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Chipperfield and Feix and Merlin win LSE Lincoln’s Inn Fields competition

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Opinion

How to bring others along on your net zero carbon journey

Dav Bansal

Opinion

Birmingham is seizing its moment to drive real change

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Architects’ confidence slumps to lowest level since height of the pandemic

Eleanor Jolliffe

Opinion

Overheating buildings are architects’ responsibility too

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Opinion

The joy of designing and building appropriately

Eleanor Jolliffe

Opinion

Do we value our profession so little that its future competence is left to chance?

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Government relaxes new certification rules to allow EU tests on construction products

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In conversation: The Value Toolkit with Building magazine

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Part L: What do the changes mean for the sector?

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Opinion

Renewing my insurance should not have been such an ordeal

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Mandatory plans to cut carbon in projects put back on the table

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Architects brush off economic gloom as confidence surges back

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RSHP’s rejected South Ken proposals head for planning inquiry

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Opinion

What is Oxford Street for?

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Opinion

The Coach: It’s OK to get angry – it’s how we deal with our anger that’s key

Eleanor Jolliffe

Opinion

What’s going on at the RIBA?

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Opinion

Design better, specify better and consume more carefully – that’s my (not so) radical idea

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LSE reveals shortlisted designs for £120m Lincoln’s Inn Fields hub

Eleanor Jolliffe

Opinion

Handle with care: retrofits are full of surprises and architects have lots to learn

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Opinion

Scrapping the S106 agreement would mean better placemaking

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Risk & Regulation Summit: Building Safety Act - Navigating gateways two and three

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Risk & Regulation Summit: What does the new cladding regime mean for the housing industry?

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Risk & Regulation Summit: What does the UK’s product testing sector need to do to become fit for purpose?

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Risk & Regulation Summit: Embedding the Golden Thread into construction processes

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Opinion

The Coach: Quitting your job is a big deal. Have you really thought it all through?

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The Building Safety Bill becomes law – here is what you need to know

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Building Safety Bill ‘to become law tomorrow’

Eleanor Jolliffe

Opinion

Architects have strangled themselves

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Opinion

Amid the devastation of Ukraine the desire to rebuild is urgent and powerful

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Morris & Co wins planning for 52-storey Docklands tower after design tweaks

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London leads surge in confidence to pre-pandemic levels

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Opinion

The risks of overheating are real – and we must take them very seriously

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Bennetts Associates becomes top-scoring architecture B Corp

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Webinar: How can firms manage the Golden Thread?

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Bisset Adams went bust owing nearly £500,000

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Weston Williamson snapped up by engineering giant

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Opinion

The Coach: How to manage empathy overload

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Investigators probe cause of fire at 22-storey Aldgate tower

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‘Disappointed’ Gove rejects housebuilders’ cladding offer

Eleanor Jolliffe

Opinion

We all lose if youthful ambition is stifled

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Fosters becomes latest practice to pull out of Russia

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Zaha Hadid Foundation announces plans for museum and gallery

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Bisset Adams folds blaming ‘perfect storm’ of Brexit and pandemic

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Opinion

If the future of housing is huge blocks of flats, now is the moment to get our approach right

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Russian architects banned by competitions organisers

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RBKC gears up for battle over police station redevelopment

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Opinion

The Medici effect is real in levelling up

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CLC webinar: Reflecting on progress and success in 2021 and its plans for 2022

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Grimshaw chairman predicts projects will stop amid escalating Ukraine crisis

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Product testing sector ‘very concerned’ as ministers fail to clarify new rules

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FCBS defends plans to flatten trio of historic Bristol banks

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AHMM’s Holloway prison plans deferred amid backlash

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Storm Eunice damages O2 Arena, Laban Centre and Cressingham Gardens

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Architects remain positive despite rising cost pressures

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LSE reveals shortlist for £100m+ Lincoln’s Inn Fields project

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Camden set to green-light Holborn estate infill plans

Martyn Evans index

Opinion

When all the questions are new, don’t look for answers in the same old places

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Gove announces plan to give legal force to £4bn cladding threats

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dRMM opens new Berlin studio out of ‘Brexit depression’

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Opinion

Adopting Part Z is just the first step

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Developers rethinking projects as cost pressures bite, report says

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Royal Docks developer ‘running out of time’ on £1bn Farrells scheme

