AJ 23.11.23: Retrofit

November’s AJ is devoted to retrofit, and demonstrates a growing commitment to work positively with the buildings that are already around us. We present four building appraisals, including Caruso St John and Bovenbouw Architecture’s rework of a 1960s Belgian insurance HQ.

Back in the UK, we discover how [Y/N] Studio has repaired and extended a terrace of workspaces Hackney; visit TDO Architecture’s courtyard development that employs reuse and retrofit alongside new build to realise office spaces for the post-Covid era; and see how Hugh Broughton Architects converted a derelict church into a community and business incubator hub.

In news, you can read a review of Thomas Heatherwick’s Modernism-bashing book Humanise (cartoonist Hellman also presents his take), and we explore how Canary Wharf is evolving away from the corporate monoculture of its 1980s birth and being reinvigorated by retrofit.

Also in the issue are opinion pieces by Toko Andrews and Anna Beckett; David Grandorge on Lacaton & Vassal in Culture; the competitions roundup; and this month’s sketches are by Diana Chirescu.

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AJ 24.03.22: Small Projects

This issue features building studies on 5th Studio's Bloqs building and Cottrell & Vermeulen's Sri Krishna Haveli and a feature by Barnabas Calder that weighs up the carbon costs of the Baths of Caracalla versus Pilbrow & Partners’ proposed new M&S store. Elsewhere, we reveal the 20-strong shortlist for the AJ’s annual Small Projects Award, sponsored by Marley.

Ella Jessel visits the UK's ongoing self-build experiment in Graven Hill and Richard Waite takes a closer look at what is going wrong, and why, with the nation's broken planning sytem.

News In Pictures feature's Francis Kéré’s Pritzker win and North Lanarkshire’s plan to demolish ‘Britain’s ugliest building’, Cumbernauld's town centre.

PLUS: Alpa Depani connects planning delays with cash-strapped councils, The Coach, David Grandorge considers a small project by Alison and Peter Smithson, the paintings of Will Alsop, last year's AJ Small Project's winner Rashid Ali, The Third Man, AJ Sketchbook entry from Nariza Hopley, letters, competitions and Louis Hellman's monthly cartoon.

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AJ 24.08.17: Brits abroad

AJ 24.10.24: Climate resilience

Many of the excellent schemes showcased in this month’s AJ put biodiversity and climate resilience at their core.

The reimagining of the Gascoigne Estate is at the heart of Barking and Dagenham Council’s ambition to regenerate Barking as one of London’s greenest, most affordable and sustainable neighbourhoods. White Arkitekter has developed a landscape-led scheme and the practice benefits from having an in-house landscape team.

When it comes to working with water, rather than fighting it, Rotterdam offers a cornucopia of inspiration with its Seven City Projects and a number of other climate-resilient schemes such as the Keilehaven Tidal Park, designed by De Urbanisten.

Also featured in the issue are two retrofit projects: the Edinburgh Futures Institute by Bennetts Associates and Pricegore’s Nottingham arts centre.

In News, we report on how the team behind London’s Earls Court regeneration is embedding climate change shock absorbers into its huge plans. There is also a feature on why Southwark Council’s housebuilding drive has stalled, as well as coverage of the 2024 RIBA Stirling Prize.

Our lead feature in Culture is about the nature-based public art installations at Oxford’s Begbroke Innovation District, while in Opinion, Rory Olcayto asks why there are no architects on the New Towns Taskforce, and the Secret Architect wonders whether the stupidest ideas are the best.

Also included in the issue are sketches by Dimitris Argyros, a column by David Grandorge and our competitions roundup.

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AJ 25.01.18: Education

The latest AJ focuses on education projects for age groups ranging from toddlers upwards: Bogle Architects’ Early Learning Village in Singapore is one of the world’s largest nursery schools with a capacity for 2,100 children; Penoyre & Prasad’s Sibson Building provides a new home for the University of Kent’s maths and business schools; while Sheppard Robson has converted Old Marylebone Town Hall into the Sammy Ofer Centre for the London Business School.

