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Design is a dialogue: working with architects as an interior designer
After co-designing her own home with her architect husband, Leo Wood made the leap from theatre producer to interior designer. Here, she shares what she’s learned about working with architects and the value of effective collaboration across disciplines
Government funding cut for Level 7 apprenticeships to exclude under-22s, report claims
Move could leave architecture apprenticeships for older students at risk, despite sector-wide warnings about skills shortages and diversity
Mastering the detail: Baytree Nuneaton with Chetwoods Architects
Let’s be specific… Recycled plastics Q+A with Nichola Robinson, Hahn Plastics
Why fine-tuning acoustic health is key to the productivity drive
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From complexity to clarity: The Sainsbury Wing transformed
Ben Flatman explores the remodelling of the Sainsbury Wing and asks what is lost when a celebrated postmodern building is updated to make it more welcoming and accessible
Specification
Mastering the detail: Episode 2
Calling all manufacturers and product suppliers! Episode 2 of our Mastering the Detail webinar series features an insightful conversation with Philippa Birch-Wood, sustainability lead at Chetwoods, offering a candid look into what really influences architectural specification decisions.
Heat networks: The low-carbon design solution
The UK’s social housing sector is undergoing a significant transformation as it works to decarbonise its heat and hot water provision. This is about more than just supporting the country’s net-zero 2050 target – energy efficiency is essential to tackling fuel poverty and addressing rising operational costs.
Rockwool’s rainscreen insulation tested for high-wind resilience in real-world build-ups
Rockwool has announced new testing results for its NyRock Rainscreen 032 product. The manufacturer says it has demonstrated resilience to wind pressures equivalent to a category four hurricane when installed in commonly used facade systems.
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WA100 Digital Edition
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
What made this project… Gateway to Nature Centre by Oberlanders
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Boomers to Zoomers
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
Paul Vick Architects secures planning for redevelopment of historic Chiswick care home
Youth-designed pavilion unveiled in Camden’s HS2 meanwhile garden
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In Pictures
Fletcher Priest completes TikTok City office
Thomas-McBrien Architects completes glulam roof extension of London HQ
Satish Jassal Architects completes net zero council housing scheme on Haringey infill site
EPR completes Nine Elms office building
RX Architects completes two coastal homes in East Sussex
Jestico & Whiles completes Shoreditch hotel on site which had been empty for 50 years
Foster + Partners completes office tower above Sydney’s Gadigal Station
Westminster’s public toilets get a designer makeover as Hugh Broughton Architects completes first upgrade in £12.7m programme
In pictures: 204 Great Portland Street by E8 Architecture
In pictures: Pend breathes new life into mid-terrace home in Edinburgh
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WA100 2025
WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble
WA100 2025: Digital edition
WA100 2025: The big list
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Design is a dialogue: working with architects as an interior designer
After co-designing her own home with her architect husband, Leo Wood made the leap from theatre producer to interior designer. Here, she shares what she’s learned about working with architects and the value of effective collaboration across disciplines
Why we teach classical design
Architects and educators Timothy Smith and Jonathan Taylor reflect on fourteen years of their pioneering traditional design studio at Kingston University
Construction must embrace the AI revolution – or get left behind again
The construction industry should be hugely excited about the potential of AI, according to Scott Laird, who says early applications are already delivering promising results
Does Tony Blair have a point – is Britain’s net zero strategy ‘doomed to fail’?
The former prime minister has said the government’s energy policy is doomed to fail, a line taken by Reform and the Tories. Thomas Lane asks what this means for Britain’s decarbonisation ambitions
Engineering the future: We need to revive the material efficiency of the past
Liam Bryant argues that in the rush to develop novel low-carbon materials, the construction industry risks overlooking vital lessons from the past
Greyfield and brownfield: Testing grounds for better places
Pereen d’Avoine considers how forgotten landscapes can become the foundation for sustainable, socially rooted communities
PFI: Do the numbers add up?
Joey Gardiner weighs up whether reigniting PFI would be a good idea
‘Never satisfied’ … SANAA’s architecture of process and persistence
As SANAA’s Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa prepare to receive the Royal Gold Medal, Ben Flatman talks to them about their working relationship, the changing nature of construction in Japan and their evolving approach to conflict resolution
Donald Insall Associates: A thoroughly modern conservation practice
As urgent demands for reuse and sustainability transform the priorities of contemporary architecture, Mary Richardson explores how conservation architect Donald Insall Associates – long champions of repair and adaptation – is building on its pioneering legacy to meet the needs of a changing world
‘Infrastructure could do with a bit of love’: dRMM’s Jonas Lencer on the Silvertown Tunnel portal buildings
Tom Lowe speaks to the practice’s director about why the overlooked parts of public infrastructure deserve a fresh perspective
Orms: designing architecture that listens and responds to a changing world
Ben Flatman speaks to John McRae and new director Miranda MacLaren about how Orms is evolving as a practice
1.5 million homes and counting: what Jas Bhalla thinks comes next
Ben Flatman speaks to Jas Bhalla – architect, planner and founder of Jas Bhalla Works – about building a practice rooted in long-term thinking
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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
Rowan Court: a blueprint for council housing that repairs the urban fabric and elevates its context
Space House: 1960s icon gets another chance to shine
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Reviews
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
Film review: The Brutalist – It isn’t really about brutalism…
The bold brilliance of Edwardian Baroque: rediscovering Edwin Rickards
Rogue Goths: the flamboyant and eccentric architects who reimagined Victorian Gothic Revival
‘Where sculpture and building come together’: a history of collaboration between sculptors and architects
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