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AJ 16.07.26: Unmissable

AJ 16.07.26: Unmissable

This issue focuses on large-scale buildings that shape chunks of city, or count as mini-cities themselves. From Birmingham’s tallest building to one of Europe’s most complex healthcare projects to the transformation of London’s historic Olympia, the projects featured among these pages are, as the coverline puts it, unmissable.

The issue contains three building studies. In The Octagon, a 49-storey residential tower, Howells has designed what is claimed to be the world’s first pure octagonal high-rise residential tower. BDP and O’Connell Mahon Architects’ vast children’s hospital in Dublin brings together 39 paediatric specialities under one roof, with an oval pavilion plan, extensive planted terraces and 14 courtyards spread across a 5ha site. At Olympia London, Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC have transformed the exhibition halls into a cultural destination including a 3,800-capacity live music venue.

There are two opinion pieces. Gessica Salerno asks what protection exists for individual principal designers under the Building Safety Act, highlighting the unresolved questions around investigation costs, evidence retention and long-term liability. Russell Curtis argues that there are far too many architects in the UK and calls for restricted entry to the profession to arrest declining salaries and fees.

In Blueprints for Change, Tara Gbolade explores what the Igbo people of West Africa can teach us about building new towns, drawing on a compound housing model to demonstrate how the UK’s proposed new developments could better foster community and connection with nature.

In Culture, Matthew Bovingdon-Downe reviews the film Backrooms, in which an out-of-work architect stumbles on a secret labyrinthine world that mirrors his own mental breakdown. David Grandorge’s photograph of the Seagram Building questions whether Mies van der Rohe’s revered edifice should still command admiration in an era of embodied and operational carbon reduction.

The issue also presents the 32 RIBA National Award winners for 2026, and the full shortlist for the AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards 2026. Rounding out the issue are a competitions compilation, sketches by Shaun Jenkins of J2 Capital UK, and letters on Andy Burnham’s vision for a high street ‘renaissance’.

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AJ 16.11.17: Foster's Bloomberg HQ

AJ 16.11.17: Foster's Bloomberg HQ

The latest AJ features Foster + Partners’ £1 billion European HQ for business news giant Bloomberg in the City of London; as well as two heritage projects: Dow Jones’s upgrade and extension of London’s Garden Museum; and Featherstone Young’s restoration of a disused granary, Modernist house and iconic windmill on the South Downs in Sussex.

PLUS analysis of dRMM’s RIBA Stirling Prize win for Hastings Pier and Richard Murphy’s RIAS Doolan Award for Dunfermline Library; extracts from Rafael Moneo’s Soane Annual Lecture; and the winner of this year’s AJ/Curtins Inspiring Graduate Prize.

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AJ 16.12.21: Liverpool

AJ 16.12.21: Liverpool

At the end of 2021 – which AJ Editor Emily Booth writes 'hasn’t been an easy year, but the creativity and resilience of the profession continue to shine through' – we devote a special issue ot focus on Liverpool, featuring building studies on The Lexington by Falconer Chester Hall and The Alder Centre by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Our news features ask if Liverpool can bounce back from a scandal-hit year and investigate housing in Liverpool: ‘We’ve had no strategy for a shrinking city’.

Also in this issue, all the shortlisted entries in our AJ Retrofit Awards 2022, which celebrate design that prolongs and improves the life of buildings as well as all longlisted and shortlisted designs for Pavilion for All, a competition run by the AJ, Argent Related and Barnet Council.

PLUS: Kunle Barker argues we should 'blame the game, not the player – it’s the planning system that’s broken', David Grandorge reports from COP26, Lubaina Himid at Tate Modern, AJ Sketchbook entry from Hamza Shaikh, The Coach, letters, competitions and Louis Hellman's monthly cartoon.

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AJ 17.01.19: Amin Taha

AJ 17.01.19: Amin Taha

The latest AJ focuses on the work of Groupwork + Amin Taha including an interview with its founder, a full timeline of the practice’s work, and building studies of two mixed-use projects in Islington: the controversially stone-fronted 15 Clerkenwell Close and a residential/retail block at 168 Upper Street. PLUS Will architects cut down on concrete after a  report says it is responsible for 8 per cent of global CO2 emissions; and the government wants to increase office-to-resi conversions despite warnings it is creating ‘slums of the future’. 

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AJ 17.06.21: Housing

AJ 17.06.21: Housing

The AJ publishes the results of our annual AJ100 survey. Based on detailed practice responses from the calendar year 2020, the impact of Covid is laid bare telling a story of resilience in the face of falling revenues, staff reductions and a drop in salary levels.

We also reveal results from our survey of nearly 300 architects on the spiralling cladding and building safety crisis, exposing a culture of secrecy and anxiety about speaking out.

In this Housing issue, we feature building studies on Le Lignon, Geneva, by Jaccaud Spicher Architectes Associés, Henley Halebrown's Taylor, Chatto and Wilmott Courts in Hackney and Matlock Spa Phase 1 by David Morley Architects + Nissen Richards Studio’s reworked visitor experience at Sutton Hoo.

PLUS columns from Kunle Barker, the AJ coach, Louis Hellman on the Battersea Sky Pool, and a new column from David Grandorge, AJ Sketchbook from Narinder Sagoo at Foster + Partners and Patrick Massey's The Third Man debuts in the Culture pages.

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AJ 17.07.25: The summer issue

AJ 17.07.25: The summer issue

Buildings nestled in burgeoning landscapes, productive gardens providing a community focal point, nature offering sanctuary and solace: the lush abundance of the summer months is on bright display in our July issue.

Four building studies are presented within these pages. For 16 years Barefoot Architects and Bridport Cohousing CLT battled to plan Hazelmead, the largest community housing project in the country. We discover that the effort put in has been rewarded, with the residents feeling a deep connection to their homes, community – and shared vegetable beds.

Feilden Fowles’ work on the Natural History Museum’s formerly underused gardens has created an engaging landscape of outdoor living galleries. The project includes a welcoming garden kitchen and nature activity centre, the latter sporting a sculptural gutter that deposits water into open channels so children can learn about the water cycle.

Our other studies are of Allies and Morrison’s dockside leisure centre and workspace at Canada Water, and FCBS’s Lambeth office block, which has pioneered innovative circular solutions in mass timber construction.

