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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.
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.
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.
We profile the 20 shortlisted schemes for AJ Small Projects Award 2021. There are building studies of Tower Hamlets infill housing by Bell Phillips Architects and The Art Barn by Thomas Randall-Page. We also publish an AJ investigation into the exploitation of architectural assistants during the pandemic, including the results of our survey.
PLUS Carmody Groarke revamps Manchester Science and Industry Museum, Q&A with HNNA's Hannah Corlett, Jonathan Meades and Shelley Klein book reviews, Kunle Barker's column and AJ Sketchbook from Archio director Kyle Buchanan.
In this retrofit-themed issue we announce the winners of the AJ Retrofit Awards 2021 covering 16 different categories; as well as building studies of two retrofit projects: Yorkton Workshops by Cassion Castle Architects with Pearson Lloyd; and the restoration of Peter Womersley’s High Sunderland by Loader Monteith Architects.
PLUS Catherine Slessor profiles Lesley Lokko, recipient of the Annie Spink Award and the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize and Alpa Depani interviews Kate Macintosh, winner of the 2021 Jane Drew Prize; A news feature that asks ‘Can the London Legacy Development Corporation deliver on its ambitions for the Olympic Park?’; Opinion pieces that explore how to create successful project collaborations between large and small practices and Paul Finch considers if making demolition more difficult might be a simpler route to green construction than VAT reform
The January 2021 issue is on the theme of 'In practice' and features an interview with Wright & Wright, plus a building study of its Lambeth Palace Library. We also publish a study of Jonathan Tuckey Design's performance space for a Hampshire school, and a design study of Caruso St John's discreet organ loft in Canterbury Cathedral.
PLUS Data from an AJ survey reveals architects are facing an insurance timebomb; a run-down of the shortlist for the AJ Retrofit Awards 2021; a book review of Architecture Without Architects; and Kunle Barker on showing clients your value.
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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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.
Two community-focused projects: AOC‘s Nunhead Green includes a community centre, park and private and council housing; while Feilden Fowles’ Ratfry building for Carlisle Cathedral provides a café and events space
PLUS RIBA Gold Medal recipient David Adjaye on his work, his ambitions and racism within the profession; will the Covid crisis derail architecture’s apprenticeships programme; we reveal the winners of this year’s AJ Student Prize; and we look at the winner and finalists in Enfield’s intergenerational housing ideas contest
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
In this schools-focused issue, Ellie Duffy visits Walters & Cohen's St Paul's School in London and Chris Boyce asks why the past decade has been such a poor one for the design of state schools
PLUS Rob Wilson visits Surman Weston's impressive Ditton Hill House in Surbiton; Exclusive Q&A with the new owner of Cardross; A round-up of how the government plans to radically overhaul planning; AJ Sketchbook from John Pardey; Kunle Barker on the opportunities for agile architects amid the coronavirus crisis; Paul Finch on the rising cost of indemnity insurance.
This 120-page issue presents the work of students nominated for this year’s AJ Student Prize, including both undergraduate and postgraduate projects as well as a sustainability category. We also review five end-of-year online exhibitions at architecture schools across the UK which are leading the way in sustainability.
PLUS AJ Sketchbook from London School of Architecture graduate Daniel Barrett; Paul Finch's opinion on the inevitable failure of beauty committees; Q&A with RIBA President election 2021 candidates; and the results of the AJ race diversity survey
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.
The latest AJ features two cultural buildings: Glenn Howells’ new home for English National Ballet in London’s Docklands; and Stephenson Studio’s Oglesby Centre rehearsal facility for Manchester’s Hallé orchestra.
PLUS We investigate how architecture students are coping with the coronavirus shutdown; Feilden Fowles wins its biggest project to date – an entrance hall for York’s National Railway Museum; and we launch our new Sketchbook feature with drawings by Alan Dunlop.
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.
The AJ looks at recent housing schemes with studies of two HTA Design infill projects for the Croydon Smaller Sites Programme; two schemes for downsizers in Barking & Dagenham by Peter Barber Architects; and the latest fruits of Doncaster Council’s housing programme, designed by its in-house team. We also examine the resurgence of council house-building.
