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Boring facades can seriously damage your health

What does neuroscience tell us about what to promote or avoid in facade design?

Checklist: designing and specifying flat roofs

Mark Austin, technical director at SpecStudio, lists the elements to review to develop a thorough flat roof specification

For the Avicii Arena, a new retractable roof is an acoustic game changer

A massive new foldaway internal roof enables the venue to rapidly transform in response to its events schedule

Wick Lane: an integrated new development where rooflines salute the past

dRMM's east London Wick Lane development blends industrial and residential space, and references local heritage via its roof forms

The importance of designing spaces that sound as good as they look

Sound, too often the afterthought of building design, can make people feel inspired and connected to spaces

Cowley Manor: an old swimming pool becomes stone-clad hotel space

At a listed country house hotel, De Matos Ryan devised a stone and timber-framed pavilion on the former site of a swimming pool

Powers of Ten competition: play with scale to gain pounds

Competition: create an object, installation, building or urban intervention that plays on the idea of scale, to create wonder, drama or even shock

Costed: Envelope and cladding materials

Nicola Sharkey, UK insights and research lead at Gleeds, advises on envelope and cladding product costs

Walworth Town Hall: bold new interiors behind roof risen from the ashes

At fire-damaged, Grade II-listed Walworth Town Hall, Feix&Merlin has worked within original roof dimensions to create striking spaces from modern materials

Reach for the sky: The Rooflight Co.

Human expertise combines with advanced manufacturing techniques to create The Rooflight Co’.s products

Spatial beauty and surprise: designing bespoke houses

A PiP webinar featured presentations on houses shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year 2024

Capella: All clear at King’s Cross

The door and window choices for the 14-storey Capella housing scheme in King’s Cross