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RSHP’s South Kensington tube redevelopment to start later this year
Controversial project will replace Bullnose building with four-storey office and add new eastbound platform
We must strengthen national urban design guidance and apply it to greenfield developments
The government must go further to deliver a faster approval process and more efficient use of land as well as higher standards of urban design, a group of housing experts write
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
Contractors turn to time-lapse video for social media promotion and project monitoring
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
Government should reflect real-world behaviour in Part G consultation response
How trauma-informed design can shape spaces of safety and trust
Architectural lighting and restraint: why less light can achieve more
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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
The regeneration rethink: funding, power and the local leaders shaping what comes next
What unified ownership can teach us about today’s housing strategies
Could 2026 signal the start of a new stone age?
WA100 2026: Heading on up
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In pictures: John Puttick Associates’ Preston Vault Youth Zone – fun foil to the city’s famous bus station, with striking interiors by Ben Kelly
The newly completed Preston Vault Youth Zone marks the final chapter in more than a decade of civic renewal work in the city for John Puttick Associates, which was originally founded to refurbish the famous Brutalist bus station across the road from this striking new youth centre
Demonstrator homes from different eras to provide retrofit data for social housing
A research and demonstrator project at Liverpool John Moores University is set to offer practical data-driven insights on retrofitting homes of different ages
Opportunities and threats for wider UK hardwood use explored at V&A event
Ways to scale the use of UK hardwood in construction were unpacked at a V&A museum symposium that tackled the question: what if our built environment was shaped by local, climate-resilient, mixed-species forest? The audience heard about projects across the country that are facilitating the use of homegrown timber – ...
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WA100 Digital Edition
Designing Tomorrow's Housing
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
Come with me to Clamart: a postcard from a Parisian regenerative development that really works
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Architect of the Year Awards 2025
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
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
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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: 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
In pictures: Hartdene Barns – luxury eco homes with an agricultural flavour
In pictures: Druid Grove – CAN's creative home for an artist
In pictures: John Puttick Associates completes Horizon Youth Zone in Grimsby
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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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We must strengthen national urban design guidance and apply it to greenfield developments
The government must go further to deliver a faster approval process and more efficient use of land as well as higher standards of urban design, a group of housing experts write
Architecture is the missing piece in the UK’s creative industry ambitions
UK film and high-end television production spend rose by 17% to about £5.5bn in the first nine months of 2025. Oliver Tyler, managing director at WilkinsonEyre, explains why developments such as Marlow Film Studios will be crucial to its continued success
Engineering the future: We already have the materials and the techniques to transform how we build
Decarbonising our industry means prioritising existing buildings, treating them as structural and material resources, and rediscovering efficient forms and the craft behind the processes that earlier builders refined under constraint, writes Rob Nield
Stagnation and regeneration? A tale of two Scottish cities
Despite being just 40 miles apart, development prospects in Edinburgh and Glasgow could hardly be more different, Rab Bennetts writes
My response to the new Design Planning Policy Practice Guidance
Consultation on the latest guidance ended earlier this week. David Rudlin considers what it got right – and where it went wrong
Ethics, choice and the demolition and rebuilding of the White House East Wing
The US president may currently be focusing on war in Iran but his decision to demolish the building constructed under Theodore Roosevelt has struck a deep nerve with the American public. The most troubling aspect of Donald Trump’s replacement is the way in which architectural standards have been lowered and ...
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
Such buildings can change lives… Regenerating safe spaces that young people can call their own
Horizon Youth Zone has just opened in a refurbished warehouse in Grimsby – one of a flurry of youth centres to have completed in the past three years in disadvantaged areas. As the government promises a £500m investment in youth services, Debika Ray considers the importance of creating civic buildings ...
The regeneration rethink: funding, power and the local leaders shaping what comes next
For over a decade, built environment policy has prioritised new-build over regeneratoin. As Building Design launches its new Regen Connect editorial campaign, Joey Gardiner finds out why that might all be about to change
What unified ownership can teach us about today’s housing strategies
Samuel Hughes traces how unified land ownership has shaped some of the most successful neighbourhoods in history and asks what lessons this holds for today’s housing strategy
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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
From discontented planners to a glorious summer: Van Heyningen and Haward’s Leicester Cathedral extension
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Reviews
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
King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture
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