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Donald Insall Associates closes Cambridge office and downsizes Bath team

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Strategic review at heritage practice follows workload slump in two regions

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Property group urges Reeves to fund ‘new approach’ at Building Safety Regulator

British Property Federation calls for next month’s spending review to include ‘additional resource’ for safety regulator amid spate of high-rise delays

  • Building with confidence: Competency, skills and designing with structural timber

  • Ecological Building Systems releases new natural insulation

  • Meeting sustainability objectives with durability

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Grenfell Tower: what happens next will define how we remember

2025-02-05T02:30:00+00:00By

Emma Dent Coad reflects on the deep divisions and difficult choices facing the community as the government prepares to announce the fate of Grenfell Tower

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  • The OWO by EPR Architects 3

    What made this project… The OWO by EPR Architects

    EPR Architects’ body of work was shortlisted for last year’s AYAs, as the practice was named a finalist for two awards, including Refurbishment and Reinvention Architect of the Year. In this series, we take a look at one of the team’s entry projects and ask the firm’s board director, Geoff ...

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    Terraced streets tackle climate change with ambient loop system

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    An award-winning initiative aims to decarbonise up to eight million terraced homes in the UK through a community-led energy model that uses heat pump networks and microgrids

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    It’s time for designers to electrify

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    Suzanna Lashford is leading efforts to help the UK’s construction sector shift to sustainable energy solutions, advocating electrification as the only sustainable path forward for new developments

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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… 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

  • What made this project… Central Foundation Boys’ School by Hawkins Brown

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • 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

  • Labour urged to address built environment’s role in young people’s lives

  • Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context

  • Could the government’s curriculum review save the D&T GCSE and fix the green design skills gap?

In Pictures

  • 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

  • DEDRAFT completes new-build home in rural Oxfordshire

  • Heatherwick completes mixed-use development in Xi’an

  • RX Architects reimagines two rural houses as contemporary family homes

  • Cooke Fawcett reimagines historic mill house with new studio and workshop

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  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Housing needs architects – and it’s time to make the case

2025-02-10T05:00:00+00:00By 2 comments

Félicie Krikler writes for BD on housing-related issues at a critical moment for the sector

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It’s time for trams – and Britain needs to catch up

2025-02-07T01:20:00+00:00By 1 comments

David Milner explains how Europe’s thriving tram networks are driving growth and cutting congestion, while the UK’s cities struggle with poor transport, high housing costs, and weak productivity

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A failure of planning? The uncertain fate of Birmingham’s historic markets

2025-02-06T02:00:00+00:00By

Despite eight centuries of history, Birmingham’s markets are being sidelined in the city’s latest redevelopment plans – with traders facing an uncertain future and no clear strategy for continuity, writes Joe Holyoak

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Grenfell Tower: what happens next will define how we remember

2025-02-05T02:30:00+00:00By

Emma Dent Coad reflects on the deep divisions and difficult choices facing the community as the government prepares to announce the fate of Grenfell Tower

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Architecture at a crossroads: why low pay threatens the future of the profession

2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00By 14 comments

Aga Szedzianis asks what architecture can do to rebuild its value and secure its future

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Why the key to reviving our towns is people-centred regeneration

2025-01-29T05:00:00+00:00By 1 comments

It is time for the government to focus on ‘thriving towns for a revived nation’ writes Ben Derbyshire

  • 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

  • Under The Big Roof… Charity unites generations and nurtures skills that last a lifetime

Reviews

  • 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

  • Nithurst Farm: ‘an uncompromising engagement with architecture in all its spatial, material, and symbolic richness’