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‘We rode out the storm’: Adjaye Associates projects confidence after ‘worst year that any architecture firm could have gone through’

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Practice makes loss of £720,000 after one-off £1.4m tax payment but describes drop in revenue as a “blip”

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Populous working on plans for £650m Twickenham stadium upgrade

Venue wants to hold 15 non-sporting events a year, up from current permitted three, to help bankroll revamp

  • CPD 03 2025: Segmental retaining walls for housing developments

  • In pictures: Pend breathes new life into mid-terrace home in Edinburgh

  • Open Practice Architecture completes East Dulwich infill house

  • Mastering the detail: Dockyard Church with Hugh Broughton Architects

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Material Cultures: the radical architects rethinking how – and what – we build

2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00By

Mary Richardson meets the research and design practice advocating for bio-based materials such as hemp, straw and unfired clay as alternatives to carbon-intensive construction. But, as the industry faces mounting pressure to decarbonise, can these approaches be scaled up to meet real-world demands?

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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… Ice Factory by Buckley Gray Yeoman

  • What made this project… Gateway to Nature Centre by Oberlanders

  • 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

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • 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

  • Designing workplaces that work for everyone

  • The future faces of UK architecture

  • Paul Vick Architects secures planning for redevelopment of historic Chiswick care home

  • Youth-designed pavilion unveiled in Camden’s HS2 meanwhile garden

  • 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

In Pictures

  • Foster + Partners completes office tower above Sydney’s Gadigal Station

  • Westminster’s public toilets get a designer makeover as Hugh Broughton Architects completes first upgrade in £12.7m programme

  • In pictures: 204 Great Portland Street by E8 Architecture

  • In pictures: Pend breathes new life into mid-terrace home in Edinburgh

  • In pictures: GT3 completes University of Southampton sports centre expansion

  • Squire & Partners retrofits Hopkins’ grade II-listed former Conran HQ

  • Mailen Design unveils Lee Terrace in Blackheath

  • ZHA unveils one of Zaha Hadid’s last projects

  • Dan Meis and BDP Pattern realise Everton’s vision for Bramley-Moore Dock

  • DLA completes new construction and engineering facility at Oaklands College

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Are the culture wars distracting us from architecture’s real challenges?

2025-03-18T05:00:00+00:00By 1 comments

Jay Morton responds to Patrik Schumacher’s recent article condemning what he calls the ‘woke’ takeover of architectural discourse, arguing that the real barriers to innovation lie elsewhere

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Insights from tomorrow’s architects: Appreciating women in architecture and driving change

2025-03-17T05:00:00+00:00By

Molly Harper examines the persistent gender inequalities in practice and the barriers that continue to prevent women from securing senior roles

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The built environment belongs to everyone – so why are young voices so often excluded?

2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00By

As the Festival of the Future takes place at Portland Place, Neil Onions challenges the industry to break down barriers and give young people a meaningful voice in architecture and urban design

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Norman Foster and the Theatre of Dreams – a perfect match?

2025-03-12T12:12:00+00:00By 2 comments

Manchester United is betting on Foster to create a world-class stadium – but will ambition and reality align, asks Ben Flatman

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A new era for housing? Why co-design is a critical tool for inclusive development

2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00By and

Tom Greenall and Jane Wong introduce a new online co-design resource intended to support more inclusive and meaningful community participation in the development process

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Higher fees start with smarter sales – here’s how

2025-03-11T11:00:00+00:00By

Oliver Lowrie argues that instead of dwelling on low fees and the market pressures facing the profession, architects must take control by adopting a structured sales process

  • 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

  • Digging deep: The radical engineering underpinning Stiff + Trevillion’s 65 Holborn Viaduct project

  • 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

Reviews

  • Vector Architects: Gong Dong and the Art of Building

  • Outrage lives on: Ian Nairn’s critique still haunts Britain’s landscapes

  • 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