Briefing
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FeaturesUrsula Bowyer, 1925–2025: from émigré to architect and campaigner in postwar London
Architect and heritage advocate Ursula Bowyer, who has died aged 99, pursued a career in postwar London and contributed to the conservation of Greenwich and Blackheath. Ana Francisco Sutherland reflects on a life shaped by resilience and civic engagement
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Features‘I want the most beautiful and future-ready buildings in the country’… The City’s new planning chair shares his vision for the Square Mile
Tom Lowe sits down with Tom Sleigh for his first media interview after his appointment to one of the UK’s most high-profile planning roles
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Features5 minutes with … Chris Pollard at Fereday Pollard
The 30-year-old firm’s founder and managing director on improving the design quality of transport and infrastructure projects, the frustrations of the consents process, the importance of perseverence and his love of pizza
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FeaturesDesigning for every body: Jos Boys and the radical potential of disability-led design
Architectural activist, teacher and campaigner Jos Boys has spent decades questioning who architecture is really for. In this profile, Mary Richardson explores how her latest work reframes access as a political, creative and collaborative practice
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FeaturesWhy the real carbon cost of our homes lies in how we build them
Thomas Lane asks whether the Future Homes Hub’s plan to tackle embodied carbon in housebuilding will have real impact
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FeaturesThe regulator steps into the spotlight
Ben Flatman meets Hugh Simpson, chief executive of the Architects Registration Board, to discuss education reform, CPD and the future of regulation – and why he is happy for ARB to be an “activist regulator”
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Features‘We’re like the Borrowers, nobody knows we’re here’: How Populous’ new Man City stand will be built without the fans noticing
The contactor has been busy working behind the scenes at the Etihad. This summer the team will finally get their time on the pitch - and will have to make it count
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FeaturesWhy Nicholas Boys Smith’s ideas still matter in the age of Keir Starmer
Mary Richardson speaks to the founder of Create Streets about popular taste, the design challenges facing Labour’s housebuilding push, and why architects still struggle to engage with what ‘normal’ people really want
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NewsBeyond the green belt review: Five things you might have missed in the London Plan consultation
Sadiq Khan’s green belt rethink got the headlines, but there was plenty more to learn from last Friday’s announcement
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Features‘I make it a virtue that I’ve changed my mind’: Khan makes a show of green belt U-turn, but where might homes be built?
In his speech last Friday, the mayor of London stressed that his green belt review was a radical policy change. Daniel Gayne asked him about the kind of land that could be targeted, while combing through his consultation documents for clues
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FeaturesAlma-nac: Doing architecture for free. Well, sometimes…
Alma-nac’s Design For All programme is helping to unlock community projects across the UK – and the team hopes to expand it further, writes Mary Richardson
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FeaturesHas the government sold out on construction products regulation?
As the consultation on the government’s proposals to reform construction product regulation draws to a close, Tom Lowe talks to industry experts about what compromises the government might be making
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FeaturesPFI: Do the numbers add up?
Joey Gardiner weighs up whether reigniting PFI would be a good idea
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Features‘Never satisfied’ … SANAA’s architecture of process and persistence
As SANAA’s Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa prepare to receive the Royal Gold Medal, Ben Flatman talks to them about their working relationship, the changing nature of construction in Japan and their evolving approach to conflict resolution
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FeaturesDonald Insall Associates: A thoroughly modern conservation practice
As urgent demands for reuse and sustainability transform the priorities of contemporary architecture, Mary Richardson explores how conservation architect Donald Insall Associates – long champions of repair and adaptation – is building on its pioneering legacy to meet the needs of a changing world
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Features‘Infrastructure could do with a bit of love’: dRMM’s Jonas Lencer on the Silvertown Tunnel portal buildings
Tom Lowe speaks to the practice’s director about why the overlooked parts of public infrastructure deserve a fresh perspective
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FeaturesOrms: designing architecture that listens and responds to a changing world
Source: Tim Soar The new studio space at 160 Old Street Ben Flatman speaks to John McRae and new director Miranda MacLaren about how Orms is evolving as a practice
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Features1.5 million homes and counting: what Jas Bhalla thinks comes next
Ben Flatman speaks to Jas Bhalla – architect, planner and founder of Jas Bhalla Works – about building a practice rooted in long-term thinking
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FeaturesResearch, empathy and quiet radicalism: the key ingredients in ‘Saunt sauce’
Source: Tim Soar Norton Folgate Mary Richardson caught up with Deborah Saunt, co-founding director of DSDHA and one of the most influential women in architecture and urban design
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FeaturesWhy most new homes still fail to meet the latest standards
Almost two in three new homes are still being built to regulations that applied in 2013, over a year and a half after the end of the transition period for the new part L and other requirements. How has the government got its projections so wrong? Tom Lowe reports