• 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

Focus

  • 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

  • Public Practice: Delivering retrofit at scale in Greenwich

  • 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?

Specification

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WA100 Digital Edition

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WA100 2026: Digital edition

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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

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

In Pictures

  • 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

  • Allies and Morrison completes passivhaus student townhouses in Cambridge

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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  • 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

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