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The award-winning architecture practice, Hollaway Studio, has designed a sustainable new workshop and museum for world-renowned rocking horse makers, Stevenson Brothers, replacing a former petrol filling station on a brownfield site in the village of High Halden, Kent, SE England.... View Article

MVRDV has won the competition to design a new central library for Wuhan, China. Poised to become one of the largest libraries in China, the 140,000 m² project combines traditional and non-traditional functions with diverse study, living room, reading, and... View Article

The latest episode of the Building Insights podcast is now live. In this episode, Nigel Ostime, partner at Hawkins\Brown architects, discusses the impact of the recent Building Safety Act, introduced to bring a range of improvements in building procurement to... View Article

The Taiwan Ministery of Economic Affairs has selected MVRDV’s Hoowave Water Factory as the winning design for a large-scale redevelopment of Huwei’s Beigang and Anqingzhen waterways. Combining both a strategic masterplan and a landscape design, the proposal aims to modernise... View Article

A planning application has been submitted for a new community hospital in Consett, designed by Medical Architecture for County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust. The project is in Cohort 2 of the New Hospitals Programme, the plan by NHS... View Article

Twenty-seven tents, donated to EAA by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, will be placed in refugee and displaced communities in Syria, Turkey and Yemen. Education Above All (EAA) Foundation, the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, and its... View Article

A raised garden conceived to mend a long-standing rift in the terrain and recreate the hillside of the site in which it is located. This is what the new Fendi production building in Bagno a Ripoli (FI) looks like, whose design concept was... View Article

Levitt Bernstein has secured planning permission for a pilot net zero carbon housing scheme for the London Borough of Islington, designed to deliver exemplar homes and address the climate emergency. Located on Vorley Road, the scheme comprises three buildings with... View Article

The RIBA House of the Year has been won by Red House, an unusual new build brick home in rural Dorset designed by David Kohn Architects. RIBA described the house as a “playful take on the rural vernacular farmhouse, full... View Article

One of the UK’s leading architectural practices, CPMG Architects, has made eight new appointments across several disciplines in both Nottingham and London. Architect Anna Luff and Part 1 architectural assistant Oliver Smith have joined the award-winning team based out of Farringdon, London,... View Article

With the continued expansion of its Manchester studio, DMWR Architects has appointed Marion Room as Director to head it up and build upon the recent growth of the business in the North West. Marion has over 20 years’ experience working... View Article

Building for 2050 is the UK Government’s evidenced-based report on the drivers and barriers involved in the large-scale construction and take-up of low cost, low carbon housing Business and Energy Minister Lord Callanan said: “Making the UK’s homes more energy... View Article