Combining the design techniques of the digital avant-garde with pomo’s sense of historic context, a new generation of British architects is stepping into the limelight, says Douglas Murphy

An exhibition at London’s Cass reveals the influence of celebrated architects on their students, says Peter Smisek

RIBA names gallery in south London, designed to house Damien Hirst's private art collection, UK's best new building

Douglas Murphy asks what this year’s line-up for the prestigious award says about the state of British architecture

This year's awards ceremony took place last night in London. You can read the full list of winners here

Our January issue, available now, features profiles of all 11 of the 2014 Icon Awards winners and information about the runners-up

Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum by Cruz y Ortiz was last year's Interior of the Year. Find out this year's nominees

The judges have announced the nominees for this year's awards. Click here for the full list and details of the awards ceremony on 4 December

Museums and schools dominate the shortlist for British architecture’s biggest honour, as David Chipperfield, Zaha Hadid, Rick Mather, DSDHA, dRMM and Theis and Khan square up.

Nottingham Contemporary probes the space race in the imagination of communist Europe.

Why do we make houses out of bricks? Traditionally, it's because they are small enough to be made, carried and laid by hand. Thus a brick wall is inscribed with the energy and skill of its builders.

"In a project you bring all of these things together and it's like an amazing experiment, and it has a timescale, and it's provisional; every project is provisional, they're never perfect or complete, and of course you finish the project and you pick things up from it and you take them to the next project, that's fine - maybe we don't do that enough - but it's not moving in a line, but kind of like that, like tentacles, feeling their way through reality, and making a project forces you to engage with reality."