In Asker Municipality, 20 km southwest of Oslo, IF Frisk Asker is the pride of the city. The team competes in Norway’s most prestigious ice hockey division, the EliteHockey League, and has a history dating back to 1935. Known as The Tigers, Frisk Asker has won the national championship multiple times. However, over the years, their facilities became outdated. Consequently, a collaboration agreement was established between the club, the contractor and the developer to construc

A Glasgow affordable housing development featuring facing bricks supplied by Taylor Maxwell, one of the UK’s leading providers of brick, façade and timber solutions, has been shortlisted for the 2026 RIBA Neave Brown Award for Housing. St Andrew’s Drive Phases 2 & 3, designed by jmarchitects for Southside Housing Association, is one of just four developments in contention for the national award, which recognises the UK’s best new affordable housing. The project received a Com

Award-winning decorative interior wall panel brand Naturepanel is delighted to announce the launch of its brand-new Shiplap collection. A versatile range that can bring a touch of rustic, country charm or a quaint, New England coastal vibe to any interior, Shiplap evokes a timeless, cosy interior style, with its wide slats introducing texture and depth to walls. Grained Alpine White from Naturepanel’s new Shiplap collection is perfect for creating a chic cottagecore-style bat

Brickability, one of the UK's leading suppliers of brick and facade materials and part of the BRCK Group, is showcasing the specification expertise available across its multiple specialist businesses, after Skinner Street in Leeds is shortlisted at the 2026 Brick Awards. Supplied by LBT Brick & Facades, one of the nine specialist businesses within the Brickability family, the 31-storey residential tower designed by Leach Rhodes Walker Architects, has been shortlisted in the L

A recent project in Surrey showcased Apex’s full design‑to‑install capability: a SIPS timber frame system supplied and installed for a developer constructing two new‑build, single‑storey, five‑bedroom homes. Designed to achieve excellent insulation performance and airtightness, all SIP panels were fully designed, engineered, and manufactured in‑house by Apex. As with all Apex timber frame builds, SterlingOSB Zero was used extensively to sheath the external wall panels, contri

Available in three different dimensions and nine colours, the Schlüter-DESIGN-NICHE niche elements can be used to create a multitude of design highlights on walls while providing practical, integrated storage solutions. Designed for modern living spaces, the prefabricated installation elements are suitable not only for bathrooms and wetrooms, but also for kitchens, utility rooms and other areas throughout the home. Stylish and functional, Schlüter-DESIGN-NICHE is manufactured

Laing O’Rourke and BDP embarked on the challenge of building Everton’s new home at Bramley-Moore Dock with a bold vision: to construct one of Europe’s most innovative and sustainable football stadiums. Valued at £800m, the Hill Dickinson Stadium is not just a sporting arena, it represents a transformative regeneration project for Liverpool’s historic waterfront. All photos courtesy of Nick Caville / BDP With a capacity of 52,769 seats and a design that meets stringent safety

Taylor Maxwell, one of the UK’s leading suppliers of brick, façade and timber solutions to the construction industry, has launched SpecView, a new in-house visualisation service that allows architects and specifiers to see how façade materials will look across a full building before they commit to a specification. SpecView combines live visualisation with hands-on guidance from Taylor Maxwell’s brick and masonry specialists. Architects and Main Contractor design teams can bri

Niall Crosson, Group Technical Director at Ecological Building Systems, draws on 25 years’ industry experience to make the case for ‘Building Better’, learning from vernacular building traditions and applying those principles to contemporary design and specification. Niall Crosson, Group Technical Director at Ecological Building Systems “Long before UK Building Regulations, performance targets or embodied carbon metrics were introduced, buildings were designed around a simple