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This issue is dedicated to the AJ100 – the AJ’s very own celebration of the top 100 UK architecture practices by number of architects employed in the UK. Professor Bruce Tether returns to analyse the findings of our in-depth AJ100 survey, we profile the full listing of this year’s AJ100 firms and the winners of the 11 categories of AJ100 Awards are revealed, including our special Contribution to the Profession award which has been won by long-standing educator and activist Neil Pinder.
News In Pictures features Theaster Gates’ Serpentine Pavilion and O’Donnell + Tuomey‘s winning designs, with ADP, for a ‘landmark’ £35 million student centre at York Uinversity.
PLUS: Alluding to Reni Eddo-Lodge‘s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Kunle Barker titles his column this month Why I don’t speak to white architects about race, Louis Smith Lassey reviews Radical Landscapes at Tate Liverpool, David Grandorge visits planet Earth and Jon Burke asks, if greening the city needs to happen – why are the police standing in the way? + AJ Sketchbook by Tim Bedingfield, letters, competitions and Louis Hellman‘s monthly cartoon.
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
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?
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.
The retrofit issue features three building studies: Bötzow Brewery in Berlin by David Chipperfield Architects, Rugby Radio Station's transformation into a school by van Heyningen and Haward and St Paul's Cathedral School by Kilburn Nightingale.
Will Ing visits Central Hill estate in London to meet residents who are challenging architects not to demolish it. In a separate news feature we speak to Annabelle Selldorf about the makeover she is planning for the National Gallery Sainsbury Wing.
News In Pictures includes a look at the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion concept from Theaster Gates.
PLUS: Kunle Barker rails against an overly-complex and under-funded planning system, The Secret Architect returns with a retrofit state of mind, David Grandorge ponders the de-carbonisation of construction, AJ Sketchbook entry from Shuahra Rahman, Pierre d'Avoine dicusses his new book about a renovation and retrofit project in the Umbrian hills, letters, competitions and Louis Hellman's monthly cartoon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The AJ’s bumper 168-page AJ100 issue presents profiles of the UK’s 100 largest architectural practices of 2021, providing an invaluable almanac for the profession.
The magazine includes the winners of the AJ100 Awards, including Building of the Year, Practice of the Year and Employer of the Year, as well as the main findings from our comprehensive annual survey of AJ100 practices, looking at everything from fees and furlough to salaries and sustainability.
And we unveil AJ100 New Talent: a celebration of exceptional Part 2 architectural assistants drawn from across the AJ100 practices – showcasing the contributions of those at the start of their careers.
Including case studies of: The House Recast by Studio Ben Allen, Freeholders by Mole Architects and the Fruitmarket Gallery by Reiach and Hall Architects
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.
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.
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.
