AJ 02.11.17: Homes

AJ 05.12.19: Birmingham

The AJ focuses on the UK’s second-largest city with a study of Graeme Massie Architects’ reworking of Centenary Square; Joe Holyoak evaluates 10 years of Birmingham’s Big City Plan; we examine the impending regeneration of the Ladywood estate; West Midlands mayor Andy Street explains how HS2 could have a transformational effect on the city; and we hear the views of five Birmingham practices: APEC, BPN, Glenn Howells, Intervention Architecture and Sjölander da Cruz. PLUS A building study of the Brunel Building in Paddington by Fletcher Priest Architects; and should signatories to Architects Declare be designing new airports?

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AJ 07.09.17: Three schools

AJ 08.02.18: Women in Architecture

The latest AJ focuses on two architects shortlisted for Women Architect of the Year: we talk to 6a co-founder Stephanie Macdonald, and feature the practice’s Black Stone apartment building in north London; and we meet Biba Dow and visit Dow Jones’s reworking of St Mary Magdalene church in Paddington. We also feature Kinnear Landscape Architects’ and Witherford Watson Mann’s Walthamstow Wetlands project. 

PLUS the winners of this year’s Jane Drew Prize and Ada Louise Huxtable Prize, and the findings of the annual Women in Architecture survey.

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AJ 08.11.18: Homes

The latest AJ features building studies of four housing projects: Ordnance Road in Enfield by Peter Barber Architects; Hortsley retirement housing in East Sussex by RCKa; Barbauld Road in Stoke Newington by Stephen Taylor Architects; and Anderston Regeneration Phases 4 and 5 in Glasgow by Collective Architecture. PLUS The AJ’s Parenting Survey shows architecture is struggling to adapt to a flexible work culture; the FaulknerBrown-led revised design for Bishopsgate Goodsyard; and the government’s newly launched ‘beauty’ watchdog sparks alarm.

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AJ 09.04.20 Cultural buildings

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. 

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AJ 10.05.18: Regions + Race diversity survey

The latest AJ gets out of London with building studies of Richard Murphy Architects' Perth Theatre makeover in Scotland; Canoe Lake Leisure tennis pavilion in Southsea, Hampshire, by PAD studio; and Eric Parry Architects’ Cedars Hall music facility at Wells Cathedral Music School, Somerset. PLUS The results of the AJ’s Race Diversity in Architecture survey, run in collaboration with the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust; a profile of Eyal Weizman, founder of Turner Prize-nominated collective Forensic Architecture; and Catherine Slessor on High Tech.  

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AJ 11.01.18: Níall McLaughlin

The latest AJ focuses on the work of Níall McLaughlin Architects. We meet its founder on the site of the practice’s Auckland Castle visitor centre, and feature buildings studies of three of its recent projects: the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre at Oxford University; the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art; and phase one of its additions for Cambridge University’s Jesus College.

PLUS The late architectural critic and historian Gavin Stamp remembered; why ever more practices are choosing employee ownership; and the winners and runners-up in the National Grid/RIBA gasholders ideas contest.

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AJ 11.07.19: Housing

The AJ homes edition looks at east London’s Fish Island Village featuring housing by Haworth Tompkins, Pitman Tozer and Lyndon Goode; as well as Graeme Nicholls Architects’ twin-block development of flats in Ashtree Road, Glasgow; and we ask whether a slew of factory-built schemes means the modular housing future has finally arrived. PLUS a building study of Marks Barfield’s Cambridge Mosque; architect Chris Hildrey explains how his Proxy Address scheme helps homeless people access services; the finalists in the MK:U competition to design a new university in Milton Keynes; and the shortlisted schemes in this year’s AJ Retrofit Awards. 

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AJ 12.03.20: Council housing

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.

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AJ 12.09.19: RetroFirst

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.

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AJ 13.07.23: Glasgow

For the July AJ, we take an in-depth look at Glasgow’s architecture scene including practices who are repurposing spaces in a low-budget, high-impact way.

We visit Collective Architecture’s transformation of a 1920s printing works into a co-working hub, and discover how Allander Leisure Centre, designed by Holmes Miller, is an example of a new type of leisure-cum-care typology.

The Riverside Museum by Zaha Hadid Architects completed twelve years ago, and we revisit this harbourside giant to see how the building is performing now. In addition we round up key past and future building projects by practices including O’DonnellBrown and Graeme Nicholls Architects.

Also in the issue Stallan-Brand’s Paul Stallan writes an essay explaining why Glasgow is ‘his energy’, and this month’s news feature details how regeneration is stitching the city together. And we catch up with Glasgow’s ‘young guns’, initially profiled in a 2017 AJ, to see how they have progressed as practices.

In Culture you can read about the work of Scotland’s Architecture Fringe, and there are opinion pieces from the Secret Architect, Toko Andrews and David Grandorge, along with the monthly competitions round-up and Hellman’s cartoon.

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AJ 13.12.18: Looking back / looking forward

The final AJ of the year looks back at the past 12 months and forward to the year ahead. We review 2018’s key architectural events and trends and preview the stories set to dominate the new year. We also pick out the people to watch in 2019 and highlight eight key buildings set to complete. And to make sure you’ve been paying attention, there’s a Christmas quiz on the events that shook the architectural world in 2018 and a chance to play spot the building. PLUS a building study of Karakusevic Carson and Henley Halebrown’s revamped Kings Crescent Estate, which won the AJ Architecture Awards Editor’s Choice prize.

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AJ 14.06.18: AJ100

The latest AJ 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 136-page issue forms an invaluable almanac for the profession. 

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AJ 14.12.17: The year in review, the year ahead

As we near the close of another year, the final AJ of 2017 looks both back and forward. We review the biggest news stories of the last 12 months, while leading figures in the profession make their predictions for the year ahead.

We preview five standout projects set to complete in 2018 – and ask you to identify five that were built this year in our Spot the Building quiz. We also put the spotlight on five people set to make their mark in the architecture world in 2018.

PLUS Bake-off contestant and architect Tom Hetherington gives us a special seasonal recipe, and cartoonist Louis Hellman celebrates 50 years of lampooning the profession.

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AJ 15.10.20: Community

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

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AJ 16.01.20: In practice

The AJ features three architecture firms that have recently designed their own studios: HAT Projects in Colchester; Gort Scott in south London; and Moxon in the Cairngorms. We also look at Feilden Clegg Bradley’s transformation of an 18th-century cotton mill at Ancoats in Manchester. PLUS We meet architecture’s poet in residence LionHeart; the growing calls to slash VAT on building refurbishment to encourage retrofits; the circular economy’s role in reducing the construction industry’s carbon emissions; and the David Kohn-led winning scheme for Birmingham Smithfield market.

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