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Zaha Hadid Architects profit jumps 38% as Middle East revenue more than doubles
Practice rakes in more than £27m from Middle East following string of luxury projects
Fosters unveils designs for luxury hotel and housing on Brazil seafront
Coastal scheme located at popular surfing spot
CPD 01 2025: Understanding the regulatory requirements for modern ventilation systems
Terraced streets tackle climate change with ambient loop system
What made this project… Maple House by Gibson Thornley
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What lies ahead for architecture in 2025?
From rethinking housing policy and urban wellbeing to advancing sustainability and overcoming talent shortages, these comment pieces explore the ideas and priorities that will confront architects in the year ahead
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What made this project… Maple House by Gibson Thornley
Gibson Thornley’s body of work impressed the judges at this year’s AYAs, as the practice took home the trophy for Refurbishment and Reinvention Architect of the Year.
Verdant House: CAN completes home in Stoke Newington
Practice breathes new life into a disjointed terraced house, crafting a nature-inspired, open-plan space for a young family in London, complete with a glulam-framed extension and meadow-planted roof
What made this project… Francis House by Gensler
Gensler’s body of work was shortlisted for this year’s AYAs, as the practice was named a finalist for Interior Architect of the Year.
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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
What made this project… The Wave by HLM Architects
What made this project… Craigend Resource Centre by Inch Architecture
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Boomers to Zoomers
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?
Taskforce calls for cross-departmental unit to lead national older people’s housing strategy
School closures threaten London’s future as a city for families
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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
Novak Hiles Architects completes North London housing scheme on challenging backland site
Astudio completes first phase of Ebury Bridge Estate regeneration in Westminster
Moxon completes ‘hockey stick’ bridge crossing the River Severn
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WA100 2024
WA100 2024: Architects expect patchy international growth
WA100 2024: The big list
WA100 2024: Digital edition
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Twenty years of brilliance: Christophe Egret’s legacy at Studio Egret West
Martyn Evans reflects on two decades of collaboration with Christophe Egret
The rising toll of disasters: why the US needs coordinated national action on climate change
Wildfires, hurricanes, and rising sea levels have made no corner of the US immune to the impacts of climate change
Why cutting waste is key to building more homes in 2025
Chloe Phelps reflects on how the profession can rise to the challenge of delivering 1.5 million new homes
Putting children and young people at the heart of housing design
Dinah Bornat explores how housing design can better meet the needs of younger generations
If new housing can be delivered in Canary Wharf, what is to stop the Square Mile following suit?
Ben Derbyshire looks at how London’s two business districts have taken a very different approach to housing as they respond to working from home
Engineering the future: treat AI as a tool in the box, not a master carpenter
Artificial intelligence is revolutionising workflows across industries, but its value lies in complementing human expertise rather than replacing it
Real change or false hope: can Labour’s planning reforms deliver 1.5 million homes?
Ministers unleashed a barrage of planning reforms in the dying days of 2024. Joey Gardiner asks if these can give the industry the boost it needs to get anywhere close to the government’s ambitious housebuilding target?
Closing the skills gap: Alison Watson on transforming built environment education
Alison Watson MBE is a woman on a mission to transform education in the built environment
What lies ahead for architecture in 2025?
From rethinking housing policy and urban wellbeing to advancing sustainability and overcoming talent shortages, these comment pieces explore the ideas and priorities that will confront architects in the year ahead
Best of 2024: opinion and comment that made sense of a fast-changing world
We brought together some of the most stimulating and thought provoking comment pieces in 2024 - take a look at what our columnists had to say
Best of 2024: Building Design’s most incisive features and in-depth analysis
BD’s 2024 features examined the big ideas and forces driving change in the built environment. Dive into our most thought-provoking stories of the year
Best of 2024: Building Design’s standout interviews and practice profiles
BD spoke to some of the biggest names and delved into many of the most critical issues facing architecture this year - take a closer look
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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
London College of Fashion strikes a pose with new campus by Allies & Morrison
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Reviews
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’
Who was to blame for the unseaming of Britain’s cities?
Interwar: Gavin Stamp’s tribute to Britain’s forgotten architectural diversity
Navigating the complexities of modern practice management
Inside Cedric Price’s archive: A career of unrealised visions and radical thinking
‘A fantastic, informative, and in-depth resource’: new guide helps illuminate the architecture apprenticeship pathway
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