PLUS The results of the AJ’s latest LGBT+ survey make for chastening reading; Finn Williams talks about his Public Practice initiative to improve design quality at council planning departments; and Elain Harwood recalls the life and work of housing pioneer Neave Brown who died this month.

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AJ 25.04.19: Health and wellbeing

The latest AJ looks at two healthcare projects – an interim Cardiff Maggie’s Centre by Dow Jones Architects; and the Institute in the Park research centre by Hopkins Architects for Liverpool’s Alder Hey Hospital – as well as Mole Architects’ Marmalade Lane co-housing, which focuses on its residents’ wellbeing. PLUS The winning schemes in the AJ Small Projects 2019 awards; on site at the transformation of Smithfield Market into the new home for the Museum of London; and Heatherwick Studio’s tower of hanging gardens nears completion in Singapore.

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AJ 25.05.23: Ornament

This month’s AJ takes delight in ornament. Three building studies explore some beautifully detailed schemes, with colour, texture and pattern all coming to the fore.

We visit the Gilbert & George Centre, a brewery conversion designed by SIRS Architects; vPPR’s Camden Market canopy bar perched atop an old horse hospital; and a Hampshire temple combining Byzantine forms with sustainable design by James Gorst Architects.

Another feature profiles three interior designs employing a range of approaches to the use of decoration, which each reflect the clients’ identities, including the vivid Prada Caffè at Harrods.

In the Culture section, we review an exhibition devoted to Zaha Hadid’s first built project outside the UK, a restaurant in Japan.

This month’s news features profile some architects who recently protested against the government’s inaction on reducing carbon emissions, but went unheard; plus we meet a group of developers focused on counting the cost of carbon.

The issue also includes columns by Hattie Hartman, the Secret Architect and David Grandorge; the monthly competitions round-up; a cartoon by Hellman; and Sketchbook.

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AJ 25.10.18: The money issue

The latest AJ focuses on money with the results of the latest salary survey showing architects’ pay has stagnated and women are still paid less than men for doing the same work. There are building studies of Heatherwick Studios’ Coal Drops Yard retail project in King’s Cross, MICA Architects’ Centre Point redevelopment in central London and Foster + Partners’ Principal Tower luxury housing scheme PLUS the RIBA Stirling Prize 2018 – did the money win it for Fosters’ Bloomberg HQ? and architect Jo Cowen talks about the investment company she has set up alongside her practice.

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AJ 26.03.20: AJ Small Projects

The latest issue features the 20 schemes shortlisted for the AJ Small Projects award. Now in its 25th year, the award celebrates schemes realised for no more than £250,000. This year’s shortlist includes an artist’s studio, exhibition cabinets, beauty-spot shelters and, intriguingly, a bedroom for a ‘thruple’.

PLUS as the coronavirus pandemic takes hold of Britain, an AJ poll shows a widespread shift to home-working but longer-term worries about a business slowdown; we examine the London mayor’s residents’ ballots for estate regeneration, which critics claim have become PR exercises; and we feature the winning designs in a competition to create imaginative seating at London train stations.

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AJ 26.08.21: Greenwich Design District

There's a fresh buzz in the city as we emerge from lockdown, writes AJ editor Emily Booth, as we exclusively reveal the finalists for this year's Manser Medal – AJ House of the Year award, as well as all of the projects and practices shortlisted for the AJ Architecture Awards 2021.

Building studies in this issue explore the Greenwich Design District: Jon Astbury reports on Architecture 00's C1 building while Fran Williams assesses the members' club by Roz Barr Architects. Meanwhile, AJ architecture editor Rob Wilson visits Hodder + Partners' low-carbon visitors’ centre at the Royal Horticultural Society’s newest public gardens near Salford.

PLUS Ella Jessel profiles Pulitzer-Prize winning architect Alison Killing, The Secret Architect returns with more from the inside, columns from David Grandorge and The Coach, competitions, letters (including one from Barbara Weiss on the Holocaust Memorial), Louis Hellman, a review of the Sophie Taeuber-Arp retrospective at Tate Modern, AJ Skecthbook and a Q&A with Moxon Architects as they complete another bridge across the Regent's Canal in King's Cross.

