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Shedkm completes first phase of Birkenhead factory-built waterside community
Thirty factory-built homes at Wirral Waters form the first phase of Peel L&P’s waterside community on Birkenhead’s historic docks
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Morris+Company gets green light for Southwark student block
Southwark Council has approved Morris + Company’s plans for a major student residential building and ‘keyworker’ housing development in south London
Case study: Kingsfield Pond by Jonathan Hendry Architects
A poplar tree woodland was the starting point for designing this Lincolnshire house, configured as a series of separate buildings. Photography by David Grandorge
What Anders Lendager can teach Michael Gove about the circular economy
The government’s headline-grabbing rejection of Pilbrow & Partners’ M&S Oxford Street plan highlights how far off the UK is from producing circular economy projects like those of Danish architect Anders Lendager, argues Peter Murray
Nimtim reimagines Becontree Estate road junction as community square
The practice has transformed four of the Dagenham estate’s corner plots into a public square, developing the designs with local residents and incorporating found materials
James Gorst Architects completes Suffolk timber community hall
James Gorst Architects has completed a 237m² double-height timber frame community hall in Framlingham, rural Suffolk
Handing back £1.9bn of housing funds to the Treasury is no disaster
The housing department's failure to spend billions during a housing crisis looks awful – but it could unwittingly benefit the country because of flaws in existing policy, argues David Birkbeck
Michael Gove has been bold over M&S Oxford Street. But it’s not enough
The government urgently needs to join the dots between its landmark verdict on Marks & Spencer’s demolition proposal and the policy vacuum on limiting embodied carbon in construction, writes Will Hurst
A thorough grounding in the city: Portsmouth Student Show 2023
The University of Portsmouth architecture school has a close connection to the region’s architecture scene, providing a rich canvas for the retrofit and urban renewal seen in much of the work, writes Rob Wilson
Grandorge: A short history of the digital age
If our machines become more intelligent than us, we must hope they will be kinder to us than we have been to ourselves, writes David Grandorge