Case Study Inspiration: South Barn, Isle of Wight

Turning an agricultural building into a calm, modern home is a balancing act: keep the character, upgrade the comfort, and avoid overcomplicating the details. South Barn is a great example. Architect Je Ahn (Studio Weave) took a “light-touch” approach to... View Article

Three Stelrad CPDs available

Start the New Year with one of three upgraded CPD training sessions led by a Stelrad expert. Each one-hour training session counts towards your annual CPD requirement and can be arranged for you on a one-to-one or group basis at... View Article

Book Your RIBA CPD: Rooflights That Transform Spaces

Discover the LAMILUX RIBA-certified CPD, Brighter Better Places with Rooflights, and secure your 2026 session before availability fills. Creating bright, uplifting, and high-performing spaces begins with intelligent daylighting. The LAMILUX RIBA-approved CPD, Brighter Better Places with Rooflights, helps architects and specifiers deepen their... View Article

Cala Appoints Tom Nicholson as Chief Executive Officer

Experienced industry leader to steer next stage of company’s strategy Cala Group (Holdings) Limited (“Cala” or “The Company”), a major UK housebuilder, today announced the appointment of Tom Nicholson, a longtime industry executive in the housebuilding sector, as Chief Executive... View Article

ZHA to design the first vertex hotel

NOT A HOTEL (www.notahotel.com) has launched its first hotel brands: HERITAGE by NOT A HOTEL reinterprets architectural heritage, such as temples and museums, through a contemporary sensibility. vertex by NOT A HOTEL embodies design at the intersection of architecture and technology. The inaugural vertex hotel will be on the... View Article

A flexible future for BNG compliance

Katy Davis at Carter Jonas (London) argues that, a year after biodiversity net gain became mandatory, flexibility is essential to ensure onsite ambition aligns with offsite realities and genuine ecological outcomes. A year after the introduction of mandatory biodiversity net gain... View Article

Building ‘beyond zero’

Rob East of Newland Homes, explains how the Gloucestershire housebuilder took a “conviction-based” decision to redefine its design approach beyond the norm to provide climate-resilient, and even carbon-negative homes. It was our development director, Jeremy Drew, who first raised the... View Article

Suffragette City

A development onsite in London’s Tower Hamlets creates a new neighbourhood on where Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst first proposed improvements to conditions in the East End, over a century ago. Roseanne Field reports. In Bromley-By-Bow in the London Borough of Tower... View Article