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City Hall overturns council’s decision to reject GRID’s 25-storey Bexley tower
Perkins & Will submits plans for Cambridge laboratory scheme
BDP wins gallery design roles at Natural History Museum and Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum
AHMM drawing up plans for student resi tower on London Met School of Architecture site
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City Hall overturns council’s decision to reject GRID’s 25-storey Bexley tower
Deputy mayor Jules Pipe says benefits of build-to-rent scheme outweigh harm to nearby Lesnes Abbey and concerns over height
BDP wins gallery design roles at Natural History Museum and Manchester’s Science and Industry Museum
Practice chalks up two jobs with a combined contract value of more than £1m
Architecture for London completes Dorset Beach House
There is no need to panic about new fire door regulations
Studio Folk uses sandstone brick to extend grade II-listed Georgian terrace
Longer lasting anti-mould paint from Inducoat
Rethinking urban lighting design
CPD 16 2025: Leveraging BIM for strategic advantage
Atelier Baulier retrofits and extends Edwardian home in Ealing
Mastering the detail: The Paper Garden with Jan Kattein Architects
Mowat & Company upgrades former Herbert E. Gibbs furniture factory into low-carbon creative studios
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The architecture of dignity: why the disappearance of public toilets is more than an inconvenience
Eddie Blake considers how the loss of public toilets has left cities less inclusive, raising issues of access, safety and civic pride
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Studio Folk uses sandstone brick to extend grade II-listed Georgian terrace
Compact extension delivers new lower-ground facilities and demonstrates embodied carbon savings from natural stone brick over clay
Pavilion gives barns new life at Copenhagen Architecture Biennale
THISS Studio and architect Tom Svilans have unveiled their Barn Again pavilion at the inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennale
Longer lasting anti-mould paint from Inducoat
Just in time for Awaab’s Law coming into force in October, new supplier Pazco has brought Dutch anti-mould paint Inducoat Fungi to the UK
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WA100 Digital Edition
Architect of the Year Awards 2024
What made this project… Former Nestlé Factory by dMFK
What made this project… The Acre by Gensler
What made this project… Black and Stone by Mallett
What made this project… Hyde London City by Studio Moren
What made this project… Brewers’ Hall by dMFK
What made this project… Everton Stadium by BDP Pattern
What made this project… Plot R8 by Piercy & Company
What made this project… Meadow Road by Studio Bark
What made this project… Undershed by George Lovesmith Architecture
What made this project… Manor Lodge by IID Architects
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Boomers to Zoomers
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
Report calls for national play strategy to reshape neighbourhoods for children
Seventeen years on: why England needs a new National Play Strategy
England is failing to plan for its ageing population – the spending review must put that right
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
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Purcell completes restoration of St Barts Hospital’s grade I-listed North Wing
BDP turns disused garages into social housing in Bristol
Purcell completes Shoemakers Museum in Somerset
Adjaye Associates completes timber performance pavilion in Barbados
Carmody Groarke completes ArtPlay Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Anish Kapoor’s Naples Metro station unveiled
Bennetts Associates completes redevelopment of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre
In pictures: Architecture for London reinstates Camden townhouse as family home
In pictures: Work completes on Howells-designed Birmingham tower
In pictures: Pend completes Catalog House
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Inside the party conferences: why architects need to be in the room where housing policy is made
Félicie Krikler examines why architects and built environment professionals must make their voices heard in policymaking circles
Sir Nicholas Grimshaw: beyond the buildings and accolades
Mark Middleton pays tribute to Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, remembering a leader and mentor whose clarity, curiosity and belief in others defined his approach to architecture and practice
From AI to retrofit: how RIBA’s Future Business of Architecture programme is helping practices navigate change
As economic uncertainty tests the industry, Helen Castle, director of publishing and content at the RIBA, explains why practices mustn’t let up on their longer-term business thinking
The architecture of dignity: why the disappearance of public toilets is more than an inconvenience
Eddie Blake considers how the loss of public toilets has left cities less inclusive, raising issues of access, safety and civic pride
Think local: why Scotland’s climate should shape its architecture
Scotland already meets much of its energy needs from renewables – now, says Rab Bennetts, its buildings must reflect the realities of its climate, with a focus on mass retrofit and upgrading the housing it already has
Break down the silos – young people won’t see the range of careers our sector offers unless we show them
If we want young people to join our industry, we must show them an industry worth joining, says Ashley Wheaton, vice chancellor at the University of the Built Environment
AYA 2025 shortlists: Young Architect of the Year
In a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the Young Architect of the Year shortlist
British School at Rome opens applications for 2026–27 architecture scholarships
The institution’s architecture scholarships support research residencies in Rome
AYA 2025 shortlists: WA100 International Architect of the Year
In a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the WA100 International Architect of the Year shortlist
AYA 2025 shortlists: Social Value Architect of the Year
In a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the Social Value Architect of the Year shortlist
Labour conference 2025: Housing secretary puts style over substance while Starmer takes aim at Reform
The government’s announcement about new towns and the housing secretary’s Trump-esque stylings put housing at the heart of the agenda at Labour’s conference in Liverpool. But there was little in the way of detail to back Steve Reed’s ‘build, baby, build’ slogan
Sir Terry Farrell: the restless maverick who reshaped British urbanism
From the Comyn Ching Triangle to the MI6 building at Vauxhall Cross, Sir Terry Farrell’s projects challenged modernist orthodoxy and reshaped how architects thought about the city. Ben Flatman reflects on the influence and legacy of one of Britain’s most distinctive thinkers on urbanism
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From discontented planners to a glorious summer: Van Heyningen and Haward’s Leicester Cathedral extension
Bradford Live: how Tim Ronalds Architects helped residents save their historic cinema and turn it into a 3,800-capacity music venue
76 Upper Ground: Denys Lasdun’s 1960s South Bank vision is realised at last
Designing, building and growing the natural way: Wolves Lane community centre unveiled by Studio Gil and Material Cultures
Unpacking the museum: the V&A Storehouse in Stratford opens its doors
A Serpentine Pavilion for anxious times – but is that enough?
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
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William Butterfield: A builder and experimenter
The Manifesto House: Buildings that changed the future of architecture
Form Follows Love: Anna Heringer on building with empathy, intuition and mud
Nuts, bolts and preservation: High Tech as heritage
RA Summer Exhibition: with no designated space, architecture is overshadowed
Surface Reflections: a quieter, more thoughtful London Design Biennale
Architecture and Social Change: Shaping an Impactful Practice
Beyond the optics: identity, class and the politics of equality in architecture and the arts
Faith, reuse and surveillance: Birmingham’s mosques through Mahtab Hussain’s lens
Between colonialism and nation-building: rethinking African modernism
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