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Board overseeing Houses of Parliament restoration recommends £3bn package of works to start this year

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Delivery partners to be appointed for first phase of work which will include building temporary accommodation for both Houses of Parliament

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Green light for Gensler’s £1bn south London cancer research hub

Approval comes nine years after council published its strategic long-term vision for former Sutton Hospital site

  • Intergenerational housing scheme gives students cheaper rent in exchange for befriending older neighbours

  • 25 years of Northern Ireland’s best builds

  • Homegrown timber innovation on display in dRMM’s V&A show

  • Reglazing National Maritime Museum courtyard delivers cooling benefits

  • Stone Demonstrator showcases low-carbon pre-tensioned stone

  • CPD 24 2025: Navigating the Building Safety Act

  • Air quality in green building certification: what you need to know

Focus

  • The regeneration rethink: funding, power and the local leaders shaping what comes next

  • What unified ownership can teach us about today’s housing strategies

  • Could 2026 signal the start of a new stone age?

  • WA100 2026: Heading on up

  • WA100 2026: The big list

  • Jewry Wall Museum, Leicester: A 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

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WA100 Digital Edition

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WA100 2026: Digital edition

2026-01-16T01:00:00+00:00

Designing Tomorrow's Housing

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • Report calls for national play strategy to reshape neighbourhoods for children

In Pictures

  • In pictures: Wishing Well by Fieldwork Architects – run-down bungalow transformed using rammed earth

  • In pictures: Hartdene Barns – luxury eco homes with an agricultural flavour

  • In pictures: Druid Grove – CAN's creative home for an artist

  • 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

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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Jack Pringle

I too have not renewed my ARB subscription and am no longer a UK architect

2026-02-05T07:00:00+00:00By 1 comments

RIBA board chair Jack Pringle says we are stuck in a regulatory system which offers no real public protection – and with a regulator overstepping the mark. It is therefore time to take a stand

Kelvin Campbell

Remembering Kelvin Campbell: Probably the most influential urban designer of his generation

2026-02-03T07:00:00+00:00By

Kelvin Campbell passed away over Christmas. David Rudlin pays tribute to a fascinating contrarian who was always inspirational if also slightly intimidating

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Regen Connect: joining the dots between local ambition and industry delivery

2026-02-03T07:00:00+00:00

At a pivotal moment for urban regeneration, editorial director Chloe McCulloch introduces a new campaign designed to connect local priorities with the industry expertise needed to deliver real change

Martyn Evans index

Remember: It’s a place not a property development

2026-02-02T07:00:00+00:00By 1 comments

The language that developers use is all-important. Treating land less as a product and more as a living part of a city will make it a more valuable and compelling place to be, writes Martyn Evans

Arturo Revilla

A plea for the material in the age of AI

2026-01-29T07:00:00+00:00By Arturo Revilla

By placing the material back at the centre of design inquiry, we can navigate this new era with a richer understanding of what architecture is and can become, writes Arturo Revilla, design director and London studio director at Kettle Collective

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Where, then, do we really wish to live?

2026-01-27T07:00:00+00:00By 10 comments

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

  • 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

  • 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

Reviews

  • 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

  • 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