In News, it’s all change at Liverpool Street Station, as original architect Herzog & de Meuron bids to be reappointed to the high-profile job – it’s rumoured that towers on stilts are involved... We also publish all 20 projects receiving RIBA National Awards this year, along with the shortlist for the AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards.

Elsewhere in the issue, Chris Simmons writes a column on redundancy entitled What to do if you’re chewed up and spat out by architecture, while the Secret Architect is lost in an obstinacy of project managers. And this month we have a bumper Sketchbook section, showcasing the best sketches from attendees at the AJ100 Awards in June.

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AJ 17.09.20: AJ100 2020

AJ 17.09.20: AJ100 2020

Presenting the top 100 architectural practices of 2020! This year’s bumper AJ100 issue has a particular focus on sustainability, with the introduction of two awards in addition to Building of the Year and other prestigious prizes

PLUS more than 50 pages of practice profiles, and new for 2020: meet the 25 disruptors outside the AJ100 that are challenging traditional practice to work more sustainably

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AJ 17.12.20: 40 under 40

AJ 17.12.20: 40 under 40

 

The Architects’ Journal is bringing back its famous and ever-popular 40 under 40, celebrating the UK’s most exciting emerging architectural talent. It is the first time since 2005 that the AJ has run the unique showcase of the nation's next generation of boundary-pushing designers and innovators.

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AJ 18.06.20: Climate change

AJ 18.06.20: Climate change

As the AJ submits its RetroFirst campaign to government, our climate change issue features building studies of an ultra-low embodied carbon building by Practice Architecture and La Borda social housing complex by Lacol arquitectura cooperativa; results of a new in-depth survey by the AJ on what Architects Declare has achieved; the shortlists for AJ100 2020 are revealed and Paul Finch uses his column to argue that solar farms need much better design input than Cleve Hill. 

PLUS AJ Sketchbook continues with new work from ACME's Catherine Hennessy; Heatherwick Studio's recently completely all-timber Maggie's Centre in Leeds; and a competition to reinstate the oldest and largest public space in the City of London at Finsbury Circus Gardens and Pavilion.

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AJ 18.07.24: Coast

AJ 18.07.24: Coast

The pull of the sea is strong, particularly at this time of year, and so we focus on coastal possibilities in our July issue.

Our three building studies this month are krft’s curvy arts centre for Brighton College; IF_DO’s retrofit of Hastings’ Observer Building – once a vacant heritage asset, now a vibrant social hub; and a twisting tower in the French town of Le Havre by Hamonic+Masson & Associés.

In News we present a snapshot of impressive – and never before published – seaside houses, but also reflect on deeper challenges faced by coastal communities. Peter Barber introduces his powerful Blueprints for Change proposition: our sea-circled, wind-buffeted, island offers intriguing possibilities for an ‘8,000-Mile Island’. And away from the shore, we take a close-up look at the re-emergence of co-living.

Also in the issue is a behind-the-scenes report of the one-day workshop exploring how M&S’s flagship store on Oxford St could be refurbished and adapted, rather than demolished. And for those looking for further retrofit inspiration, we provide the full shortlists for the AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards 2024.

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AJ 18.11.21: AJ Architecture Awards

AJ 18.11.21: AJ Architecture Awards

They’re back! After a year’s hiatus the AJ Architecture Awards special issue returns. AJ Editor Emily Booth writes 'We put building visits at the centre of the programme so it has felt extra special that this year our dedicated judges were able to visit the many shortlisted projects.' We feature all the winners and highly commended in more than 20 categories including Architect of the Year and The Manser Medal – AJ House of the Year.

Also in this issue, the AJ Student Prize winners, Piercy&Company’s proposal to demolish the AJ’s offices and two news features: Ella Jessel investigates Transport for London's struggle to build over car parks and Will Ing considers if Whitehall is finally waking up to the benefits of building with timber?

PLUS: The Secret Architect returns, David Grandorge on authorship, Noguchi at the Barbican, AJ Sketchbook entry from Zean Mair-Macfarlane, Turner Prize-nominated Cooking Sections on their journey from architecture to food, letters, competitions and Louis Hellman's monthly cartoon.

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AJ 18.12.25: Homelessness

AJ 18.12.25: Homelessness

In our final issue of 2025 we’re focusing on homelessness as an important part of our housing drive. The causes of homelessness are many and varied, and architects and good design cannot solve them alone. But architects can contribute to positive change: they can bring a strategic and practical approach – and support targeted, proven steps.

Three building studies explore the topic from different angles. Reed Watts Architects has created a life-changing sanctuary for rough sleepers tucked away in London’s Square Mile. In a Revisit feature, the AJ accompanies architects from Peter Barber and Holland Harvey as they assess homeless support spaces they designed. Also profiled is shedkm’s transformation of a worn-out concrete 1960s complex into 73 homes for families at risk in Croydon.

Our news feature, Beyond Container Logic, investigates the role architects are playing in providing well-designed temporary housing for those most in need. An accompanying essay by RCKa’s Russell Curtis explores how homes can be delivered both at speed and at scale, and what factors are needed to bring this about.

Also in News is a must-read feature on salaries which lays bare by just how much we are all under-paid, and you can find out whether you’ve been paying enough attention this year with our Buildings quiz – 24 points and bragging rights are up for grabs.

Meanwhile in the Culture section, we curate your winter reading with a round-up of the latest architecture books, and there is a review of an exhibition at the Sir John Soane’s Museum exploring Egypt’s influence on British design.

This month’s opinion columns are by Kunle Barker, who asks whether London is dying, and Aga Szedzianis argues we should look to the Netherlands when designing the next generation of New towns.

Other contributors to the issue include David Grandorge, Hellman and Amy Leung, who shares her sketches.

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AJ 19.02.26: Natural Materials

AJ 19.02.26: Natural Materials

Natural materials resonate with us at a profound level. We want to touch them. They connect us with our world, and they are resilient. When they weather and age, they can grow in beauty.

This month's issue explores these materials, showcasing exciting projects that are part of a more circular approach to building. These include a rammed earth home by Tuckey Design Studio, a sensitive retrofit of a historic City of London building by 6a architects, and a community centre by Hayatsu Architects which makes a virtue of visible restoration and repair.

In News, we look back at how the Saudi slowdown became a BIG issue. Another feature explores the AI 'arms race' and how it might affect planning. The AJ also reveals a first look inside O'Donnell + Tuomey's new school of architecture at Liverpool University.