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Ryder Architecture buys up Haskoll

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Marble Arch Mound architect: ‘We should have walked from the project’

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Architect reports 1,100% hike in cost of PI cover

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Features

How to design timber buildings that will be insured

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Opinion

The Coach: On change, grief and adjustment

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Spiralling costs mean London’s builders turning down jobs in droves

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Ministers ‘distracted from net zero goals by lockdown parties row’

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Use more concrete to make timber buildings safer, says insurance report

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Chinese property crisis hits KPF’s £1bn Nine Elms project

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Almost 10% of RIBA staff could be facing redundancy

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Build cost inflation hitting 45% on some housing projects, says London mayor

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Lloyd’s decision on future of Rogers building delayed by pandemic

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Peter Barber becomes a Royal Academician

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Salaries rise across profession as practices power out of pandemic

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News

Cause of second Mac blaze remains a mystery

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Opinion

WA100 2022: Now is the time to capitalise on your net-zero expertise

Lee Rowley

News

Government to meet CLC over product certification worries

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Scott Tallon Walker and Edward Williams’ delayed London cancer centre opens

David Rudlin_index

Opinion

Live like a local?

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Insolvency warning as industry faces mounting challenges

Martyn Evans index

Opinion

Cityshaping without the politics of populism and polarisation

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Architects predict strong start to 2022 despite escalating costs

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Opinion

Twelve reasons to be an architect

Zaha Hadid

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Zaha Hadid Architects’ £12m bill to use founder’s name

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Morris & Co’s Docklands tower pulled over fire safety concerns

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Google pays $1bn for Renzo Piano’s Central St Giles offices

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Fosters’ partners share another multi-million-pound payday

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Proctor & Matthews lodges plans for final phases of Nottingham housing

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Opinion

Gove makes progress on building safety – but many questions remain

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Wilkinson Eyre’s profit jumps

Eleanor Jolliffe

Opinion

A question of scale

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Warnings mount over Omicron shutting sites

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Planning system ‘faces crisis without higher fees’

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Official behind MVRDV’s Marble Arch Mound paid more than council chief executive

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Tate Liverpool announces design contest for £25m overhaul

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AHMM turnover dives by 22%

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Profit, turnover and directors’ pay soar at ZHA

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Architects and clients recognised in New Year Honours

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Squire & Partners’ Old Vic tower thrown out

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City of London approved 70% more office floorspace this year

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Opinion

The king of urban renaissance had politicians – if not princes – at his feet

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Residents back redevelopment of estate that once sparked civil war at UCL

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Trade deal will make it easier for UK architects to work in Australia

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Architects stay hopeful in the face of materials worries

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Foster & Partners’ Whitechapel tower rejected despite redesign

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PLP’s Holborn Viaduct offices given green light

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LSE launches £120m design contest for final set-piece building

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Heatherwick receives another seven-figure dividend as profit slips

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Prepare now for new rules on high-rise design, regulator warns

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Opinion

Design teams could be on hook for retrospective leaseholder claims

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Frustrated architects pivot back to working from home

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Opinion

Meanwhile… here’s a great way to test your risky brainwaves

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Opinion

The Coach: Let’s reflect, not ruminate, on 2021

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Arb approves Cambridge’s part 2 architecture apprenticeship

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Covid blows out cost of BDP’s Parliament job by up to 50%

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Features

This changes everything! Why architects should embrace integrated project insurance

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Architects maintained profits despite pandemic, RIBA’s annual survey finds

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PRP unveils plans for 120-home later living scheme

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Dozens win places on consultants’ £1.7bn Crown Commercial Services framework

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Southwark backs plans to demolish flawed flats after just 10 years

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BDP hangs onto furlough cash while paying £16m dividend

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Webinar | Classification standards & ISO19650 in UK construction

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Hawkins Brown eyes Irish expansion with Dublin office

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Opinion

If our training is changing, that must be a good thing

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Chipperfield wins planning for Edinburgh concert hall after long fight

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David Chipperfield plays down impact of Brexit on business

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South Coast regen company to build 3,500 homes

Martyn Evans index

Opinion

Monday-Tuesday, happy days?

