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“You are a great designer, but no-one knows. Now what?” MVRDV Partner Jan Knikker gives a practical answer to this question in the newly published RIBA advice book “How To Win Work: The architect’s guide to business development and marketing”.... View Article

Hawkins/Brown, Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects and BuroHappold team up for new library at the University of Bristol Located on a hilltop with views across Bristol, the proposed new University Library is an ambitious new building that will create a new... View Article

Living Space Housing has commenced construction work at a 6.3-acre site located off Majestic Way in the village of Aqueduct in Telford, Shropshire. All 39 homes are being delivered to The Wrekin Housing Group for affordable rent to help meet... View Article

CEG’s 200,000 sq ft EQ development will be Bristol’s first new build office to deliver Carbon Net Zero in Operation in accordance with the UK Green Building Council’s (UKGBC) framework approach. The building’s Carbon Net Zero credentials also support Bristol... View Article

NHS Lothian’s new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh, designed by HLM Architects, is to officially open its doors on 23 March 2021. All children’s services presently located at Sciennes, including A&E, are to move to the... View Article

Stephen George + Partners (SGP) is delighted to have handed over Dock 2, a £4million business development workspace facility on Pioneer Park, to Leicester City Council. Working for Brackley Property Development, SGP has designed a three-storey 2,452 m² research and... View Article

Emrys Architects have completely reworked two former craft workshops in Clerkenwell Green Conservation Area. Responding to heritage value, retained architectural features sit alongside sensitive interventions. Emrys Architects have completed two highly contextual restorations of 19th century buildings, for their client... View Article

Construction has commenced on the £60m redevelopment of Northgate Hospital in Morpeth, designed by Medical Architecture for NTW Solutions – Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. The main contractor for the works is Sir Robert McAlpine. Designed around... View Article

Hanover (Scotland) has received planning approval from Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park for its first social housing development to be built to Passivhaus standards. The Drymen development at Conic Way and Montrose Way will comprise 15 affordable homes,... View Article

Stephen George + Partners (SGP) is delighted to see the start of construction of a new 24 dwelling social housing scheme on the site of a demolished pub in Smethwick, West Midlands. Designing a mix of one- and two-bedroom apartments... View Article

A new refectory building for Ibstock Place School in Roehampton.  Maccreanor Lavington Architects were appointed after winning a competition to design the new wing at the independent co-educational day school for pupils aged 4 to 18 years. The new building... View Article

Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH), the innovation consortium set up to transform the housebuilding sector, has today published its second-year progress report showing encouraging results and key learnings for the sector. AIMCH is a three-year research... View Article

Stephen George + Partners LLP (SGP) are pleased to announce the completion of a £1.2 million redevelopment and refurbishment of the Victorian Grade II listed Highfield Street Synagogue in Leicester. SGP’s design creates an expansive glazed foyer to link the... View Article