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Zaha Hadid Foundation names new director

Aric Chen is the former lead curator for design and architecture at Hong Kong’s M+ museum

  • Specialist cleaning technique used to conserve historic buildings in Dundee

  • Bindloss Dawes extends Victorian home in Stoke Newington

  • Calling all manufacturing pioneers: Shine at the Architect of the Year Awards 2025!

  • Material focus defines suburban residence in Poland

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A cauldron on the Mersey: how Everton built their new stadium in just five years (Manchester United take note)

2025-04-14T05:00:00+01:00By

Thomas Lane reports on how Everton, with BDP Pattern, delivered its £760m stadium on budget through smart planning, digital tools and modern methods of construction

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WA100 2025: Digital edition

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Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • What made this project… Skylight by Buckley Gray Yeoman

  • What made this project… University of Cambridge West Hub by Jestico + Whiles

  • What made this project… Ice Factory by Buckley Gray Yeoman

  • What made this project… Gateway to Nature Centre by Oberlanders

  • What made this project… The OWO by EPR Architects

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • 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?

  • Westminster’s public toilets get a designer makeover as Hugh Broughton Architects completes first upgrade in £12.7m programme

  • Designing workplaces that work for everyone

  • The future faces of UK architecture

  • Paul Vick Architects secures planning for redevelopment of historic Chiswick care home

  • Youth-designed pavilion unveiled in Camden’s HS2 meanwhile garden

In Pictures

  • Satish Jassal Architects completes net zero council housing scheme on Haringey infill site

  • EPR completes Nine Elms office building

  • RX Architects completes two coastal homes in East Sussex

  • Jestico & Whiles completes Shoreditch hotel on site which had been empty for 50 years

  • Foster + Partners completes office tower above Sydney’s Gadigal Station

  • Westminster’s public toilets get a designer makeover as Hugh Broughton Architects completes first upgrade in £12.7m programme

  • In pictures: 204 Great Portland Street by E8 Architecture

  • In pictures: Pend breathes new life into mid-terrace home in Edinburgh

  • In pictures: GT3 completes University of Southampton sports centre expansion

  • Squire & Partners retrofits Hopkins’ grade II-listed former Conran HQ

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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The crit is stressful – and still essential

2025-04-17T05:00:00+01:00By

As some schools make crits voluntary, Eleanor Jolliffe asks whether kindness in education is coming at the cost of developing key communication skills

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Are property events worth the cost? Only if you have a plan and follow through

2025-04-16T05:00:00+01:00By

Oliver Lowrie shares lessons from the frontline of property event season – and why success depends on more than just showing up

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How the principles of B Corp help us perform better as a business

2025-04-15T05:00:00+01:00By

As the backlash against ESG and EDI grows – especially in the US – Rachel Bell explains how a values-driven approach is strengthening Stride Treglown’s culture and improving the service it offers clients

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Architect of optimism: remembering David Childs and his America

2025-04-14T05:00:00+01:00By

Chris Fogarty reflects on the legacy of his former colleague David Childs, a mentor and ambassador of American architecture

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Stations with soul: rethinking transport hubs as urban anchors

2025-04-11T05:00:00+01:00By

Colin Bennie argues that today’s stations should be more than places of transit – they must inspire, connect, and offer permeability that embeds them meaningfully in the life of the city

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Council housing, conversions and the green belt: rethinking London’s future

2025-04-10T05:00:00+01:00By

What should Sadiq Khan’s next spatial development strategy for Greater London consist of? Ben Derbyshire looks at the key issues of debate

  • 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

  • Designing for dance: inside O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Sadler’s Wells East

  • Digging deep: The radical engineering underpinning Stiff + Trevillion’s 65 Holborn Viaduct project

  • Compact living, big impact: Dovehouse Court’s lesson in sustainability and community

  • How Bennetts Associates transformed a Victorian hospital into a forward-focused university department

  • Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context

  • 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’

Reviews

  • Speedos, lidos and lost pools: a stylish look at swimming’s social past

  • ‘Would you rather be sold religion or soap?’: Venturi and Scott Brown’s story

  • Vector Architects: Gong Dong and the Art of Building

  • Outrage lives on: Ian Nairn’s critique still haunts Britain’s landscapes

  • Saint, state and stone: the politics of preserving Old Goa’s Basilica de Bom Jesus

  • Film review: The Brutalist – It isn’t really about brutalism…

  • The bold brilliance of Edwardian Baroque: rediscovering Edwin Rickards

  • Rogue Goths: the flamboyant and eccentric architects who reimagined Victorian Gothic Revival

  • ‘Where sculpture and building come together’: a history of collaboration between sculptors and architects

  • Why inclusive housing design benefits us all