Wright & Wright’s library for St John’s College looks to the future and past
The architect’s modern addition for the 400-year-old Oxford college concludes a decade-long project of restoration and renewal
28 November 2023
How Moxon gave the Cairngorms’ Gairnshiel Bridge hidden strength
Some complex engineering lies behind the slender new river crossing, a robust but sympathetic design that sits elegantly in its context
27 November 2023
How can architects integrate shading to combat overheating?
As we adapt to the warming climate, shading can help keep our buildings cool. In the first in our climate adaptation series, Tom Dollard of Pollard Thomas Edwards offers guidance on making shading part of your design
24 November 2023
Free AHMM carbon calculator covers full project lifecycle
Toolkit supports end-to-end carbon reporting in every project discipline
WGP Architects on designing better care homes for people with dementia
WGP has completed a dementia care home in Southwark and has two more in planning
In association with Aquabocci
Design smooth, trouble-free transitions between inside and out
Discover what a well designed flush threshold drain can do for you
In association with the Brick Development Association
Brick Awards 2023: The winners
Celebrating the clay block: 16 innovative projects take 18 top awards
How architects can put together a business continuity plan
Learn more about the benefits of having a plan, and how to go about putting one together
Industria stacks factories to free land for housing
Haworth Tompkins creates multi-level, multi-occupancy industrial building with spiral truck ramp
Department 4 education winners
This year's SterlingOSB Zero competition asked entrants to redevelop a department store into a secondary school
The retrofit of a Southampton department store into a secondary school has won this year's West Fraser SterlingOSB Zero/RIBAJ competition
The conversion of Manchester House of Fraser applies retail principles to an education setting
A former Debenhams in Bath uses hexagonal SterlingOSB Zero constructions to create a hive structure
The proposal adapts an Exeter retail unit to create a school with civic purpose
Costed: PiP brings you up to date with roofing and skylight prices
The price of different options if you're raising or refurbishing the roof
High contrast: books from John Tuomey and Thomas Heatherwick
Noisy marketing fails to eclipse the thoughtful genesis of an architect
Navigating the Building Safety Act's position of Principal Designer
What's different with the new role, what are the pros and cons of taking it on?
In association with Vectorworks
Vectorworks Design Day UK 2023: A glimpse into the future
Annual event provides insight into working practices of tomorrow under tag line ‘What is design freedom?’
Space, Rhythm & Light illuminates Kim Lim at the Hepworth
Wakefield gallery revives modernist sculptor and exponent of ‘musicality and rhythm’
In association with Autodesk
Sustainability shapes Rwandan conservation project
A campus designed to save gorillas and inspire a new generation of environmental advocates
Roofing and cladding
Highoaks House's contemporary aesthetic includes a nod to the past
Invisible clip-based system 50 per cent faster to install
Integrated solar PV electricity generation can look good too
Zinc is the material of choice for three innovative projects
Specify the durable slate with a trademark phyllitic sheen
Balbek Bureau adapts shipping containers to modular art gallery touring Ukraine
If you can't travel to see this exhibition, MOT will come to you, says architect Slava Balbek of his studio's demountable gallery that is touring his war-ravaged country to raise funds for restoring Ukraine's art institutions. Here’s how he has done it
23 October 2023
Devil in the detail on groundbreaking Passivhaus Plus school
‘Thermos flask’ approach enabled steel and concrete construction
From Roman mosaics and Tudor tiles to Antarctic snow and grit: the specialists that are key to our work
Hugh Broughton Architects opens its contacts book
In association with The Brick Tile Company
Chip off the old block: Brick slips please, inside and out
Tiles cut from brick offer all the good looks of the real thing with less of the labour
In association with The Rooflight Co