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Khan calls in Make’s rejected student resi scheme in Paddington

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London mayor says 600-bed scheme would make “significant contribution” to capital’s student accommodation targets

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Grimshaw lands work at Athens airport upgrade

Architect part of UK team working on Greece’s largest airport

  • CPD 04 2025: Energy performance evaluation in architectural projects

  • Delivering a roofing solution for The Goods Yard

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

  • CPD 03 2025: Segmental retaining walls for housing developments

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Designing from first principles: Inside David Kohn Architects’ Gradel Quadrangles

2025-03-25T05:00:00+00:00By

A major expansion for one of Oxford’s oldest colleges reimagines the logic of the quadrangle with a theatrical, landscape-first ensemble shaped by dialogue and detail

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Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • 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

  • What made this project… Maple House by Gibson Thornley

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • 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

  • Rayner vows to ‘fix the system’ after report links 74 child deaths to temporary accommodation

In Pictures

  • 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

  • Mailen Design unveils Lee Terrace in Blackheath

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Beyond sustainability: what we need now is regenerative design

2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00By

The industry’s focus has to move from just trying to conserve natural resources to building in a way that actually repairs the planet, Philip Watson at HLM Architects says

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The land banking myth housebuilders can’t shake

2025-03-27T05:00:00+00:00By 1 comments

Despite numerous reviews finding no evidence of housebuilders deliberately withholding land from the market, we are again having to talk about ‘unbuilt’ homes, writes Paul Smith

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The Coach: Why age isn’t the issue – it’s the life stage that counts

2025-03-26T05:00:00+00:00By

Louise Rodgers challenges the idea that age defines us at work – pointing instead to the impact of what’s happening in our wider lives

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Retrofitting social housing is the real challenge we can’t ignore

2025-03-25T05:00:00+00:00By

Britain’s retrofit push needs strategic vision – Chloe Phelps calls for co-produced mini-masterplans over ad-hoc upgrades

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Why architects must confront the changing political landscape

2025-03-24T05:00:00+00:00By 6 comments

Austin Williams argues that architecture has embraced an ideological rigidity that limits open debate and inhibits engagement with large sections of the public

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2,000 young people, one mission: Rethinking access to architecture at the Festival of the Future

2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00By

Mary Richardson reflects on how last weekend’s Festival of the Future brought over 2,000 young people to RIBA’s 66 Portland Place, aiming to break down barriers to built environment careers

  • 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’

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

Reviews

  • ‘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

  • ‘New methods for the old’: how Minnette de Silva redefined modernity