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Donald Insall Associates completes £7.6m refurbishment of John Rylands Library

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Grade I-listed Manchester landmark marks 125th anniversary with new entrance, exhibition spaces and facilities for visitors and researchers

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Fosters unwraps designs for mixed-use scheme in Seoul

IOTA Seoul I development to include 34-storey office tower

  • CPD 12 2025: The importance and principles of insulation

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

  • Thermally modified wood – cladding material where performance meets aesthetics

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Unpacking the Building Safety Regulator reforms that aim to unlock high-rise delays

2025-08-13T05:00:00+01:00By Matthew Bool and Becky Johnson

What operational changes are being made to help the Building Safety Regulator tackle the excessive gateway approval waits on high-rise residential schemes?

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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… Meadow Road by Studio Bark

  • What made this project… Undershed by George Lovesmith Architecture

  • What made this project… Manor Lodge by IID Architects

  • What made this project… Melamar by Paper Igloo

  • What made this project… De Valera Library and Súil Gallery by Keith Williams Architects

  • What made this project… Regional Science Centre by INI Design Studio

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • Barratt Redrow commits to accessible playgrounds on all new developments

  • Report calls for national play strategy to reshape neighbourhoods for children

  • 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

In Pictures

  • Bindloss Dawes converts French hamlet into wellness retreat

  • Hugh Broughton Architects lifts the lid on Parliament Street toilet refurbishment

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

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

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

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

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

  • In pictures: Maccreanor Lavington completes 142 affordable homes at White City

  • Allies and Morrison’s leisure centre completes at Canada Water redevelopment

  • HTA Design completes two new residential buildings at Wood Wharf

WA100 2025

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The rise of single-family housing: Why BTR’s future is suburban

2025-08-18T05:00:00+01:00By

Emily Newton explores how Single Family Housing is reshaping Build to Rent, with new investment, suburban intensification and the chance for better placemaking

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How we live: reconnecting architecture with sociological thinking

2025-08-15T05:00:00+01:00By

Félicie Krikler calls for housing design to catch up with the realities of modern life

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The Housing Forum CEO role is a chance to shape the future of housing

2025-08-14T05:00:00+01:00By

As it seeks a new boss, the Housing Forum is well-placed to become a powerful voice for change, writes Ben Derbyshire

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Unpacking the Building Safety Regulator reforms that aim to unlock high-rise delays

2025-08-13T05:00:00+01:00By Matthew Bool and Becky Johnson

What operational changes are being made to help the Building Safety Regulator tackle the excessive gateway approval waits on high-rise residential schemes?

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Reimagining architecture: a movement for structural change

2025-08-08T05:00:00+01:00By

Sabrina Klor steps into her role as chair of Women in Architecture UK with a mission to rebuild the profession on more inclusive foundations

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Designing tomorrow’s housing: why lived experience must shape our drive for new homes

2025-08-07T05:00:00+01:00By

On the day QOLF Consulting publishes its new report on the importance of post-occupancy evaluations in shaping design and placemaking, Emma Cooke sets out what residents say really matters — and why it should guide the homes of the future

  • 76 Upper Ground: Denys Lasdun’s 1960s South Bank vision is realised at last

  • Designing, building and growing the natural way: Wolves Lane community centre unveiled by Studio Gil and Material Cultures

  • Unpacking the museum: the V&A Storehouse in Stratford opens its doors

  • 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

Reviews

  • The Manifesto House: Buildings that changed the future of architecture

  • Form Follows Love: Anna Heringer on building with empathy, intuition and mud

  • Nuts, bolts and preservation: High Tech as heritage

  • RA Summer Exhibition: with no designated space, architecture is overshadowed

  • 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