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Government considers reforming Right to Buy to safeguard council housing stock

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Newly-built housing could be exempt for a set period of time and eligibility periods extended as part of Rayner’s package of reforms to help councils protect their housing stock

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Arb research uncovers ‘staggering’ levels of discrimination and sexual misconduct in the architecture profession

A survey of nearly 900 professionals found more than a third had experienced insults relating to protected characteristics

  • What made this project… House of Communication by Henn

  • Integrating security into architectural office designs

  • British timber company imports Thermo Vacuum System for products that can withstand the elements

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Beyond the Box: delivering real social value in the built environment

For the latest in BD’s Boomers to Zoomers series, Mary Richardson talked to Neil Onions, head of Beyond the Box, a social enterprise with a reputation for finding innovative ways to empower underrepresented young people within the built-environment sector

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Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • What made this project… House of Communication by Henn

  • What made this project… Central Foundation Boys’ School by Hawkins Brown

  • What made this project… The Wave by HLM Architects

  • What made this project… Craigend Resource Centre by Inch Architecture

  • What made this project… Downland Barns by McLean Quinlan

  • Big names among winners of 2024 Architect of the Year Awards

  • What made this project… Westminster Coroner’s Court by Lynch Architects

  • What made this project… Monex HQ by Arquid

  • What made this project… Triangle House by Artefact Studio

  • What made this project… the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering by HLM Architects

Upcoming webinars

  • Webinar - Unlocking affordable housing delivery: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities

  • Webinar: What does the new government’s approach to housing delivery mean for the sector?

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • Beyond the Box: delivering real social value in the built environment

  • ‘Because the spaces work for children, they work for everyone’ – how the Whittington estate fosters a community for all ages

  • Creating places and spaces where children and young people thrive

  • A crisis hiding in plain sight: how the UK’s built environment is failing children and young people

  • A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross

  • Teenagers collaborate on King’s Cross timber pavilion

  • Co-living: Where does it go from here?

  • LDA and Matt+Fiona collaborate with youth group on HS2 ‘meanwhile use’ community garden

  • From the ground up: Ackroyd Lowrie on a mission to turn school leavers into architects with real work experience

  • Creating communities for all: Jenny Buterchi on PRP’s vision for age-inclusive living

In Pictures

  • Hassell completes University of Glasgow’s Adam Smith Business School

  • BDP completes £63m STEM building for University of Hertfordshire

  • MICA completes first phase of Oxford Brookes student village redevelopment

  • Design and digital arts building opens at Nottingham Trent University

  • Moxon completes restoration of Scottish cottage once used by Queen Victoria

  • Studio AVC completes contemporary London townhouse

  • Eric Parry Architects completes retrofit of 11 Belgrave Road

  • Hopkins completes new SciTech centre at Haileybury

  • Asif Khan unveils wetland boardwalk at British Land’s Canada Water development

  • Townshend unveils Green Heart public realm scheme in Nottingham’s Broad Marsh

WA100 2024

  • WA100 2024: Architects expect patchy international growth

  • WA100 2024: The big list

  • WA100 2024: Digital edition

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The One in Which People Decide City Living is OK

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Thirty years after the pilot of Friends, David Rudlin recalls how the sitcom’s portrayal of city living influenced a generation’s attitudes towards urban life

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Trump’s return: US architects brace for challenges over the next four years

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From the possible return of neoclassical mandates to a threatened clampdown on immigration, Chris Fogarty assesses the potential impact of a second Trump presidency on US architecture

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From CABE to the Office for Place: why trusted advice matters

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From quangos to taskforces, the government’s shifting approach to placemaking highlights one constant: good advice only works when it is trusted, writes Martyn Evans

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Empty, decaying, at risk: Glasgow’s architectural heritage crisis

2024-11-18T05:00:00+00:00By 2 comments

Alexander Thomson’s St Vincent Street Church has closed, the city is selling off a Mackintosh building to save money, and Victorian gems lie empty. Glasgow’s architectural heritage is at a tipping point, writes John Stewart

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Why Labour may come to regret closing the Office for Place

2024-11-15T08:16:00+00:00By 4 comments

A short-term decision framed as an efficiency risks losing the momentum on creating sustainable, people-centred places, writes Ben Flatman

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True placemaking is about so much more than just a numbers game. King’s Cross is a prime example…

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The delivery of much-needed new homes requires patient, joined-up thinking that takes into account factors other than profit and speed, says former HS2 design director Kay Hughes

  • 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’

  • A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross

  • A decade in the making: Norton Folgate’s controversial redevelopment unveiled

  • ‘A glimpse of new horizons’: Cooke Fawcett’s reworking of Cockpit’s craft incubator

  • A harmonious blend of context and concept: Mass Studies reimagines the Serpentine Pavilion

  • Under The Big Roof… Charity unites generations and nurtures skills that last a lifetime

  • London College of Fashion strikes a pose with new campus by Allies & Morrison

  • River Wing by Witherford Watson Mann: 'This is the closest we've come to the structure being the architecture'

  • Jankes Barn by Lynch Architects: ‘We like to call it a barn non-conversion’

Reviews

  • Nithurst Farm: ‘an uncompromising engagement with architecture in all its spatial, material, and symbolic richness’

  • Who was to blame for the unseaming of Britain’s cities?

  • Interwar: Gavin Stamp’s tribute to Britain’s forgotten architectural diversity

  • Navigating the complexities of modern practice management

  • Inside Cedric Price’s archive: A career of unrealised visions and radical thinking

  • ‘A fantastic, informative, and in-depth resource’: new guide helps illuminate the architecture apprenticeship pathway

  • Playing the Game: Work-Life Balance in Architecture

  • How to make good cities

  • The Mexican connection: How Sordo Madaleno built a global practice across the generations

  • BD Film Club: Empire of Light revisited