An Opinion piece by Toko Andrews asks if we are prepared for what protection of function will entail, and Editional Studio director Jack Richards explains why his practice is moving away from social media.

Also in the issue are reviews of two exhibitions: Memoryscapes at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark and Alessandro Mendini at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art.

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AJ 19.03.26: Colour

AJ 19.03.26: Colour

Colour profoundly shapes how we experience the built environment. In an often drab and worrisome world, colour can energise and elevate. It’s an important element in the architect’s toolkit.

This issue is packed with projects that demonstrate how colour can spur creativity, build communities, and inspire positivity. John Puttick Associates‘ colourful Preston Youth Zone features a ‘striking palette’, while Turner Works‘ vibrant retrofit of a derelict high street store celebrates the town’s carnival heritage. Also featured is Henley Halebrown‘s sunny yellow Barge Crescent development on London’s South Bank, as well as a feature on recent hospitality and retail interiors where colour is used to add mood and definition.

In News, Gino Spocchia and Josh Butler explore why John Lewis‘s build-to-rent housing delivery was left on the shelf, and Richard Waite looks into the increase in ‘Grey belt’ housing schemes being given the green light. Among other news, take a first look at Metropolitan Workshop‘s Maggie’s Cheltenham cancer care centre addition.

An Opinion piece by Toko Andrews discusses whether the next generation will see architecture as a profession worth investing in given rising tuition fees and student debt. Meanwhile, Aga Szedzianis examines the lack of architectural conversation on social media.

In Culture are reviews of MOULD Collective‘s book ‘Architecture Is Climate’ and a travelling exhibition on architectural heritage. This month’s sketches are by Hana Murakami from Pitman Tozer Architects.

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AJ 19.05.22: Infrastructure

AJ 19.05.22: Infrastructure

This issue features building studies on Folkestone Skatepark by Hollaway Studio and The Person Environment Activity Research Laboratory by Penoyre & Prasad. And we take a look inside the Elizabeth line before its imminent opening to the public featuring Tottenham Court Road station by Hawkins\Brown, Woolwich station by Weston Williamson + Partners, and Grimshaw’s line-wide Crossrail design.

News features: The AJ talks to politicians and architects in Bradford, Blackpool and Sunderland to get the low-down on Levelling Up.

News In Pictures features Heatherwick Studio and BIG’s Bay View Google campus, which has just opened in California and LSE reveals designs for their final Holborn set-piece.

PLUS: All the winners of this year’s AJ Retrofit Awards 2022, Smith Mordak asks if awards should celebrate co-operation, rather than competition, The Secret Architect, David Grandorge goes nuclear, exhibition reviews of Radical Rooms at the RIBA and Walter Sickert at Tate Britain, AJ Sketchbook by Tim Bell, letters, competitions and Louis Hellman's monthly cartoon.

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AJ 19.06.25: AJ100

AJ 19.06.25: AJ100

This month’s issue presents everything you need to know about the UK’s largest architecture practices, including fee and practice data so you can compare business performance and benchmark your own practice.

Following a destabilising few years, a theme of renewed optimism runs through the findings, with the total number of architects employed at AJ100 practices having grown for the fourth year running.

It has been 30 years since the first AJ100 was published, and we look back at the seismic changes that have impacted the profession over these decades, from the introduction of digital technology to increased awareness of sustainability in practice.

We also reveal the 12 winners of AJ100 Awards, including Contribution to the Profession honouree David Levitt, who is recognised for his contribution to architecture and housing. Find out which of our six AJ100 Champions has been crowned Practice of the Year, who is leading the way on sustainability, mentoring and communication, and discover emerging talent in our New Talent awards for architectural assistants and new architects.

Elsewhere in the issue there are reviews of Do Ho Suh’s Tate Modern show and multi-sensory installations at the Barbican Centre, while in Opinion Kunle Barker and Matthew Turner reflect on the difficulties of finding jobs in the industry.

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AJ 19.10.17: RIBA Stirling Prize

AJ 19.10.17: RIBA Stirling Prize

Special bumper issue + FREE colouring book!

The latest AJ celebrates this year’s six Stirling Prize finalists, with building studies of Amin Taha’s Barrett’s Grove housing; RSHP’s British Museum extension; Reiach and Hall and Michael Laird’s City of Glasgow College City Campus; Baynes and Mitchell’s Command of the Oceans visitor centre; dRMM’s Hastings Pier; and 6A’s photography studio for Juergen Teller.

Each study has photographs, drawings, a materials board, a critical appraisal and the architect’s own account of how they built the project. We also ask past winners how picking up the Stirling affected their practice. And there’s a free colouring book of the shortlisted projects with every copy!

PLUS Top clients tell us what they really want from architects; the shortlisted designs for Thamesmead Library; and we pay tribute to David Marks who died earlier this month.

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AJ 19.10.23: Power Out of Restriction

AJ 19.10.23: Power Out of Restriction

Power Out of Restriction (POoR) is part of a wider ecology of collectives and grassroots groups doing things differently. POoR has already made an important impact on the profession as a burgeoning, socially-minded organisation focused on getting young people’s voices heard. They know that young people hold great power and creativity, despite so often being marginalised or restricted – and that out of this restriction can emerge viewpoints and approaches that we should all pay heed to.

In POoR's AJ takeover issue they platform emerging built environment practitioners, shine a spotlight on initiatives such as the forward-thinking People’s Pavilion by Beyond The Box, and provide examples of some of the latest youth-focused buildings in the UK.

They also look at the importance of mentoring with POoR's mentor Neil Onions, current changemakers in the architecture profession and the hottest grassroots organisations. In news, they set about demystifying the term co-design, the newest piece of architectural jargon on the block. 

This special issue features contributions from Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Shamiso Oneka, RESOLVE Collective, Hamza Shaikh and Xcessive Aesthetics, among many others.

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AJ 19.11.20: Site + setting

AJ 19.11.20: Site + setting

Three projects which demonstrate contrasting creative responses to context: Heatherwick Studio‘s Leeds Maggie's Centre, Turner Works' Hackney Bridge and a Q&A with Jonathan Hendry Architects about its Anderby Creek project.

PLUS New data from the Salary Survey; Disabled architects on workplace struggles and under-representation in the profession; Kunle Barker's opinion on the intersection of diversity and socio-economic inclusion; AJ sketchbook from Adriana Bravo's Jestico + Wiles; and a sad farewell to the Garden Bridge Trust.

