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Why we’re providing a platform where young voices can be heard
This year’s London Festival of Architecture will feature a new key strand: a closing address from a speaker near the start of their career. It is an exciting and deliberate challenge to the established order, writes Martyn Evans
‘Don’t let inertia win’: Key talking points from UKREiiF 2026
Nearly 17,000 people from the built environment, finance and local government trekked to a rainy and overcast Leeds for the annual real estate investment event this week. Here we round up the key takeaways
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Certification scheme for audio-inclusive design launched
Security by design – rethinking public spaces in the era of Martyn’s Law
With healthcare buildings facing tougher conditions, how can performance keep up?
Why texture is replacing flat surfaces in modern interiors
Wienerberger Denton set to become world’s first hydrogen brick-kiln plant
Demonstrator homes from different eras to provide retrofit data for social housing
Opportunities and threats for wider UK hardwood use explored at V&A event
Natural does not necessarily mean durable: why we need to think again about how we specify stone
CPD 03 2026: Fire safety regulations and responsibilities
UK’s first circular construction hub launches in Royal Docks
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How the Iran war is impacting construction and development
What would Reform and Green gains in Thursday’s elections mean for the housing sector?
Fixing the roof while the sun is shining: Making Blenheim Palace fit for the next 300 years
Amid a heritage skills crisis, St Paul’s wants to bring its craftspeople into the light
Regeneration is back - but under a very different model: What the first three months of Regen Connect reveal
‘It annoys me how much terrible stuff is built’… Clementine Blakemore on the problem with architectural education in the UK
The reinvention of Broadgate: Has it worked?
V&A East, Stratford: A museum built for a different generation
A lesson in ‘elegant frugality’: DSDHA’s Henry Moore gallery
From Grenfell Inquiry to interim chief construction adviser: Thouria Istephan on why competence cuts across everything
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Specification
Internal anchor system offers high-rise landlords a route to meet Awaab’s Law 24-hour rule
A freestanding internal anchor system that allows the repair of high-rise windows from the inside offers social-housing landlords a means to meet the tightest deadline in Awaab’s law: the 24-hour rule for emergency hazards
In pictures: Neil Dusheiko Architects Church House – context and craft in Cambridgeshire family home reworking
Neil Dusheiko Architects reworks a historic Cambridgeshire family home in quiet dialogue with the Grade II* listed church opposite
CPD 06 2026: Retrofitting rainscreen cladding with insulation
Sponsored by ROCKWOOL®, this module explains how rainscreen cladding systems work, and the benefits of retrofitting rainscreen systems and insulation to extend the life of existing buildings. It also sets out best practice for specification and installation systems such as heat pumps. Retrofitted insulation can also improve resilience to the ...
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WA100 Digital Edition
Designing Tomorrow's Housing
Barnsley’s success is still no defence against populism
Happy days: The early 90s, Urban Splash and a time of creativity and risk
Book review: At Home in the City by Alan Power
My response to the new Design Planning Policy Practice Guidance
The long way home: why common parts still matter
We can afford to build greener houses – and there are many good reasons why we should
Remembering Kelvin Campbell: Probably the most influential urban designer of his generation
Where, then, do we really wish to live?
Allies and Morrison completes passivhaus student townhouses in Cambridge
Why we need to rediscover council housing
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Architect of the Year Awards 2025
What made this project… Harmeny learning hub by Loader Monteith
What made this project… 1 Blossom Yard by TP Bennett
What made this project… Majid Al Futtaim mosque by Kettle Collective
What made this project… Rosalind Franklin Wing at St Paul’s Girls’ School by Jestico + Whiles
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Boomers to Zoomers
In pictures: HTA Design completes dinosaur-themed Crystal Palace Park playground
Intergenerational housing scheme gives students cheaper rent in exchange for befriending older neighbours
Book review: All To Play For – How to design child-friendly housing
Root And Erect’s new King’s Cross play area features sustainable construction, materials and lighting innovation
Designing cities for play: Why child-friendly spaces matter
In pictures: Stanton Williams completes inaugural later living scheme next to Hampstead Heath
This Stirling Prize winner is a model for how we can all live better
Break down the silos – young people won’t see the range of careers our sector offers unless we show them
Carmody Groarke completes ArtPlay Pavilion at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Barratt Redrow commits to accessible playgrounds on all new developments
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In Pictures
In pictures: Pend’s stylish Canon Mews uses courtyards to maximise a constrained urban site
Fosters completes transformation of former Whiteleys shopping centre into upmarket homes and hotel
In pictures: Article 25’s Kao La Amani children’s village in Tanzania designed for dignity, community and climate resilience
In pictures: HTA Design completes dinosaur-themed Crystal Palace Park playground
In pictures: Haworth Tompkins refreshes Wales’ largest producing theatre
In pictures: Blight Rayner and Snøhetta’s Glasshouse Theatre, Brisbane – wavy glass wonder wall
In pictures: Campfield – adaptive reuse of Victorian market halls as tech hub and workspaces
