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Back for a fifth year, the annual Gingerbread City again showcased sugary architectural delights designed by some of the profession’s leading creative lights

A nonagenarian billionaire is backing a 156,000m2 student accommodation scheme where 94 per cent of the rooms are windowless

A few weeks ago the AJ was welcomed back into the press seats at RIBA Council after a year and a half ’s absence (technical issues, apparently, meant attendance at virtual sessions was impossible)

What happened to one of the flagship projects in Paris’s mission to green itself ahead of the 2024 Olympics – the eye-catching Thousand Trees scheme by Sou Fujimoto and Manal Rachdi OXO Architects?

Guardian architecture critic Olly Wainwright had clearly loaded up his feculence-filled splurge gun before he splattered it at Jestico + Whiles’s new W Hotel in Edinburgh

Video clips of Londoners taking a bank holiday dip in the vertiginous Sky Pool at Nine Elms went viral this month. Whether you think it is fair that Embassy Court’s shared ownership residents have to watch their wealthier neighbours floating about above them on their private ‘swimmable bridge’ most likely…

Those worried that new UK visa rules – effectively allowing certain award-winners to bypass existing immigration processes – might lead to an invasion of job-snatching architects can sleep easy. Earlier this month the Home Office announced that recipients of the globe’s elitist of elite accolades, ranging from the Oscars to…

Stefan Shaw, the architect on Masterchef, has few regrets about his time on the programme, despite crashing out at the quarter-final stage

‘Architect defends plans for "net zero-carbon" coal mine’ was, we are happy to confirm, fake news

Have you got what it takes to be Thomas Heatherwick’s next PA?