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AJ 19.12.19 Community

AJ 19.12.19 Community

The AJ looks at community architecture with a building study on Croydon Youth Zone by John Puttick Associates; five case studies of community-led schemes – from cooking and teaching facilities in London to affordable homes on micro-sites in Bristol; a small architectural intervention to create a social space in Glasgow; and filmmaker-turned-architect Clare Richards talks about her mission to reset the profession’s social agenda.

PLUS Should the UK adopt the Australian NABERS method of assessing building energy efficiency? The events in the world of architecture to look out for in 2020; and our Christmas Quiz tests your recall of another momentous year in architecture. 

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AJ 19.12.24: Community

AJ 19.12.24: Community

This issue is devoted to buildings that are created with community at their core, a particularly important theme as we shake off the old year and face the new.

Heathlands is one of the largest schools for deaf children in the UK, and we publish a building study of the Woodland Building, designed by Manalo & White in collaboration with deaf architect-led practice Richard Lyndon Design. Each careful detail – from site to sightlines, from colour scheme to desk placements – focuses exactly on what signing and lip-reading pupils want and need. Other building studies include Jonathan Hendry Design’s community hub in a quintessentially English village, and a ‘carefully considered’ nursery fit-out by Office S&M in London.

In News, we present the findings of an extensive salary survey, which suggests pay rises might be on their way out. You can also read a feature on seven buildings that were lost to demolition in 2024. Christmas diversions are provided in our Buildings of the Year quiz and festive viewing round-up.

The Culture section contains a review of an exhibition showcasing the work of US architect Paul Rudolph, and Owen Hatherley takes a look at Simon Jenkins’ latest book, A Short History of British Architecture.

Also in the issue are opinion pieces by The Secret Architect, Toko Andrews and David Grandorge; a summary of the best architectural competitions; sketchbook, courtesy of Steve McCloy; and Hellman’s Christmas story.

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AJ 20.02.25: Culture

AJ 20.02.25: Culture

This month’s culture-focused issue contains a review of The Brutalist, which is also the title of Hellman’s cartoon of Donald Trump that appears on the cover. As AJ editor Emily Booth writes, ‘Megalomaniac? Genius? The former property mogul’s cultural impact is already profound.’

We present studies of three cultural projects, including ‘a powerhouse for dance’: O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Sadler’s Wells East. Gianni Botsford’s retreat for creatives on the Isle of Wight, and Reiach and Hall’s museum expansion in western Scotland, are also in the issue. And there is a feature called Exhibitionists, in which we ask a range of practices to tell us how they approach museum and gallery fit-outs, in particular how they prioritise sustainability in their work.

In News, there is a profile of government architects – yes, they do exist – and a feature on infill development – the issues that are holding it back, and some potential solutions. We also share a first look at Niall McLaughlin’s designs for the Maggie’s Centre in Cambridge.

You can read a book review of Protest Architecture by Nick Newman, and there are columns by Hana Loftus (‘a hideous new footbridge underlines the poor state of design standards in the UK’), and Toko Andrews, who argues that architecture shouldn’t be an ‘old man’s game’ anymore.

In Competitions you can find out about the William Sutton Prize, while this month’s sketches are courtesy of Jack Oaten.

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AJ 20.03.25: Natural Materials

AJ 20.03.25: Natural Materials

This month's issue demonstrates how building more with natural materials promotes sustainability, circularity- and joyful architecture.

We highlight three projects with natural materials at their core, including Hugh Strange Architects' House on a Hill; David Kohn Architects' sinuous expansion of one of the University of Oxford's oldest colleges; and a community food market in Ilford designed for disassembly by Clark Architecture and Webb Yates.

For further inspiration, a feature ‘Natural materials on site’ showcases five new projects including a rammed earth house by Tuckey Design Studio and a 'net zero' welcome centre built with straw bales by Citizens Design Bureau.

In News, Richard Waite examines how Lina Ghotmeh beat big-name practices to land the British Museum job, while Martha Dillon uncovers the lessons to be learnt from a new 'biophilic' school. As Biodiversity Net Gain passes its first birthday, Anna Highfield looks at how architects are finding the new legislation and asks: is Labour as committed to nature recovery as the Tories?

In Culture, Ellen Peirson visits SOIL at Somerset House, sharing how the exhibition opens our eyes to the world at our feet. Meanwhile, an interview with Mio Tsuneyama spotlights the radical approaches to domesticity by Japanese architects, challenging Tokyo's 'scrap and build' new homes culture.

Also in the issue, The Coach shares how to find recognition at your new practice, Rory Chisholm shares his sketches, and a work by Hellman, A Monument For A Monarch, closes the issue.

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AJ 20.05.21: Drawing

AJ 20.05.21: Drawing

The AJ editor reflects on how we can all benefit from listening to underrepresented groups as we profile Marsha Ramroop, the RIBA's first-ever head of diversity, and hear from architects on race and diversity in the profession and 'BAMEwashing'.

In this Drawing issue, Rob Wilson collates freehand sketches from seven  practitioners and we feature building studies on AL_A's Wadham College building in Oxford, The Inverness Justice Centre by Reiach and Hall Architects and Bouverie Mews, Stoke Newington, by Spatial Affairs Bureau.

PLUS AJ Sketchbook from HTA Design partner Sandy Morrison; The Coach; Kunle Barker's monthly column addresses the architect's climate crisis dilemma and a first look inside the British Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale.

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AJ 20.06.19: AJ100

AJ 20.06.19: AJ100

The AJ100 edition is the biggest of the year, listing the largest practices in the UK with in-depth profiles of the top 25. We also announce the winners of the AJ100 awards, including Building of the Year, Practice of the Year and Contribution to the Profession. And we analyse the data from the AJ100 survey, examining areas such as fees, salary levels, international activity and practice diversity. The 144-page issue forms an invaluable almanac for the profession. 

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AJ 20.06.2026: AJ100

AJ 20.06.2026: AJ100

This month’s issue presents everything you need to know about the UK’s largest architecture practices, including fee and practice data.

The findings reveal a mixed picture. The total number of architects employed has reached an all-time high of 7,729, yet growth is tapering, fee income has plateaued and the proportion of architectural assistants continues to fall. More positively, diversity continues to improve and AI adoption has surged across the cohort. 

