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BDP’s Man Met Dalton Building named Building of the Year at 2026 RIBA North West Awards
Six winners named from shortlist of ten
Is architecture in crisis?
There is a growing sense among younger architects that the profession they trained so hard to join may not offer a viable long-term career. Institutions like RIBA must step forward to challenge the norms that have led us here, writes Martyn Evans
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Certification scheme for audio-inclusive design launched
Security by design – rethinking public spaces in the era of Martyn’s Law
With healthcare buildings facing tougher conditions, how can performance keep up?
Why texture is replacing flat surfaces in modern interiors
Wienerberger Denton set to become world’s first hydrogen brick-kiln plant
Demonstrator homes from different eras to provide retrofit data for social housing
Opportunities and threats for wider UK hardwood use explored at V&A event
Natural does not necessarily mean durable: why we need to think again about how we specify stone
CPD 03 2026: Fire safety regulations and responsibilities
UK’s first circular construction hub launches in Royal Docks
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Fixing the roof while the sun is shining: Making Blenheim Palace fit for the next 300 years
Amid a heritage skills crisis, St Paul’s wants to bring its craftspeople into the light
Velux’s Innovation House is full of the firm’s windows – but there’s so much more to this inspiring warehouse retrofit, as a new book about the project shows
Regeneration is back - but under a very different model: What the first three months of Regen Connect reveal
‘It annoys me how much terrible stuff is built’… Clementine Blakemore on the problem with architectural education in the UK
The reinvention of Broadgate: Has it worked?
V&A East, Stratford: A museum built for a different generation
Why CCPI compliance is a non-negotiable for the construction industry
A lesson in ‘elegant frugality’: DSDHA’s Henry Moore gallery
From Grenfell Inquiry to interim chief construction adviser: Thouria Istephan on why competence cuts across everything
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Specification
Behind the scenes of Levitt Bernstein’s considered upgrade of LSO St Luke’s
As Levitt Bernstein completes the latest phase of works at St Luke’s – the London Symphony Orchestra’s home for performance, recording and education – we talk to Mark Lewis, the firm’s arts studio director, to hear more about the unique challenges of specifying the latest audio equipment in a Grade ...
New tool launched to streamline installation of masonry support systems
The Griplock from Grayson promises to speed up the process, improve on-site safety and and turn a two-person job into a task that can be done solo
Velux’s Innovation House is full of the firm’s windows – but there’s so much more to this inspiring warehouse retrofit, as a new book about the project shows
Velux’s innovation centre has many lessons to teach about adaptive reuse and timber construction. To mark the publication of More Than a House: An Experiment in Transformation, which tells the story of the sustainable transformation, I went along to take a look
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WA100 Digital Edition
Designing Tomorrow's Housing
Book review: At Home in the City by Alan Power
My response to the new Design Planning Policy Practice Guidance
The long way home: why common parts still matter
We can afford to build greener houses – and there are many good reasons why we should
Remembering Kelvin Campbell: Probably the most influential urban designer of his generation
Where, then, do we really wish to live?
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
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Architect of the Year Awards 2025
What made this project… Harmeny learning hub by Loader Monteith
What made this project… 1 Blossom Yard by TP Bennett
What made this project… Majid Al Futtaim mosque by Kettle Collective
What made this project… Rosalind Franklin Wing at St Paul’s Girls’ School by Jestico + Whiles
What made this project… Perry Vale House by Wellstudio Architecture
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Boomers to Zoomers
In pictures: HTA Design completes dinosaur-themed Crystal Palace Park playground
Intergenerational housing scheme gives students cheaper rent in exchange for befriending older neighbours
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
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In Pictures
In pictures: Pend’s stylish Canon Mews uses courtyards to maximise a constrained urban site
Fosters completes transformation of former Whiteleys shopping centre into upmarket homes and hotel
In pictures: Article 25’s Kao La Amani children’s village in Tanzania designed for dignity, community and climate resilience
In pictures: HTA Design completes dinosaur-themed Crystal Palace Park playground
In pictures: Haworth Tompkins refreshes Wales’ largest producing theatre
In pictures: Blight Rayner and Snøhetta’s Glasshouse Theatre, Brisbane – wavy glass wonder wall
In pictures: Campfield – adaptive reuse of Victorian market halls as tech hub and workspaces
In pictures: John Puttick Associates’ Preston Vault Youth Zone – fun foil to the city’s famous bus station, with striking interiors by Ben Kelly
In pictures: West London House by Goldstein Heather – intelligent extension with subtle historical allusions
In pictures: CF Møller’s Gotland barracks sets benchmark for new military architecture
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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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Is architecture in crisis?
