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18 February 2026
Terrace Transformation, Cambridge
Architecture: cdcstudio

photo : Richard Chivers

18 February 2026
South Downs House, Sussex
Design: MortonScarr Architects

17 February 2026
Devon Estuary Home
Architect: MortonScarr Architects

6 February 2026
Hartdene Barns, Kent, Southeast England
Architect: Nissen Richards Studio

6 February 2026
Burlington Junior School, Kingston-upon-Thames, London
Design: TPM Studio Architects

31 January 2026
Camley Street Regeneration, London
Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Morris+Company Architects

29 January 2026
Whitechapel Healthcare and Research Campus, London
Design: PLP Architecture, dMFK, DSDHA and BD Landscape Architects

26 January 2026
10 Salisbury Square, City of London
Design: John Robertson Architects (JRA)

26 January 2026
Monument House Hampstead, North London
Design: WILLIAM TOZER Associates

22 January 2026
Space House Covent Garden building refurbishment, London
Design: Squire & Partners

photo : Gareth Gardner

16 January 2026
Fox Court Landscape-led retrofit, Camden Buildings

12 January 2026
One Great St Helen’s, City of London
Design: John Robertson Architects (JRA)

10 January 2026
New Birmingham City Stadium Building Design, West Midlands
Design: Heatherwick Studio and MANICA Architecture
Powerhouse Stadium in Bordesley Green film on YouTube

4 January 2026
The Foundry Project, Chatham, Kent
Architects: EHAD | Elija Halil Architecture and Design

image : EHAD

2 January 2026
The Fountain Brent Cross Town, London
Design: NEON

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English Architecture News 2025

New buildings in England. Best contemporary UK properties information & design images.

English Architecture News in 2025 – latest England buildings additions to this page, chronological:

13 December 2025

Architects Must Protect Quality, Not Just Titles, Say Industry Voices

Ryan Wenham supports RIBA President Chris Williamson’s move, warning current regulations allow poor-quality architectural work to go unchecked.

Ryan Wenham, Larsen Architecture, Liverpool:

photo courtesy of Ryan Wenham architect

I read the news that RIBA President Chris Williamson will not be renewing his ARB registration and completely understand his reasoning. As the article explains, the current system only protects the title of “architect” and does nothing to regulate the quality or competence of the work being carried out. This is a serious issue for the profession and for the built environment as a whole.

Architecture is one of the most demanding and complex professions in the UK. The level of skill, preparation, and responsibility required to qualify is enormous. Yet under the current regulations, anyone can perform architectural work as long as they do not call themselves an architect. This is leading to poor-quality designs, substandard workmanship, and a noticeable decline in standards across projects I have worked on. Planners are increasingly flagging these issues, and clients often do not understand the difference until it is too late.

We need regulation that goes beyond protecting a title. It should ensure that anyone undertaking architectural activities meets real competence standards, not just formal qualifications. Otherwise, we risk good design being seen as a luxury, not a necessity.

Smaller studios and independent architects, who often deliver innovative and distinctive work, are the ones who feel the pressure most acutely. Their primary concern is that they can be undercut by underqualified people, which can have disastrous results. Protecting the work itself would help ensure that quality, creativity, and professional integrity are properly valued and fairly rewarded.

The profession is at a crossroads. If we continue with a system that focuses on title alone, we risk allowing standards to slip further and losing public trust in the value of architectural expertise. Williamson’s move is a clear signal that change is needed, and it is something the industry cannot afford to ignore.

Ryan Wenham is a chartered architect and registered interior designer at Larsen Architecture, Liverpool, and founder of the Designer Business Programme, supporting architects and designers to grow their businesses and drive positive change in the industry.

11 December 2025
The Cottages, Charlbury, West Oxfordshire, Southern England
Architect: NOTO Architects

7 December 2025
The Old Sty, Somerset country house estate, southwest England
Architects: London Atelier

29 November 2025
Marlow Film Studios, Buckinghamshire, southeast England, UK
Architects: WilkinsonEyre

image courtesy of WilkinsonEyre architects practice

28 November 2025

UK Planning Reform – British Government scraps duty to co-operate

The government will soon introduce regulations allowing Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) to start preparing new-style local plans and, at the same time, abolish the current Duty to Co-operate for the existing plan-making system.

The Minister of State for Housing and Planning, Matthew Pennycook MP, has (on 27 November) written to the Planning Inspectorate to set out that government intends to revoke the Duty to Co-operate for the current plan-making system. He has also made clear that local planning authorities should continue to collaborate across their boundaries, including on unmet development needs from neighbouring area.

The Duty to Co-operate was created in 2011 to support cross-boundary collaboration after the end of regional planning. Mr Pennycook notes in his letter that it has proven difficult to apply and has caused several local plan failures, partly because any deficiencies cannot be fixed during examination.

