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  1. Buildings

As the Steel City renews itself, an industrial past is helping shape the future

A decade after a £600 million scheme to demolish and rebuild swathes of its city centre collapsed, Sheffield is returning life to its historic buildings as it regenerates its heart

29 April 2025

  1. Intelligence

Will the ARB's PPE Commission smooth the next generation's path into the profession?

The Architects Registration Board’s commission on the future of professional practice experience for architecture students has issued its findings. Their aims are laudable, but questions remain around implementing them, writes Alex Wright

28 April 2025

  1. Spec

Checklist: designing and specifying flat roofs

Flat roofs require many considerations, from practicality and appearance to material selection, performance, cost and maintenance. Mark Austin, technical director at SpecStudio, lists the elements to review to develop a thorough specification

28 April 2025

MacEwen award 2025

The MacEwen Award celebrates projects that demonstrate a mutual willingness of architect and client to push at the edges of what a typology can be

The commended and winning schemes that celebrate architecture for the common good

Severn View Park is a dementia care home that avoids an institutional feel in favour of providing a sense of familiarity and self-determination

The dementia care home provides a sense of familiarity and self-determination

Halifax’s new bus station, by Stephen George & Partners, is an unusually ambitious piece of civic infrastructure

Stephen George & Partners’ new bus station is an unusually ambitious piece of civic infrastructure

Manalo & White has converted a Bangor church into Nyth, a new home for Welsh language theatre company Frân Wen, which has allowed it to turbocharge its social mission

Manalo & White’s conversion of a Bangor church into a home for a Welsh language theatre company

The square, co-conceived, designed and constructed by residents, is fostering collaboration, agency and hopes for the future in an area facing deprivation

The square has been co-conceived, designed and constructed by local residents

Roofing and cladding

Zinc is the material of choice for three innovative projects, including a Stirling Prize winner

Zinc is the material of choice for three innovative projects

Wood and natural slate cladding wrap up a modern new-build that is completely at home in its Loire Valley setting

A modern new-build completely at home in its Loire Valley setting

This solar PV solution provides fully integrated sustainable electricity generation without compromising aesthetics

Integrated solar PV electricity generation can look good too

These A1/A2 fire rated architectural panels for new-build and recladding projects are available as vibrant or natural-looking designs in aluminium, fibre cement or extruded porcelain

A1/A2 fire rated panels in aluminium, fibre cement and extruded porcelain

Be mindful of the entire roof build-up - not just the vegetation layer - when looking to achieve an environmentally friendly solution

It's the entire roof build-up that's important - not just the vegetation

Opportunities Hub: Competitions that make a difference

Propose an installation that 'transcends utility' for a square in Bridgetown, reimagine the civic centre of an historic market town, bid for a spot on a construction consultancy services framework - some of the latest architecture competitions and contracts from across the industry

  1. Buildings

Interchange brings the drama to Paris's new suburban orbital metro

Gare de Villejuif-Gustave Roussy, where lines 14 and 15 of the new Grand Paris Express intersect, is a colossal effort of civil engineering by Dominique Perrault Architecture

27 March 2025

Six Columns named RIBA House of the Year 2024 winner

Sophisticated use of space and materials is manifest in this family home by 31/44 Architects, which draws on an eclectic array of personal and architectural references

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