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