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AJ 27.01.22: Housing

The housing issue features four building studies: A House for Artists by Apparata Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects and Gort Scott's work at Unity Place, Sidney Close by ZCD Architects and the Cadix harbour building in Antwerp by Sergison Bates.

Following the recent passing of Richard Rogers and Chris Wilkinson, we pay tribute to two high-tech heroes. Ricky Burdett charts how Rogers put architecture on the political map. As the AJ editor writes, let’s salute the trailblazers and celebrate the sense of hope and resolve that they pass on.

News In Pictures includes a look at the winner of the RIBA International Prize 2021 and the news team ask, who wins from employee ownership?

PLUS: Alpa Depani, with Greenwich in mind, queries if you can successfully design a 'design district'? David Grandorge looks to early Frank Gehry for inspiration, AJ Sketchbook entry from Valentina Capelo, EDIT Collective review Edwina Attlee's new book Strayed Homes, letters, competitions and Louis Hellman's monthly cartoon.

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AJ 27.04.23: Small Projects

It’s AJ Small Projects time! One of the most joyful events in the architectural calendar, these awards celebrate the dynamic possibilities of working within modest budgets. You can view all 20 shortlisted schemes in this special issue.

We also feature building studies of Hall McKnight’s conversion of a disused basement at King’s College and Allies and Morrison’s mixed-use addition to the Sussex coastline.

In this month’s news features, we reveal that almost £300 million has been spent on designing the new Euston station for HS2, and take a look at how a Bristol-based group is successfully winning approval for new micro-homes in back gardens.

We also pay a visit to the Farrell Centre, which has just opened in a former Newcastle department store and aims to engage the public with architecture and planning.

The Secret Architect, the AJ Coach and David Grandorge share their thoughts in this month’s opinion, and our competitions round-up, sketchbook and Hellman round out this bumper edition of the AJ.

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AJ 27.09.18: Stirling Prize

The AJ celebrates this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist with building studies of the six finalists: Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg London, Waugh Thistleton’s Bushey Cemetery, Henley Halebrown’s Chadwick Hall, Tate St Ives by Jamie Fobert Architects, MUMA’s Storey’s Field Centre and Eddington Nursery, and The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre by Níall McLaughlin Architects, as well as an overview of the shortlist and its common themes. PLUS Robert Venturi obituary and tributes; how Broadgate’s brilliance was gradually destroyed; and the winners of this year’s AJ Student Prize.

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AJ 28.02.19: Climate change special

The AJ’s Climate Change special issue features building studies of three highly sustainable developments: Goldsmith Street housing in Norwich by Mikhail Riches; the 800-home Climate Innovation District in Leeds by Citu with White Arkitekter; and the Virido development in Cambridge by Pollard Thomas Edwards PLUS We investigate what architects can do to mitigate the huge impact of construction on global warming; Paul Finch stresses the importance of designing with longevity in mind; and Hattie Hartman applauds workshops educating schoolchildren about the built environment’s effect on carbon emissions.

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AJ 29.09.16: RIBA Stirling Prize

The AJ’s most anticipated issue of the year is here!

We profile the six projects shortlisted for the UK’s premier architecture prize with commentary, architects’ statements, materials boards, drawings, details and data. PLUS an investigation into what went wrong with the regeration of the Aylesbury Estate

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AJ 30.05.19: Workplace

The AJ workplace edition examines three very different places of employment: Sheppard Robson’s civic centre for the London Borough of Hounslow, which combines offices with a public library and café; Glyndebourne opera house’s production hub by Nicholas Hare Architects; and the Institute of Physics in London by TateHindle. PLUS The boom in co-working and flexible office spaces; the full shortlists for the 2019 AJ100 Awards; and Ellis Woodman on why the UK planning system is woefully ill-equipped to tackle climate change.

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