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cool innovations and prototypes from the Venice Biennale
Mary Richardson picks her favourite product prototypes and material experiments from the Biennale’s international exhibition. From tiles made of waste shells to bricks made of elephant dung, the show featured the best new ideas in sustainable design from around the world
Designing Tomorrow's Housing
Good housing starts with good urban design
Beyond the quick fix: why permitted development needs strategic guidance
New towns. Old wisdom?
Building communities: why the Neave Brown Award matters
Inside the party conferences: why architects need to be in the room where housing policy is made
BDP turns disused garages into social housing in Bristol
London’s housing delivery in ‘major crisis’, HBF warns in damning report
Vacant to valuable: unlocking stranded assets for much-needed homes
The long road to regenerating the Carpenters Estate
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Green light for Make’s plans to retrofit its first big project
Practice’s 2007 refurbishment of 55 Baker Street in Marylebone was firm’s first major scheme to complete
CPD 18 2025: Understanding fire stopping and liability
Studio DERA retrofits disused college swimming pool to form learning hub
CPD 17 2025: Specifying fire-rated doorsets – navigating standards, legislation and best practice
HOK and ERRE’s Roig Arena in Valencia is ‘first with ceramic skin’
Acoustic spray systems improve inclusiveness and sound quality at Hackney music venues
The role of cladding in navigating fire safety in modern building design
There is no need to panic about new fire door regulations
CPD 16 2025: Leveraging BIM for strategic advantage
Mastering the detail: The Paper Garden with Jan Kattein Architects
What made this project… The Waterman by Fathom Architects
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Britain’s lost builders: making housing viable again for SMEs
Miranda MacLaren argues that financial reform, fairer procurement and design for local delivery are essential to revive small builders and rebuild housebuilding capacity
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cool innovations and prototypes from the Venice Biennale
Mary Richardson picks her favourite product prototypes and material experiments from the Biennale’s international exhibition. From tiles made of waste shells to bricks made of elephant dung, the show featured the best new ideas in sustainable design from around the world
What made this project… Lambeth Palace Masterplan by Wright & Wright Architects
Finalist for Creative Conservation Architect of the Year Award 2025, Wright & Wright Architects guides us through the specification challenges present at Lambeth Palace Masterplan
Stone Demonstrator showcases low-carbon pre-tensioned stone
Future Observatory, the Design Museum’s research programme for the green transition, has unveiled a Stone Demonstrator to showcase the use of pre-tensioned stone as a low-carbon construction material
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WA100 Digital Edition
Architect of the Year Awards 2025
What made this project… Lambeth Palace Masterplan by Wright & Wright Architects
What made this project… The Waterman by Fathom Architects
What made this project… West London HQ by dMFK
What made this project… The Corner House by Langstaff Day Architects
What made this project… Former Nestlé Factory by dMFK
What made this project… The Acre by Gensler
What made this project… Black and Stone by Mallett
What made this project… Hyde London City by Studio Moren
What made this project… Brewers’ Hall by dMFK
What made this project… Everton Stadium by BDP Pattern
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Boomers to Zoomers
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
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
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In Pictures
In pictures: Sanei + Hopkins’ Suffolk Housestead
Fosters completes JP Morgan Chase’s 423m-tall global headquarters in New York
Foster + Partners completes Techo International Airport terminal in Cambodia
NBBJ completes £200m Oxford University facility for advanced AI research
Wright & Wright completes passivhaus library on historic Corpus Christi College site in Oxford
In pictures: Zaha Hadid Architects’ 60,000-seat Xi’an football stadium
In pictures: Pend’s renovation of listed East Lothian farmhouse
In pictures: Haworth Tompkins’ new Court Theatre in Ōtautahi Christchurch
Purcell completes restoration of St Barts Hospital’s grade I-listed North Wing
BDP turns disused garages into social housing in Bristol
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WA100 2025
WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble
WA100 2025: Digital edition
WA100 2025: The big list
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Losing our craft: the tragedy of replace-not-repair architecture
Tanvir Hasan argues that the growing web of regulation and risk aversion is accelerating the loss of historic craftsmanship – and with it, our ability to repair and care for buildings sustainably
The elephant in the lecture theatre: Why universities must rethink space, community and culture
The way teachers teach and students learn has changed and empty buildings and outdated facilities are draining resources. A culture shift is required if HE institutions are to avoid a slow decline into irrelevance, says Philip Watson
Britain’s lost builders: making housing viable again for SMEs
Miranda MacLaren argues that financial reform, fairer procurement and design for local delivery are essential to revive small builders and rebuild housebuilding capacity
It’s time to give Scottish architecture a public platform again
With no permanent venue for architectural discussion since the closure of The Lighthouse, Rab Bennetts calls for a renewed public platform to reconnect design, policy and civic engagement in Scotland
Good housing starts with good urban design
Ana McMillin argues that the success or failure of new neighbourhoods will be decided by the quality of streets, public spaces and community life
The Coach: On letting go…
Taking inspiration from the changing seasons, Louise Rodgers explores how we can find strength and draw important lessons through letting go
Can cuts to affordable housing targets revive London’s flatlining residential development sector?
Joey Gardiner asks whether simply reducing expectations for affordable housing will be enough to get construction going again
Why they won: A closer look at all the Architect of the Year Awards 2025 winning entries
The winners of the Architect of the Year Awards were announced at a ceremony last night. Here is more detail about all the winning entries
Too good to waste: how Make recycled an old building to create a new one
Thomas Lane reports on how 30 Duke Street reuses steel, glass, aluminium and Portland stone from the building there before
AYA 2025 shortlists: Young Architect of the Year
In a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the Young Architect of the Year shortlist
AYA 2025 shortlists: WA100 International Architect of the Year
In a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the WA100 International Architect of the Year shortlist
AYA 2025 shortlists: Social Value Architect of the Year
In a series celebrating BD’s Architect of the Year Awards finalists, we look at the Social Value Architect of the Year shortlist
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From discontented planners to a glorious summer: Van Heyningen and Haward’s Leicester Cathedral extension
Bradford Live: how Tim Ronalds Architects helped residents save their historic cinema and turn it into a 3,800-capacity music venue
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
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Reviews
Concéntrico and the art of everyday urban invention
The art of architecture on film: Eric Parry and the question of posterity
William Butterfield: A builder and experimenter
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
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