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Gensler submits first phase of 5,000-home Thameside West scheme
Initial stage of £2.5bn project would deliver 1,500 homes across six buildings with two blocks for social rent
DLA reworks redevelopment of former Yorkshire Post site as offices
Plan for three residential towers on long-stalled site abandoned due to viability concerns
How construction can help heal the planet
House Of EM completes new-build family home in Shropshire
Building envelope performance starts with the whole system
CPD 15 2026: Retrofitting solid-wall homes with insulation
Inglis Badrashi Loddo completes compact home within historic garden walls
Retrofitting starts below ground
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Poignant Pangolin Shield installation looks backwards to colonial era – and forwards to an age of bamboo construction
Does the Temple Quarter enterprise campus mark a smart move east for Bristol University?
What does the industry need for Burnham’s technical education reforms to succeed?
Bermondsey Heights is a bold attempt to blend ‘beds and sheds’
Reform UK conference: Funding furore overshadows radical planning proposals
‘A distinctive legacy in a now fracturing and confused profession’… Adrian Gale, 1931-2026
270 Park Avenue: The blockbuster HQ that has busted the block
UK Design Capital of the year: How Cardiff is rethinking its industrial heritage to drive regeneration
Cambridge South station offers a gentler model for growth on the science fringe
5 minutes with … Margherita Pende at TFT
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Specification
House Of EM completes new-build family home in Shropshire
Skylark uses an F-shaped plan, Danish brickwork and a central courtyard to organise a four-bedroom house around views of the River Teme
What made this project… Montcalm Mayfair by Holland Harvey
Finalist for Retail and Leisure Architect of the Year Award 2026, Holland Harvey guides us through the specification challenges present at Montcalm Mayfair
Building envelope performance starts with the whole system
Danilo Gomes explores why building envelope design increasingly requires a coordinated approach to fire, thermal, acoustic and moisture performance, and considers the role of early collaboration in demonstrating compliance
CPD
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WA100 Digital Edition
Designing Tomorrow's Housing
Barnsley’s success is still no defence against populism
Happy days: The early 90s, Urban Splash and a time of creativity and risk
Book review: At Home in the City by Alan Power
My response to the new Design Planning Policy Practice Guidance
The long way home: why common parts still matter
We can afford to build greener houses – and there are many good reasons why we should
Remembering Kelvin Campbell: Probably the most influential urban designer of his generation
Where, then, do we really wish to live?
Allies and Morrison completes passivhaus student townhouses in Cambridge
Why we need to rediscover council housing
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Architect of the Year Awards 2025
What made this project… Montcalm Mayfair by Holland Harvey
What made this project… Health Sciences Library by HLM Architects
What made this project… Rolikstraat by Common Wonder
What made this project… Greenview House by Paper House Project
What made this project… Wetherby Pembridge School by HLM Architects
What made this project… Scottish Baronial Family Home by iKAD Architects
What made this project… Aquatic Gallery by INI Design Studio
What made this project… Clarkes Way by Greenaway Architecture
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Boomers to Zoomers
In pictures: HTA Design completes dinosaur-themed Crystal Palace Park playground
Intergenerational housing scheme gives students cheaper rent in exchange for befriending older neighbours
Book review: All To Play For – How to design child-friendly housing
Root And Erect’s new King’s Cross play area features sustainable construction, materials and lighting innovation
Designing cities for play: Why child-friendly spaces matter
In pictures: Stanton Williams completes inaugural later living scheme next to Hampstead Heath
This Stirling Prize winner is a model for how we can all live better
Break down the silos – young people won’t see the range of careers our sector offers unless we show them
Carmody Groarke completes ArtPlay Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Barratt Redrow commits to accessible playgrounds on all new developments
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In Pictures
In pictures: BDP completes Greenheys research centre at Manchester Science Park
In pictures: HOK completes Merlin Place laboratory in Cambridge
In pictures: Pend’s stylish Canon Mews uses courtyards to maximise a constrained urban site
Fosters completes transformation of former Whiteleys shopping centre into upmarket homes and hotel
In pictures: Article 25’s Kao La Amani children’s village in Tanzania designed for dignity, community and climate resilience
In pictures: HTA Design completes dinosaur-themed Crystal Palace Park playground
In pictures: Haworth Tompkins refreshes Wales’ largest producing theatre
In pictures: Blight Rayner and Snøhetta’s Glasshouse Theatre, Brisbane – wavy glass wonder wall
In pictures: Campfield – adaptive reuse of Victorian market halls as tech hub and workspaces
In pictures: John Puttick Associates’ Preston Vault Youth Zone – fun foil to the city’s famous bus station, with striking interiors by Ben Kelly
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WA100 2026
WA100 2026: The big list
WA100 2026: The best get better
WA100 2026: Heading on up
WA100 2026: Digital edition
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The most important commission a city can make is a vision
Judging this year’s UK Design Capital of the Year award has reminded Martyn Evans that the greatest act of civic design is not designing a building at all — it is deciding what kind of city you want to become
Scotland’s fires provide many lessons for the heritage sector
Tragic events in Glasgow should prompt a UK-wide reckoning about maintenance, funding and what genuine regeneration requires, writes Matthew Mckeague, chief executive of the Architectural Heritage Fund says
Construction’s talent pipeline has been hiding in schools for years
The skills debate is back. But Class Of Your Own founder Alison Watson argues that construction already has a proven education pipeline – and that industry categorisation and schools policy have combined to keep it invisible
The government is right to be more interventionist on planning
Governments have tried assuming every council will plan maturely and conscientiously. But this hasn’t worked so Matthew Pennycook’s more robust approach is needed, writes Paul Smith.
