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Government publishes £530bn Infrastructure Pipeline

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Treasury chief secretary Darren Jones says pipeline of 780 private and public sector projects will give industry the confidence to invest

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Stiff & Trevillion completes Tower Bridge office containing reused steel from the 1930s

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Retrofit of 1990s building salvaged steel from former House of Fraser on Oxford Street

  • Barr Gazetas delivers retrofit of London office for GPE

  • It’s time to stop letting bad data undermine good design

  • In pictures: Mowat & Company redesigns Flint HQ in south London

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

  • CPD 09 2025: Roofs, regulations and fire safety

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If architects want to lead the housing debate, they must relearn the vernacular

2025-07-16T05:00:00+01:00By

As part of BD’s Designing Tomorrow’s Housing campaign, James Soane explores how architects can reclaim relevance in the housing debate by rethinking the vernacular as a regenerative and ethical form of practice

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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… De Valera Library and Súil Gallery by Keith Williams Architects

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

  • What made this project… Skylight by Buckley Gray Yeoman

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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

  • HTA Design completes two new residential buildings at Wood Wharf

  • In pictures: TP Bennett completes Stonecutter City office development

  • In pictures: Howells completes Uncle Wembley Gardens BTR scheme in Brent

  • In pictures: Emrys Architects completes Berners and Wells mixed-use scheme in Fitzrovia

  • In pictures: Renzo Piano’s Shard Place reaches practical completion

  • Wright & Wright completes £40m masterplan project at Lambeth Palace

  • In pictures: dRMM’s mixed-use industrial and residential scheme in Hackney Wick

  • In pictures: Mowat & Company redesigns Flint HQ in south London

  • In pictures: Kimbell Pike Architects converts listed Arts and Crafts building into Montessori nursery

  • In pictures: Scott Brownrigg’s flexible laboratory building at Peterhouse Technology Park

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Engineering the future: Rethinking systems, reducing carbon

2025-07-18T05:00:00+01:00By

Elisa Sartori explores how low-carbon solutions are often as much about what we leave out as what we choose to specify

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One year on from the general election, how much closer are we to delivering 1.5 million new homes?

2025-07-17T05:00:00+01:00By Paul Smith

This month marked a year since Labour won a historic landslide in the general election. Paul Smith assesses how the government has fared against its key housing delivery pledge

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If architects want to lead the housing debate, they must relearn the vernacular

2025-07-16T05:00:00+01:00By 2 comments

As part of BD’s Designing Tomorrow’s Housing campaign, James Soane explores how architects can reclaim relevance in the housing debate by rethinking the vernacular as a regenerative and ethical form of practice

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ARB’s new code of conduct treats architects like professionals

2025-07-15T05:00:00+01:00By 2 comments

Eleanor Jolliffe on how the streamlined 2025 code of conduct signals a more grown-up relationship between architects and their regulator

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How architects can help shape the next era of housing

2025-07-10T05:00:00+01:00By 1 comments

The housing crisis is not just about how few homes we build but how little ambition we have for those we do build. Ben Flatman argues it is time to put quality at the centre of the housing debate and for architects to reframe their role within it

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Smarter campuses: why university masterplanning is shifting from growth to efficiency

2025-07-04T05:00:00+01:00By

With student numbers in flux and budgets under pressure, Hien Nguyen explains why universities are turning away from expansion and towards smarter, more efficient estate planning

  • 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

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  • 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

  • ‘Would you rather be sold religion or soap?’: Venturi and Scott Brown’s story