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‘A celebration of rain and landscape’: Ben MacFarlane sends a postcard from Japan

The Pend associate is enthralled by how Japanese architecture interacts with the weather, compared with his native Scotland ...
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What do the RIBA National Awards tell us about the best architecture now?

Thirty-two RIBA National Awards have been announced. They represent the tiny percentage of projects across the UK where ...
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Beds and sheds: the architecture of co‑location and intensification

Logistics and housing are co-located at Bermondsey Heights, by Maccreanor Lavington and dMFK, thanks to a focus on the ...
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A vertical playground by Kéré Architecture slides into a Munich campus

Kinderoase, Munich, Pritzker Prize-winning Kéré Architecture’s first permanent building in Europe, sets out a cheerful model ...
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Bindloss Dawes’ charred timber facade adds sharp contrast to an 18th-century farmhouse

Somerset studio Bindloss Dawes has restored a historic local farmhouse and added an extension that leads via a sequence of ...
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Guilty Pleasure: Neil Gillespie’s love of the down-at-heel London caff

The exterior, the interior, the signage, the menu card and the fare itself are free of design and pretentious curation ...
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How practices can work with RIBA to support social mobility and diversity in future architects

The work experience programme provides invaluable access for those with no existing contacts in the profession ...
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Practices ‘unsure they are recovering all fees due’, says digitisation survey

Poll assesses architecture practices’ digital readiness and how digitisation is affecting operational efficiency ...
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From eyesore to community asset: IF_DO’s revamp of Eagle House in Hastings

How did you win the project? We’d been working with the developer, Hastings Commons, since 2019 on the Hastings & St Leonards Observer Building just a few doors down from Eagle House. Hastings Commons ...