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Richard Waite
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News editor at the AJ. Into architecture and gossip. Bradford and London.
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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
June 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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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...
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
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June 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Exclusive: RSHP is working on Euston station
Exclusive: RSHP is working on Euston station project
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June 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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BREAKING | Foster + Partners reveals plans for Man Utd’s new 100,000-seat stadium www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/foster-...
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
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March 11, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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What are the big moves that matter in domestic retrofit? Find out at our free webinar on 30 April
AJ webinar: How to get domestic retrofit right
AJ webinar: How to get domestic retrofit right
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April 12, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Are you a budding news reporter? Do you want to work with me and the lovely AJ team? @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Then have a nosey at this:
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April 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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you heard it here first
February 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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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
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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
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February 21, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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NEWS | OMA’s budget-busting Aviva Studios among RIBA North West 2025 award finalists by @ginospoc.bsky.social
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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...
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February 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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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
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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...
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February 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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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.

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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...
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February 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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@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. 😍
December 26, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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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...
Tempelhof Field, Berlin
The contest – organised by Berlin’s Senate Department for Urban Development, Building, and Housing –...
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November 25, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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RIAS criticises housing association tender for unsustainably low bidding
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RIAS criticises housing association tender for unsustainably low bidding
The incorporation commented after a tender process which saw the Glasgow-based housing association a...
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December 3, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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My opinion piece on the proposed new Architects Registration Board is now up on the
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website. The opinion is quite tough....

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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...
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December 3, 2024 at 10:40 AM
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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

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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...
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November 20, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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Architectural disruptor Danny Campbell: ‘I’ve learned lots from ARB reprimand’
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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...
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November 25, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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Sharing the news exclusively on Bluesky 🗞️ to welcome all our new followers!

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 (!)
November 19, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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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
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Architectural abuses exposed: ‘Underpaid, overworked and undervalued’
A new warts-and-all investigation into workplace culture by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) ...
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November 25, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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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
Benedetti unwraps detailed plans for RIBA House of Architecture
Visuals and consultation boards unveiled this morning (19 November) provide further details about th...
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November 19, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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Some corking 90s buildings in this mass listing bid by the C20 society www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/grimsha...
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...
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November 14, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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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

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Office for Place scrapped by government
In a statement made today (Tuesday, 12 November) in the Commons, Pennycook announced that the arms-l...
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November 13, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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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?
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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...
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November 13, 2024 at 9:44 AM