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OpinionWhat if creativity was the value all along?
When people choose where to live, work or invest, culture is often the decisive factor. The smartest developers appreciate that, writes Martyn Evans
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OpinionWhy we’re providing a platform where young voices can be heard
This year’s London Festival of Architecture will feature a new key strand: a closing address from a speaker near the start of their career. It is an exciting and deliberate challenge to the established order, writes Martyn Evans
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OpinionThe Royal Festival Hall is 75 years old – and I have played a small part in keeping it very much alive
Eleanor Jolliffe has just published a book which celebrates the history of one of London’s best-known buildings. It is fair to say that she enjoyed the experience
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OpinionNow is the time to take stock of architecture’s economic position
Architecture has in many ways typified the economic story of the UK since the Second World War. We are currently – and worryingly – becoming more and more exposed to global economic forces, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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OpinionIn CyanLines, Manchester has a green connectivity vision that other cities should follow
This legible, connected network of canals, rivers, parks, towpaths and tree-lined streets should mean that walking and cycling across the city region becomes not an afterthought but a defining feature of urban life, writes Martyn Evans
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OpinionWhy architects should take a fresh look at London’s livery companies
Martyn Evans invites you to join the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects and help protect a long tradition of professional responsibility by keeping it alive, active and relevant
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OpinionRemember: It’s a place not a property development
The language that developers use is all-important. Treating land less as a product and more as a living part of a city will make it a more valuable and compelling place to be, writes Martyn Evans
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OpinionThe built environment: Britain’s hidden super industry
Martyn Evans argues that one of Britain’s largest and most vital industries remains hidden in plain sight. He urges the government and business to recognise the built environment as a unified sector central to national prosperity
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NewsWorkload confidence dips as smaller practices report growing strain, says RIBA
September 2025 RIBA Future Trends survey finds overall confidence slipping into negative territory for the first time since January, with smaller practices hit hardest by a subdued residential sector
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NewsConstruction output slumps to level last seen at height of covid pandemic
Activity remains stuck in reverse for seventh successive month
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OpinionWhy immigration is key to meeting the UK’s housebuilding targets
Ilaria Iovieno and Kirsty Moore look at the extent to which current immigration rules are a help or hindrance for housebuilding
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NewsRIBA survey: workload expectations turn positive in February
Industry more upbeat but RIBA warns that geopolitical context presents on-going risks
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FeaturesA fresh start for the Oxford-Cambridge corridor – or will it be déjà vu all over again?
The chancellor has given her backing to an expansion plan for the corridor connecting Oxford, Milton Keynes and Cambridge, including thousands of homes, which the previous government dropped. Joey Gardiner asks what hope the industry can have
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NewsElizabeth line has boosted housebuilding and jobs, survey says
Route is single busiest railway service in UK
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NewsOutput ticks up but worries grow over impact of Budget tax rises
Concerns about increased NI costs and speed of interest rate cuts dampen sector confidence for next year
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NewsConstruction output rises at fastest rate since June 2021, PMI report says
Civil engineering best-performing sector amid ‘robust’ demand for renewable energy infrastructure
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NewsMMC use would need to ‘expand considerably’ to solve labour shortage issue, says Skills England
Rates at which method is currently used not enough to plug worker gaps, group warns
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NewsUK ‘over-reliant on a handful of volume builders’, says housing minister
Pennycook tells Labour conference event that housing sector needs more SME building and pledges diversification
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NewsConstruction industry’s ‘broken economic model’ under scrutiny in wake of ISG collapse
Consensus grows that contractors’ margin levels ‘not sustainable’ and more firms will go to wall unless current system changes
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NewsMajor contractor set to file for administration, chief executive confirms
ISG to go under two months after firm’s chairman said rescue deal was ‘days away’