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2025-06-17T06:00:00+01:00By Mary Richardson
Architectural activist, teacher and campaigner Jos Boys has spent decades questioning who architecture is really for. In this profile, Mary Richardson explores how her latest work reframes access as a political, creative and collaborative practice
2025-06-17T05:00:00+01:00By Joe Holyoak
With Birmingham in financial crisis, Joe Holyoak explores how plans for Ladywood and Druids Heath risk repeating past mistakes, and excluding the very residents they are intended to serve
2025-06-06T05:00:00+01:00By Ben Flatman
18-unit scheme seeks to address the growing demand for temporary housing
2025-05-30T07:00:00+01:00By Jan Kattein
Jan Kattein explores Brian Holland’s compelling new book, which brings together 15 practitioners reimagining architecture as a tool for justice, collaboration and civic empowerment
2025-04-15T05:00:00+01:00By Rachel Bell
As the backlash against ESG and EDI grows – especially in the US – Rachel Bell explains how a values-driven approach is strengthening Stride Treglown’s culture and improving the service it offers clients
2025-03-21T05:00:00+00:00By Mary Richardson
Mary Richardson reflects on how last weekend’s Festival of the Future brought over 2,000 young people to RIBA’s 66 Portland Place, aiming to break down barriers to built environment careers
2025-03-14T05:00:00+00:00By Neil Onions
As the Festival of the Future takes place at Portland Place, Neil Onions challenges the industry to break down barriers and give young people a meaningful voice in architecture and urban design
2025-03-13T05:00:00+00:00By Mary Richardson
Mary Richardson meets the practice advocating for bio-based materials to decarbonise construction
2025-03-12T05:00:00+00:00By Tom Greenall and Jane Wong
Tom Greenall and Jane Wong introduce a new online co-design resource intended to support more inclusive and meaningful community participation in the development process
2025-03-06T10:00:00+00:00By Anna Beckett
With International Women’s Day approaching, Anna Beckett asks how early gender stereotypes shape career choices – and what the construction industry can do about it
2025-02-25T07:41:00+00:00By Emma Dent Coad
While Donald Trump sets out his contested vision for Gaza’s future, Palestinians are seeking to reanimate their devastated landscape, writes Emma Dent Coad
2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00By Mary Richardson
Mary Richardson meets three young alumni of Beyond the Box who share, in their own words, how the initiative shaped their paths into architecture
2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00By Ben Flatman
The six-metre-tall pavilion and performance space, ‘Reflect’, was co-designed by young people in collaboration with social enterprise MATT+FIONA and Fitzrovia Youth in Action
2025-02-11T00:10:00+00:00By Mary Richardson
As Jan Kattein Architects unveils its latest project at Westminster’s Church Street Triangle, Mary Richardson takes a closer look at the work of this innovative firm that weaves social practice into its inspiring and colourful placemaking
2025-02-06T02:00:00+00:00By Joe Holyoak
Despite eight centuries of history, Birmingham’s markets are being sidelined in the city’s latest redevelopment plans – with traders facing an uncertain future and no clear strategy for continuity, writes Joe Holyoak
2025-01-29T05:00:00+00:00By Ben Derbyshire
It is time for the government to focus on ‘thriving towns for a revived nation’ writes Ben Derbyshire
2025-01-23T05:00:00+00:00By Joe Holyoak
In Birmingham’s Ladywood, Civic Square is championing a radical, community-led approach to urbanism, writes Joe Holyoak
2025-01-21T04:30:00+00:00By Mary Richardson
Dian Small speaks to Mary Richardson about her new role at the London School of Architecture and its potential to drive change for underrepresented practitioners
2025-01-15T05:45:00+00:00By Ben Flatman
Designed by Mole Architects, Dovehouse Court is the UK’s first Passivhaus-certified almshouse scheme
2025-01-09T05:00:00+00:00By Dinah Bornat
Dinah Bornat explores how housing design can better meet the needs of younger generations
2025-01-07T05:00:00+00:00By Mary Richardson
Alison Watson MBE is a woman on a mission to transform education in the built environment
2025-01-02T12:44:00+00:00By Ben Flatman
The annual report highlights how urban environments impact health
2024-12-20T12:13:00+00:00By Ben Flatman
Fully funded one-year pilot programme will provide mentorship, business development, and practical learning opportunities
2024-11-26T12:27:00+00:00By Carl Brown
Wide-ranging paper also calls for planning presumption in favour of later living housing and requirements on Homes England to support its expansion
2024-11-22T12:29:00+00:00By Ben Flatman
Soho Parish Primary School’s financial struggles reflect wider demographic trends, including declining birth rates, post-Brexit migration, and the long-term impact of Covid-19, challenging the city’s multigenerational identity
2024-11-20T05:00:00+00:00By Mary Richardson
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
2024-11-07T05:00:00+00:00By Mary Richardson
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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