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What to look out for in the Autumn Budget 2024

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Wednesday will see Rachel Reeves deliver her first Budget statement as chancellor. Daniel Gayne explains what it may have in store for construction.

  • The untold story of stone wool insulated sandwich panels

  • Ensuring rainscreen designs translate to real performance

  • What made this project… Downland Barns by McLean Quinlan

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Why all buildings look the same

Chris Fogarty explores how US architects are battling a wave of ‘fast casual architecture’ and pushing for more creative housing solutions

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Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • 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

  • What made this project… Brighton Dome by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Upcoming webinars

  • Webinar: Navigating the key decisions in deep retrofit

  • Webinar - Futureproof façades: Specifying low-carbon rainscreens that perform as designed

  • Webinar: Driving sustainability in housebuilding through specification

  • Webinar - Beyond net zero: How can the built environment drive the wider sustainability agenda?

  • 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

  • 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

In Pictures

  • 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

  • Canary Wharf showcases ‘green spine’ after teaming up with Eden Project

  • Haworth Tompkins unveils £14.5m transformation of London’s Warburg Institute

WA100 2024

  • WA100 2024: Architects expect patchy international growth

  • WA100 2024: The big list

  • WA100 2024: Digital edition

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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

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Beyond work: how hotels are redefining the office conversion

2024-10-25T05:00:00+01:00By

Hotels are breathing new life into underused office spaces, turning them into multifunctional hubs that revitalise city streets and provide fresh opportunities for community engagement, writes Dexter Moren

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Why all buildings look the same

2024-10-24T05:00:00+01:00By 2 comments

Chris Fogarty explores how US architects are battling a wave of ‘fast casual architecture’ and pushing for more creative housing solutions

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Creating places and spaces where children and young people thrive

2024-10-23T05:00:00+01:00By

Gemma Hyde explains how the TCPA and its partners in the built environment sector have been working to reclaim space for children and young people

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OMH, BNG is not working!

2024-10-21T05:00:00+01:00By 5 comments

David Rudlin explores how biodiversity net gain regulations are clashing with housing growth goals

  • 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

Reviews

  • 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

  • Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich: London 1950-2000

  • 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’

  • Inclusion Emergency: ‘An emergency that we can no longer afford to ignore’