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Engineering the future: Public toilets are the invisible infrastructure our cities still badly need
A lack of amenities may be just a minor inconvenience for some, but for others it means they cannot leave home. Elisa Sartori says public toilets may be ‘the most honest spaces in architecture’
Green light for SPPARC-designed Camden Film Quarter
Plans include 11 sound stages and 485 homes
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
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The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration: Tim Ronalds Architects reanimates New River Head
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?
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From brief to build – the process behind delivering a high-performance office
Sarah Edwards says designing the “perfect” office is a complex process that often requires proactive, strategic – and early – engagement with specialist workplace designers
In pictures: timber and transparency combine in TenBerke’s Kathleen McCartney Hall for Smith College
On all-women Smith College’s campus in Northampton, Massachusetts, TenBerke has designed a new home for institutions that reflect the college’s commitment to women’s leadership
Towards audio inclusivity – how to make spaces that work better for people who are sensitive to noise
To mark the launch of a new audio-inclusive certification scheme for buildings, we talked to one of its backers, Ben Hancock, managing director of Oscar Acoustics, to learn more about how designers can make spaces more accessible to those who are noise sensitive
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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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What made this project… Harmeny learning hub by Loader Monteith
What made this project… 1 Blossom Yard by TP Bennett
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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: HOK completes Merlin Place laboratory in Cambridge
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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
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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
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Engineering the future: Public toilets are the invisible infrastructure our cities still badly need
A lack of amenities may be just a minor inconvenience for some, but for others it means they cannot leave home. Elisa Sartori says public toilets may be ‘the most honest spaces in architecture’
The danger of building homes at any cost
Delivering 1.5 million homes means little if quality is sacrificed in the process. Without strong design leadership and long-term thinking, today’s solutions could become tomorrow’s regeneration failures, says Satish Jassal
How heritage can shape the future of new communities
A former RAF airbase in Oxfordshire lies at the heart of a unique and exciting new residential neighbourhood, writes Harrison Symonds
A good architect should be a polymath more than a specialist
If we lose our wider intellectual curiosity, we loss the essence of what it is to be in this profession, Eleanor Jolliffe writes
From private practice to public purpose: An architect’s switch to public sector planning
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
The infrastructure gap that nobody wants to price properly
Hien Nguyen considers what the current state of development in and around Cambridge reveals about the future of housing delivery in Britain
‘We will build the crème de la crème’… Meet the men behind £10bn Czech giant Penta’s ambitious launch in London
Tom Lowe flies to Prague to speak to Marek Dospiva, co-founder of one of central Europe’s biggest companies, and to hear about the firm’s plans to become a major developer in the UK capital
The unlikely return of the back-to-back: how the viability crunch is leading to experimentation with older forms
As housing numbers crash, developers are seeking ways to reimagine projects, with a range of new – and old – forms being tried to move projects forward
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
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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
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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
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Reviews
Book review: Totems: Selected Essays on Architecture, by Irénée Scalbert
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
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