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AYA 2025 shortlists: Office Architect of the Year

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In a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the Office Architect of the Year shortlist

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5 minutes with … David Patterson at Able Partners

The practice’s head of design on the importance of staying curious and constant, collaborative learning – and why he dislikes postwar, car-focused urban development that prioritises efficiency over quality of life.

  • Mastering the detail: The Paper Garden with Jan Kattein Architects

  • Mowat & Company upgrades former Herbert E. Gibbs furniture factory into low-carbon creative studios

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Hugh Strange’s choreography of construction

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Hugh Strange’s striking Hastings House has just been shortlisted for the 2025 Stirling Prize. Earlier this year Oriana Fernandez went to the Barbican to hear him set out his construction-centred approach and the balance he seeks between prefabrication, craft and site conditions

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WA100 Digital Edition

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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… Black and Stone by Mallett

  • What made this project… Hyde London City by Studio Moren

  • What made this project… Brewers’ Hall by dMFK

  • What made this project… Everton Stadium by BDP Pattern

  • What made this project… Plot R8 by Piercy & Company

  • What made this project… Meadow Road by Studio Bark

  • What made this project… Undershed by George Lovesmith Architecture

  • What made this project… Manor Lodge by IID Architects

  • What made this project… Melamar by Paper Igloo

  • What made this project… De Valera Library and Súil Gallery by Keith Williams Architects

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • 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

  • 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?

In Pictures

  • Carmody Groarke completes ArtPlay Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery

  • Anish Kapoor’s Naples Metro station unveiled

  • Bennetts Associates completes redevelopment of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre

  • In pictures: Architecture for London reinstates Camden townhouse as family home

  • In pictures: Work completes on Howells-designed Birmingham tower

  • In pictures: Pend completes Catalog House

  • Donald Insall Associates completes £7.6m refurbishment of John Rylands Library

  • Bindloss Dawes converts French hamlet into wellness retreat

  • Hugh Broughton Architects lifts the lid on Parliament Street toilet refurbishment

  • BDP unveils images of completed refurbishment of Topshop’s former Oxford Circus store

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Is the title of ‘architect’ still fit for purpose?

2025-09-22T05:00:00+01:00By 6 comments

From fee erosion to the rise of AI, Satish Jassal argues that the pressures reshaping practice demand a rethink of what it means to be an architect

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The circular logic still distorting housing targets

2025-09-18T05:00:00+01:00By

Looking back at research from the 1990s and comparing it with today’s data, David Rudlin explores the persistent failure of site allocations to deliver housing

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Stop faulting the Stirling Prize for regional disparities and start questioning where Britain invests

2025-09-17T05:00:00+01:00By 4 comments

Critics say the Stirling Prize ignores architecture beyond the South East, but as Eleanor Jolliffe points out, the shortlist reflects where the money is

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Nicholas Grimshaw and the optimism of British high tech

2025-09-16T07:00:00+01:00By 1 comments

Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, who has died aged 85, helped shape British high tech with buildings that embodied structural clarity, adaptability and a spirit of optimism

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How Britain squandered its nuclear lead, surrendered energy security and betrayed the environment

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Jason Boyle argues that Britain’s 35-year halt in nuclear construction was a catastrophic, self-inflicted blow to the nation’s climate, economy and energy security

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Marketing your architecture practice: why it matters and how to do it well

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Stephen O’Reilly sets out what effective marketing really looks like

  • 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

  • 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

Reviews

  • William Butterfield: A builder and experimenter

  • The Manifesto House: Buildings that changed the future of architecture

  • Form Follows Love: Anna Heringer on building with empathy, intuition and mud

  • Nuts, bolts and preservation: High Tech as heritage

  • 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