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Green light for Make’s plans to retrofit its first big project

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Practice’s 2007 refurbishment of 55 Baker Street in Marylebone was firm’s first major scheme to complete

Designing Tomorrow's Housing

  • Good housing starts with good urban design

  • Beyond the quick fix: why permitted development needs strategic guidance

  • New towns. Old wisdom?

  • Building communities: why the Neave Brown Award matters

  • Inside the party conferences: why architects need to be in the room where housing policy is made

  • BDP turns disused garages into social housing in Bristol

  • London’s housing delivery in ‘major crisis’, HBF warns in damning report

  • Vacant to valuable: unlocking stranded assets for much-needed homes

  • The long road to regenerating the Carpenters Estate

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Chris Williamson: ‘Architects are burying their heads in the sand on AI’

RIBA’s president on the threat AI poses to the architecture profession, his plans for increasing architects’ pay and his award-winning stage play

  • CPD 18 2025: Understanding fire stopping and liability

  • Studio DERA retrofits disused college swimming pool to form learning hub

  • CPD 17 2025: Specifying fire-rated doorsets – navigating standards, legislation and best practice

  • HOK and ERRE’s Roig Arena in Valencia is ‘first with ceramic skin’

  • Acoustic spray systems improve inclusiveness and sound quality at Hackney music venues

  • The role of cladding in navigating fire safety in modern building design

  • There is no need to panic about new fire door regulations

  • CPD 16 2025: Leveraging BIM for strategic advantage

  • Mastering the detail: The Paper Garden with Jan Kattein Architects

  • What made this project… The Waterman by Fathom Architects

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Britain’s lost builders: making housing viable again for SMEs

2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00By

Miranda MacLaren argues that financial reform, fairer procurement and design for local delivery are essential to revive small builders and rebuild housebuilding capacity

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WA100 Digital Edition

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WA100 2025: Digital edition

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Architect of the Year Awards 2025

  • What made this project… Lambeth Palace Masterplan by Wright & Wright Architects

  • What made this project… The Waterman by Fathom Architects

  • What made this project… West London HQ by dMFK

  • What made this project… The Corner House by Langstaff Day Architects

  • What made this project… Former Nestlé Factory by dMFK

  • What made this project… The Acre by Gensler

  • What made this project… Black and Stone by Mallett

  • What made this project… Hyde London City by Studio Moren

  • What made this project… Brewers’ Hall by dMFK

  • What made this project… Everton Stadium by BDP Pattern

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • This Stirling Prize winner is a model for how we can all live better

  • Break down the silos – young people won’t see the range of careers our sector offers unless we show them

  • Carmody Groarke completes ArtPlay Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery

  • 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

In Pictures

  • In pictures: Sanei + Hopkins’ Suffolk Housestead

  • Fosters completes JP Morgan Chase’s 423m-tall global headquarters in New York

  • Foster + Partners completes Techo International Airport terminal in Cambodia

  • NBBJ completes £200m Oxford University facility for advanced AI research

  • Wright & Wright completes passivhaus library on historic Corpus Christi College site in Oxford

  • In pictures: Zaha Hadid Architects’ 60,000-seat Xi’an football stadium

  • In pictures: Pend’s renovation of listed East Lothian farmhouse

  • In pictures: Haworth Tompkins’ new Court Theatre in Ōtautahi Christchurch

  • Purcell completes restoration of St Barts Hospital’s grade I-listed North Wing

  • BDP turns disused garages into social housing in Bristol

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Losing our craft: the tragedy of replace-not-repair architecture

2025-10-31T05:00:00+00:00By

Tanvir Hasan argues that the growing web of regulation and risk aversion is accelerating the loss of historic craftsmanship – and with it, our ability to repair and care for buildings sustainably

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The elephant in the lecture theatre: Why universities must rethink space, community and culture

2025-10-30T05:00:00+00:00By

The way teachers teach and students learn has changed and empty buildings and outdated facilities are draining resources. A culture shift is required if HE institutions are to avoid a slow decline into irrelevance, says Philip Watson

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Britain’s lost builders: making housing viable again for SMEs

2025-10-29T05:00:00+00:00By 2 comments

Miranda MacLaren argues that financial reform, fairer procurement and design for local delivery are essential to revive small builders and rebuild housebuilding capacity

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It’s time to give Scottish architecture a public platform again

2025-10-28T05:00:00+00:00By

With no permanent venue for architectural discussion since the closure of The Lighthouse, Rab Bennetts calls for a renewed public platform to reconnect design, policy and civic engagement in Scotland

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Good housing starts with good urban design

2025-10-27T05:00:00+00:00By 1 comments

Ana McMillin argues that the success or failure of new neighbourhoods will be decided by the quality of streets, public spaces and community life

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The Coach: On letting go…

2025-10-24T10:00:00+01:00By

Taking inspiration from the changing seasons, Louise Rodgers explores how we can find strength and draw important lessons through letting go

  • From discontented planners to a glorious summer: Van Heyningen and Haward’s Leicester Cathedral extension

  • 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

Reviews

  • Concéntrico and the art of everyday urban invention

  • The art of architecture on film: Eric Parry and the question of posterity

  • William Butterfield: A builder and experimenter

  • 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