All Building Design articles in August 2025
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NewsMICA wins planning approval for Maltings theatre scheme in Berwick-upon-Tweed
Project will remodel the existing theatre complex with a new auditorium, cinemas and public spaces as part of culture-led regeneration in the town
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NewsStallan Brand progresses revised central Glasgow mixed-use district
City centre scheme to include cluster of new buildings up to 19 storeys in height
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NewsTP Bennett to replace ‘one of Bath’s least attractive buildings’ with new Premier Inn
1966-built Beazer House will be demolished to make way for a six-storey, 152-bedroom hotel
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OpinionRural America offers a warning on planning that Britain should heed
Chris Fogarty argues that Britain’s planning system, however frustrating, has helped prevent the rural decline visible across much of the United States
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NewsPlans in for AFK’s 368-home scheme in north London
Proposals would see row of six towers built on slim site near Hendon Station
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NewsMetropolitan Workshop’s 31-storey student housing tower submitted for planning
Scheme for Dominus follows a previous proposal by Howells that was refused on appeal earlier this year
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NewsRIBA survey: Workload optimism holds steady as larger practices drive growth
Medium and large practices report growing confidence while housing sector outlook weakens and London sentiment dips
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NewsUK needs 100,000 ‘beautiful’ council homes a year to solve affordable housing crisis, report claims
Policy Exchange report calls for new social housing boom which learns from ‘traumatic’ legacy of brutalist post-war estates
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FeaturesGood Homes Alliance publishes water-efficiency design guide with model specs to help deliver water-neutral housing
New guidance translates policy intent into buildable details, setting out a fittings-based route to verified consumption, options for rainwater and greywater systems and evidence from six live projects
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OpinionWhy building a culture of viability is key to safeguarding quality in major housing programmes
Alison Coutinho argues that by prioritising viability from the outset, housing schemes can avoid delays and achieve better outcomes
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NewsEric Parry Architects submits plans for Oxford medical and research campus
Scheme for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust would deliver a 950,000 sq ft campus combining a new mental health hospital, medical research centre and graduate collegeProject to include new graduate college for the University of Oxford
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NewsNetwork Rail appoints CDA to design ‘landmark’ office building next to Glasgow’s Queen Street station
City centre scheme is transport operator’s latest planned redevelopment of a station site in its ownership
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NewsArchitect struck off register after racially abusing taxi driver and writing off his car
Newly qualified Thomas Ford had been celebrating with colleagues before he assaulted the driver and crashed his car into a garden fence
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FeaturesUK Design Capital of the Year: How Glasgow is setting new standards for sensitive regeneration
The city is one of four shortlisted for Building Design’s new award recognising the best places in Britain for architecture and urbanism. The Design Capital of the Year Award looks beyond individual buildings to celebrate cities showing strategic ambition in shaping their built environment, from long-term masterplans to bold urban ...
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News“Raising the bar on product information”: Wienerberger on becoming first to achieve CCPI assessment for bricks and pavers
Wienerberger explains why transparent product data matters more than ever for architects – and how achieving the CCPI assessment could help reduce risk in design
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NewsStitch Architects to support £250m housing partnership between Lambeth council and Vistry
More than 500 homes are planned across six council-owned sites, with at least half of them affordable and a majority of those for social rent
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NewsGlancy Nicholls designs revealed for £48.5m Soho Hill housing and care home scheme in Birmingham
The scheme will deliver 115 homes and flats alongside an 80-bed care home
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NewsPatrick Campbell appointed head of studio at Foster + Partners
Leadership change sees Grant Brooker stepping down from his role as head of studio
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NewsStanton Williams to submit autumn planning application to replace Leslie Martin building in Oxford
Plans for 25 Wellington Square would see a 1970s graduate accommodation block demolished and replaced with new academic, retail and café facilities
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NewsRight to Buy sales set to outstrip completions eight-fold
A new report calls on the government to introduce buy back schemes and expand refusal rights