Fergus Charlton, planning partner at national law firm Michelmores comments: “Even before the Planning and Infrastructure Bill receives Royal Assent, the government has signalled its commitment to the central plank of a plan lead system, namely planning decisions made against up-to-date local plans. Lack of cooperation with neighbouring authorities has caused Inspectors to send many plans back to development, leaving too many out-of-date plans. Government clearly wants to make rapid progress on replacement of this duty with the spatial development planning provisions of the Bill.”

More detail is available from the Government website: Local Plan examinations: letter to the Chief Executive of the Planning Inspectorate (November 2025) – GOV.UK

22 November 2025
Edwardian Home Renovation & Extension, Richmond, southwest London, southeast England, UK
Design: Footprint Architects

18 November 2025
Dorset Eco Home, Dorchester, Dorset, southern England
Design: Footprint Architects

2 November 2025
York Minster Centre of Excellence for Heritage Craft, Yorkshire
Design: tonkin liu

photo © Chapter Of York

11 October 2025
Beckett House, Crawley, West Sussex
Design: Adam Knibb Architects

19 September 2025
Poplar Road House, Surrey, Southern England
Design: Adam Knibb Architects

9 September 2025
Heyford Park Homes, near Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Design: Proctor & Matthews Architects ; Landscape Architect Kim Wilkie

4 September 2025
Hastings House, Hastings, East Sussex, Southern England
Design: Hugh Strange Architects

12 August 2025
Bramcote Tennis Pavilion, Scarborough, Yorkshire

photo : Robert Walton
Action by the Victorian Society and local community brings about enforcement of repairs to rare Victorian Tennis pavilion in Scarborough.

11 August 2025

Lancaster (Forton) Services

A motorway service station, between junctions 32 and 33 of the M6 motorway in northwest England.

This unusual hexagonal concrete tower dates was built and opened in 1965. Located on the northbound side, The Pennine Tower originally housed an up-market restaurant and a sun deck. The bold structure was designed to resemble an air traffic control tower. It closed to the public in 1989.

photo © Adrian Welch

28 July 2025
House by the River, Wiltshire, southwest England
Design: Artel31

16 June 2025
Brockenhurst House, Hampshire, Southern England
Design: Studio BAD

10 June 2025
Heart Of The City in Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

photo © Dave Bewick

22 May 2025
RIBA South Awards 2025 winners news

photos © Hufton+Crow

22 May 2025
The Jackson Library – Exeter College, Oxford

photo : Will Pryce

22 May 2025
Eton School Hall building restoration, Berkshire
Renewal Design: Hopkins Architects

photo : Philip Vile

22 May 2025
Rhodes House Transformation, Oxford, Oxfordshire

photo © Hufton+Crow

22 May 2025
One Small Thing, Hope Street, Southampton, Hampshire, Southern England
Design: Snug Architects

photo : Fotohaus

22 May 2025
Blenheim Palace Orangery, Oxfordshire
Design: Nick Cox Architects

photo : Andrew Ogilvy Photography

22 May 2025
The Old Byre Isle of Wight Property
Design: Gianni Botsford Architects

1 May 2025
Battersea Power Station Electric Boulevard, Battersea, London
Design: Gehry Partners

30 April 2025
Verdant Office Building, City of London
Architecture: Fletcher Priest Architects

photo : Dirk Lindner

29 April 2025
Saville Theatre, central London
Design: SPPARC

image : SPPARC

13 April 2025
Pilsworth Lake Visitor Centre, South Lancashire, Northwest England
Design: Atelier Architecture & Design

11 April 2025
Whitworth Street West Residential Tower, Manchester
Architect: Sheppard Robson

21 March 2025
Lakeside Drive hotel, Royal Park Building Design
Design: GRID Architects

20 March 2025
Maldron Hotel, London
Design: Jestico + Whiles

11 March 2025
New Man United Stadium, northwest England
Manchester United New Stadium building

21 February 2025
British Museum Western Range Galleries Design winner news
Design: Lina Ghotmeh Architecture

image courtesy of Lina Ghotmeh architecture studio

13 February 2025
Sloane Street Transformation, west London
Masterplan Design: John McAslan + Partners

12 February 2025
70 Gracechurch Street Office Building, City of London
Design: Kohn Pederson Fox Architects – KPF

12 February 2025
The Apex Kings Cross TRIBECA, London
Design: Bennetts Associates, Architects

29 January 2025
Sinfonia Smith Square Hall, London

28 January 2025
25th Serpentine Pavilion 2025 Building Design, Kensington Gardens, West London
Design: Marina Tabassum Architects

Design render, interior view. Photo: © Marina Tabassum Architects (MTA). Courtesy Serpentine

22 January 2025
30–31 Golden Square Property Refurbishment, Soho, London
Design: John Robertson Architects

22 January 2025
Grenfell Tower Memorial Design Team Shortlist News, London

8 January 2025
10 Greycoat Place, Westminster, Westminster, Central London, southeast England, UK
Architects: SPPARC

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English Architecture News 2024

English Architecture News in 2024, chronological:

7 September 2024
Holmwood Farm, Wadhurst, East Sussex
Design: RX Architects

24 July 2024
Wynyard Hall Spa, Stockton-on-Tees, Northeast England
Design: GT3 Architects

images courtesy of architecture office
Proposals for the refurbishment of the lakeside Wynyard Hall Spa designed by GT3 Architects have been granted approval by Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council.

