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Wandsworth unanimously rejects Terry Farrell’s 29-storey Battersea tower
Scheme branded as making a “total mockery” of council’s tall buildings policies
WEISS/MANFREDI win competition for Nelson-Atkins Museum expansion
The Kansas City museum’s shortlist included Renzo Piano, Studio Gang and Kengo Kuma
Mastering the detail: Episode 2
Heat networks: The low-carbon design solution
Rockwool’s rainscreen insulation tested for high-wind resilience in real-world build-ups
Specialist cleaning technique used to conserve historic buildings in Dundee
Bindloss Dawes extends Victorian home in Stoke Newington
Calling all manufacturing pioneers: Shine at the Architect of the Year Awards 2025!
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‘Infrastructure could do with a bit of love’: dRMM’s Jonas Lencer on the Silvertown Tunnel portal buildings
Tom Lowe speaks to the practice’s director about why the overlooked parts of public infrastructure deserve a fresh perspective
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Bindloss Dawes extends Victorian home in Stoke Newington
Bindloss Dawes has completed the renovation of a Victorian home in Stoke Newington, London, located within the Lordship Park conservation area. Originally purchased as a development project by clients Emma Dahlman and Nick Illston, the property has evolved into a long-term residence, requiring extensive collaboration to address its existing structural ...
Calling all manufacturing pioneers: Shine at the Architect of the Year Awards 2025!
Here at Building Design, we’re passionate about the vital role specification plays in bringing visionary designs to life. That is why we are thrilled to remind our industry partners that entries for the prestigious Architect of the Year Awards 2025 are still open – but time is ticking! You have ...
What made this project… Skylight by Buckley Gray Yeoman
Finalist for WA100 Architect of the Year Award 2024, Buckley Gray Yeoman guides us through the specification challenges present at Skylight
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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
What made this project… Ice Factory by Buckley Gray Yeoman
What made this project… Gateway to Nature Centre by Oberlanders
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Boomers to Zoomers
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
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
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In Pictures
Thomas-McBrien Architects completes glulam roof extension of London HQ
Satish Jassal Architects completes net zero council housing scheme on Haringey infill site
EPR completes Nine Elms office building
RX Architects completes two coastal homes in East Sussex
Jestico & Whiles completes Shoreditch hotel on site which had been empty for 50 years
Foster + Partners completes office tower above Sydney’s Gadigal Station
Westminster’s public toilets get a designer makeover as Hugh Broughton Architects completes first upgrade in £12.7m programme
In pictures: 204 Great Portland Street by E8 Architecture
In pictures: Pend breathes new life into mid-terrace home in Edinburgh
In pictures: GT3 completes University of Southampton sports centre expansion
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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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Planning at the edges: What awkward urban sites can teach us about better design
Awkward, overlooked and often written off, small urban sites demand a more careful and creative design approach – and they can reveal much about how we plan, consult and build in our cities, writes Satish Jassal
Trainee architects have been failed for too long, ARB’s report demands better
From exploitative placements to toxic workplaces, architecture has ignored the failings of professional experience for too long. ARB’s independent report marks a long-overdue reckoning, argues Ben Flatman
Turning on the housing tap
David Rudlin explores how a tangle of regulations, rising land costs and policy overload could be holding back the housing the country needs
What’s stopping us from better understanding our emissions?
As new figures show building emissions on the rise, Anna Beckett argues that without consistent embodied carbon data, the construction industry is flying blind – and risking failure on climate targets
The crit is stressful – and still essential
As some schools make crits voluntary, Eleanor Jolliffe asks whether kindness in education is coming at the cost of developing key communication skills
Are property events worth the cost? Only if you have a plan and follow through
Oliver Lowrie shares lessons from the frontline of property event season – and why success depends on more than just showing up
‘Infrastructure could do with a bit of love’: dRMM’s Jonas Lencer on the Silvertown Tunnel portal buildings
Tom Lowe speaks to the practice’s director about why the overlooked parts of public infrastructure deserve a fresh perspective
Orms: designing architecture that listens and responds to a changing world
Ben Flatman speaks to John McRae and new director Miranda MacLaren about how Orms is evolving as a practice
1.5 million homes and counting: what Jas Bhalla thinks comes next
Ben Flatman speaks to Jas Bhalla – architect, planner and founder of Jas Bhalla Works – about building a practice rooted in long-term thinking
Research, empathy and quiet radicalism: the key ingredients in ‘Saunt sauce’
Mary Richardson caught up with Deborah Saunt, co-founding director of DSDHA and one of the most influential women in architecture and urban design
Why most new homes still fail to meet the latest standards
Almost two in three new homes are still being built to regulations that applied in 2013, over a year and a half after the end of the transition period for the new part L and other requirements. How has the government got its projections so wrong? Tom Lowe reports
Can Allies and Morrison’s Canada Water masterplan match King’s Cross?
The former Daily Mail printworks has been stripped back to its structural frame ready for conversion into an office and conference facility. It will also incorporate a nightclub called Printworks which was a former, successful meanwhile use
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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
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’
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Reviews
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
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
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