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David Kohn Architects, working with Brussels-based noA Architecten and Asli Çiçek, has won an international competition to redesign the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art in Ghent, Belgium
The hugely controversial Liverpool Lime Street scheme by Broadway Malyan and contractor ISG has landed the title of worst new building in the UK, five years after it was completed
Lendlease has been granted planning permission for its £1.9 billion regeneration plans for the Smithfield area in Birmingham city centre
The Labour Party manifesto has committed to building 1.5 million homes during the next parliament if the party forms the next government
POoR Collective and GPAD have completed this competition-winning overhaul of the rundown Copthall Pavilion in Barnet, north London, as part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture (LFA)
The Association of Consultant Architects (ACA) has launched an accreditation scheme for principal designers – seven months after the RIBA set up its own register for the role
The Green Party has committed to spending £29 billion on retrofitting the country’s housing stock if elected
Globally renowned Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, the Pritzker Prize laureate and Metabolism pioneer who designed London’s Aga Khan Centre, has died aged 95
The Scottish government has said a review into the two fires that seriously damaged the Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building would be too costly to justify
Ahead of this month’s RIBA presidential election, the AJ put eight key questions to each of the candidates. Today we hear from Weston Williamson + Partners co-founder Chris Williamson
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