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  1. Intelligence

Making net zero building the reality

The UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard aims to get everyone onboard with tough but achievable targets. Stephen Cousins asks architects on three projects targeting net zero about their challenges, and tips for getting there

21 February 2025

View of Finlandia Hall from the east with Pikku-Finlandia in the foreground.
  1. Buildings

Aalto's crown jewel opens up to the city of Helsinki

Finnish architect Alvar Aalto’s 1971 masterpiece Finlandia Hall has reopened after a three-year renovation by local practice Architects NRT, creating new spaces that open up the building to the public, and to the city

20 February 2025

  1. Intelligence

How can architects work with social housing providers to unlock extra funding for retrofit projects?

Learn more about an innovative scheme that supports and accelerates the social housing sector’s contribution to sustainable outcomes

20 February 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: Choose work that pays off for your practice

Propose artist-led installations for London’s high streets, win a place on the £37 billion new hospitals framework, create a biodiverse campus - some of the latest architecture contracts and competitions from across the industry

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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