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Developer loses consent for plans to convert listed Victorian baths into cinema amid ‘unprecedented’ financial challenges
What made this project… Hyde London City by Studio Moren
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Developer loses consent for plans to convert listed Victorian baths into cinema amid ‘unprecedented’ financial challenges
Maccreanor Lavington and Pringle Richards Sharratt behind scheme to repurpose Ladywell Playhouse in Lewisham
Construction output rises for second consecutive month
Latest figures could show ‘dark clouds passing’, says expert
House of Lords pushes for bird-safe glass requirement in England’s new buildings
Mass timber rooftop and breathable facades define DLA’s Mayfair retrofit
Mastering the detail: Episode 5
CPD 07 2025: Mastering sliding and bi-fold doors
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Finding new ways to open up the city … Meet the woman behind London’s Open House festival
Mary Richardson caught up with Manijeh Verghese, the recently appointed chief executive of Open City, for a preview of some of the buildings in this year’s Open House festival
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What made this project… Brewers’ Hall by dMFK
dMFK guides us through the specification challenges present at Brewers’ Hall
In pictures: Pend completes Catalog House
Architecture studio Pend has completed the renovation and integration of two former flats into a single-family home in Trinity, Edinburgh
Let’s be specific… Polished concrete Q+A with Woody’s Concrete Co.
Steven Wood and Izzy Taylor-Wood explain how this versatile surface is made, the role of aggregates and sustainable blends, and why polished concrete continues to reshape both architectural and interior design
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Architect of the Year Awards 2024
What made this project… Hyde London City by Studio Moren
What made this project… Brewers’ Hall by dMFK
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Carmody Groarke completes ArtPlay Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery
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?
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Carmody Groarke completes ArtPlay Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Anish Kapoor’s Naples Metro station unveiled
Bennetts Associates completes redevelopment of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre
In pictures: Architecture for London reinstates Camden townhouse as family home
In pictures: Work completes on Howells-designed Birmingham tower
In pictures: Pend completes Catalog House
Donald Insall Associates completes £7.6m refurbishment of John Rylands Library
Bindloss Dawes converts French hamlet into wellness retreat
Hugh Broughton Architects lifts the lid on Parliament Street toilet refurbishment
BDP unveils images of completed refurbishment of Topshop’s former Oxford Circus store
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Marketing your architecture practice: why it matters and how to do it well
Stephen O’Reilly sets out what effective marketing really looks like
What’s stopping us from designing the most sustainable building?
For structural engineer Anna Beckett, the challenge of sustainable building lies not just in materials and construction methods, but in questioning the assumptions we start with
Vacant to valuable: unlocking stranded assets for much-needed homes
Miranda MacLaren highlights how architects are uniquely positioned to work with councils and private developers to reimagine stranded assets as places to live
More striking for what is missing: the Stirling shortlist 2025
Ben Flatman, BD’s architectural editor, reviews a Stirling shortlist of solid projects, but considers it one that lacks excitement and has some glaring omissions
Things fall apart; the centre cannot build
Austin Williams explores the gap between official optimism and the everyday experience of citizens navigating crumbling services and a deepening housing crisis
Architecture in Scotland: micro-businesses, major challenges
Rab Bennetts begins his new column for BD with a look at Scotland’s architectural landscape, shaped by small practices, challenging procurement and a tough economic climate
AYA 2025 shortlists: Best Architect Employer of the Year
In a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the Best Architect Employer of the Year shortlist
Finding new ways to open up the city … Meet the woman behind London’s Open House festival
Mary Richardson caught up with Manijeh Verghese, the recently appointed chief executive of Open City, for a preview of some of the buildings in this year’s Open House festival
The long road to regenerating the Carpenters Estate
In 2018, a new mayor tasked Newham’s housing company with building more affordable homes. Seven years later, it’s getting ready for its biggest scheme yet. Daniel Gayne headed east to find out more
UK Design Capital of the Year: How Manchester is setting the pace for regeneration and urban living
Manchester, shortlisted for UK Design Capital of the Year 2025, stands out for the speed and scale of its reinvention
How a transport investment shortfall threatens to scupper housing delivery in London
After setting out a vision for development centred on public transit links, the mayor of London came out of the spending review empty handed. Can London build 88,000 homes a year without new infrastructure? Daniel Gayne reports.
As his RIBA presidency ends, Muyiwa Oki reflects on milestones and unfinished business
Ben Flatman speaks to Oki about his term in office, from launching a workplace wellbeing taskforce to defending the Elizabeth Line’s Stirling Prize win, and why access to the profession remains a pressing concern
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Bradford Live: how Tim Ronalds Architects helped residents save their historic cinema and turn it into a 3,800-capacity music venue
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
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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
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