We also reveal the winners of the 2026 AJ100 Awards. Find out why Donald Insall Associates has been crowned Practice of the Year for its future-facing approach to heritage-led conservation, and discover who is leading the way on sustainability, mentoring, communication and community impact.

The Contribution to the Profession award goes to Victoria Thornton, founder of the Open House programme, recognised for her tireless promotion of free access to architecture and championing of young people’s voices. We also celebrate emerging talent in our New Talent awards for Part 1, Part 2 and newly qualified architects.

Opinion this month comes from Marcus Adams of JTP, who makes a plea to practices to keep employing Part 1 architectural assistants at a time when rising wages, AI and economic pressures are making entry-level roles harder to sustain.

In Culture, Rob Wilson reviews Isaac Julien’s film installation All That Changes You. Metamorphosis at London’s Cosmic House, and Luke Neve reviews John Grindrod’s new book on LGBTQ+ lives in Britain’s suburbs.

Rounding out the issue are the Secret Architect on the perils of dating as an architect, sketches by Sam Sedgewick of GT3 Architects, David Grandorge’s photograph selection and a competitions compilation.

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AJ 20.06.24: AJ100

AJ 20.06.24: AJ100

The AJ100 is back, and this year our award-winners are pushing at the boundaries and encouraging a better way of doing things.

As part of our drive to support and celebrate positive change, new this year is AJ100 Champions, a group of practices moving the dial either in their own projects and working practices, in the wider industry and beyond. The cohort forms our supercharged shortlist for the Practice of the Year award.

In the issue we reveal all the victors of the AJ100 Awards, including Contribution to the Profession winner Kate Macintosh, as well as new categories that celebrate emerging talent within the UK’s largest practices. Our New Talent cohort – celebrating Part 1 and Part 2 architectural assistants and newly qualified architects – inspires and challenges in equal measure.

The latest AJ100 data shows a mixed picture of the sector and, since it was collected, we know several practices have struggled. Architectural fee income is well up, and there are encouraging signs of increased diversity. But there is a slight fall in the numbers of architectural staff, including, most noticeably, architectural assistants.

In Culture, we review a new photographic project pairing every Car of the Year with a building completed in the same year. Opinion pieces by Toko Andrews and Tim O’Callaghan also feature in the issue, as does the monthly competitions round-up, and Hellman’s cartoon on the forthcoming general election.

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AJ 20.07.17: The Student Issue

AJ 20.07.17: The Student Issue

The AJ’s annual student issue features the results of this year’s student survey, painting a worrying picture of high debt and poor mental health; practitioners review the end-of-year student shows at the top 10 architecture schools as ranked by employability; and we have a comprehensive directory of all 52 UK architecture schools and the courses they offer. PLUS This year’s RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist; Ellis Woodman on 1973’s Polyark bus; and readers’ memories of Bryan Avery.

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AJ 20.08.26: Retrofit

AJ 20.08.26: Retrofit

This issue is dedicated to retrofit. The projects featured demonstrate how light-touch approaches to reuse can get existing buildings back into community use, working with their scars and witness marks rather than against them.

There are four building studies. David Kohn Architects and Bovenbouw Architectuur have transformed an 18th-century beguinage in Belgium into a new home for Hasselt University’s Faculty of Architecture and Arts. THING Studio is three years into a phased retrofit of Redruth’s Grade II-listed former Passmore Edwards Free Library, transforming it into a community arts centre. Sean Griffiths, pHp architects, Studio Morison and Giles Round have turned a vacant 1930s civic building in Northampton into a home for art and creative production. And RCKa has retrofitted a derelict community hall in Barking and Dagenham as a youth hub co-designed with local young people.

There are two news features on how a team of architects including Henley Halebrown, Peter Barber Architects and East Architecture aims to revamp the centre of Winchester, and on who will rebuild the Mackintosh building at the Glasgow School of Art after the school conceded it cannot fund the estimated £265 million restoration alone.

The issue previews the six RIBA Stirling Prize 2026 finalists, with Witherford Watson Mann the bookmakers’ favourite for its River Wing at Clare College, Cambridge, and reveals the shortlisted finalists for the AJ Architecture Awards 2026 across 21 categories.

In Opinion, Saul Humphrey, incoming president of the Chartered Institute of Building, argues that collaboration between designers and builders has never been more important. In Culture, Suzanne Ewing reviews the exhibition Ushida Findlay: Unbroken Spaces at V&A Dundee, and David Grandorge’s photograph of the opening of the Tate Tanks in 2012 reflects on the audacity of adaptive reuse.

Rounding out the issue are the Secret Architect on why MEP engineers are their favourites, sketches by Jack Pannell of Common Ground Workshop, and a competitions compilation.

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AJ 20.10.22: Climate crisis

AJ 20.10.22: Climate crisis

Our first building study is of Foster + Partners’ Madrid warehouse retrofit, which is carbon-neutral in operation. Then we take a look at Caruso St John’s retrofit of a factory in Eindhoven which has been transformed into a mixed-use development. Closer to home, Architype and Feilden + Mawson have changed a Cambridge telephone exchange into offices.

Continuing our focus on building design in the time of climate emergency, you can read an embodied energy comparison between Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building and Waugh Thistleton’s 6 Orsman Road, authored by Barnabas Calder and Florian Urban.

Our first news feature explores M&S’s plans to demolish its Oxford St HQ - prompting a huge backlash - and looks forward to the forthcoming public inquiry; while the second asks whether whole-life carbon assessments have become a greenwashing tool for developers.

In culture, we publish a review of Ruth Lang’s new book on exemplary retrofit projects plus the latest column by David Grandorge.

You can also read tributes to fire safety campaigner Sam Webb; reaction to Niall McLaughlin’s Stirling Prize win; the latest architectural competitions; and opinion pieces by The AJ Coach and Alex Raher.

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AJ 21.03.24: AI

AJ 21.03.24: AI

A detailed look at how architects are using AI: is it a game-changer or a threat?

‘It’s not hyperbole to state that the physical environment of our future cities will be moulded largely by the work of computer scientists ... architects and place-makers must be more than part of the new conversation, they must also become active in the development of this consequential, software-driven shift.’