15 July 2024
MG Central Feature Goodwood Festival of Speed, West Sussex, southern England
Design: Gerry Judah

photo : David Barbour
This sculpture created by Gerry Judah for Goodwood Festival of Speed 2024 celebrates 100 years of the iconic British marque MG, which was founded in 1924 by Cecil Kimber as Morris Garages.

9 July 2024
Maple Lodge Property, south of Leicester
Design: Levitate Architects

8 July 2024
Tilde House, North London, southern England
Design: Neil Dusheiko Architects

7 July 2024
Camellia House, Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire, northern England
Restoration Architects: Donald Insall Associates

11 June 2024
Morpeth Leisure Centre, Morpeth, Northumberland, northeast England
Design: GT3 Architects

images courtesy of architecture office
Morpeth Leisure Centre now multi-award-winning with latest national recognition. A sport and leisure centre in Morpeth is celebrating becoming a multi-award-winning facility after winning the Community Benefit award at this year’s RICS North East Awards.

UK homes with planning permission left unbuilt

17 July 2024
Stratford station and public realm design, London
Stratford Station

27 May 2024
Beck Farm & Studio, Howardian Hills, North Yorkshire
Design: Vine Architecture Studio

photo : Nicholas Worley
Beck Farm & Studio, Howardian Hills

15 May 2024
The Arbour, Fitzrovia, London
Architects: SPPARC
Georgian Townhouse Fitzrovia Property

13 May 2024
76 Southbank, London
Renewal Architect: Alfred Hall Monaghan Morris
76 Southbank London Property Development

9 May 2024
Lord’s Cricket Ground Tavern and Allen stands, London
Architects: WilkinsonEyre

8 May 2024
British Museum Western Range Architecture Competition, London

22 February 2024
BT Tower London building conversion news
Design: Thomas Heatherwick of Heatherwick Studio
BT Tower London hotel building

21 February 2024
BT Tower Building Conversion
Telecom Tower London Building

24 January 2024
Bristol Beacon Concert Hall and Music Hub, southwest England
Architecture: Levitt Bernstein

photo © Tim Crocker
Levitt Bernstein’s reimagination and restoration of Bristol Beacon sees this Grade II listed concert hall transformed. The work includes an entirely new interior for the main hall, restored second hall, and a new cellar venue, together with renovated historic public spaces and new music studios.

18 January 2024
Ferry House Salisbury, Wiltshire, southwest England
Design: AR Design Studio

14 February 2024
Berners and Wells, Fitzrovia, London
Design: Emrys Architects

photo © Alan Williams
Berners and Wells Fitzrovia Property Development

13 February 2024
RIBA East Midlands Awards 2024 shortlist

7 February 2024
60-72 Upper Ground Building News
Design: Make Architects

image courtesy of architects practice
72 Upper Ground London Development

4 February 2024
University of Sussex Library Circular lift tower and walkway, Sussex, southern England
Architecture: Keith Williams Architects

image : AVR London
This circular lift tower and walkway at the University of Sussex Library by wins planning consent. Designs for a new circular brick lift tower and walkway by Keith Williams Architects at Basil Spence’s Grade II* listed University of Sussex Library have been approved by Brighton & Hove City Council, paving the way for technical design to commence and construction to start later this year.

1 February 2024
Tree View House, North London
Architecture: Neil Dusheiko Architects

29 January 2024
Multigenerational Home, Upper Sydenham, Penge
Architect: MAP Architecture

26 January 2024
30 Minories
Design: PLP Architecture

images courtesy of architecture office

25 January 2024
House on the Hill, Guildford, Surrey, UK
Architects: Urban Projects Bureau

24 January 2024
Docking Station, University of Kent, South East England
Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

image : Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Plans have been approved by Medway Council for Docking Station, a new hub for the cultural and creative industries for the University of Kent in partnership with Medway Council and Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust, with a focus on immersive digital technology, innovation and research.

17 January 2024
Valley View Gardens, Brighton And Hove, Sussex
Design: Alter Architects

photo : Ivan Jones
Situated amongst the Sussex downs – these subtle houses postulate a potential future housing idea for small back-land developments. Valley View Gardens comprises four two-storey dwellings, these houses offer adaptable and accessible environments whilst providing a unique architectural proposition that is open, decisive, and daring.