Richard Waite

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the #AJ100. Don’t miss the opportunity to join leading architecture practices from across the UK as we unveil the AJ100 rankings and celebrate the winners of the AJ100 Awards.

A limited number of tickets are still available: tinyurl.com/yzk2ubu8

David Levitt honoured with AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award Levitt Bernstein co-founder David Levitt has been named winner of the 2025 AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award in recognition of his outstanding commitment to housing and architecture

Levitt Bernstein co-founder David Levitt has been named winner of the 2025 AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award in recognition of his outstanding commitment to housing and architecture #AJ100Awards @levittbernstein.bsky.social www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/david-l...

Exclusive: RSHP is working on Euston station project

Exclusive: RSHP is working on Euston station

Foster + Partners reveals plans for Man Utd’s new 100,000-seat stadium Foster + Partners has revealed the first images of a proposed new 100,000 capacity stadium for Manchester United, featuring a giant 'umbrella' roof close to its existing Old Trafford home

BREAKING | Foster + Partners reveals plans for Man Utd’s new 100,000-seat stadium www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/foster-...

AJ webinar: How to get domestic retrofit right AJ webinar: How to get domestic retrofit right

What are the big moves that matter in domestic retrofit? Find out at our free webinar on 30 April

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you heard it here first

Rising star pips big names to win British Museum contest Lebanese-born, Paris-based Lina Ghotmeh has been named winner of the high-profile competition to overhaul more than a third of the gallery spaces and behind-the-scenes areas at the British Museum

A scoop doesn't last very long in this digital day and age, but this was one a few hours ago - Lebanese-born, Paris-based rising star Lina Ghotmeh has won the competition to redesign the British Museum's Western range. @news.architectsjournal.co.uk
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/british...

OMA’s budget-busting Aviva Studios among RIBA North West 2025 award finalists The 7,000-capacity arts venue designed by Rem Koolhaas’s practice and formerly known as Factory Inte...

NEWS | OMA’s budget-busting Aviva Studios among RIBA North West 2025 award finalists by @ginospoc.bsky.social
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/omas-bu...

Stephen Lawrence Prize winner picked for new national peat centre The two studios were chosen from more than 90 entrants who applied to transform the historic barns a...

Clementine Blakemore Architects and Poynton Bradbury Architects have won a contest to create a national centre for lowland peat restoration in Somerset (at Honeygar Farm). Could be a really sweet scheme @news.architectsjournal.co.uk
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/stephen...

Listing bid to save Wolverhampton’s 1960s art school from demolition The 1960s Brutalist building overlooking the city’s ring road faces redevelopment as part of the uni...

C20 has submitted a listing bid to save Wolverhampton University’s School of Art from demolition.

A Change.org petition rallying against the plans has racked up nearly 4,000 signatures since it was launched on 30 January.

@c20society.bsky.social

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/listing...

@waitey.bsky.social & Will Hurst pick out architectural documentary gems, some of the very best from the archive, all of which still deserve a watch in a spare moment this Christmas. 😍

Tempelhof Field, Berlin The contest – organised by Berlin’s Senate Department for Urban Development, Building, and Housing –...

Amid Berlin's deepening housing crisis, a new -- and quite contentious -- contest is being held for peripheral development of housing on parts of the 400ha disused Tempelhof airport! Just ten years after similar development was vetoed by referendum 🌃 www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions...

RIAS criticises housing association tender for unsustainably low bidding The incorporation commented after a tender process which saw the Glasgow-based housing association a...

NEWS
RIAS criticises housing association tender for unsustainably low bidding
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/rias-cr...

ARB’s new draft Code of Conduct weakens its provisions The consultation for the new Architects Registration Board (ARB) Code of Conduct is now open, with...

My opinion piece on the proposed new Architects Registration Board is now up on the
@news.architectsjournal.co.uk
website. The opinion is quite tough....

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

Four ideas to fix the nation’s ‘broken’ planning system Ask most architects if the planning system is in the worst state they can remember and the answer is...

Plagued by backlogs, delays and uncertainty, what can be done to mend the UK’s planning system? I asked industry experts how they would tackle the situation

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/four-id...

Architectural disruptor Danny Campbell: ‘I’ve learned lots from ARB reprimand’ The BBC Scotland Home of The Year host says he has scaled back his business after being handed the s...

Architectural disruptor Danny Campbell: ‘I’ve learned lots from ARB reprimand’
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/archite...

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Last night AJ Art Director Maria Rodriguez picked up the British Society of Magazine Editors' Cover of the Year award for our AI-themed issue 💫

And no, it's not supposed to be Stephen Fry (!)

Architectural abuses exposed: ‘Underpaid, overworked and undervalued’ A new warts-and-all investigation into workplace culture by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) ...

An official survey of architects' workplace culture by the ARB has unmasked the widespread bullying, discrimination and sexual misconduct within practice. @news.architectsjournal.co.uk
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/archite...

Benedetti unwraps detailed plans for RIBA House of Architecture Visuals and consultation boards unveiled this morning (19 November) provide further details about th...

What does £58.8 million get you?

Benedetti shows off some more visuals for RIBA HQ this morning, ahead of an early 2025 planning application and 3 year closure of 66 Portland Place

Grimshaw, Populous and Hopkins projects included in mass 90s listing bid The Twentieth Century Society’s Coming of Age campaign is calling for the listing of 10 buildings th...

Some corking 90s buildings in this mass listing bid by the C20 society www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/grimsha...

Office for Place scrapped by government In a statement made today (Tuesday, 12 November) in the Commons, Pennycook announced that the arms-l...

The Office for Place, the government body set up in 2021 to champion good design and placemaking, is to be scrapped, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has announced

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/office-...

Exclusive: first Stirling Prize winner set to be demolished The 29-year-old building, which has sat empty for nearly a decade, is due to be flattened as part of...

As first reported here 😁. Glad other titles are picking this up though... there should be a wider debate about the future and possibility of repurposing of this building - and indeed others of this age.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/exclusi...

Exclusive: first Stirling Prize winner set to be demolished The 29-year-old building, which has sat empty for nearly a decade, is due to be flattened as part of...

The Centenary Building in Salford is barely 30 years old and in 1996 was crowned the best building in the UK. It is going to be demolished. Have the options to re-use or retrofit really been exhausted?
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/exclusi...