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Light Roof competition entries shed fresh light on designing homes

The Light Roof ideas competition, run in conjunction with Keylite Roof Windows, asked entrants to design a generous family home where the only daylight came from directly above

25 November 2021

RIBA Stirling Prize winner, Town House, Kingston University London, by Grafton Architects, correcting a 20th century aberration with natural ventilation.

Seek the experience of old shoulders for modern challenges

Aesthetics good, energy-efficiency better

One of three courtyards running along the home’s deep plan, which help blur the distinction between inside and outside.

Scandi comes to Scotland at McGinlay Bell’s Bearsden House

House reflects the influences of a trip to see Aalto’s work

Webinar: Texture in architecture

Our expert panel discusses how designers can bring more tactility to the built environment

Prototype GenZero timber classroom built at a fringe event to COP26 at the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre in Glasgow. Designed by Lyall Bills & Young, the classroom has Glulam columns and beams and CLT panels. When built for permanent use, it will have a concrete-topped hybrid floor.

GenZero prototype could be a ‘game-changer’ for ultra low carbon schools

GenZero, a prototype design for an ultra low carbon secondary school

Diana Dina and Alasdair Ben Dixon on Architects Declare’s Practice Guide

How will the Practice Guide turn good intentions into action?

Off Grid 2030 winner: Ventanilla House

A multigenerational home in Lima was overall winner in this year’s Norbord SterlingOSB Zero/RIBAJ competition

SOM unveils Urban Sequoia, a plan for carbon-consuming cities

Proposal would make a built environment that absorbs carbon

Contractor and sub contractor insolvency: What to look out for and action to take

The end of Covid business support threatens a spate of insolvencies. How to be prepared

In association with Tile of Spain

Specify this versatile material for energy-efficient facades

Architects are choosing Spanish tiles for cladding and ventilated building envelopes

Rising Stars 2021: agitating for change

This year’s Rising Stars are agitators, bringing their colourful voices to a grey digital Covid world

Is London a fetter on a socially mobile and inclusive profession?

The capital-centric profession perpetuates elitism and exclusion

Georgian revival: house restored and resurrected as two inventive flats

ROAR Architects makes two handsome homes from a derelict shell

All our yesterdays: a wander through extinct ideas

A new book celebrates ideas that have had their time

In association with Total Synergy

This company has been helping architects deliver projects since 1999

Total Synergy builds business software with - and for - AEC professionals

Think longer to build sustainably

Quick fixes make immediate impact but real sustainability needs long-term thinking

Top spot to hang out: Callisthenics in Kowloon

David Gutierrez: Garden Hill, Hong Kong, 2018

Bright ideas throw light on the domestic extension

Three ways that improved on standard home improvement

News catch-up: Gove rules on the Tulip – ‘It’s a no from me, Norman’

Embodied carbon cuts down Tulip and Gove rethinks cladding responsibilities