So says Keir Regan-Alexander in our special issue devoted to how architects are (or aren’t) using artificial intelligence. Also in this must-read edition you can read the results of the AJ’s AI survey, and find out what these new technologies could mean for the future of the profession. Alongside early adopter Keir’s top tips for starting to use AI, there is a round-up of how practices big and small are using it practically, including Child Graddon Lewis and K Bava Architects.

The more ethical aspects of AI are under the spotlight in an essay by Cristina Monteiro on what William Morris would have thought of it (this is also the inspiration for the cover image). And we’ve let ChatGPT write a building study for us on how Foster + Partners’ City Hall could be transformed into social housing, with visuals ‘created’ by Shutterstock AI and muse.ai.

In Culture, senior lecturer Stephen Parnell reveals how his students used Generative AI to resurrect an unpublished Manplan issue of The Architectural Review. There is also an exhibition review of Albert Frey: Inventive Modernist at Palm Springs Art Museum.

The Secret Architect enjoys a think-piece on AI written by an ingratiating colleague, while Martha Dillon opines that real estate AI is a threat to architects.

In non-AI news, we present two building studies: the multi-use Storyteller building in Sidcup by DRDH Architects, and Alma-nac’s orange- and yellow-hued community and co-working space in Tooting.

This month’s Sketchbook showcases the illustrations of Agustin Coll, and we also publish David Grandorge’s take on AI and Hellman’s on the BT Tower’s imminent conversion into a hotel.

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AJ 21.04.22: Representation + Materials

AJ 21.04.22: Representation + Materials

This issue features building studies on three projects which draw on the past in contemporary forms, including Sam Jacob Studio’s 54 Ivy Street, more completed Greenwich Design District buildings by David Kohn Architects and Níall McLaughlin Architects' Magdalene College Library, Oxford.

News features: Ella Jessel asks why are Manchester’s developers getting away with so little affordable housing provision in their schemes? Will Ing looks at architects-turned-developers and the rewards and pitfalls of becoming your own client.

News In Pictures feature's the final touches for UCL’s Olympic Park campus, AJ Small Projects 2022 winner and the new head of the Bartlett.

PLUS: Kunle Barker opines on behalf of smaller practices' fighting chances in competitions, The Secret Architect is back again, David Grandorge climbs stairs, inteventions in Milton Keynes' Station Square by Hayatsu Architects, AJ Sketchbook by Lucila Sampaoli, letters, competitions and Louis Hellman's monthly cartoon asks which is ugliest – Cumbernauld town centre or a dead planet?

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AJ 21.05.20: Adaptation + Workplace

AJ 21.05.20: Adaptation + Workplace

Building studies of projects by AHMM and PUP Architects; Design’s role in post-pandemic schools and offices; Learning lessons from Zaha Hadid Architects’ cyberattack. 

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AJ 21.05.26: Manchester

AJ 21.05.26: Manchester

Our cover star this month is Andy Burnham – a man making local and national waves. Manchester is a city on the up, literally, and in his role as mayor Burnham is a major driving force behind that. The AJ spoke to him about how the city has become a model for growth and devolution.

There are three building studies which showcase Manchester’s style and spirit: Sheppard Robson’s deep retrofit of a city-centre office; Buttress Architects’ affordable, sustainable housing development in Ancoats; and Project 3 Architects’ flexible workspaces in retrofitted Victorian market halls.

While Manchester is set to become Europe’s fourth tallest city, in its next phase of development it will be spreading outwards with new and greener schemes. In the issue you can read a feature about this, which reveals a concerted effort to increase social and affordable housing over the next decade.

There are also some striking ‘then and now’ pictures of the cityscape from Euan Kellie, which show how far it has developed in just a few decades. Then we round up the best recently completed projects in the city, along with a map showing where all the upcoming developments are located.

Opinion pieces come courtesy of If_Do’s Sarah Castle, who shares her experiences of the city as a returning Mancunian, while Elizabeth Hopkirk argues that historic buildings should be protected amid the redevelopment rush.

Kunle Barker also writes on how to make your practice more resilient, and the Culture section carries a review of a provocative new book by OMA’s Reinier de Graaf which posits that architects have lost all credibility. Discuss!

Rounding out the issue are sketches by Gavin Watts, a competitions compilation, the AJ100 Awards shortlists, and contributions from David Grandorge and Hellman.

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AJ 21.06.18: RIBA National Awards

AJ 21.06.18: RIBA National Awards

The latest AJ features all 49 winners of this year’s RIBA National Awards, ordered into nine sector categories with cultural and higher-education projects particularly plentiful; and we speculate as to which schemes could feature in this year’s Stirling Prize shortlist. PLUS A year after the Grenfell Tower fire, architects discuss why the profession has struggled to find its voice on the disaster; Lendlease chief Jonathan Emery talks about the developer’s roles on controversial estate regeneration projects; and Ellis Woodman on the Sh***y Architecture Men list. 

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AJ 21.08.25: Retrofit

AJ 21.08.25: Retrofit

This month's retrofit-focussed issue is packed with projects that show a determination to use the existing, where possible, for the benefit of community and environment

Within its pages are building studies highlighting a handful of innovative retrofit projects, including a reconfigured wing at The National Gallery, a former bank and a one-time barrack in Ghent that has been transformed into a mixed-use neighbourhood. Also in Buildings, see inside V&A East Storehouse, a triumph of retrofit that redefines what it means to visit a museum.

In Culture, we visit this year's Creative Folkestone Triennial arts festival, while Nile Bridgeman reviews Design and Disability, a new exhibition at V&A South Kensington that showcases designs by and for disabled people.

Meanwhile, News features highlight stories from architects working at the forefront of retrofit practice, including architects working toward a self-storage revolution and three architects-turned-clients leading heritage-led regeneration projects.

Elsewhere in this month's issue, Kunle Barker gives his take on why Sheffield's Park Hill is a model for our times and The Coach offers advice for an architect reluctant to take on a management role.

Plus, the finalists are unveiled for this year's AJ Architecture Awards- take a full look at the shortlists inside.

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AJ 21.09.23: Student Prize

AJ 21.09.23: Student Prize

Community and sustainability are the prevailing themes of this year’s AJ Student Prize, and all 100+ entries are showcased in AJ’s annual student special issue. This is a cohort acutely aware of the challenges facing the world, and determined to come up with their own solutions to the most testing issues of our times.

