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Chipperfield and Feix and Merlin win LSE Lincoln’s Inn Fields competition

How to bring others along on your net zero carbon journey

Birmingham is seizing its moment to drive real change

Architects’ confidence slumps to lowest level since height of the pandemic

Overheating buildings are architects’ responsibility too

The joy of designing and building appropriately

Do we value our profession so little that its future competence is left to chance?

Government relaxes new certification rules to allow EU tests on construction products

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In conversation: The Value Toolkit with Building magazine

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Part L: What do the changes mean for the sector?

Renewing my insurance should not have been such an ordeal

Mandatory plans to cut carbon in projects put back on the table

Architects brush off economic gloom as confidence surges back

RSHP’s rejected South Ken proposals head for planning inquiry

What is Oxford Street for?

The Coach: It’s OK to get angry – it’s how we deal with our anger that’s key

What’s going on at the RIBA?

Design better, specify better and consume more carefully – that’s my (not so) radical idea

LSE reveals shortlisted designs for £120m Lincoln’s Inn Fields hub

Handle with care: retrofits are full of surprises and architects have lots to learn

Scrapping the S106 agreement would mean better placemaking

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Risk & Regulation Summit: Building Safety Act - Navigating gateways two and three

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Risk & Regulation Summit: What does the new cladding regime mean for the housing industry?

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Risk & Regulation Summit: What does the UK’s product testing sector need to do to become fit for purpose?

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Risk & Regulation Summit: Embedding the Golden Thread into construction processes

The Coach: Quitting your job is a big deal. Have you really thought it all through?

The Building Safety Bill becomes law – here is what you need to know

Building Safety Bill ‘to become law tomorrow’

Architects have strangled themselves

Amid the devastation of Ukraine the desire to rebuild is urgent and powerful

Morris & Co wins planning for 52-storey Docklands tower after design tweaks

London leads surge in confidence to pre-pandemic levels

The risks of overheating are real – and we must take them very seriously

Bennetts Associates becomes top-scoring architecture B Corp

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Webinar: How can firms manage the Golden Thread?

Bisset Adams went bust owing nearly £500,000

Weston Williamson snapped up by engineering giant

The Coach: How to manage empathy overload

Investigators probe cause of fire at 22-storey Aldgate tower

‘Disappointed’ Gove rejects housebuilders’ cladding offer

We all lose if youthful ambition is stifled

Fosters becomes latest practice to pull out of Russia

Zaha Hadid Foundation announces plans for museum and gallery

Bisset Adams folds blaming ‘perfect storm’ of Brexit and pandemic

If the future of housing is huge blocks of flats, now is the moment to get our approach right

Russian architects banned by competitions organisers

RBKC gears up for battle over police station redevelopment

The Medici effect is real in levelling up

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CLC webinar: Reflecting on progress and success in 2021 and its plans for 2022

Grimshaw chairman predicts projects will stop amid escalating Ukraine crisis

Product testing sector ‘very concerned’ as ministers fail to clarify new rules

FCBS defends plans to flatten trio of historic Bristol banks

AHMM’s Holloway prison plans deferred amid backlash

Storm Eunice damages O2 Arena, Laban Centre and Cressingham Gardens

Architects remain positive despite rising cost pressures

LSE reveals shortlist for £100m+ Lincoln’s Inn Fields project

Camden set to green-light Holborn estate infill plans

When all the questions are new, don’t look for answers in the same old places

Gove announces plan to give legal force to £4bn cladding threats

dRMM opens new Berlin studio out of ‘Brexit depression’

Adopting Part Z is just the first step

Developers rethinking projects as cost pressures bite, report says

Royal Docks developer ‘running out of time’ on £1bn Farrells scheme

Ryder Architecture buys up Haskoll

Marble Arch Mound architect: ‘We should have walked from the project’

Architect reports 1,100% hike in cost of PI cover

How to design timber buildings that will be insured

The Coach: On change, grief and adjustment

Spiralling costs mean London’s builders turning down jobs in droves

Ministers ‘distracted from net zero goals by lockdown parties row’

Use more concrete to make timber buildings safer, says insurance report

Chinese property crisis hits KPF’s £1bn Nine Elms project

Almost 10% of RIBA staff could be facing redundancy

Build cost inflation hitting 45% on some housing projects, says London mayor

Lloyd’s decision on future of Rogers building delayed by pandemic

Peter Barber becomes a Royal Academician

Salaries rise across profession as practices power out of pandemic

Cause of second Mac blaze remains a mystery

WA100 2022: Now is the time to capitalise on your net-zero expertise

Government to meet CLC over product certification worries

Scott Tallon Walker and Edward Williams’ delayed London cancer centre opens

Live like a local?

Insolvency warning as industry faces mounting challenges

Cityshaping without the politics of populism and polarisation

Architects predict strong start to 2022 despite escalating costs

Twelve reasons to be an architect

Zaha Hadid Architects’ £12m bill to use founder’s name

Morris & Co’s Docklands tower pulled over fire safety concerns

Google pays $1bn for Renzo Piano’s Central St Giles offices

Fosters’ partners share another multi-million-pound payday

Proctor & Matthews lodges plans for final phases of Nottingham housing

Gove makes progress on building safety – but many questions remain

Wilkinson Eyre’s profit jumps

A question of scale

Warnings mount over Omicron shutting sites

Planning system ‘faces crisis without higher fees’

