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Government’s £45bn Northern Powerhouse Rail plan includes new line between Manchester and Liverpool

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Scheme will initially focus on upgrades in Yorkshire and includes new line between Birmingham and Manchester as long-term objective

Designing Tomorrow's Housing

  • 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

  • Come with me to Clamart: a postcard from a Parisian regenerative development that really works

  • Britain’s lost builders: making housing viable again for SMEs

  • 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

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WW+P announces merger with Canadian practice SvN

Two Egis Group-owned firms to form joint transport and housing practice with 12 global studios

  • CPD 24 2025: Navigating the Building Safety Act

  • CPD 23 2025: Landscaping mixed-use developments – balancing aesthetics and functionality

  • CPD 17 2025: Specifying fire-rated doorsets – navigating standards, legislation and best practice

  • CPD 22 2025: Terrazzo – traditional flooring reinvented to meet modern sustainability challenges

  • 27 interesting innovations and prototypes from the Venice Biennale

  • Air quality in green building certification: what you need to know

  • The future of high-rise: why restoring public trust means redefining value

  • 25 years of Northern Ireland’s best builds

  • Concealed fixings for Hardie panels now available

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Jack Pringle: ‘If the RIBA didn’t exist, you’d have to invent it’

2025-11-25T07:00:00+00:00By

RIBA chair Jack Pringle reflects on his role in stabilising the institute’s finances, implementing governance reforms and positioning architects to reclaim leadership in construction through the principal designer role

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WA100 2025: Digital edition

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Architect of the Year Awards 2025

  • 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

  • What made this project… Room for All Stages by BanfieldWood

  • What made this project… Elizabeth Mews by Trewhela Williams

  • What made this project… Berners & Wells by Emrys Architects

  • What made this project… The School of Science, Engineering + Environment (SEE) by Sheppard Robson

  • What made this project… MacFarlane Place by Maccreanor Lavington

  • What made this project… The Jackson Library by Nex

  • What made this project… The British Academy by Wright & Wright Architects

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • 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

  • 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

In Pictures

  • In pictures: John Puttick Associates completes Horizon Youth Zone in Grimsby

  • Allies and Morrison completes passivhaus student townhouses in Cambridge

  • In pictures: House in a Walled Garden

  • In pictures: Threshold House – Studio McW’s sharp steel and brick extension

  • EH Smith opens new Digbeth design centre

  • In pictures: Stanton Williams completes inaugural later living scheme next to Hampstead Heath

  • In pictures: Lumi, Europe’s highest LEED rated building

  • In pictures: ZMMA completes Poole Museum redevelopment

  • Adjaye Associates unveils completed Princeton University Art Museum

  • Fosters transforms Paris building on Champs-Élysées into luxury gallery and restaurant

WA100 2025

  • WA100 2025: Hopes take a wobble

  • WA100 2025: Digital edition

  • WA100 2025: The big list

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Like it or not, the baronial style still captures the essence of Scotland

2026-01-14T07:00:00+00:00By

It may have become unfashionable and left the modern architectural community unimpressed, but the wider public certainly appreciates the turrets and gables made famous by Sir Walter Scott. Just look at The Traitors, Rab Bennetts writes

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Why we need to rediscover council housing

2026-01-12T07:00:00+00:00By 7 comments

A significant increase in the number of social and affordable homes is required if we are to get close to hitting the government’s targets, David Rudlin writes

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How popular, traditional architecture arrived in the Netherlands

2026-01-08T07:00:00+00:00By Mieke Bosse2 comments

For years Dutch housing architects were able to ignore the tastes and preferences of their tenants and pursue unashamedly modernist projects. But, as home ownership increased, the demand for more traditional yet affordable houses grew with it

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Brand activation – how design can combine the interests of brands and venue owners

2026-01-06T07:00:00+00:00By Simon Borg

Populous has been combining design and brand storytelling in stadiums, arenas and venues for more than 20 years. Simon Borg explains the process

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Our choices in 2026 will decide whether architecture remains a public service

2026-01-02T07:00:00+00:00By 4 comments

The past president of the RIBA calls for bold thinking and institutional change in order that we can build better

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We must encourage the building of urban one-home wonders

2025-12-22T07:00:00+00:00By 3 comments

The National Planning Policy Framework includes a specific allowance for single houses in rural areas that are “truly outstanding” where they would otherwise be refused. An equivalent provision is needed in urban areas, writes Russell Curtis

  • 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

  • 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

Reviews

  • Book review: The English House by Dan Cruickshank

  • Book review: Henley Halebrown, Building for Society 2010-2022

  • King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture

  • Review: Cosmos, Memory, Scale at the SOAS Gallery

  • British Interior Design Since 1925

  • 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