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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