Also in this issue are the sobering findings of our latest race and diversity survey, which reveals how people of diverse ethnic heritage face barriers at every stage of their careers, and explores how the profession can become more inclusive. We also spotlight alternative practice pioneers Zean Mair-Macfarlane and Bushra Mohamed.

More than a year since a damning report uncovered decades of ‘serious misconduct’ at the Bartlett, we ask whether the celebrated architecture school is now safe for students. In Culture, the AJ reports from the European Architecture Students Assembly in Sheffield.

Other features in this jam-packed issue include the RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist (and the AJ’s verdict); columns by the AJ Coach and David Grandorge; sketchbook by Freedah Rehan; our monthly competitions round-up; and Hellman’s cartoon on the RAAC crisis.

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AJ 21.10.21: Climate Crisis

AJ 21.10.21: Climate Crisis

Architects’ actions matter. We need to do more to tackle climate change and less waste and greenwash, exhorts the AJ editor Emily Booth as she introduces our Climate Crisis issue. Will Ing and Ella Jessel investigate the green building boom and Committee on Climate Change chief John Gummer slams Eric Parry's Fleet Street demolition proposal.

Fran Williams talks to White Arkitekter about their 20-storey timber culture centre in Sweden. Building studies examine Arup's retrofit of 1 Triton Square and Dow Jones' No 3 Boase Street. We look at this year's RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist through a green lens and Hattie Hartman and Kunle Barker's columns address what architects can do to help in a climate crisis.

PLUS: Tribute to twice RIBA President Owen Luder on his passing aged 93, David Grandorge on Passivhaus, Charles Jenck's Cosmic House opens to the public, AJ Sketchbook entry from Maurice Shapero, letters, competitions and Louis Hellman's monthly cartoon.

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AJ 21.11.19: AJ Architecture Awards

AJ 21.11.19: AJ Architecture Awards

The issue features the winners of the 2019 AJ Architecture Awards with 70 pages of winning schemes covering 18 building categories, including the Manser Medal – AJ House of the Year, as well as the overall Design of the Year, Architect of the Year and Editor’s Choice prizes. 

PLUS Building studies of Hoskins Architects’ Aberdeen City Art Gallery extension and Architype’s Passivhaus-standard secondary school, Harris Academy Sutton; Jonathan Glancey’s obituary of Ted Cullinan; and we meet developer Lendlease’s sustainability head Paul King.

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AJ 21.11.24: Planning

AJ 21.11.24: Planning

We can't build the quality homes we need without both good design and placemaking. This month’s issue of the AJ showcases schemes that illustrate both.

In Buildings, we unveil how Renzo Piano’s Paddington Square scheme has improved rail travellers’ experience, how Caruso St John has helped stitch together a neglected corner of Camden, and how John McAslan + Partners’ multi-modal ‘post-Troubles’ transport hub is providing a gateway into Belfast.

To combine the dense energy of a city with the pastoral beauty of the English countryside, Mae founding director Alex Ely puts forward a bold and progressive vision for the future of urban development in the UK – a new type of place based on connection to nature and sustainable growth.

News stories are filled with tales about delays on decisions, backlogs of applications and arbitrary refusals. Meanwhile, planning officers in cash-strapped councils struggle to keep their heads above water. We ask those at the planning coalface what needs to change to fix the nation’s ‘broken’ planning system.

Also in this month’s issue, photographer David Grandorge reflects on ‘Low Tech’ architecture and Fran Williams visits ‘Concrete Dreams’, an exhibition showcasing Newcastle’s Brutalist vision.

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AJ 22.02.18: New town

AJ 22.02.18: New town

The latest AJ focuses on the North West Cambridge development, a £1 billion city extension backed by the university. We look at AECOM’s masterplan and have building studies on MUMA’s community centre and nursery school; Lot 8 housing by Maccreanor Lavington and Witherford Watson Mann; and WilkinsonEyre and Mole Architects’ Lot 1, which includes housing, a supermarket, doctors surgery and energy centre.

PLUS Custom-build housing in Cornwall meets with buyer caution; how people power marks a shift for estate regeneration; and the 39 longlisted entries in the Old Street Roundabout competition.

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AJ 22.02.24: Schools

AJ 22.02.24: Schools

This month’s issue of the AJ explores a sector in need of drastic, visionary and financial intervention: schools. As editor Emily Booth points out in her introduction, ‘while bold budgetary changes are made with the sweep of a pen at the macro level, each crumbling classroom is a local, micro tragedy’.

In News Anna Highfield delves deeper into this topic, asking whether the Tories’ new rescue package goes far enough to address deteriorating conditions in schools, and what measures a new government might take. Plus, we take a first look at Jamie Fobert’s newly revealed Maggie’s Centre plans.

Our building studies include Rivington Studio’s secondary school at Silvertown - an oasis amid the regeneration of east London’s docklands - and a supportive woodland learning environment by Loader Monteith and Studio SJM. Finally we take a look at Surman Weston’s first self-build project - a strikingly innovative and energy-efficient home that reinvents the terraced house.

Elsewhere the first piece in AJ’s new series, ‘Blueprints for Change’, presents Tom Holbrook’s bold proposition for The Arc – an 100-mile public landscape with water at its heart. The series will give voice to ways architects are challenging the most pressing social and environmental challenges. 

In our Opinion pages Cristina Monteiro explains why we need to talk about social value in architecture, while Toko Andrews asks if specialisation is the way to succeed in the profession. And, in Culture, we explore two new exhibitions: SOAS University of London’s Building Africa and Abstractions: Studies of the National Theatre – photographs of Denys Lasdun’s South Bank masterpiece. 

Finally, in Sketchbook we meet Fatima Mejbil of FAUM Architecture, and Hellman introduces us to RIBA presidential candidate Chris Williamson.

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AJ 22.03.18: Small Projects

AJ 22.03.18: Small Projects

The latest issue features the shortlist for AJ Small Projects 2018 – 20 schemes built for less than £250,000, ranging from pavilions and school classrooms to rope seating and even a few house extensions. PLUS Can rooftop extensions help solve the housing crisis? Ellis Woodman on the crisis facing architectural book publishing; and a round-up of this year’s MIPIM property fair.

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AJ 22.04.21: Tall Buildings

AJ 22.04.21: Tall Buildings

The AJ editor asks Who wants or needs shiny new glass and steel towers? Meanwhile results from NLA’s annual tall building survey reveal the pandemic has not led to a London tower downturn. This issue features building studies of three recent tall buildings; Allies and Morrison‘s 100 Bishopsgate tower, David Chipperfield Architects‘ NYC project The Bryant and The Water Tower by Tonkin Liu.

