How Newcastle is using regeneration to stem the city’s brain drain

2025-09-24T06:00:00

Building’s sister title Building Design will be electing a city as UK Design Capital of the Year as part of the Architect of the Year Awards 2025. This new award recognises outstanding leadership in architecture, placemaking and regeneration and looks beyond individual buildings to celebrate cities showing strategic ambition in ...

Anyone who has visited Newcastle will have felt a certain buzz in the air. England’s most northern city is renowned for its energy and its nightlife, long considered the UK’s liveliest. Perhaps it’s all the Lucozade - the city’s most famous 20th century invention - but there is a growing sense of optimism in Newcastle which is reflected in a series of strikingly confident regeneration schemes completed in recent years.

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