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BDP reports record turnover as it expands global operations

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Practice credits increased international activity and sector diversification for 9.4% income rise

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Stiff & Trevillion submits plans for upmarket City hotel at foot of Tower 42

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Richard Seifert-designed building to be demolished to make way for eight-storey scheme

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  • The way forward for sustainable fibre cement facades

  • Building with confidence: Competency, skills and designing with structural timber

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Jan Kattein: architect as catalyst – ‘A transformational impact can be achieved with limited means’

2025-02-11T00:10:00+00:00By

As Jan Kattein Architects unveils its latest project at Westminster’s Church Street Triangle, Mary Richardson takes a closer look at the work of this innovative firm that weaves social practice into its inspiring and colourful placemaking

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    What made this project… The OWO by EPR Architects

    EPR Architects’ body of work was shortlisted for last year’s AYAs, as the practice was named a finalist for two awards, including Refurbishment and Reinvention Architect of the Year. In this series, we take a look at one of the team’s entry projects and ask the firm’s board director, Geoff ...

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    Terraced streets tackle climate change with ambient loop system

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    An award-winning initiative aims to decarbonise up to eight million terraced homes in the UK through a community-led energy model that uses heat pump networks and microgrids

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    It’s time for designers to electrify

    By Suzanna Lashford

    Suzanna Lashford is leading efforts to help the UK’s construction sector shift to sustainable energy solutions, advocating electrification as the only sustainable path forward for new developments

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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… The OWO by EPR Architects

  • What made this project… Maple House by Gibson Thornley

  • What made this project… Francis House by Gensler

  • What made this project… NMIS interiors by HLM Architects

  • What made this project… Barn X by LOM architecture and design

  • What made this project… n2 by Lynch Architects

  • What made this project… House of Communication by Henn

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • 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

  • Closing the skills gap: Alison Watson on transforming built environment education

  • UK nightlife faces extinction by 2029 if venue closures persist, warns industry body

  • Chief Medical Officer’s report calls for active travel, improved housing, and cleaner air in cities

  • Labour urged to address built environment’s role in young people’s lives

In Pictures

  • DLA completes new construction and engineering facility at Oaklands College

  • Loader Monteith completes rural home in Angus

  • Levitt Bernstein completes Newham’s first Passivhaus-certified social housing

  • Fletcher Priest completes refurbishment of former BHS headquarters in Marylebone

  • In pictures: KPF completes Istanbul bank headquarters

  • ZHA metro station opens as key hub in Riyadh transit system

  • First look at Sadler’s Wells East ahead of February opening

  • SPPARC completes restoration of Army & Navy warehouse in Westminster

  • DEDRAFT completes new-build home in rural Oxfordshire

  • Heatherwick completes mixed-use development in Xi’an

WA100 2025

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  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Why protecting the function of architects is a matter of public safety

2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00By 1 comments

Protecting the function of architects is not just about safeguarding the profession – it is about protecting the public from unsafe, unregulated, and unsustainable construction practices, writes Jason Boyle

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Replace the Office for Place with an Office for Space

2025-02-13T10:30:00+00:00By

James Dunnett argues that the prioritisation of ‘place’ over ‘space’ risks repeating past mistakes, compromising the living and working conditions of occupiers. He makes the case for modernist urbanism over the recent shift towards traditional street-based design

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What’s stopping us from being more collaborative?

2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00By

Anna Beckett argues that the industry must embrace deeper cooperation to accelerate material reuse, cut carbon, and drive sustainable change

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WH Smith and the ‘perma-crisis’ on the high street

2025-02-11T00:05:00+00:00By 1 comments

David Rudlin reconsiders his optimistic outlook on high streets as WH Smith’s closure and rising retail losses point to a deeper, lasting shift

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Housing needs architects – and it’s time to make the case

2025-02-10T05:00:00+00:00By 4 comments

Félicie Krikler writes for BD on housing-related issues at a critical moment for the sector

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It’s time for trams – and Britain needs to catch up

2025-02-07T01:20:00+00:00By 3 comments

David Milner explains how Europe’s thriving tram networks are driving growth and cutting congestion, while the UK’s cities struggle with poor transport, high housing costs, and weak productivity

  • 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

  • ‘A glimpse of new horizons’: Cooke Fawcett’s reworking of Cockpit’s craft incubator

  • A harmonious blend of context and concept: Mass Studies reimagines the Serpentine Pavilion

  • Under The Big Roof… Charity unites generations and nurtures skills that last a lifetime

Reviews

  • 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

  • Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph

  • Nithurst Farm: ‘an uncompromising engagement with architecture in all its spatial, material, and symbolic richness’