PLUS We reveal the winner of this year’s AJ Small Projects Award; a news feature on unpicking the London Plan: what you need to know about housing, the circular economy and tall buildings; Penny Lewis reviews Reinier de Graaf‘s debut novel The Masterplan; AJ Sketchbook, and opinion columns from Hattie Hartman on COP26 and Kunle Barker on sustainable best practice.

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AJ 22.05.25: Out

AJ 22.05.25: Out

Our special edition explores, spotlights and celebrates the LGBTQ+ community’s rich contribution to architecture, providing much affirmation and inspiration: the AJ is going Out.

We present thought-provoking discussions about queer culture, about whose voices are heard, who gets to occupy space – and where. Space is political, and that feels especially so at present. The RCA’s Gem Barton, who leads the Architecture LGBT+ Academic Champions Network, has a striking take: ‘To queer is to disrupt. To queer is to stretch, bend, reimagine and reject inherited structures that no longer serve us — if they ever did.’

Also within the issue are profiles of the community’s champions and leaders, a feature on why we need LGBTQ+ housing, and a deep dive into nightclub design. With Pride month imminent, be sure to fill your calendar using our detailed diary of upcoming events.

In Opinion, Kirsty Watt and Bek Ziola argue that architects have a duty of care to design spaces for all people, regardless of the recent Supreme Court hearing, and David Grandorge undertakes a queer pilgrimage.

The issue also contains two building studies – Feix&Merlin’s restrained refurb of Walworth Town Hall, and John Puttick Associates’ youth centre in a former power station in Blackburn. Plus we revisit a pioneering senior co-housing scheme co-designed by Pollard Thomas Edwards to see what we can learn from this rare and radical way of living.

In Culture, Daniel Ovalle Coastal writes about how his research into LGBTQ+ housing has led him to create dollhouses, and Derin Fadina reviews the queer-focused pavilions at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. While in Sketchbook, four architectural professionals share their work made at life drawing sessions.

Elsewhere in the issue you can find our monthly competitions roundup, the full shortlists for this year’s AJ100 awards, and Aga Szedzianis’s column on why interior designers are paid more than architects.

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AJ 22.06.17: RIBA National Awards

AJ 22.06.17: RIBA National Awards

The latest AJ features all 49 winners of this year’s RIBA National Awards, ordered into nine sector categories with cultural and housing projects particularly plentiful; and we speculate as to which schemes might feature in this year’s Stirling Prize shortlist

PLUS As revelations continue to emerge of just how preventable the Grenfell Tower tragedy was, we present five questions about the fire that need to be answered; and as the heatwave continues, we look at Francis Kéré’s newly opened Serpentine Pavilion and the seven shortlisted designs for Edinburgh’s Ross Pavilion

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AJ 22.06.23: AJ100

AJ 22.06.23: AJ100

AJ100 is back! Our annual deep dive into how the UK’s biggest practices are faring reveals that between them, they employ more architects than ever before. We drill down into the data to see how salaries and fees have changed since last year, what progress has been made on sustainability and the impact of rising energy costs on business performance.

You can read profiles and data for all of the AJ100 practices, and we reveal the winners of AJ100 awards in 2023. Pooja Agrawal, the recipient of the Contribution to the Profession award, talks to the AJ about her life in architecture and her pioneering work at Public Practice.

In the Culture section, we review Norman Foster’s retrospective at the Pompidou Centre (his sketches are also featured in our regular Sketchbook column), as well as the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

Also in the issue is our monthly competitions round-up, columns by the Secret Architect, the Coach and David Grandorge, and cartoonist Hellman takes aim at The Line.

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AJ 22.07.21: Student special

AJ 22.07.21: Student special

In this student special issue we showcase all the projects competing for this year’s undergraduate and postgraduate Student Prizes plus the Sustainability Award shortlist.

Five end-of-year student shows from some of the most recently validated courses are reviewed by Graham Burn, Marwa El Mubark and Josh Fenton. We also reveal the results from our AJ Student Survey showing the impact of Covid lockdowns and remote working.

The Secret Architect returns to spill the beans on an architecture school’s virtual meeting about alarming deferral rates on the Part 3 course and, as ex-students poise to take legal action against the school, Will Ing investigates the toxic culture of bullying at the Bartlett in a major news feature.

PLUS The Coach advises a recent Part 2 graduate, a tribute to architectural photographer Dennis Gilbert and David Grandorge's second column on Some Things That Could or Should be Learnt in a School of Architecture.

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AJ 22.08.19: Schools

AJ 22.08.19: Schools

The latest AJ features building studies of three schools projects: Allies and Morrison’s van Hasselt Centre at Cranleigh School in Surrey; Northampton International Academy by Architecture Initiative; and a new building for Kingswood School in Bath by Stonewood Design. PLUS One year on, is the architecture apprenticeship scheme failing to open up the profession; and as PLP’s 22 Bishopsgate tower nears completion, founding partner Karen Cook talks about the scheme’s two-decade evolution.

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AJ 22.08.24: Light, craft, space

AJ 22.08.24: Light, craft, space

 Lynch Architects’ Westminster Coroner’s Court is one of three building studies to be found in this month’s issue, with our critic declaring it to ‘invoke something of the “secular sacred” that’s rarely found these days’.

Also presented are AOC’s storage facility for the National Railway Museum in County Durham – which has delicate touches reminiscent of a white cube gallery – and Cooke Fawcett’s Deptford office rework for arts incubator Cockpit.

In the News section you can find out who’s odds on to win this year’s Stirling Prize, and read a profile of Jane Darke, whose 1976 examination of six London council estates highlighted a gulf between architects’ preconceptions and tenants’ reality.

The humble brick takes centre stage at an exhibition mounted jointly by Tate Liverpool and RIBA North, which is reviewed in the Culture section. Opinion pieces are authored by the Secret Architect on the Stirling, and Cristina Monteiro on Colin Ward: ‘We need his values to guide planning reforms’.

The Grenfell Tower Memorial is featured in Competitions, while David Grandorge’s column focuses on electricity, Tesla and Belgrade. At-risk cinemas are the hot topic in our Letters pages, and this month’s Sketchbook drawings are courtesy of Dom Walker.

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