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AHMM back in the black following last year’s restructure

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Practice made profit of more than £500,000 following £1.7m loss in 2024

Designing Tomorrow's Housing

  • Come with me to Clamart: a postcard from a Parisian regenerative development that really works

  • Britain’s lost builders: making housing viable again for SMEs

  • Good housing starts with good urban design

  • Beyond the quick fix: why permitted development needs strategic guidance

  • New towns. Old wisdom?

  • Building communities: why the Neave Brown Award matters

  • Inside the party conferences: why architects need to be in the room where housing policy is made

  • BDP turns disused garages into social housing in Bristol

  • London’s housing delivery in ‘major crisis’, HBF warns in damning report

  • Vacant to valuable: unlocking stranded assets for much-needed homes

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We must encourage the building of urban one-home wonders

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The National Planning Policy Framework includes a specific allowance for single houses in rural areas that are “truly outstanding” where they would otherwise be refused. An equivalent provision is needed in urban areas, writes Russell Curtis

  • Root And Erect’s new King’s Cross play area features sustainable construction, materials and lighting innovation

  • Silen office pods now available to rent

  • CarbonCure technology that locks CO₂ into concrete mix being trialled in Greenwich

  • In pictures: House in a Walled Garden

  • Cladding at the forefront: the evolving landscape of residential building design

  • CPD 24 2025: Navigating the Building Safety Act

  • CPD 21 2025: Rainscreen cladding and insulation retrofits

  • CPD 23 2025: Landscaping mixed-use developments – balancing aesthetics and functionality

  • Reglazing National Maritime Museum courtyard delivers cooling benefits

  • Homegrown timber innovation on display in dRMM’s V&A show

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Jack Pringle: ‘If the RIBA didn’t exist, you’d have to invent it’

2025-11-25T07:00:00+00:00By

RIBA chair Jack Pringle reflects on his role in stabilising the institute’s finances, implementing governance reforms and positioning architects to reclaim leadership in construction through the principal designer role

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WA100 2025: Digital edition

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Architect of the Year Awards 2025

  • What made this project… Elizabeth Mews by Trewhela Williams

  • What made this project… Berners & Wells by Emrys Architects

  • What made this project… The School of Science, Engineering + Environment (SEE) by Sheppard Robson

  • What made this project… MacFarlane Place by Maccreanor Lavington

  • What made this project… The Jackson Library by Nex

  • What made this project… The British Academy by Wright & Wright Architects

  • What made this project… Edith Road by Satish Jassal Architects

  • What made this project… Lambeth Palace Masterplan by Wright & Wright Architects

  • What made this project… The Waterman by Fathom Architects

  • What made this project… West London HQ by dMFK

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • 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

  • 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

In Pictures

  • In pictures: House in a Walled Garden

  • In pictures: Threshold House – Studio McW’s sharp steel and brick extension

  • EH Smith opens new Digbeth design centre

  • In pictures: Stanton Williams completes inaugural later living scheme next to Hampstead Heath

  • In pictures: Lumi, Europe’s highest LEED rated building

  • In pictures: ZMMA completes Poole Museum redevelopment

  • Adjaye Associates unveils completed Princeton University Art Museum

  • Fosters transforms Paris building on Champs-Élysées into luxury gallery and restaurant

  • In pictures: Fletcher Priest-designed Oxford North innovation district officially opens

  • In pictures: Sanei + Hopkins’ Suffolk Housestead

WA100 2025

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  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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We must encourage the building of urban one-home wonders

2025-12-22T07:00:00+00:00By 1 comments

The National Planning Policy Framework includes a specific allowance for single houses in rural areas that are “truly outstanding” where they would otherwise be refused. An equivalent provision is needed in urban areas, writes Russell Curtis

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Why I have decided I will no longer be called an architect

2025-12-17T07:00:00+00:00By 5 comments

We need a new system of registration which focuses on the competence of all built environment professionals if we are to ensure buildings are safe and of high quality, Chris Williamson explains

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The government’s ‘build, baby, build’ agenda cannot succeed unless architects are involved from the start

2025-12-16T06:59:00+00:00By ​Simon Vernon-Harcourt

Only around 6% of UK homes are designed by architects, but getting them involved early is one of the most effective ways of ensuring that homes are built to last, to support community life, and are easier to live in over time, says Simon Vernon-Harcourt at City & Country

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Signs of progress and goodwill at this latest Grenfell landmark

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This Sunday marks another significant date for the community of bereaved relatives and concerned residents in Kensington and Chelsea, but this year it takes place amid changed circumstances, writes Emma Dent Coad

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Designing cities for play: Why child-friendly spaces matter

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Children are the benchmark of an area’s liveability. They tell us whether it is healthy and inclusive. If it does not work for them, it is failing, writes Lendlease’s Nick Watson

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How architects can unlock ‘difficult’ sites across the UK

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Constrained and underused land can be transformed into a catalyst for sustainable, connected urban growth with some pragmatic, design-led thinking, writes Louise Scannell, a design director at WW+P

  • ‘They’re a demanding group of people’… Keeping the scientists happy at the University of Cambridge’s new Ray Dolby Centre

  • Designed to change the world: Inside Oxford University’s new £200m Life and Mind Building

  • Dulwich College by alma-nac: a new lower school library and the refurbishment of its emblematic Charles Barry block

  • Backstage at The Old Vic: Haworth Tompkins crafts a contemporary counterpoint to a Georgian icon

  • Oxford opens its doors: Hopkins’ Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities

  • 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

Reviews

  • Book review: The English House by Dan Cruickshank

  • Book review: Henley Halebrown, Building for Society 2010-2022

  • King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture

  • Review: Cosmos, Memory, Scale at the SOAS Gallery

  • British Interior Design Since 1925

  • Concéntrico and the art of everyday urban invention

  • The art of architecture on film: Eric Parry and the question of posterity

  • 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