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Webinar | Construction Innovation Hub’s 2021 round up

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Listen: Tees Valley mayor on scaling up hydrogen production

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Spurs’ plans for blocks of flats near stadium refused

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Council sets out reasons it rejected RSHP’s South Ken plans

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Opinion

We must make a better case for new housing

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PLP’s Westferry Printworks scheme thrown out in government U-turn

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Webinar | Weaving the golden thread into your house building project

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Webinar | How can your business benefit from employee incentive schemes?

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In pics: Stevenage’s 75th anniversary celebrated

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RIBA warns of impact of escalating inflation

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Gove ‘a bit of a catch’ for housing ministry, says former chief architect

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Features

Who is Sarah Allan?

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Sarah Allan appointed government’s chief architect

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You downsized your practice in the pandemic. Here’s how to rebuild

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Landsec reveals delays to Bennetts and Wilkinson Eyre projects

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COP26: Time for entire industry to take responsibility, urges Steve Tompkins

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Tulip carbon decision could change how big projects are assessed

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Gove turns down Squire & Partners’ Brighton homes on design grounds

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Tulip team could return to drawing board to save £500m project

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Tulip decision will hurt the hard-pressed City

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Karen Cook and Peter Rees react as £500m Tulip scrapped

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Tulip appeal thrown out over design and carbon concerns

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Opinion

Heat and Buildings Strategy requires major commitment. Let’s hope it works

Ben Flatman

Opinion

No more needless, ego-driven demolition. Conservation is key

Dundon Passivhaus, Somerset by Prewett Bizley Architects

News

Investors ‘reluctant to adopt green building practices’

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AHR tower approved despite local politicians tearing into design

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Opinion

The Coach: Why self-awareness is key to good leadership

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BIG’s Fleet Street office approved despite objections over height

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Architects accuse chancellor of being ‘out of sync’ with climate crisis

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Opinion

When it comes to the climate emergency urbanists are part of the solution, right?

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Chancellor to announce nearly £2bn for housing on brownfield sites

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‘Imminent risk’ of steel production shutdown amid critical magnesium shortage

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New owner of £1bn South Bank site replaces Wilkinson Eyre with Fosters

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AHMM director hits back at critics of Holloway and St Thomas’s schemes

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Opinion

The rise and rise of big practice

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Wright & Wright and Avanti appointed to delayed British Museum framework

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One in five practices struggling to find new staff

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Interview | Simon Allford: ‘Architecture will emerge stronger’

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Features

Lay off the plasterboard and cladding

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Legend of brutalism Owen Luder dies at 93

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Foster & Partners sold to private investor

Ben Flatman

Opinion

Is it time for architects to join the Tory party?

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Grimshaw shuts all its offices for World Mental Health Day – at a cost of £150,000

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Make reports £1.3m dip in turnover

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Stiff & Trevillion’s City tower kicked into touch by Square Mile planners

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Features

Analysis: How to build 5,000 homes in Middle England – and keep the neighbours happy

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Opinion

The Coach: Thinking fast and slow – how to choose

The design evolution of Foster & Partners Tulip tower

News

Tulip decision delayed – again

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Gove said to have ordered ‘complete rethink’ on planning reforms

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Government should fund neighbourhood planning, says think tank

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High Court to rule on bid to quash planning deregulation

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Perkins & Will replaces BDP on £600m hospital job as relationship fails

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Opinion

Only the chosen few can walk the ‘starchitect’ tightrope

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Urban Splash picked for £750m Swansea regeneration

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Construction told to speed up carbon reduction programme

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Architects’ confidence slips back as shortages bite

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David Chipperfield shrugs off pandemic to return to black

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Architects urge governments to decarbonise global building codes

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Opinion

Watch out for more changes as Building Safety Bill makes progress

Ben Flatman

Opinion

It’s back: a true celebration of the depth and breadth of UK architectural work

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Gove replaces Jenrick as housing secretary in reshuffle

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Webinar | How can UK construction businesses fuel growth by releasing trapped cash?

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Architects in with chance to win up to £1bn of infrastructure work this year

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Heads roll at RICS following governance scandal report

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Ministers slated for ‘unacceptable’ delivery of Green Homes Grant

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Severe cement shortages predicted if lorry drivers vote to strike

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Opinion

The Coach: How do we re-onboard everyone for the ‘new term’?

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Architects chase £20m L&Q design framework

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Housing associations shrink affordable build programmes as councils step up

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