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BDP usurps Fosters as UK’s biggest architect
Foster & Partners’ five year reign at top of UK rankings over, according to BD survey of world’s largest practices
RIBA calls for schools and train stations to be classed as higher risk buildings under building safety regulations
Institute wants more stringent safety regulations in non-residential buildings in its full response to Grenfell Inquiry report
CPD 01 2025: Understanding the regulatory requirements for modern ventilation systems
Terraced streets tackle climate change with ambient loop system
What made this project… Maple House by Gibson Thornley
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Compact living, big impact: Dovehouse Court’s lesson in sustainability and community
Designed by Mole Architects, Dovehouse Court is the UK’s first Passivhaus-certified almshouse scheme
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What made this project… Maple House by Gibson Thornley
Gibson Thornley’s body of work impressed the judges at this year’s AYAs, as the practice took home the trophy for Refurbishment and Reinvention Architect of the Year.
Verdant House: CAN completes home in Stoke Newington
Practice breathes new life into a disjointed terraced house, crafting a nature-inspired, open-plan space for a young family in London, complete with a glulam-framed extension and meadow-planted roof
What made this project… Francis House by Gensler
Gensler’s body of work was shortlisted for this year’s AYAs, as the practice was named a finalist for Interior Architect of the Year.
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Architect of the Year Awards 2024
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
What made this project… House of Communication by Henn
What made this project… Central Foundation Boys’ School by Hawkins Brown
What made this project… The Wave by HLM Architects
What made this project… Craigend Resource Centre by Inch Architecture
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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
Chief Medical Officer’s report calls for active travel, improved housing, and cleaner air in cities
Labour urged to address built environment’s role in young people’s lives
Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context
Could the government’s curriculum review save the D&T GCSE and fix the green design skills gap?
Taskforce calls for cross-departmental unit to lead national older people’s housing strategy
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ZHA metro station opens as key hub in Riyadh transit system
First look at Sadler’s Wells East ahead of February opening
SPPARC completes restoration of Army & Navy warehouse in Westminster
DEDRAFT completes new-build home in rural Oxfordshire
Heatherwick completes mixed-use development in Xi’an
RX Architects reimagines two rural houses as contemporary family homes
Cooke Fawcett reimagines historic mill house with new studio and workshop
Novak Hiles Architects completes North London housing scheme on challenging backland site
Astudio completes first phase of Ebury Bridge Estate regeneration in Westminster
Moxon completes ‘hockey stick’ bridge crossing the River Severn
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Can Henry Ford-style housebuilding work?
Nick Pinder, Mariya Rankin and Magdalena Prus explore the contractual and regulatory implications of a cookie-cutter approach to housebuilding
Architectural ambition and design by attrition
Robert Adam calls for greater clarity in the planning system to help designers maintain their vision and ambition
Why brick remains central to architectural craft
Satish Jassal examines the enduring relevance of brickwork in today’s built environment
Twenty years of brilliance: Christophe Egret’s legacy at Studio Egret West
Martyn Evans reflects on two decades of collaboration with Christophe Egret
The rising toll of disasters: why the US needs coordinated national action on climate change
Wildfires, hurricanes, and rising sea levels have made no corner of the US immune to the impacts of climate change
Why cutting waste is key to building more homes in 2025
Chloe Phelps reflects on how the profession can rise to the challenge of delivering 1.5 million new homes
Real change or false hope: can Labour’s planning reforms deliver 1.5 million homes?
Ministers unleashed a barrage of planning reforms in the dying days of 2024. Joey Gardiner asks if these can give the industry the boost it needs to get anywhere close to the government’s ambitious housebuilding target?
Closing the skills gap: Alison Watson on transforming built environment education
Alison Watson MBE is a woman on a mission to transform education in the built environment
What lies ahead for architecture in 2025?
From rethinking housing policy and urban wellbeing to advancing sustainability and overcoming talent shortages, these comment pieces explore the ideas and priorities that will confront architects in the year ahead
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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
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A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross
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Under The Big Roof… Charity unites generations and nurtures skills that last a lifetime
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‘Where sculpture and building come together’: a history of collaboration between sculptors and architects
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‘New methods for the old’: how Minnette de Silva redefined modernity
Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era
Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
Nithurst Farm: ‘an uncompromising engagement with architecture in all its spatial, material, and symbolic richness’
Who was to blame for the unseaming of Britain’s cities?
Interwar: Gavin Stamp’s tribute to Britain’s forgotten architectural diversity
Navigating the complexities of modern practice management
Inside Cedric Price’s archive: A career of unrealised visions and radical thinking
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