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Great Yarmouth in Norfolk is among five places across England to be announced as participants of a new programme to recognise and support high quality placemaking. The Future Place programme is an initiative...

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has launched a new prize – the Neave Brown Award for Housing. The late Neave Brown (1929 to 2018) was a socially-motivated, modernist architect,...

The total number of build-to-rent homes under construction across the UK has increased by nearly 40 percent, according to the British Property Federation (BPF). Research carried out for the organisation...

First-time buyer mortgage figures have hit their highest levels in over a decade, according to recent research. A Yorkshire Building Society analysis has indicated some 367,038 first-time UK buyers secured...

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed its annual summary of trends in the architecture profession and construction sector. Key trends in 2018 (compared to 2017) are: *The value...

Official figures released this month show significant progress is being made by the housebuilding industry in addressing the country’s housing crisis, according to the Home Builders Federation (HBF)....

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has awarded the 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize to Bloomberg, London by Foster + Partners. The prestigious annual prize is awarded to the UK’s best new...

The government has announced further plans to speed up the planning system as well as to make better use of land and vacant buildings to provide homes. The government has already set out a package of...

The house building industry is now generating £38b a year and supporting some 700,000 jobs. A 74 per cent increase in house building activity in the past four years has provided a huge boost to...

Inside World Festival of Interiors has announced the projects that will compete to be crowned World Interior of the Year 2018. Projects from across the globe were entered across nine diverse categories,...

A research centre in Riyadh and a village lounge in rural China are among the projects shortlisted in the World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards 2018. The world’s biggest architectural awards programme...

New technologies are improving design and building practices but there is still a long way to go, according to a recent report. Microsoft and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have launched...