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Shortlist unveiled for 2026 RIBA North East Awards
Tonkin Lui’s multi-storey carpark in Sunderland and MawsonKerr’s Auckland Castle walled garden among 11 shortlisted schemes
Architects’ confidence rebounds in early signs last year’s output slump could be on the turn
Greater post-Budget clarity and expectations of interest rate cuts signal revival of stalled projects this year
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
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Such buildings can change lives… Regenerating safe spaces that young people can call their own
From stranded asset to grade A office: how a facsimile facade made all the difference for a failing, listed building in central Manchester
Public Practice: Delivering retrofit at scale in Greenwich
Hornsey Town Hall: a brilliantly conceived and highly sensitive – if mildly eccentric – restoration
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
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Specification
CPD 02 2026: Understanding embodied carbon, whole-life carbon and EPDs
This module, sponsored by Kingspan Insulated Panels, explains how embodied carbon is calculated and how environmental product declarations can support whole-life carbon assessment. It also highlights issues to be aware of when using EPDs
Why choosing the right weatherproofing for penetrations at data centres is key
Matt Jones explains why weatherproofing penetrations represents a particular challenge at data centres – and how specialist weatherprooding solutions can be a vital detail when specifying this cornerstone of digital economy infrastructure
What made this project… Rosalind Franklin Wing at St Paul’s Girls’ School by Jestico + Whiles
Finalist for Education Architect of the Year Award 2025, Jestico + Whiles guides us through the specification challenges present at St Paul’s Girls’ School
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WA100 Digital Edition
Designing Tomorrow's Housing
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
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
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Architect of the Year Awards 2025
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
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
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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
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In Pictures
In pictures: conversion of iconic former US embassy into luxury hotel
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
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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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Master the plan: what masterplanning means, and why it matters
Masterplanning and urban design are frequently conflated but serve very different roles, says Jonathan Tarbatt at Corstorphine & Wright. It is important that we clarify the language, challenge lazy assumptions and advocate for a more rigorous, place focused approach to large-scale development
Why architects should take a fresh look at London’s livery companies
Martyn Evans invites you to join the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects and help protect a long tradition of professional responsibility by keeping it alive, active and relevant
Designing for difference: How thoughtful architecture can transform SEN environments
Being prepared to question standard solutions within the constraints of budget and safety leads to learning environments that are not only functional, but uplifting, Richard Paige of NVB Architects explains
In the age of artificial intelligence, what remains of the architect?
In a special long read comment piece, Martha Tsigkari and Sherif Tarabishy consider how the need for critical human reflection remains paramount in a profession that might otherwise risk becoming a recycling service
We can afford to build greener houses – and there are many good reasons why we should
Al Scott, co-founder of IF_DO, has been working on a new sustainable construction methodology for housing. He believes it can help raise standards for both people and the planet and need not cost the earth
I too have not renewed my ARB subscription and am no longer a UK architect
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
The regeneration rethink: funding, power and the local leaders shaping what comes next
For over a decade, built environment policy has prioritised new-build over regeneratoin. As Building Design launches its new Regen Connect editorial campaign, Joey Gardiner finds out why that might all be about to change
What unified ownership can teach us about today’s housing strategies
Samuel Hughes traces how unified land ownership has shaped some of the most successful neighbourhoods in history and asks what lessons this holds for today’s housing strategy
Could 2026 signal the start of a new stone age?
Structural engineer Webb Yates has completed its first structural stone building for a commercial developer. Thomas Lane reports on the firm’s 20-year mission to establish stone as a sustainable alternative to concrete
Scott Brownrigg’s Darren Comber: ‘The UK has done nothing to support us’
The practice’s chief executive talks to Tom Lowe about the government’s decision on a third Heathrow runway, the impact of Rachel Reeves’ tax policies on business and how the practice has managed to survive for a remarkable 115 years
Frank Gehry: from LA experimentalist to the architect of the Bilbao effect
Ben Flatman examines how Gehry’s work evolved from local, materially driven invention into one of the most recognisable architectural vocabularies of his generation
How the viability crunch is putting Britain’s housing ambitions – and design quality – under strain
Mary Richardson examines how Britain’s viability crisis is squeezing design quality and stalling the creation of real places to live
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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
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
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Reviews
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
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
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