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A home in two halves gets a new connecting gallery for its art-loving owners

In Blackheath, south London, Francisco Sutherland Architects replaced a failing 1980s glazed linkway with a barrel-vaulted space that offers glimpses of newly landscaped courtyards

25 April 2025

  1. Culture

Architects, don't imitate your idols – instead, think more like them

Great architects deeply understood, and responded to, their context. We should talk the language of now, but never let the status quo limit us, argues Muyiwa Oki

25 April 2025

View across MACAM's courtyard towards the ceramic screen by Portuguese artist Maria Ana Vasco Costa.
  1. Buildings

MACAM, Lisbon: hotel-gallery fusion updates adaptive reuse to impressive effect

In the Portuguese capital, Metro Urbe's Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins deftly weaves together history, culture and hospitality into a harmonious narrative

24 April 2025

MacEwen award 2025

The MacEwen Award celebrates projects that demonstrate a mutual willingness of architect and client to push at the edges of what a typology can be

The commended and winning schemes that celebrate architecture for the common good

Severn View Park is a dementia care home that avoids an institutional feel in favour of providing a sense of familiarity and self-determination

The dementia care home provides a sense of familiarity and self-determination

Halifax’s new bus station, by Stephen George & Partners, is an unusually ambitious piece of civic infrastructure

Stephen George & Partners’ new bus station is an unusually ambitious piece of civic infrastructure

Manalo & White has converted a Bangor church into Nyth, a new home for Welsh language theatre company Frân Wen, which has allowed it to turbocharge its social mission

Manalo & White’s conversion of a Bangor church into a home for a Welsh language theatre company

The square, co-conceived, designed and constructed by residents, is fostering collaboration, agency and hopes for the future in an area facing deprivation

The square has been co-conceived, designed and constructed by local residents

Roofing and cladding

Zinc is the material of choice for three innovative projects, including a Stirling Prize winner

Zinc is the material of choice for three innovative projects

Wood and natural slate cladding wrap up a modern new-build that is completely at home in its Loire Valley setting

A modern new-build completely at home in its Loire Valley setting

This solar PV solution provides fully integrated sustainable electricity generation without compromising aesthetics

Integrated solar PV electricity generation can look good too

These A1/A2 fire rated architectural panels for new-build and recladding projects are available as vibrant or natural-looking designs in aluminium, fibre cement or extruded porcelain

A1/A2 fire rated panels in aluminium, fibre cement and extruded porcelain

Be mindful of the entire roof build-up - not just the vegetation layer - when looking to achieve an environmentally friendly solution

It's the entire roof build-up that's important - not just the vegetation

Opportunities Hub: Competitions that make a difference

Propose an installation that 'transcends utility' for a square in Bridgetown, reimagine the civic centre of an historic market town, bid for a spot on a construction consultancy services framework - some of the latest architecture competitions and contracts from across the industry

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Wood Up by LAN Architecture rises alongside the Seine in Paris Rive Gauche
  1. Buildings

Is Paris’s Wood Up a template for future timber housing projects?

As well as providing Parisians with housing, LAN Architecture’s 16-storey tower has also served as an experimental research project for the development of timber as a building material, with many of its elements requiring laboratory testing from scratch

3 January 2025

Six Columns named RIBA House of the Year 2024 winner

Sophisticated use of space and materials is manifest in this family home by 31/44 Architects, which draws on an eclectic array of personal and architectural references

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