The impact of two world wars and the ‘golden era’ of the public sector architect: A history of building regulations (part II)
Eleanor Jolliffe considers the social trends and events of the past millennium that led to the development of rules which dictate the way we build
Why solar-control glass should be part of the UK’s overheating debate
Phil Brown says recent heatwaves should be a wake-up call about the overheating risk in our housing stock and that solar-control glass must be part of the solution
Poignant Pangolin Shield installation looks backwards to colonial era – and forwards to an age of bamboo construction
The Pangolin Shield is one of the highlights of this year’s London Design Festival: an installation that speaks poetically of colonial legacies and ecological exploitation, but also offers a positive message about the transformative power of creativity – not to mention some practical lessons about the structural possibilities of bamboo
Bermondsey Heights is a bold attempt to blend ‘beds and sheds’
Maccreanor Lavington’s mixed-use scheme in south-east London weaves together housing and industrial space within a tight urban setting
‘A distinctive legacy in a now fracturing and confused profession’… Adrian Gale, 1931-2026
Matthew Lloyd looks back at the long life and career of his friend Adrian Gale, who died in July
UK Design Capital of the year: How Cardiff is rethinking its industrial heritage to drive regeneration
In the last of our UK Design Capital series, Joey Gardiner looks at how Cardiff has used placemaking to rebuild its future after a potentially existential decline with the collapse of the coal and steel industries
The draft London Plan beyond the headlines: Five things you might have missed in Khan’s latest vision for the capital
City Hall’s 288-page draft London Plan sets out sweeping changes to density rules, green belt release and tall building policy. Here’s a break-down of what the proposed policies could mean for development across the capital
5 minutes with … Margherita Pende at TFT
The consultancy’s director and project manager on her transition from working as an architect, the industry’s mental health challenges, the female leaders who inspire her and her pizza connections
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How Hastings Commons is building a self-renovating neighbourhood
Does the Temple Quarter enterprise campus mark a smart move east for Bristol University?
Bermondsey Heights is a bold attempt to blend ‘beds and sheds’
270 Park Avenue: The blockbuster HQ that has busted the block
Cambridge South station offers a gentler model for growth on the science fringe
The Whiteley: Fosters transforms a piece of Bayswater history
How Studio Verve is keeping Harringay warehouse district alive
Olympia reborn: How London’s historic exhibition venue has been revitalised for the modern age
The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration: Tim Ronalds Architects reanimates New River Head
Serpentine Pavilion 2026 – first ever brick pavilion, by Atelier LANZA, is subtle, intelligent and really very good
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Reviews
Book review: 100 21st-Century Buildings by the Twentieth Century Society
Book review: Palace of the Ether – Broadcasting House and the Architecture of the BBC 1922-32
Book review: Where We Live, by Jonathan Glancey
Book review – Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon
Review - Roaming Britain: Gypsy and Traveller Homes at RIBA North
Book review: Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture, by Irénée Scalbert
Book review: At Home in the City by Alan Power
Caruso St John's Collected Works, Volume 3: ‘The book’s beauty is matched by its heft’
Book review: Case Studies in Architecture and Landscape: Expanding the Legacy of Peter Blundell Jones
The long way home: why common parts still matter
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