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Save Britain’s Heritage calls for urgent planning policy reforms after ‘short-sighted’ M&S decision
Farrells reduces height of planned Battersea tower by another five storeys as 1,500 objections hit scheme
What made this project… NMIS interiors by HLM Architects
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Heritage, sustainability, and dysfunction: the lessons of the M&S decision
The drawn-out battle over M&S’s Oxford Street site reflects systemic planning failures that must be addressed
Save Britain’s Heritage calls for urgent planning policy reforms after ‘short-sighted’ M&S decision
Group’s director said developers need clear guidelines on demolish and rebuild projects
Reimagining mainstream housing: the Living Places approach
What made this project… Barn X by LOM architecture and design
Reimagining Outdoor Spaces with Marshalls’ Modal X at Cambridge Biomedical Campus
CPD 19 2024: Specifying glass in rooflights
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Is an oversupply of architects driving down fees?
A recent downturn in construction has left architecture practices competing for dwindling work. But do longer-term structural issues underlie this situation?
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What made this project… n2 by Lynch Architects
Lynch Architects’ body of work has been shortlisted for this year’s AYAs, as the practice was named a finalist for two awards, including Office Architect of the Year.
British timber company imports Thermo Vacuum System for products that can withstand the elements
UK Hardwoods has invested in thermal technology to offer weather-resistant timber
What made this project… House of Communication by Henn
Henn’s body of work has been shortlisted for this year’s AYAs, as the practice was named a finalist for WA100 Architect of the Year.
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Architect of the Year Awards 2024
What made this project… NMIS interiors by HLM Architects
What made this project… Barn X by LOM architecture and design
What made this project… n2 by Lynch Architects
What made this project… House of Communication by Henn
What made this project… Central Foundation Boys’ School by Hawkins Brown
What made this project… The Wave by HLM Architects
What made this project… Craigend Resource Centre by Inch Architecture
What made this project… Downland Barns by McLean Quinlan
Big names among winners of 2024 Architect of the Year Awards
What made this project… Westminster Coroner’s Court by Lynch Architects
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Webinar - Unlocking affordable housing delivery: Strategies, challenges, and opportunities
Webinar: What does the new government’s approach to housing delivery mean for the sector?
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Boomers to Zoomers
Labour urged to address built environment’s role in young people’s lives
Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context
Taskforce calls for cross-departmental unit to lead national older people’s housing strategy
School closures threaten London’s future as a city for families
Beyond the Box: delivering real social value in the built environment
‘Because the spaces work for children, they work for everyone’ – how the Whittington estate fosters a community for all ages
Creating places and spaces where children and young people thrive
A crisis hiding in plain sight: how the UK’s built environment is failing children and young people
A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross
Teenagers collaborate on King’s Cross timber pavilion
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BakerBrown Studio completes low carbon house on the South Downs
Ao–ft completes sustainable infill home in Walthamstow
Hassell unveils health and social care building for University of Edinburgh’s BioQuarter
Threefold Architects completes retrofit of grade II-listed office building for Crown Estate
THISS Studio reconfigures Victorian terraced house without extending
Manalo & White and Richard Lyndon Design unveil new school building for deaf children
Chris Dyson Architects completes sustainable addition to Harrow Arts Centre campus
Hassell completes University of Glasgow’s Adam Smith Business School
BDP completes £63m STEM building for University of Hertfordshire
MICA completes first phase of Oxford Brookes student village redevelopment
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WA100 2024
WA100 2024: Architects expect patchy international growth
WA100 2024: The big list
WA100 2024: Digital edition
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Heritage, sustainability, and dysfunction: the lessons of the M&S decision
The drawn-out battle over M&S’s Oxford Street site reflects systemic planning failures that must be addressed
How public sector procurement reform can unlock innovation in architecture and empower SMEs
Procurement processes must evolve to enable a broader range of architects to contribute innovative solutions to housing and infrastructure
Labour must deliver on its promised planning reforms to drive economic growth
The Office for Budget Responsibility seems unconvinced about Starmer’s growth agenda, but crucially it did not take into account the economic impact of the government’s proposed planning changes, writes Paul Smith
Is the age of the starchitect at an end?
As team culture grows, how does architecture retain its public appeal, asks Eleanor Jolliffe
The Coach: understanding and overcoming humiliation at work
Louise Rodgers on how to transform humiliation into a tool for personal and professional growth
Grenfell exposed the fatal flaws of design and build contracts
Design responsibility should not be forced onto the shoulders of builders, argues Tony Bingham
Is an oversupply of architects driving down fees?
A recent downturn in construction has left architecture practices competing for dwindling work. But do longer-term structural issues underlie this situation?
John Prescott: the deputy prime minister who confronted construction’s safety crisis and grappled with urban policy
The former deputy prime minister, whose death was announced this morning, forced construction to realise that things couldn’t go on as they were
Beyond the Box: delivering real social value in the built environment
For the latest in BD’s Boomers to Zoomers series, Mary Richardson talked to Neil Onions, head of Beyond the Box, a social enterprise with a reputation for finding innovative ways to empower underrepresented young people within the built-environment sector
5 minutes with … Ben Stuart at Able Partners
The firm’s co-founder and director on the success of his Create More podcast, the importance of having fun and why it is important to just get in and splash around
‘We hope to be a good neighbour’: how the new Liverpool Street station team is rethinking London’s most controversial project
A week after Herzog & de Meuron’s proposals were dropped, Building speaks to Network Rail and the scheme’s new architect Acme about the redesign of the listed station and what exactly has happened to development partner Sellar
‘Because the spaces work for children, they work for everyone’ – how the Whittington estate fosters a community for all ages
Mary Richardson talks to two architects who have made a film about the child-friendly estate where they live, to find out what’s so special about its design
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How Bennetts Associates transformed a Victorian hospital into a forward-focused university department
Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context
Space House: 1960s icon gets another chance to shine
Midland Metropolitan University Hospital: Inside the long, costly journey to deliver Birmingham and Sandwell’s new £1bn ‘super hospital’
A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross
A decade in the making: Norton Folgate’s controversial redevelopment unveiled
‘A glimpse of new horizons’: Cooke Fawcett’s reworking of Cockpit’s craft incubator
A harmonious blend of context and concept: Mass Studies reimagines the Serpentine Pavilion
Under The Big Roof… Charity unites generations and nurtures skills that last a lifetime
London College of Fashion strikes a pose with new campus by Allies & Morrison
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Reviews
Modern Architecture in a Post-Modern Era
Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
Nithurst Farm: ‘an uncompromising engagement with architecture in all its spatial, material, and symbolic richness’
Who was to blame for the unseaming of Britain’s cities?
Interwar: Gavin Stamp’s tribute to Britain’s forgotten architectural diversity
Navigating the complexities of modern practice management
Inside Cedric Price’s archive: A career of unrealised visions and radical thinking
‘A fantastic, informative, and in-depth resource’: new guide helps illuminate the architecture apprenticeship pathway
Playing the Game: Work-Life Balance in Architecture
How to make good cities
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