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The night of Wednesday 13th November saw the crowning of the 2019 Brick Awards winners, a ceremony that for 43 years has celebrated the best use of brick in the built environment. Projects of the highest calibre are routinely entered... View Article

House Lessans, an exquisitely simple home in County Down designed by McGonigle McGrath, has been named RIBA House of the Year 2019. The prestigious annual award is given by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to the UK’s best... View Article

One of the United Kingdom’s largest developers, Linden Homes, has won best Low Rise Development in the South of England at this year’s Premier Guarantee Excellence Awards for its Mulberry Fields development in Bognor Regis, West Sussex. Mulberry Fields beat... View Article

Situated just north of the village of Upham, near Winchester, is Woodcote House. Nestled amongst the rolling chalk hills of the South Downs National Park, this contemporary house replaces a series of brick buildings that had fallen into disrepair. After achieving permission... View Article

Reacting to the death of Ted Cullinan, RIBA President, Alan Jones, said: “Architecture has lost a pioneer. Ted will be sorely missed and fondly remembered for the incredible contribution he made to architecture and society. He was a radical thinker,... View Article

Waugh Thistleton Architects’ design for the Kennaway Estate was approved on Wednesday 6 November when councillors for the London Borough of Hackney voted in favour of Southern Housing Group’s proposal to regenerate the estate. The scheme will deliver 61 new homes, enhance... View Article

A new residential development located at The Ridgeway, Sele Farm in Hertford, has reached completion. Architecture and building consultancy practice, AHR has transformed The Ridgeway by replacing poor-quality, ageing buildings with 120 new contemporary affordable homes within an attractive neighbourhood... View Article

Zaha Hadid Architects (UK) working with Esplan (Estonia) have been have been awarded first place in the design competition for the new terminal of the Rail Baltic railway at Ulemiste, Tallinn. Rail Baltic is a planned 870 km electrified railway... View Article

For October, there have been six new entrants to the Top 50 Contractor League in the first ten spots, shaped by four project awards all over £150 million. Fluor Limited took the top spot following the contract award for the... View Article

Work has officially completed on a landmark project to deliver 139 affordable homes across North Lanarkshire Robertson Partnership Homes, the affordable homes division of Robertson – one of the UK’s leading infrastructure companies – built the units across six sites,... View Article

Enfield Council has agreed to plans that will transform two adjacent Edmonton estates, dramatically improving residents’ lives Both Joyce Avenue and Snells Park have been earmarked to be redeveloped as part of a multi-million pound regeneration scheme. At Enfield Council’s... View Article

Chris Dyson Architects has completed a new café in south London’s Grade I-listed Crystal Palace Park. The distinctive two-storey building comprises a café and terrace at ground level, and a community space at first floor level. Wrapped in half-round cedar... View Article

Award-winning Assael Architecture’s designs to transform the former Bristol Fire Station and a vacant brownfield site at Aubrey Place have been granted planning permission to develop 546 Build to Rent (BtR) and affordable homes in the centres of Bristol and... View Article

A clever reflection of the main hall at the Victoria and Albert Museum and an aerial view of the Camp Adventure Observation Tower in Gisselfeld Klosters Forest, Denmark are among 24 finalists announced this week for The Architectural Photography Awards... View Article

House Lessans, a sophisticated rural home in Northern Ireland built using the most basic of materials and, Secular Retreat, an enigmatic and sculptural home on a remote Devon hilltop – are the fifth and sixth homes to be shortlisted for RIBA House... View Article