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  • Rising cases of grey efflorescence raise alarm for brick facade performance

  • Why cutting corners in specification is costing you more

  • CPD 11 2025: Bi-fold and sliding doors for marine and coastal environments

  • Mastering the detail: Episode 4

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Planning for both people and nature is not a contradiction

2025-07-31T05:00:00+01:00By

As new legislation threatens to weaken habitat protections, Sophie Thompson asks what it would take to plan with respect for both people and the natural world

Specification

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    Gateway 3 raises the stakes for project teams under the Building Safety Act

    By Clyde Abela

    With gateway 2 in the rearview mirror for an increasing number of projects, it is essential to shift focus to gateway 3 and the challenges that this poses to clients, design teams and contractors alike

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    What made this project… Melamar by Paper Igloo

    Finalist for Individual House Architect of the Year Award 2025, Paper Igloo guides us through the specification challenges present at Melamar

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    Mastering the detail: Episode 4

    What do architects really need from manufacturers today? Episode 4 of our unmissable Q+A series lifts the lid on how expectations are changing. Join Tom Jordan, director at Barr Gazetas, as he shares first-hand insights into the evolving specification landscape.

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WA100 Digital Edition

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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… Manor Lodge by IID Architects

  • What made this project… Melamar by Paper Igloo

  • What made this project… De Valera Library and Súil Gallery by Keith Williams Architects

  • What made this project… Regional Science Centre by INI Design Studio

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • Barratt Redrow commits to accessible playgrounds on all new developments

  • Report calls for national play strategy to reshape neighbourhoods for children

  • Seventeen years on: why England needs a new National Play Strategy

  • England is failing to plan for its ageing population – the spending review must put that right

  • 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

In Pictures

  • Allies and Morrison’s leisure centre completes at Canada Water redevelopment

  • HTA Design completes two new residential buildings at Wood Wharf

  • In pictures: TP Bennett completes Stonecutter City office development

  • In pictures: Howells completes Uncle Wembley Gardens BTR scheme in Brent

  • In pictures: Emrys Architects completes Berners and Wells mixed-use scheme in Fitzrovia

  • In pictures: Renzo Piano’s Shard Place reaches practical completion

  • Wright & Wright completes £40m masterplan project at Lambeth Palace

  • In pictures: dRMM’s mixed-use industrial and residential scheme in Hackney Wick

  • In pictures: Mowat & Company redesigns Flint HQ in south London

  • In pictures: Kimbell Pike Architects converts listed Arts and Crafts building into Montessori nursery

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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In the face of increasingly extreme weather, developers, design engineers, architects and policymakers must take the lead

2025-08-04T05:00:00+01:00By

The recent heatwave presents yet more evidence that we face a challenge – and a huge opportunity – to construct buildings that are thermally comfortable, energy-efficient and wellness-led, says Abhishek Parmar

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Reinstating Level 7 apprenticeship funding is essential for architecture’s future

2025-08-01T05:00:00+01:00By

Tracy Meller argues that the government’s plan to withdraw funding for Level 7 apprenticeships will dismantle a pathway that works

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Planning for both people and nature is not a contradiction

2025-07-31T05:00:00+01:00By

As new legislation threatens to weaken habitat protections, Sophie Thompson asks what it would take to plan with respect for both people and the natural world

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Unlocking housing delivery: can we build better, faster, and fairer?

2025-07-30T05:00:00+01:00By

Hien Nguyen outlines the delivery barriers that must be tackled if the UK is to meet its housing ambitions without sacrificing quality

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What’s stopping us from designing for deconstruction?

2025-07-28T05:20:00+01:00By 1 comments

In a throwaway culture, Anna Beckett argues that architects must take greater responsibility for how buildings are eventually dismantled and their materials reused

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Don’t defund thinking: why architectural education needs space to question, not just produce ‘practice ready’ graduates

2025-07-25T05:00:00+01:00By and 1 comments

As pressure mounts to streamline architectural education, Emily Crompton and Sam Higgins argue that universities remain essential spaces for reflection, critique and experimentation – and should not be reduced to training centres for industry

  • 76 Upper Ground: Denys Lasdun’s 1960s South Bank vision is realised at last

  • Designing, building and growing the natural way: Wolves Lane community centre unveiled by Studio Gil and Material Cultures

  • Unpacking the museum: the V&A Storehouse in Stratford opens its doors

  • A Serpentine Pavilion for anxious times – but is that enough?

  • Bennetts’ timber and straw robotics lab pilots new net zero carbon building standard

  • From complexity to clarity: The Sainsbury Wing transformed

  • A cauldron on the Mersey: how Everton built their new stadium in just five years (Manchester United take note)

  • 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

Reviews

  • The Manifesto House: Buildings that changed the future of architecture

  • Form Follows Love: Anna Heringer on building with empathy, intuition and mud

  • Nuts, bolts and preservation: High Tech as heritage

  • RA Summer Exhibition: with no designated space, architecture is overshadowed

  • Surface Reflections: a quieter, more thoughtful London Design Biennale

  • Architecture and Social Change: Shaping an Impactful Practice

  • Beyond the optics: identity, class and the politics of equality in architecture and the arts

  • Faith, reuse and surveillance: Birmingham’s mosques through Mahtab Hussain’s lens

  • Between colonialism and nation-building: rethinking African modernism

  • Speedos, lidos and lost pools: a stylish look at swimming’s social past