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  1. Intelligence

Where are opportunities for architects in the higher education sector?

The sector’s rapid expansion has been tempered by recent financial difficulties. But universities will still have to invest heavily to meet net zero targets, while purpose-built student accommodation continues to attract investors

22 April 2025

  1. Culture

O’DonnellBrown: rising Glasgow firm collaborates to punch above its weight

Since relocating to the Scottish capital in 2016, a community-minded ethos, outward focus and local authority expertise have helped the eight-strong practice wield outsized influence

22 April 2025

  1. Buildings

Social homes impress with subtle variation and practical design touches

In west London, Maccreanor Lavington’s MacFarlane Place scheme for Peabody salutes Victorian blocks while offering satisfying points of difference and tenant-friendly touches such as heat-regulating shutters

17 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: Find work worth the bidding

Bid for a spot on a construction consultancy services framework, create a motor-free square in the capital, lead the restoration of four war memorial sites - some of the latest architecture contracts and competitions from across the industry

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Wood Up by LAN Architecture rises alongside the Seine in Paris Rive Gauche
  1. Buildings

Is Paris’s Wood Up a template for future timber housing projects?

As well as providing Parisians with housing, LAN Architecture’s 16-storey tower has also served as an experimental research project for the development of timber as a building material, with many of its elements requiring laboratory testing from scratch

3 January 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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