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The latest architecture news covering buildings, architects, planning, competition wins and business. You can also read about topics including the climate emergency, retrofit, the RIBA and architectural education

Project starts fall by third but London bucks the trend

The value of project starts across the UK fell by almost a third in the final quarter of 2023, but rose by 29 per cent in London

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Coppin Dockray gets go-ahead for homes in Surrey chalk pit

Coppin Dockray has been given planning consent for three new houses in a chalk quarry in Guildford, Surrey

Crewe Heritage Centre

6a wins contest to upgrade Crewe railway museum

British Museum revamp contest faces boycott over BP backing

Seven practical AI tips: how and when to use generative design

Safety regulator to investigate towers built with large panel systems

Pollard Thomas Edwards go-ahead for rural eco-housing with ‘parking barns’

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Haworth Tompkins wins competition to rebuild Finnish theatre

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Novak Hiles lodges plans for house in Barnet back garden

AJ100 survey now open

Haworth Tompkins founders step down

Weston Williamson puts HS2 viaduct design to public vote

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Jo Cowen to redesign OMA’s Greenwich Morden Wharf tower plans

Mackintosh tea rooms saved from closure five years after £10m revamp

7N submits plans for 7,000-home neighbourhood on Edinburgh outskirts

Alexander Hills Architects reconfigures Norfolk flint farmhouse

Clear Architects wins planning for Chingford riverside ‘tree houses’

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Architect struck off after ghosting five different clients

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Baca reveals proposals for world’s largest amphibious house

Morris+Company Shoreditch planning decision deferred for third time

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Buckley Gray Yeoman refurbishes Canary Wharf office

AHMM losses nearly double to £1.8m despite revenue increase

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We Made That lands 15-year Croydon town centre strategic vision

dRMM joined by new names on major Peckham regeneration scheme

Retrofirst

Government moves to cut red tape on historic home retrofits

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Birmingham City Council to reconsider demolition of Brutalist landmark

Angry residents say council heating upgrade will destroy listed Neave Brown estate

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Fathom’s green-walled Waterloo retrofit plans approved

Opinion

The Coach: What benefits can I offer my staff to stop them leaving?

Worried about the Building Safety Act? Maybe try my building safety bot

Keir Regan-Alexander

Don’t underestimate the desire to ‘get things sorted’ in 2024

Multistorey industrial developments are an architectural opportunity

The Regs: Are you up to speed with the Building Safety Act? Part 3

Geoff Wilkinson

Glasgow cheerleaders should admit it. The city is on its knees

Long reads

Exclusive: Survey reveals architects were handed a real terms pay cut in 2023

Retrofitting Canary Wharf: is there life in the Isle of Dogs yet?

Architectural antagonists: the new radicals holding a mirror up to the industry and society

So you reckon you are co-designing? Really?

Neil Onions: the mentors’ mentor

Bartlett scandal: Is the architecture school now safe for students?

Young, gifted and blocked: the AJ’s latest race and diversity survey

‘The Cult of David’: Former Adjaye Associates employees speak out as practice cuts staff

Handling the Heat part 2: how masterplanners are designing for a hotter climate

Handling the Heat: how architects are designing for a hotter climate

Is the M&S Oxford St demolition refusal a climate crisis turning point?

Government shuts four-year-old school over ‘structural irregularities’

Competition wins

Crewe Heritage Centre

6a wins contest to upgrade Crewe railway museum

Grenfell Tower

Safety regulator to investigate towers built with large panel systems

RIBA

Architects have ‘key role’ in reducing emissions, RIBA president says

Business news

Project starts fall by third but London bucks the trend

AJ100

AJ100 survey now open

Planning

Morris+Company Shoreditch planning decision deferred for third time