Richard Waite

A multistorey car park in Sunderland designed by Tonkin Liu and Newcastle’s new architecture centre are among the six projects shortlisted for the RIBA North East Awards 2025

Last year's Stephen Lawrence Prize winner Clementine Blakemore Architects together with Poynton Bradbury Architects has won a contest to create a national centre for lowland peat restoration in Somerset

The ARB has unanimously voted to retain a controversial clause in its new education accreditation rules, ignoring angry pleas from the RIBA

Housing and regeneration architect Stitch has become the latest practice to be snapped up by the global urbanism practice Broadway Malyan

Chloë Phelps’ practice Grounded has won approval to build 135 new council homes on the site of the former Skerton High School in Lancaster

SANAA, the Tokyo-based practice of architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, has been awarded the 2025 RIBA Royal Gold Medal for architecture

The government is reported to be planning to dismantle the remains of the Grenfell Tower – a move strongly criticised by some of the bereaved families and survivors

Neal Shasore has stepped down as head of school and chief executive at the London School of Architecture (LSA) with immediate effect

Emerging practice Working Title Architects has won approval for a 66m², three-storey, one-bedroom house on a 3m-wide site in East Dulwich, south London

UK-based sports specialist Populous has seen its turnover quadruple from £34.9 million to a record £136 million due to a mega-boom in its Middle Eastern workload