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Mastering the detail: 127 Charing Cross Road with Barr Gazetas

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Mastering the detail: The Northcliffe with John Robertson Architects

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Mastering the detail: Baytree Nuneaton with Chetwoods Architects

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Mastering the detail: Dockyard Church with Hugh Broughton Architects

  • Mastering the detail: 127 Charing Cross Road with Barr Gazetas

  • Mastering the detail: The Northcliffe with John Robertson Architects

  • Mastering the detail: Baytree Nuneaton with Chetwoods Architects

  • Mastering the detail: Dockyard Church with Hugh Broughton Architects

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In pictures: Architecture for London reinstates Camden townhouse as family home

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Exhibitor opportunities open for Building the Future 2025 in London

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What made this project… Brewers’ Hall by dMFK

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In pictures: Pend completes Catalog House

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Let’s be specific… Polished concrete Q+A with Woody’s Concrete Co.

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Six schemes on shortlist for Stirling Prize 2025 unveiled

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AHMM’s stalled Waterloo office scheme facing further delay with application for 18-month meanwhile use on site

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Knauf Insulation launches free online 3D U-value calculator for steel frame rainscreen facades

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Mastering the detail: Episode 5

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What made this project… Everton Stadium by BDP Pattern

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Unlocking MMC housing: why digital transformation and industry standardisation are essential

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

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Stallan Brand progresses revised central Glasgow mixed-use district

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

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

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

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What made this project… Plot R8 by Piercy & Company

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Alsecco brick slip facade system claims 80% CO2 reduction over traditional brick

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

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RCKa installs prototype modular solution to housing crisis outside City Hall

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Plans in for 2,300-home redevelopment of former GSK headquarters

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Loader Monteith completes retrofit and extension of 18th-century cottage

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AFL’s Oxford United stadium approved by local council

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CPD 12 2025: The importance and principles of insulation

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What made this project… Meadow Road by Studio Bark

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Mastering the detail: 127 Charing Cross Road with Barr Gazetas

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Hugh Broughton Architects lifts the lid on Parliament Street toilet refurbishment

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

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

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Thermally modified wood – cladding material where performance meets aesthetics

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

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Material reuse at the heart of SALT’s adaptable workspace by THISS Studio

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What made this project… Undershed by George Lovesmith Architecture

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

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

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Rising cases of grey efflorescence raise alarm for brick facade performance

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Why cutting corners in specification is costing you more

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In the face of increasingly extreme weather, developers, design engineers, architects and policymakers must take the lead

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CPD 11 2025: Bi-fold and sliding doors for marine and coastal environments

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What made this project… Manor Lodge by IID Architects

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Knox Bhavan renovates Notting Hill terrace with oak, steel and concrete palette

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Anna Heringer on sustainable architecture, rammed earth, and what the Global North can learn from the Global South

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Gateway 3 raises the stakes for project teams under the Building Safety Act

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What made this project… Melamar by Paper Igloo

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Green light for second phase of Hawkins Brown's Timber Square scheme in Southwark

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Mastering the detail: Episode 4

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Orms told to make further changes to long-delayed office scheme next to Shard

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Mosley Thorold turns north London maisonette into material-rich family home

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New bill will enshrine cladding remediation deadlines in law

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Barr Gazetas delivers retrofit of London office for GPE

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

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

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CPD 12 2025: The importance and principles of insulation

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CPD 11 2025: Bi-fold and sliding doors for marine and coastal environments

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

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

  • CPD 12 2025: The importance and principles of insulation

  • CPD 11 2025: Bi-fold and sliding doors for marine and coastal environments

  • CPD 10 2025: Designing safe access for working at height

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Let’s be specific… Polished concrete Q+A with Woody’s Concrete Co.

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Steven Wood and Izzy Taylor-Wood explain how this versatile surface is made, the role of aggregates and sustainable blends, and why polished concrete continues to reshape both architectural and interior design