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Lina Ghotmeh triumphs in competition to redesign a third of British Museum’s galleries

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2023 Serpentine Pavilion designer was “unanimous favourite” among shortlist of big names including David Chipperfield

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ZHA unveils one of Zaha Hadid’s last projects

Hotel in Rome within historic palazzo includes newly uncovered Roman workshop beneath the site, preserved within a subterranean gallery

  • Education on the misconceptions of fire safety in riser shafts needs to happen now

  • O’Sullivan Skoufoglou Architects completes Clapham home and gallery

  • Steel remains the preferred choice for structural framing, forecasting steady growth ahead

  • CPD 02 2025: Hard landscaping specification for housing developments

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

2025-02-17T05:00:00+00:00By

Ben Tosland reviews the 70th-anniversary reissue of Ian Nairn’s seminal critique of Britain’s built environment

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Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • What made this project… The OWO by EPR Architects

  • What made this project… Maple House by Gibson Thornley

  • What made this project… Francis House by Gensler

  • What made this project… NMIS interiors by HLM Architects

  • What made this project… Barn X by LOM architecture and design

  • What made this project… n2 by Lynch Architects

  • What made this project… House of Communication by Henn

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • 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

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

  • Why inclusive housing design benefits us all

  • Putting children and young people at the heart of housing design

  • Closing the skills gap: Alison Watson on transforming built environment education

  • UK nightlife faces extinction by 2029 if venue closures persist, warns industry body

  • Chief Medical Officer’s report calls for active travel, improved housing, and cleaner air in cities

In Pictures

  • ZHA unveils one of Zaha Hadid’s last projects

  • Dan Meis and BDP Pattern realise Everton’s vision for Bramley-Moore Dock

  • DLA completes new construction and engineering facility at Oaklands College

  • Loader Monteith completes rural home in Angus

  • Levitt Bernstein completes Newham’s first Passivhaus-certified social housing

  • Fletcher Priest completes refurbishment of former BHS headquarters in Marylebone

  • In pictures: KPF completes Istanbul bank headquarters

  • ZHA metro station opens as key hub in Riyadh transit system

  • First look at Sadler’s Wells East ahead of February opening

  • SPPARC completes restoration of Army & Navy warehouse in Westminster

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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A stint in construction could be what architectural education is missing

2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00By

Urna Sodnomjamts on why hands-on construction experience helps architects bridge the gap between design and delivery

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A legacy approach to building new towns

2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00By

Hugh Petter argues that new towns should be delivered through legacy development to ensure sustainable, well-designed communities

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Grenfell’s demolition: loss, memory, and a determination that it must never happen again

2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00By

Eleanor Jolliffe reflects on the planned demolition of Grenfell Tower and the tensions between safety, remembrance, and accountability

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Why protecting the function of architects is a matter of public safety

2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00By 1 comments

Protecting the function of architects is not just about safeguarding the profession – it is about protecting the public from unsafe, unregulated, and unsustainable construction practices, writes Jason Boyle

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Replace the Office for Place with an Office for Space: the case for modernist urbanism

2025-02-13T10:30:00+00:00By

James Dunnett makes the case for modernist urbanism over the recent shift towards traditional street-based design

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What’s stopping us from being more collaborative?

2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00By

Anna Beckett argues that the industry must embrace deeper cooperation to accelerate material reuse, cut carbon, and drive sustainable change

  • 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

  • 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

Reviews

  • 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

  • Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era

  • Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph