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Why office-to-residential conversions are gaining new momentum in New York

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Chris Fogarty explains how high vacancy rates are finally tipping the balance towards conversion

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Surface Reflections: a quieter, more thoughtful London Design Biennale

Sarah Simpkin reports on this year’s London Design Biennale

  • Designing with timber from day one

  • Can architecture help the built environment understand its purpose?

  • New pre-assembled heat pump unit claims £2,000 installation savings

  • It’s time to see more recycled products in the fabric of our buildings

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To build more houses we don’t need more planners, we need fewer pointless rules

2025-06-05T05:00:00+01:00By

Robert Adam lays bare how an overgrowth of conflicting regulations is strangling small-scale development

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    Two-thirds of material and waste data unusable, report warns

    A new report from construction data platform Qflow has found that 91% of construction material delivery and waste removal records fail to meet quality standards, with only 34% accurate enough to support embodied carbon calculations.

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    Mastering the detail: Episode 3

    Attention manufacturers: What does it take to become a preferred supplier for leading architects? Episode 3 of our essential webinar series gives you the inside track. Hear directly from Etain Fitzpatrick and Andy Thomas at John Robertson Architects (JRA). They will reveal what architects prioritise when specifying products and partners ...

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    Velux repurposes timber warehouse into low-carbon innovation hub

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    A 30-year-old timber warehouse in Østbirk, Denmark, has been converted into Velux Group’s new innovation centre, now known as LKR Innovation House. The facility, which reuses over half of its original materials, will host around 500 employees working on product development, including roof windows and accessories.

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WA100 2025: Digital edition

2025-01-17T06:00:00+00:00

Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • What made this project… Skylight by Buckley Gray Yeoman

  • What made this project… University of Cambridge West Hub by Jestico + Whiles

  • What made this project… Ice Factory by Buckley Gray Yeoman

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • 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

  • Designing workplaces that work for everyone

  • The future faces of UK architecture

In Pictures

  • Grimshaw completes LA metro station at city’s largest airport

  • GT3 Architects completes UK’s ‘largest Passivhaus leisure centre’

  • GRID Architects unveils Dolphin Square refurbishment

  • First look at Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s V&A East Storehouse

  • In pictures: Fathom completes one of Clerkenwell’s largest heritage office projects

  • Repairing the urban fabric: Chris Dyson Architects restores Shoreditch weavers’ houses

  • Moxon Architects completes composite timber bridge in Germany

  • Allies and Morrison completes School of Public Health building at White City

  • Jestico + Whiles completes Ray Dolby Centre for University of Cambridge

  • Fletcher Priest completes TikTok City office

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Why office-to-residential conversions are gaining new momentum in New York

2025-06-10T05:00:00+01:00By

Chris Fogarty explains how high vacancy rates are finally tipping the balance towards conversion

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Housing space standards: is it time for a more flexible approach?

2025-06-09T05:00:00+01:00By 1 comments

Félicie Krikler explores how compact living, done well, could expand choice and improve affordability

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Designers should welcome proposed construction products reform

2025-06-06T05:00:00+01:00By

With projects stalling due to insufficient product testing data, Andrew Mellor sets out how government reforms seek to strengthen regulation and support designers through clearer technical information

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To build more houses we don’t need more planners, we need fewer pointless rules

2025-06-05T05:00:00+01:00By 9 comments

Robert Adam lays bare how an overgrowth of conflicting regulations is strangling small-scale development

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Will the next London Plan rise to the city’s real challenges?

2025-06-04T05:00:00+01:00By

Ben Derbyshire reflects on Sadiq Khan’s latest policies to boost housebuilding in the capital

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Our ‘activist regulator’ is a reminder that architects need a clear vision for the future, not a plan for getting by

2025-06-03T05:00:00+01:00By 2 comments

After decades of inertia, the regulator is forcing long-overdue reform. But, Ben Flatman argues, without clearer leadership from within the profession, the bigger questions remain unanswered

  • 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

  • Designing for dance: inside O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Sadler’s Wells East

  • Digging deep: The radical engineering underpinning Stiff + Trevillion’s 65 Holborn Viaduct project

  • Compact living, big impact: Dovehouse Court’s lesson in sustainability and community

  • How Bennetts Associates transformed a Victorian hospital into a forward-focused university department

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  • 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

  • ‘Would you rather be sold religion or soap?’: Venturi and Scott Brown’s story

  • Vector Architects: Gong Dong and the Art of Building

  • Outrage lives on: Ian Nairn’s critique still haunts Britain’s landscapes

  • Saint, state and stone: the politics of preserving Old Goa’s Basilica de Bom Jesus