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UK Design Capital of the Year: How Newcastle is using regeneration to retain talent and drive growth

By 2025-09-25T05:00:00

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New to the Architect of the Year Awards for 2025, the title of UK Design Capital of the Year recognises outstanding leadership in architecture, placemaking and regeneration. It looks beyond individual buildings to celebrate cities showing strategic ambition in shaping their built environment, from long-term masterplans to bold urban experiments.

Anyone who has visited Newcastle will have felt a certain buzz in the air. England’s most northern city is renowned for its energy and its nightlife, long considered the UK’s liveliest. Perhaps it’s all the Lucozade - the city’s most famous 20th century invention - but there is a growing sense of optimism in Newcastle which is reflected in a series of strikingly confident regeneration schemes completed in recent years.

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