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The quiet revolution in built environment education and engagement – starting with children

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As universities widen participation, Rosie Parnell explores how early engagement is opening new pathways into the built environment professions

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Scott Brownrigg tech building approved for Oxfordshire campus

Development will form second phase of life sciences and advanced manufacturing innovation hub

  • AI and advanced materials are shaping sustainable, safe structures

  • CPD 04 2025: Energy performance evaluation in architectural projects

  • Delivering a roofing solution for The Goods Yard

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

  • CPD 03 2025: Segmental retaining walls for housing developments

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Can Allies and Morrison’s Canada Water masterplan match King’s Cross?

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The former Daily Mail printworks has been stripped back to its structural frame ready for conversion into an office and conference facility. It will also incorporate a nightclub called Printworks which was a former, successful meanwhile use

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WA100 2025: Digital edition

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Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • 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

  • What made this project… The OWO by EPR Architects

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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

  • 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

  • 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

WA100 2025

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  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Elisabeth Montgomerie is sustainability director at AESG

AI and advanced materials are shaping sustainable, safe structures

2025-04-02T05:00:00+01:00By Elisabeth Montgomerie

Architects must embrace innovation to navigate the evolving landscape of sustainability and safety in building design, argues Elisabeth Montgomerie

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The quiet revolution in built environment education and engagement – starting with children

2025-04-02T05:00:00+01:00By

As universities widen participation, Rosie Parnell explores how early engagement is opening new pathways into the built environment professions

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Intervention Architecture turns 10: how the community-focused practice is shaping Birmingham’s future

2025-04-01T05:00:00+01:00By

Joe Holyoak examines the practice’s decade-long influence on Birmingham’s urban landscape, highlighting transformative projects like the Smithfield redevelopment and efforts to save Station Street as a cultural destination

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Architecture needs hope and innovation – not nostalgia and retreat from social responsibility

2025-03-31T03:00:00+01:00By 2 comments

David Storring calls for a bold, future-facing architectural agenda – one grounded in resilience, collaboration, and the material realities of the 21st century

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Beyond sustainability: what we need now is regenerative design

2025-03-28T05:00:00+00:00By

The industry’s focus has to move from just trying to conserve natural resources to building in a way that actually repairs the planet, Philip Watson at HLM Architects says

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The land banking myth housebuilders can’t shake

2025-03-27T05:00:00+00:00By 2 comments

Despite numerous reviews finding no evidence of housebuilders deliberately withholding land from the market, we are again having to talk about ‘unbuilt’ homes, writes Paul Smith

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  • 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

Reviews

  • ‘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

  • ‘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