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BIG’s UK office plummets to £4.2m loss following pause on its largest project
Huge losses posted despite revenue increasing by £4m after work on Saudi scheme is put on hold
Book review – Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon
A new book celebrates Royal Festival Hall’s 75th anniversary, revealing the radical vision behind Britain’s most enduring post-war public building
The future of concrete – experiments in material hope
In pictures: Wade House by Wadhal – Metroland reinvented
Clerkenwell – year-round building-design destination
Completing the Quarter: Albert Giralt on Shard Place and 25 years of Renzo Piano Building Workshop at London Bridge
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
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
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The Whiteley: Fosters transforms a piece of Bayswater history
‘Good growth in every postcode and hope in every heart’… But what did Burnham’s speech actually mean?
UK Design Capital of the Year: How Bradford’s regeneration is driving its revival
Public buildings in the UK are not built for frequent heatwaves - what will it take to fix them?
How Studio Verve is keeping Harringay warehouse district alive
Olympia reborn: How London’s historic exhibition venue has been revitalised for the modern age
What would prime minister Burnham look like for housing and construction?
5 minutes with … Simon Saint at Woods Bagot
‘We will build the crème de la crème’… Meet the men behind £10bn Czech giant Penta’s ambitious launch in London
The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration: Tim Ronalds Architects reanimates New River Head
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Specification
In pictures: Mosley Thorold De Beauvoir Town house renovation – masterly blend of old, new and reclaimed materials
Wellness retreat meets period home in Mosley Thorold’s renovation of a traditional Victorian home in De Beauvoir town
Renovate first, build last: Velux argues for making better use of Europe’s existing housing stock
A new green paper from the Velux group says new build should be a last resort and that Europe could meet its housing needs by making better use of existing stock
Could composites be the future of high-performance building systems?
Guillaume Klein argues that a new European standard for composites should prompt architects and specifiers to rethink material choices
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WA100 Digital Edition
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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Architect of the Year Awards 2025
What made this project… Harmeny learning hub by Loader Monteith
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Boomers to Zoomers
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
In pictures: HOK completes Merlin Place laboratory in Cambridge
In pictures: Pend’s stylish Canon Mews uses courtyards to maximise a constrained urban site
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
In pictures: Blight Rayner and Snøhetta’s Glasshouse Theatre, Brisbane – wavy glass wonder wall
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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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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Will Burnham’s ‘Manchesterism’ be a lifeline for housebuilding?
The next prime minister must resist the temptation to unpick everything and instead build on existing progress, writes Ben Derbyshire
The time is now for reserved activities, and RIBA is leading the charge
We need to make sure that those responsible for the critical decisions in delivering buildings have the specific and assessed skills and competencies required for the task, This is how, rites Jack Pringle, chair of the RIBA board
What if creativity was the value all along?
When people choose where to live, work or invest, culture is often the decisive factor. The smartest developers appreciate that, writes Martyn Evans
We are at a turning point for heritage skills – and action is needed now
Adrian Attwood argues time is running out to save Britain’s heritage craft skills and says urgent action is needed to ensure the future of the trades that conserve our historic built environment
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
Passivhaus pioneers revisit the standard 16 years on
The team behind the UK’s first cavity wall Passivhaus are now building a terrace of three Passivhaus Plus homes in West Yorkshire. Bill Butcher and Chris Herring of 21 Degrees share what has changed - and what they wish they’d known first time around
‘Good growth in every postcode and hope in every heart’… But what did Burnham’s speech actually mean?
With grand vision and little detail, Andy Burnham last week made his pitch for prime minister. Daniel Gayne picks through his Manchester speech for clues about what the Makerfield MP will actually do when he gets the keys to Number 10
What would prime minister Burnham look like for housing and construction?
The new MP for Makerfield still has a way to go to take Keir Starmer’s job. But with his ascent to Number 10 looking more likely by the day, Daniel Gayne breaks down what his policy agenda might look like for housing, infrastructure and skills
5 minutes with … Simon Saint at Woods Bagot
The firm’s principal on developing young talent, avoiding the race to the bottom, the trouble with procrastination and his favourite T-shirt
‘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
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The Whiteley: Fosters transforms a piece of Bayswater history
How Studio Verve is keeping Harringay warehouse district alive
Olympia reborn: How London’s historic exhibition venue has been revitalised for the modern age
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
A lesson in ‘elegant frugality’: DSDHA’s Henry Moore gallery
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
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Reviews
Book review – Royal Festival Hall: A Living Icon
Review - Roaming Britain: Gypsy and Traveller Homes at RIBA North
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
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