In pictures: John Puttick Associates’ Preston Vault Youth Zone – fun foil to the city’s famous bus station, with striking interiors by Ben Kelly
In pictures: West London House by Goldstein Heather – intelligent extension with subtle historical allusions
In pictures: CF Møller’s Gotland barracks sets benchmark for new military architecture
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WA100 2026
WA100 2026: The big list
WA100 2026: The best get better
WA100 2026: Heading on up
WA100 2026: Digital edition
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Why we’re providing a platform where young voices can be heard
This year’s London Festival of Architecture will feature a new key strand: a closing address from a speaker near the start of their career. It is an exciting and deliberate challenge to the established order, writes Martyn Evans
Life on the high street: The case for office-to-resi conversions
If we are thinking creatively about where we can deliver new homes for people, then these conversions are a compelling option, write Catrina Stewart and Hugh McEwen
How systems thinking can safeguard placemaking in the next generation of new towns
The UK has a rare opportunity to rethink how new towns are delivered and governed and ensure we move from fragmented, output-driven development toward genuinely place-led settlements that create lasting legacies, Alison Coutinho writes
Barnsley’s success is still no defence against populism
Despite extensive investment and a highly successful town centre regeneration scheme, the long-standing Labour administration was swept from power last week. David Rudlin considers the reasons
The Royal Festival Hall is 75 years old – and I have played a small part in keeping it very much alive
Eleanor Jolliffe has just published a book which celebrates the history of one of London’s best-known buildings. It is fair to say that she enjoyed the experience
Is architecture in crisis?
There is a growing sense among younger architects that the profession they trained so hard to join may not offer a viable long-term career. Institutions like RIBA must step forward to challenge the norms that have led us here, writes Martyn Evans
How the Iran war is impacting construction and development
Joey Gardiner studies the numbers and asks how much damage has already been done to UK construction – and, talk of truces and ceasefires not withstanding – how bad things could still get?
What would Reform and Green gains in Thursday’s elections mean for the housing sector?
With the two parties polling strongly and expected to be the biggest beneficiaries in Thursday’s local elections, Daniel Gayne asks what their stated positions and local-government records could mean for housing, planning and delivery
Fixing the roof while the sun is shining: Making Blenheim Palace fit for the next 300 years
Water was pouring through the roof and stonework falling off of the John Vanbrugh-designed palace in Oxfordshire. Blenheim is spending £12m restoring an acre of lead and slate roof, restoring the stonework and water-damaged painted ceilings to make it able to withstand a once-in-500-years storm, while ensuring the palace stays ...
Amid a heritage skills crisis, St Paul’s wants to bring its craftspeople into the light
The cathedral’s property director is embarking on a mission to transform its ageing workshops into a shining new Centre of Excellence. But with multimillion-pound repairs to its iconic ball and cross also needed, where will it get the money? Daniel Gayne reports
Review: Brutal Scotland – ‘These buildings were never just about concrete and form’
Brutal Scotland is a book and exhibition by photographer Simon Phipps documenting 160 buildings across the country. The exhibition is at Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow until 16 May, Bobby Jewell writes
‘It annoys me how much terrible stuff is built’… Clementine Blakemore on the problem with architectural education in the UK
In an exclusive interview, the architect behind the Stirling Prize-shortlisted Wraxall Yard talks to Tom Lowe about why architects often complete their training with few technical skills, working with Witherford Watson Mann on the refurbishment of the Royal College of Art’s Darwin Building and the experiences which inspired her ...
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V&A East, Stratford: A museum built for a different generation
A lesson in ‘elegant frugality’: DSDHA’s Henry Moore gallery
A quietly radical housing project: Metropolitan Workshops’ resident‑led Passivhaus scheme
From stranded asset to grade A office: how a facsimile facade made all the difference for a failing, listed building in central Manchester
Hornsey Town Hall: a brilliantly conceived and highly sensitive – if mildly eccentric – restoration
Jewry Wall Museum, Leicester: A sensitive refurbishment of Trevor Dannatt’s brutalist former college
Birdcage of Paradise: Three Chamberlain Square
‘They’re a demanding group of people’… Keeping the scientists happy at the University of Cambridge’s new Ray Dolby Centre
Designed to change the world: Inside Oxford University’s new £200m Life and Mind Building
Dulwich College by alma-nac: a new lower school library and the refurbishment of its emblematic Charles Barry block
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Reviews
Book review: At Home in the City by Alan Power
Caruso St John's Collected Works, Volume 3: ‘The book’s beauty is matched by its heft’
Book review: Case Studies in Architecture and Landscape: Expanding the Legacy of Peter Blundell Jones
The long way home: why common parts still matter
Review: The Weight of Being at Two Temple Place
Why building inclusion is a fundamental part of the architect’s mission
Book review – Learning from the Local: Designing responsively for people, climate and culture
Book review: All To Play For – How to design child-friendly housing
Book review: The English House by Dan Cruickshank
Book review: Henley Halebrown, Building for Society 2010-2022
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