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The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration: Tim Ronalds Architects reanimates New River Head

Ben Flatman explores a sensitive reworking of Clerkenwell’s New River Head, where Tim Ronalds Architects weave galleries, education spaces and a cafe into a historic site shaped by four centuries of change

  • Towards audio inclusivity – how to make spaces that work better for people who are sensitive to noise

  • French lessons: learning about timber construction – and dreaming big – from Thomas Coldefy

  • Geberit TurboFlush technology goes mainstream

  • From promises to proof – what the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard expects

  • New bio- and waste-based tiles could cut embodied carbon by 94 percent

  • Pick of Clerkenwell Design Week

  • Internal anchor system offers high-rise landlords a route to meet Awaab’s Law 24-hour rule

  • In pictures: Neil Dusheiko Architects Church House – context and craft in Cambridgeshire family home reworking

  • Why early collaboration is the key to successful fit-out projects

  • Forza Doors launches UK’s first double-action pivot door with fire and smoke certification

Focus

  • The unlikely return of the back-to-back: how the viability crunch is leading to experimentation with older forms

  • What could a pedestrianised Oxford Street look like?

  • 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

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WA100 Digital Edition

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WA100 2026: Digital edition

2026-01-16T01:00:00+00:00

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

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

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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

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

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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From private practice to public purpose: An architect’s switch to public sector planning

2026-06-03T06:00:00+01:00By Kirsten Williams

As a project architect, Kirsten Williams was used to working on individual buildings, but since joining Dorset Council she has been able to help realise healthier environments at scale and to understand how policy, planning and delivery intersect in practice

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The infrastructure gap that nobody wants to price properly

2026-05-27T06:00:00+01:00By 3 comments

Hien Nguyen considers what the current state of development in and around Cambridge reveals about the future of housing delivery in Britain

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Why we’re providing a platform where young voices can be heard

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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

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Life on the high street: The case for office-to-resi conversions

2026-05-20T06:00:00+01:00By Hugh McEwen and Catrina Stewart

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

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How systems thinking can safeguard placemaking in the next generation of new towns

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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

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Barnsley’s success is still no defence against populism

2026-05-15T06:00:00+01:00By 1 comments

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 Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration: Tim Ronalds Architects reanimates New River Head

  • Serpentine Pavilion 2026 – first ever brick pavilion, by Atelier LANZA, is subtle, intelligent and really very good

  • 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

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