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Network Rail began looking at redrawing Liverpool Street development in the summer

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Acme brought in to work on ’completely reimagined’ proposals for station after previous plan amassed huge opposition

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Design competitions: can Chris Williamson move beyond a social media spat and help usher in change?

In an in-depth interview, the WW&P co-founder and RIBA’s next president responds to criticism over “tone deaf” social post and tries to look forward

  • Unlocking timber’s potential: Alex Goodfellow on industry readiness and government’s role in boosting structural timber

  • CPD 18 2024: Carbon negative brick solutions

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

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Labour’s opportunity: Releasing the potential of modular housing

The UK leads the way in the field of offsite housing construction. It is time for the government to have some skin in the game, Ben Derbyshire writes

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Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • 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

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: Refurbishment and Reinvention Architect of the Year

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: Private Housing Architect of the Year

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

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • 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

  • Building communities, not just homes: The case for intergenerational living

  • How Essex teenagers are shaping their community with a little help from MATT+FIONA

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

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

  • Church refurbishment delivers community-focused transformation in Hove

  • McAslan’s £200m Belfast Grand Central station opens for passenger services

  • David Miller Architects unveils new laboratory building close to King’s Cross

  • In Pictures: Bennetts Associates’ University of Edinburgh learning centre

  • RSHP completes redevelopment for two Knightsbridge hotels

  • Adrian James Architects completes boarding house at Shrewsbury School

  • Project Orange unveils vernacular-inspired housing scheme in Suffolk

  • Fosters completes ‘groundbreaking’ NYC headquarters with OXMAN

WA100 2024

  • WA100 2024: Architects expect patchy international growth

  • WA100 2024: The big list

  • WA100 2024: Digital edition

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Why I finally quit architecture

2024-11-04T05:00:00+00:00By 10 comments

Architectural veteran and leading podcaster Jason Boyle calls for industry-wide reform, highlighting low wages, declining autonomy, and financial instability as driving factors in his decision to leave architecture

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Budget 2024: “Invest, invest, invest!” Is increased investment enough to deliver on Labour’s housing pledges?

2024-11-01T12:36:00+00:00By

Labour’s latest Budget underscores investment as key to housing growth, but will the measures go far enough to tackle critical shortfalls in planning and local government support, asks Alex Govier

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Building back or holding back? What the Budget means for architecture

2024-10-31T11:25:00+00:00By

As Labour’s first Budget in more than a decade promises fresh investment, the sector must grapple with new tax burdens, ambitious spending pledges and lingering gaps in planning reform. Can the built environment industry expect genuine progress, or is this another exercise in managing decline?

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Labour’s opportunity: Releasing the potential of modular housing

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The UK leads the way in the field of offsite housing construction. It is time for the government to have some skin in the game, Ben Derbyshire writes

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Striking the balance: Retrofit priorities through a planner’s lens

2024-10-29T11:00:00+00:00By

While the need to avoid demolition is more urgent than ever, there are many challenges to overcome before a building can be retained. The new government could do much to improve the current system, writes Avison Young’s Laura Jenkinson

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This year’s Stirling Prize celebrates the true breadth of what architecture is – and can be

2024-10-28T05:00:00+00:00By

Celebrating a profession that’s as much about collaboration and civic impact as it is about buildings, this year’s Stirling Prize embraces architecture’s wider purpose, writes Eleanor Jolliffe

  • 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’

  • How Corstorphine & Wright are reimagining Bloomsbury's Victoria House as a life sciences hub

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

  • BD Film Club: Empire of Light revisited

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  • Dhaka Architectural Guide: ‘A city changing at a dizzying speed’

  • Londoners Making London: ‘There is a gap in physical space that creative, determined people fill’