Official behind MVRDV’s Marble Arch Mound paid more than council chief executive

Tate Liverpool announces design contest for £25m overhaul

AHMM turnover dives by 22%

Profit, turnover and directors’ pay soar at ZHA

Architects and clients recognised in New Year Honours

Squire & Partners’ Old Vic tower thrown out

City of London approved 70% more office floorspace this year

The king of urban renaissance had politicians – if not princes – at his feet

Residents back redevelopment of estate that once sparked civil war at UCL

Trade deal will make it easier for UK architects to work in Australia

Architects stay hopeful in the face of materials worries

Foster & Partners’ Whitechapel tower rejected despite redesign

PLP’s Holborn Viaduct offices given green light

LSE launches £120m design contest for final set-piece building

Heatherwick receives another seven-figure dividend as profit slips

Prepare now for new rules on high-rise design, regulator warns

Design teams could be on hook for retrospective leaseholder claims

Frustrated architects pivot back to working from home

Meanwhile… here’s a great way to test your risky brainwaves

The Coach: Let’s reflect, not ruminate, on 2021

Arb approves Cambridge’s part 2 architecture apprenticeship

Covid blows out cost of BDP’s Parliament job by up to 50%

This changes everything! Why architects should embrace integrated project insurance

Architects maintained profits despite pandemic, RIBA’s annual survey finds

PRP unveils plans for 120-home later living scheme

Dozens win places on consultants’ £1.7bn Crown Commercial Services framework

Southwark backs plans to demolish flawed flats after just 10 years

BDP hangs onto furlough cash while paying £16m dividend

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Webinar | Classification standards & ISO19650 in UK construction

Hawkins Brown eyes Irish expansion with Dublin office

If our training is changing, that must be a good thing

Chipperfield wins planning for Edinburgh concert hall after long fight

David Chipperfield plays down impact of Brexit on business

South Coast regen company to build 3,500 homes

Monday-Tuesday, happy days?

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Webinar | Construction Innovation Hub’s 2021 round up

Listen: Tees Valley mayor on scaling up hydrogen production

Spurs’ plans for blocks of flats near stadium refused

Council sets out reasons it rejected RSHP’s South Ken plans

We must make a better case for new housing

PLP’s Westferry Printworks scheme thrown out in government U-turn

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Webinar | Weaving the golden thread into your house building project

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Webinar | How can your business benefit from employee incentive schemes?

In pics: Stevenage’s 75th anniversary celebrated

RIBA warns of impact of escalating inflation

Gove ‘a bit of a catch’ for housing ministry, says former chief architect

Who is Sarah Allan?

Sarah Allan appointed government’s chief architect

You downsized your practice in the pandemic. Here’s how to rebuild

Landsec reveals delays to Bennetts and Wilkinson Eyre projects

COP26: Time for entire industry to take responsibility, urges Steve Tompkins

Tulip carbon decision could change how big projects are assessed

Gove turns down Squire & Partners’ Brighton homes on design grounds

Tulip team could return to drawing board to save £500m project

Tulip decision will hurt the hard-pressed City

Karen Cook and Peter Rees react as £500m Tulip scrapped

Tulip appeal thrown out over design and carbon concerns

Heat and Buildings Strategy requires major commitment. Let’s hope it works

No more needless, ego-driven demolition. Conservation is key

Investors ‘reluctant to adopt green building practices’

AHR tower approved despite local politicians tearing into design

The Coach: Why self-awareness is key to good leadership

BIG’s Fleet Street office approved despite objections over height

Architects accuse chancellor of being ‘out of sync’ with climate crisis

When it comes to the climate emergency urbanists are part of the solution, right?

Chancellor to announce nearly £2bn for housing on brownfield sites

‘Imminent risk’ of steel production shutdown amid critical magnesium shortage

New owner of £1bn South Bank site replaces Wilkinson Eyre with Fosters

AHMM director hits back at critics of Holloway and St Thomas’s schemes

The rise and rise of big practice

Wright & Wright and Avanti appointed to delayed British Museum framework

One in five practices struggling to find new staff

Interview | Simon Allford: ‘Architecture will emerge stronger’

Lay off the plasterboard and cladding

Legend of brutalism Owen Luder dies at 93

Foster & Partners sold to private investor

Is it time for architects to join the Tory party?

Grimshaw shuts all its offices for World Mental Health Day – at a cost of £150,000

Make reports £1.3m dip in turnover

Stiff & Trevillion’s City tower kicked into touch by Square Mile planners

Analysis: How to build 5,000 homes in Middle England – and keep the neighbours happy

The Coach: Thinking fast and slow – how to choose

Tulip decision delayed – again

Gove said to have ordered ‘complete rethink’ on planning reforms

Government should fund neighbourhood planning, says think tank

High Court to rule on bid to quash planning deregulation

Perkins & Will replaces BDP on £600m hospital job as relationship fails

Only the chosen few can walk the ‘starchitect’ tightrope

Urban Splash picked for £750m Swansea regeneration

Construction told to speed up carbon reduction programme

Architects’ confidence slips back as shortages bite

David Chipperfield shrugs off pandemic to return to black

Architects urge governments to decarbonise global building codes

Watch out for more changes as Building Safety Bill makes progress

It’s back: a true celebration of the depth and breadth of UK architectural work

Gove replaces Jenrick as housing secretary in reshuffle

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Webinar | How can UK construction businesses fuel growth by releasing trapped cash?

Architects in with chance to win up to £1bn of infrastructure work this year

Heads roll at RICS following governance scandal report

Ministers slated for ‘unacceptable’ delivery of Green Homes Grant

Severe cement shortages predicted if lorry drivers vote to strike

The Coach: How do we re-onboard everyone for the ‘new term’?

Architects chase £20m L&Q design framework

Housing associations shrink affordable build programmes as councils step up

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