There is a growing sense among younger architects that the profession they trained so hard to join may not offer a viable long-term career. Institutions like RIBA must step forward to challenge the norms that have led us here, writes Martyn Evans
Regulate what architects do, not what we’re called
Fire safety, design coordination and specification decisions are being made across complex teams. A function-led approach to regulation would focus scrutiny where risk sits, regardless of a person’s professional title
Single industry regulator is a chance to frame more sensible oversight for architects
It makes no sense for architects to be regulated while other critical built environment professions are not, writes Jack Pringle, chair of the RIBA board
What Stage 0 entails – and why it matters
Eva Diego says it is vital architects are involved in projects earlier – especially when it comes to retrofit
Repeal, reserve, regulate – but is it only half an argument?
Architectural education needs to be reformed in parallel with moves to replace the ARB, writes Tim Burgess
Happy days: The early 90s, Urban Splash and a time of creativity and risk
Following a recent conversation with one of the Urban Splash founders, David Rudlin wonders whether we can ever rediscover the time when property was the new rock and roll
What would Reform and Green gains in Thursday’s elections mean for the housing sector?
With the two parties polling strongly and expected to be the biggest beneficiaries in Thursday’s local elections, Daniel Gayne asks what their stated positions and local-government records could mean for housing, planning and delivery
Fixing the roof while the sun is shining: Making Blenheim Palace fit for the next 300 years
Water was pouring through the roof and stonework falling off of the John Vanbrugh-designed palace in Oxfordshire. Blenheim is spending £12m restoring an acre of lead and slate roof, restoring the stonework and water-damaged painted ceilings to make it able to withstand a once-in-500-years storm, while ensuring the palace stays ...
Amid a heritage skills crisis, St Paul’s wants to bring its craftspeople into the light
The cathedral’s property director is embarking on a mission to transform its ageing workshops into a shining new Centre of Excellence. But with multimillion-pound repairs to its iconic ball and cross also needed, where will it get the money? Daniel Gayne reports
Review: Brutal Scotland – ‘These buildings were never just about concrete and form’
Brutal Scotland is a book and exhibition by photographer Simon Phipps documenting 160 buildings across the country. The exhibition is at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow until 16 May, Bobby Jewell writes
‘It annoys me how much terrible stuff is built’… Clementine Blakemore on the problem with architectural education in the UK
In an exclusive interview, the architect behind the Stirling Prize-shortlisted Wraxall Yard talks to Tom Lowe about why architects often complete their training with few technical skills, working with Witherford Watson Mann on the refurbishment of the Royal College of Art’s Darwin Building and the experiences which inspired her ...
The reinvention of Broadgate: Has it worked?
The topping out of 2 Finsbury Avenue marks the near completion of British Land’s transformation of the iconic Broadgate estate, with £2bn of work sweeping away almost all traces of Peter Foggo’s award-winning 1980s scheme to create a mixed-use destination that has doubled prime rents to £100/sqft.
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V&A East, Stratford: A museum built for a different generation
A lesson in ‘elegant frugality’: DSDHA’s Henry Moore gallery
A quietly radical housing project: Metropolitan Workshops’ resident‑led Passivhaus scheme
From stranded asset to grade A office: how a facsimile facade made all the difference for a failing, listed building in central Manchester
Hornsey Town Hall: a brilliantly conceived and highly sensitive – if mildly eccentric – restoration
Jewry Wall Museum, Leicester: A 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
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Reviews
Book review: At Home in the City by Alan Power
Caruso St John's Collected Works, Volume 3: ‘The book’s beauty is matched by its heft’
Book review: Case Studies in Architecture and Landscape: Expanding the Legacy of Peter Blundell Jones
The long way home: why common parts still matter
Review: The Weight of Being at Two Temple Place
Why building inclusion is a fundamental part of the architect’s mission
Book review – Learning from the Local: Designing responsively for people, climate and culture
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
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