PLUS designs from the Liverpool’s Forgotten Spaces charrette; the latest from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry as refurbishment architect Studio E takes the stand; and Maria Smith calls for a boycott of the Ministry of Housing’s House of 2030 design competition.
The AJ focuses on its RetroFirst campaign to prioritise reuse of existing buildings. We meet Maarten Gielen of Belgian circular economy-focused design practice Rotor; and visit Civic Architects’ LocHal library – a converted train depot in the Netherlands. As Historic England backs the campaign’s call to slash VAT on retrofit, we look at the barriers the heritage sector faces to reusing buildings; we talk to four developers about a retrofit project each has been behind; and we have a campaign poster to cut out and display to show your backing for RetroFirst. PLUS Brickfields workspace in east London by Witherford Watson Mann.
The AJ looks at three university schemes: Grafton’s Town House and Haworth Tompkins’ refurbished school of art, both for Kingston University, and Grimshaw’s retrofit of its own 1970s furniture factory into a new home for Bath Schools of Art and Design; and we investigate whether it’s time for a new approach to designing student housing.
PLUS Walters & Cohen Architects looks back on 25 years in practice; we meet the four women shortlisted for the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice; and we pinpoint the policy reforms needed to encourage more retrofits.
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.
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.
The issue features four residential building studies: Bell Phillips’ three housing schemes for Sutton Council; Collective Architecture’s refurbishment of Glasgow’s Cedar Court high rise blocks; Alma-nac’s House Within a House extension in south-east London; and Nithurst Farm on the South Downs by Adam Richards Architects.
PLUS The findings of the first phase of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry; the launch of an architectural trade union to tackle low pay, long hours and discrimination; and Los Angeles practice wHY’s rejigged designs for the Ross Pavilion in Edinburgh.
The issue features building studies of Dow Jones Architects’ restoration and extension of St Mary Magdalene Church in Paddington; David Chipperfield Architects’ James Simon Galerie on Berlin’s Museum Island; and the refurbishment of Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower in east London by Studio Egret West and Ab Rogers Design.
PLUS High-rise housing – should we spruce it up or tear it down? A new salary survey shows architects’ pay is in the doldrums; and we meet Shevaughn Rieck, the 32-year-old partner at Farrells.
The latest AJ features building studies of Peter Zumthor’s Secular Retreat holiday home in Devon; Invisible Studio’s glazed gym at Hadspen House in Somerset; and Wright & Wright’s Library and Study Centre for St John’s College, Oxford.
PLUS The human cost of building Istanbul Airport – we report from the construction site where at least 55 workers have died; we talk to Yvonne Farrell, co-founder of Grafton Architects, awarded the 2020 RIBA Royal Gold Medal; and the winners of this year’s AJ Student Prize 2019; RIBA Stirling Prize, Doolan award, Stephen Lawrence Prize and inaugural Neave Brown Award for Housing.
In this retrofit-themed issue we launch our new RetroFirst campaign championing reuse in the built environment. We also announce the winners of the AJ Retrofit Awards 2019 covering 18 different categories; as well as building studies of two retrofit projects: Orms’ conversion of council offices into a hotel in Camden, north London; and Flower Michelin Architects’ Shingle House renovation and extension of a seaside home on Scotland’s west coast. PLUS We chart the tumultuous progress of the David Adjaye and Ron Arad’s Holocaust Memorial; and reveal the winning designs for Croydon’s Fair Fields public space.
Four building studies are packed into our cultural special issue: 6a architects’ MK Gallery; Carmody Groarke’s Windermere Jetty Museum; Foster + Partners’ Norton Museum of Art in Florida; and Feilden Fowles’ Yorkshire Sculpture Park visitor centre. PLUS Sergison Bates’ Pompidou Brussels goes in for planning; is the Tulip the most controversial planning approval this century?; and the latest gender pay gap data shows the profession has a long way to go.
