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Kengo Kuma team to design National Gallery’s £375m new wing
BDP and MICA also working with Japanese practice on biggest transformation in museum’s history after beating big names including Foster + Partners and Renzo Piano
From Grenfell Inquiry to interim chief construction adviser: Thouria Istephan on why competence cuts across everything
As interim chief construction adviser, Thouria Istephan is using her short tenure to push for deep, systemic change – from professional standards to products reform and the future of the advisory role for her successor. In her first interview in the role she talks to Chloe McCulloch about why she ...
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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
New Masonry Association technical committee raises concerns over zero-compression cavity fire barriers
How trauma-informed design can shape spaces of safety and trust
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‘I wouldn’t be in the party if it wasn’t pro-development’: Reform UK’s new housing spokesperson on its plans for housing
A quietly radical housing project: Metropolitan Workshops’ resident‑led Passivhaus scheme
With build-to-rent on the back foot, can major regeneration schemes still stack up?
John McAslan: ‘Think of all the bad decisions that are made because people didn’t stand up for things we should have stood up for’
Inside West Yorkshire’s quiet renaissance: A regional deep dive into the forces transforming its cities
Could the restoration of Parliament really take 61 years?
Approaching completion three decades on and now a most excellent town … My visit to Poundbury
Such buildings can change lives… Regenerating safe spaces that young people can call their own
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
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Specification
Designing for tomorrow means delivering beyond compliance today
Manuela Fazzan argues architects, specifiers and developers must got beyond basic compliance to embed resilience, adaptability and sustainability into new homes if they are to meet future as well as current housing needs
Can the Future Homes and Buildings Standard deliver on its promise?
The homes element of just launched new energy regulations promises big savings on bills. It’s a pity that the benefits will come too late to help with the impact of the current energy crisis, writes Thomas Lane
Why texture is replacing flat surfaces in modern interiors
Paul Moody explains what’s behind the trend away from smooth surfaces and towards texture in interior design
CPD
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WA100 Digital Edition
Designing Tomorrow's Housing
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
How popular, traditional architecture arrived in the Netherlands
We must encourage the building of urban one-home wonders
How the viability crunch is putting Britain’s housing ambitions – and design quality – under strain
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Architect of the Year Awards 2025
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
What made this project… Perry Vale House by Wellstudio Architecture
What made this project… Field House by Wilkinson King Architects
What made this project… Eden Dock by Howells
What made this project… 100 Fetter Lane by Fletcher Priest Architects
What made this project… UNCLE Wembley Gardens by Howells
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Boomers to Zoomers
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
Report calls for national play strategy to reshape neighbourhoods for children
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In Pictures
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
RSHP completes concourse at Taiwan’s largest airport
In pictures: Florentia Village shows value of colour and placemaking branding
In pictures: conversion of iconic former US embassy into luxury hotel
In pictures: Wishing Well by Fieldwork Architects – run-down bungalow transformed using rammed earth
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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 coastal regeneration requires a new narrative
Coastal towns are central to our national identity, but too often revival strategies fail to reflect their distinct challenges. David Atkinson, director of development and investment at Willmott Dixon’s development business, argues that the sector needs to creatively rethink its approach
With healthcare buildings facing tougher conditions, how can performance keep up?
As healthcare buildings are asked to do more, under more extreme weather conditions and with less margin for error, Colin Rees argues the solution lies in using digital tools to narrow the gap between design intent and operational reality
The explosive growth of courses and classes in traditional design
A new and flourishing interest in traditional architecture and urban design is taking place around the world, challenging the dogmatic conventions of our profession and education, writes Robert Adam
While we are renovating our HQ at Portland Place, we must also renovate our profession
Architecture is at a low ebb and needs a reboot – we are ready to take it on, writes Jack Pringle, chair of the RIBA board
In CyanLines, Manchester has a green connectivity vision that other cities should follow
This legible, connected network of canals, rivers, parks, towpaths and tree-lined streets should mean that walking and cycling across the city region becomes not an afterthought but a defining feature of urban life, writes Martyn Evans
New towns can work, but only if we learn how to deliver them properly
Delivery structures, governance and long-term stewardship are just as important as the housing numbers attached to this next generation of new towns, Tom Mitchell at Metropolitan Workshop writes
From Grenfell Inquiry to interim chief construction adviser: Thouria Istephan on why competence cuts across everything
As interim chief construction adviser, Thouria Istephan is using her short tenure to push for deep, systemic change – from professional standards to products reform and the future of the advisory role for her successor. In her first interview in the role she talks to Chloe McCulloch about why she ...
‘I wouldn’t be in the party if it wasn’t pro-development’: Reform UK’s new housing spokesperson on its plans for housing
With an eye to the prospect of taking the reins of power, Reform UK has called on former Homes England chair Simon Dudley to help develop its answer to Britain’s housing crisis. He spoke to Daniel Gayne about navigating nimbyism, getting pension funds to invest in affordable housing, and reassessing ...
With build-to-rent on the back foot, can major regeneration schemes still stack up?
Retailer John Lewis blamed its decision to scrap plans to build 10,000 BTR homes on a ‘fundamental shift’ in economic conditions. Joey Gardiner wonders whether this vital sector still has a realistic future and looks at developers’ options for closing the viability gap
John McAslan: ‘Think of all the bad decisions that are made because people didn’t stand up for things we should have stood up for’
In an exclusive interview, the King’s Cross Station architect tells Building Design about his submission to the National Gallery expansion competition, his rival plans for Liverpool Street station, the ‘baffling’ restoration of the Houses of Parliament and what he thinks of the Olympia redevelopment
Inside West Yorkshire’s quiet renaissance: A regional deep dive into the forces transforming its cities
Devolution is giving Leeds, Bradford and the surrounding local authorities the opportunity to fulfil their potential. Joey Gardiner profiles West Yorkshire, its funding streams, community priorities, key clients and active consultants
Approaching completion three decades on and now a most excellent town … My visit to Poundbury
Poundbury is expected to be finished in 2028, after 35 years’ work. Robert Kwolek visited recently with his camera and declares it the best new place built in the UK in decades, bursting with lessons for the new towns programme
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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
Backstage at The Old Vic: Haworth Tompkins crafts a contemporary counterpoint to a Georgian icon
Oxford opens its doors: Hopkins’ Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
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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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