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As his RIBA presidency ends, Muyiwa Oki reflects on milestones and unfinished business

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Ben Flatman speaks to Oki about his term in office, from launching a workplace wellbeing taskforce to defending the Elizabeth Line’s Stirling Prize win, and why access to the profession remains a pressing concern

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Green light for Grimshaw’s Aston Villa stadium expansion

Plans would help club get closer to intended 50,000 seat capacity

  • CPD 14 2025: Restoring heritage buildings: The role of timber windows

  • Good Homes Alliance publishes water-efficiency design guide with model specs to help deliver water-neutral housing

  • “Raising the bar on product information”: Wienerberger on becoming first to achieve CCPI assessment for bricks and pavers

  • CPD 13 2025: Fire partitioning – test, extend and classify

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UK Design Capital of the Year: How Glasgow is setting new standards for sensitive regeneration

2025-08-26T06:00:00+01:00By

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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WA100 2025: Digital edition

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Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • What made this project… Plot R8 by Piercy & Company

  • What made this project… Meadow Road by Studio Bark

  • What made this project… Undershed by George Lovesmith Architecture

  • What made this project… Manor Lodge by IID Architects

  • What made this project… Melamar by Paper Igloo

  • What made this project… De Valera Library and Súil Gallery by Keith Williams Architects

  • What made this project… Regional Science Centre by INI Design Studio

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • Barratt Redrow commits to accessible playgrounds on all new developments

  • Report calls for national play strategy to reshape neighbourhoods for children

  • Seventeen years on: why England needs a new National Play Strategy

  • England is failing to plan for its ageing population – the spending review must put that right

  • The quiet revolution in built environment education and engagement – starting with children

  • The Coach: Why age isn’t the issue – it’s the life stage that counts

  • 2,000 young people, one mission: Rethinking access to architecture at the Festival of the Future

  • More than a masterplan: the people power behind Earls Court’s next chapter

  • The built environment belongs to everyone – so why are young voices so often excluded?

  • Westminster’s public toilets get a designer makeover as Hugh Broughton Architects completes first upgrade in £12.7m programme

In Pictures

  • Donald Insall Associates completes £7.6m refurbishment of John Rylands Library

  • Bindloss Dawes converts French hamlet into wellness retreat

  • Hugh Broughton Architects lifts the lid on Parliament Street toilet refurbishment

  • BDP unveils images of completed refurbishment of Topshop’s former Oxford Circus store

  • In pictures: Andre Kong Studio’s student housing in Lisbon

  • In pictures: Fosters completes work to upgrade Manchester United’s Carrington training complex

  • In pictures: De Matos Ryan’s guest pavilion for Cowley Manor hotel

  • Jan Kattein Architects completes demountable studios and galleries on Harrow car park site

  • In pictures: Maccreanor Lavington completes 142 affordable homes at White City

  • Allies and Morrison’s leisure centre completes at Canada Water redevelopment

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Rural America offers a warning on planning that Britain should heed

2025-08-28T05:00:00+01:00By 2 comments

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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Why building a culture of viability is key to safeguarding quality in major housing programmes

2025-08-27T05:00:00+01:00By 1 comments

Alison Coutinho argues that by prioritising viability from the outset, housing schemes can avoid delays and achieve better outcomes

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Finding glory in the everyday process of architecture

2025-08-21T05:00:00+01:00By 2 comments

From site meetings to snagging lists, Eleanor Jolliffe explores how the ordinary grind of construction can still reveal moments of beauty

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Heritage and post-conflict reconstruction in Mosul

2025-08-20T05:00:00+01:00By

Drawing on her years of experience in Iraq, Tanvir Hasan considers how Mosul’s recovery depends not only on iconic heritage sites but also on sustaining the living culture of the city

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The rise of single-family housing: Why BTR’s future is suburban

2025-08-18T05:00:00+01:00By

Emily Newton explores how Single Family Housing is reshaping Build to Rent, with new investment, suburban intensification and the chance for better placemaking

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How we live: reconnecting architecture with sociological thinking

2025-08-15T05:00:00+01:00By

Félicie Krikler calls for housing design to catch up with the realities of modern life

  • Bradford Live: how Tim Ronalds Architects helped residents save their historic cinema and turn it into a 3,800-capacity music venue

  • 76 Upper Ground: Denys Lasdun’s 1960s South Bank vision is realised at last

  • Designing, building and growing the natural way: Wolves Lane community centre unveiled by Studio Gil and Material Cultures

  • Unpacking the museum: the V&A Storehouse in Stratford opens its doors

  • A Serpentine Pavilion for anxious times – but is that enough?

  • Bennetts’ timber and straw robotics lab pilots new net zero carbon building standard

  • From complexity to clarity: The Sainsbury Wing transformed

  • A cauldron on the Mersey: how Everton built their new stadium in just five years (Manchester United take note)

  • Designing from first principles: Inside David Kohn Architects’ Gradel Quadrangles

  • Industrial remix: how Hawkins\Brown retuned Wakefield’s Tileyard North for the creative economy

Reviews

  • The Manifesto House: Buildings that changed the future of architecture

  • Form Follows Love: Anna Heringer on building with empathy, intuition and mud

  • Nuts, bolts and preservation: High Tech as heritage

  • RA Summer Exhibition: with no designated space, architecture is overshadowed

  • Surface Reflections: a quieter, more thoughtful London Design Biennale

  • Architecture and Social Change: Shaping an Impactful Practice

  • Beyond the optics: identity, class and the politics of equality in architecture and the arts

  • Faith, reuse and surveillance: Birmingham’s mosques through Mahtab Hussain’s lens

  • Between colonialism and nation-building: rethinking African modernism

  • Speedos, lidos and lost pools: a stylish look at swimming’s social past