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City approves AHMM’s redevelopment of Denys Lasdun’s Milton Gate

Green glass facade of 1 Moor Lane building to be scrapped in sustainability overhaul

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Crown Estate signs development JV with Lendlease for six major schemes in London and Birmingham

Projects named in deal include Euston station and Smithfield Market in Birmingham

  • Modular Scottish holiday home showcases Querkus veneer in low-carbon timber interior

  • CPD 05 2025: Enhancing thermal performance

  • Mastering the detail: Baytree Nuneaton with Chetwoods Architects

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Alma-nac: Doing architecture for free. Well, sometimes…

2025-05-14T05:00:00+01:00By

Alma-nac’s Design For All programme is helping to unlock community projects across the UK – and the team hopes to expand it further, writes Mary Richardson

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    AI startups partner with architecture giants to tackle construction challenges

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    Digital Catapult, a deep tech innovation organisation, has announced the ten AI-led startups selected for its accelerator programme under the Innovate UK BridgeAI initiative. The programme is intended to promote the practical application of artificial intelligence (AI) in sectors with high growth potential, including construction.

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    Mastering the detail: Episode 2

    Calling all manufacturers and product suppliers! Episode 2 of our Mastering the Detail webinar series features an insightful conversation with Philippa Birch-Wood, sustainability lead at Chetwoods, offering a candid look into what really influences architectural specification decisions.

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    Heat networks: The low-carbon design solution

    By Tom Brough

    The UK’s social housing sector is undergoing a significant transformation as it works to decarbonise its heat and hot water provision. This is about more than just supporting the country’s net-zero 2050 target – energy efficiency is essential to tackling fuel poverty and addressing rising operational costs.

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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… Skylight by Buckley Gray Yeoman

  • What made this project… University of Cambridge West Hub by Jestico + Whiles

  • What made this project… Ice Factory by Buckley Gray Yeoman

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

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • 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?

  • 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

In Pictures

  • Allies and Morrison completes School of Public Health building at White City

  • Jestico + Whiles completes Ray Dolby Centre for University of Cambridge

  • Fletcher Priest completes TikTok City office

  • Thomas-McBrien Architects completes glulam roof extension of London HQ

  • Satish Jassal Architects completes net zero council housing scheme on Haringey infill site

  • EPR completes Nine Elms office building

  • RX Architects completes two coastal homes in East Sussex

  • Jestico & Whiles completes Shoreditch hotel on site which had been empty for 50 years

  • 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

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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The search for somewhere: why traditional wisdom is increasingly shaping tomorrow’s places

2025-05-19T05:00:00+01:00By

Nicholas Boys Smith reflects on two days in Doha and a global conversation about traditional wisdom, local identity and the future of placemaking

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Insights from tomorrow’s architects: Remote working – urban utopia or dystopia?

2025-05-16T05:00:00+01:00By 1 comments

Diego de Silos Urena considers how remote working could reshape urban life

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Let Queen Elizabeth II’s memorial serve the whole nation

2025-05-15T05:00:00+01:00By 1 comments

Eleanor Jolliffe reflects on the legacy of past royal memorials and calls for a national project that offers lasting value beyond the capital

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At Venice 2025: the architecture Biennale trades star power for shared ground

2025-05-14T08:40:00+01:00By

Sarah Simpkin reports from Venice, where Carlo Ratti’s Biennale weaves together hands-on collaboration, ecological reflection and cross-disciplinary experimentation

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Abolishing planning performance agreements? Templates for section 106? There are further opportunities to reform planning

2025-05-14T05:00:00+01:00

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill offers a chance to look at how we can improve the planning application process further. Paul Smith gives his thoughts on some ways to do it

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We can’t build our way to net zero without tackling embodied carbon

2025-05-13T05:00:00+01:00By Lee Jones

As the debate about net zero becomes over-politicised, tackling embodied carbon should be the industry’s next priority. We need clear, enforceable legislation from the government to support this, says Lee Jones

  • 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

  • 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

Reviews

  • 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

  • ‘Would you rather be sold religion or soap?’: Venturi and Scott Brown’s story

  • 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