemporary homes designed to meet RIBA’s Climate Challenge 2030. It retains the spirit of the working farm that formerly occupied the site – while delivering sustainable luxury living
What made this project… Field House by Wilkinson King Architects
Finalist for Individual House Architect of the Year Award 2025, Wilkinson King Architects guides us through the specification challenges present at Field House
In pictures: Clay Rise
This self-build home from new architecture and interiors practice Templeton Ford is an exemplar of contemporary vernacular in a picturesque West Sussex village
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WA100 Digital Edition
Architect of the Year Awards 2025
What made this project… Field House by Wilkinson King Architects
What made this project… Eden Dock by Howells
What made this project… 100 Fetter Lane by Fletcher Priest Architects
What made this project… UNCLE Wembley Gardens by Howells
What made this project… Room for All Stages by BanfieldWood
What made this project… Elizabeth Mews by Trewhela Williams
What made this project… Berners & Wells by Emrys Architects
What made this project… The School of Science, Engineering + Environment (SEE) by Sheppard Robson
What made this project… MacFarlane Place by Maccreanor Lavington
What made this project… The Jackson Library by Nex
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Boomers to Zoomers
Book review: All To Play For – How to design child-friendly housing
Root And Erect’s new King’s Cross play area features sustainable construction, materials and lighting innovation
Designing cities for play: Why child-friendly spaces matter
In pictures: Stanton Williams completes inaugural later living scheme next to Hampstead Heath
This Stirling Prize winner is a model for how we can all live better
Break down the silos – young people won’t see the range of careers our sector offers unless we show them
Carmody Groarke completes ArtPlay Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery
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
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In Pictures
In pictures: Hartdene Barns
In pictures: John Puttick Associates completes Horizon Youth Zone in Grimsby
Allies and Morrison completes passivhaus student townhouses in Cambridge
In pictures: House in a Walled Garden
In pictures: Threshold House – Studio McW’s sharp steel and brick extension
EH Smith opens new Digbeth design centre
In pictures: Stanton Williams completes inaugural later living scheme next to Hampstead Heath
In pictures: Lumi, Europe’s highest LEED rated building
In pictures: ZMMA completes Poole Museum redevelopment
Adjaye Associates unveils completed Princeton University Art Museum
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WA100 2026
WA100 2026: The big list
WA100 2026: The best get better
WA100 2026: Heading on up
WA100 2026: Digital edition
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Where, then, do we really wish to live?
Hundreds of studies into what people like and why have produced clear and consistent results. So it is beholden on us to build places that give residents what they want and need, writes Nicholas Boys Smith
Network Rail should pay heed to John McAslan’s light-touch Liverpool Street station redevelopment plan
It has been arguably the most chaotic development process of any major project in the UK over the past decade but the latest proposals could well be the best way forward for Network Rail
Rethinking sustainability by designing for social resilience
We must move beyond focusing solely on material sustainability and incorporate social resilience into our approach to conservation and to every design brief for new buildings and masterplans, writes Regine Kandan
Protecting small builders can solve the UK’s housing crisis
The backbone of postwar Britain’s vast housebuilding drive, small builders now face extinction as regulatory barriers and policy layering make it ever harder for them to compete, build and survive. Hugo Owen has some solutions
What’s in a name… Do the public really understand what it means to be an ‘architect’?
The current debate about protection of title is much more than a fight between the RIBA and the ARB. We need to learn from the mistakes of the past, says Eleanor Jolliffe
WA100 2026: The best get better
Despite volatile times, architects are the most optimistic they’ve been about prospects for the year ahead since the post-covid bounce of 2022. Although optimism on growth dropped sharply back in 2023, this has steadily increased each year to almost match that of 2019. This is reflected in the number of ...
Could 2026 signal the start of a new stone age?
Structural engineer Webb Yates has completed its first structural stone building for a commercial developer. Thomas Lane reports on the firm’s 20-year mission to establish stone as a sustainable alternative to concrete
Scott Brownrigg’s Darren Comber: ‘The UK has done nothing to support us’
The practice’s chief executive talks to Tom Lowe about the government’s decision on a third Heathrow runway, the impact of Rachel Reeves’ tax policies on business and how the practice has managed to survive for a remarkable 115 years
Frank Gehry: from LA experimentalist to the architect of the Bilbao effect
Ben Flatman examines how Gehry’s work evolved from local, materially driven invention into one of the most recognisable architectural vocabularies of his generation
How the viability crunch is putting Britain’s housing ambitions – and design quality – under strain
Mary Richardson examines how Britain’s viability crisis is squeezing design quality and stalling the creation of real places to live
Jack Pringle: ‘If the RIBA didn’t exist, you’d have to invent it’
RIBA chair Jack Pringle reflects on his role in stabilising the institute’s finances, implementing governance reforms and positioning architects to reclaim leadership in construction through the principal designer role
Building Safety Regulator’s backlog blitz: will it work?
After delays and mounting frustration, the regulator unveiled a bold strategy to clear thousands of stalled projects. Joey Gardiner explores whether the reforms and new leadership can overcome early missteps
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Jewry Wall Museum, Leicester: Levitate’s sensitive refurbishment of Trevor Dannatt’s brutalist former college
Birdcage of Paradise: Three Chamberlain Square
‘They’re a demanding group of people’… Keeping the scientists happy at the University of Cambridge’s new Ray Dolby Centre
Designed to change the world: Inside Oxford University’s new £200m Life and Mind Building
Dulwich College by alma-nac: a new lower school library and the refurbishment of its emblematic Charles Barry block
Backstage at The Old Vic: Haworth Tompkins crafts a contemporary counterpoint to a Georgian icon
Oxford opens its doors: Hopkins’ Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
From discontented planners to a glorious summer: Van Heyningen and Haward’s Leicester Cathedral extension
Bradford Live: how Tim Ronalds Architects helped residents save their historic cinema and turn it into a 3,800-capacity music venue
76 Upper Ground: Denys Lasdun’s 1960s South Bank vision is realised at last
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Reviews
Book review: All To Play For – How to design child-friendly housing
Book review: The English House by Dan Cruickshank
Book review: Henley Halebrown, Building for Society 2010-2022
King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture
Review: Cosmos, Memory, Scale at the SOAS Gallery
British Interior Design Since 1925
Concéntrico and the art of everyday urban invention
The art of architecture on film: Eric Parry and the question of posterity
William Butterfield: A builder and experimenter
The Manifesto House: Buildings that changed the future of architecture
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