The stories and insights shaping our practice.

Join us for a talk exploring heritage, public realm, masterplanning, branding and the social infrastructure that gives places their character.

The restoration of Rochdale Town Hall has been named winner of a 2026 Europa Nostra Award, Europe’s most prestigious heritage award.

Rochdale Town Hall, the Palace of Westminster Encaustic tiles, Space House and Walworth Town Hall have been named winners of the 2026 Civic Trust Awards.

Donald Insall Associates has been named one of the 20 Dezeen Top Companies, a new programme which celebrates the best workplaces in architecture and design worldwide.

Eaton Square, London’s largest residential square, is set to benefit from a Listed Building Consent Order (LBCO) – the first ever to be awarded by Westminster City Council. Donald Insall Associates was conservation architect and heritage consultant supporting Grosvenor, Westminster and the sustainability team at Buro Happold on the detail of the order.

A panel talk will explore Vanbrugh’s original design of Blenheim Palace and insights from the ongoing £12m conservation project.

Network Rail’s plans for the transformation of Liverpool Street station have been approved by the City of London.

Sir Donald Insall CBE — architect, planning consultant, author, teacher and one of the foremost pioneers of conservation architecture — turns 100 today.

DIA practice director Cordula Zeidler has contributed to Grosvenor's latest report calling for radical change in the planning system to avoid England’s historic buildings becoming uninhabitable, unaffordable and redundant.

The Conservation Area Management Plan (CAMP) for Georgetown, Guyana, has won the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain / The Institute Of Historic Building Conservation’s Heritage Research Award.

The £7.6m transformation of John Rylands Library in Manchester has been named Museum or Exhibition Space winner at the FX Design Awards 2025.

What is it that elevates this creativity from a ‘building’ to a ‘piece of architecture’, asks Regine Kandan.