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Why most new homes still fail to meet the latest standards

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Almost two in three new homes are still being built to regulations that applied in 2013, over a year and a half after the end of the transition period for the new part L and other requirements. How has the government got its projections so wrong? Tom Lowe reports

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BIG appointed to design new Hungarian Natural History Museum in Debrecen

Design seeks to integrate exhibition spaces with the surrounding forest as part of Hungary’s wider cultural investment in its second-largest city

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  • Delivering a roofing solution for The Goods Yard

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Can Allies and Morrison’s Canada Water masterplan match King’s Cross?

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The former Daily Mail printworks has been stripped back to its structural frame ready for conversion into an office and conference facility. It will also incorporate a nightclub called Printworks which was a former, successful meanwhile use

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WA100 2025: Digital edition

2025-01-17T06:00:00+00:00

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

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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

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  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Elisabeth Montgomerie is sustainability director at AESG

AI and advanced materials are shaping sustainable, safe structures

2025-04-02T05:00:00+01:00By Elisabeth Montgomerie

Architects must embrace innovation to navigate the evolving landscape of sustainability and safety in building design, argues Elisabeth Montgomerie

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The quiet revolution in built environment education and engagement – starting with children

2025-04-02T05:00:00+01:00By

As universities widen participation, Rosie Parnell explores how early engagement is opening new pathways into the built environment professions

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Intervention Architecture turns 10: how the community-focused practice is shaping Birmingham’s future

2025-04-01T05:00:00+01:00By 1 comments

Joe Holyoak examines the practice’s decade-long influence on Birmingham’s urban landscape, highlighting transformative projects like the Smithfield redevelopment and efforts to save Station Street as a cultural destination

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Architecture needs hope and innovation – not nostalgia and retreat from social responsibility

2025-03-31T03:00:00+01:00By 2 comments

David Storring calls for a bold, future-facing architectural agenda – one grounded in resilience, collaboration, and the material realities of the 21st century

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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 2 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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  • 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