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A Square of Ground: Irish architect Noreile Breen explores practice deeply connected to her native land
Rupert Bickersteth talks to Irish architect Noreile Breen about horticulture, contemporary practice in Ireland and a truly holistic approach to understanding and working in the (built) environment → Read More
Walter Sickert at Tate Britain: revelatory studies in how space is used and viewed
Tate Britain’s major retrospective of the German-born British painter and printmaker provides a total education in one of Britain’s radical painters, says Rupert Bickersteth → Read More
Eva Rothschild's colourful pyramid playground for Becontree Centenary
Artist Eva Rothschild has created two sculptural pyramid play structures on east London’s Becontree Estate, inspired by the Memphis Group of designers → Read More
AJ100 Sustainability Champion of the Year 2022 shortlist revealed
Six contenders have been shortlisted for the AJ100 Sustainability Champion of the Year 2022 Award → Read More
AJ100 Community Impact of the Year 2022 shortlist revealed
The AJ can reveal the six practices shortlisted for this year’s AJ100 Community Impact of the Year Award → Read More
AJ100 Sustainability Initiative of the Year 2022 shortlist revealed
The AJ can reveal the four practices shortlisted for the AJ100 Sustainability Initiative of the Year 2022 award → Read More
AJ100 Innovation of the Year 2022 shortlist revealed
The category has been introduced this year to reward an innovation that has transformed an aspect of a practice’s work. This can be either a technological → Read More
AJ100 Practice of the Year 2022 shortlist revealed
Previous winners HawkinsBrown and Haworth Tompkins once again make the shortlist. They are joined by two newcomers to the AJ100 rankings – Liverpool and → Read More
AJ100 Client of the Year 2022 shortlist revealed
The AJ can reveal the six contenders vying for the AJ100 Client of the Year 2022 award → Read More
AJ100 Collaboration of the Year 2022 shortlist revealed
Two of the shortlisted schemes are at the Meridian Water regeneration project in Enfield, north London. Assael Architecture has been shortlisted for its → Read More
Marshall & Kendon on lido restoration and retrofit
Marshall & Kendon co-founder Sam Kendon talks to Rupert Bickersteth about the practice’s lido restorations and the sustainability challenges of heated outdoor pools → Read More
Architectural photography collective launches Ukraine fundraiser
With the launch of ‘A Print for Ukraine’, Mass Collective has joined a growing number of art and photography organisations raising funds through special sales → Read More
The Third Man: Baker, Loos And The Underwater Revue
Patrick Massey collaborates with Nana Adwoa Agyemang on constructing the latest in a series of conversations imagined between historical figures from their own words, facilitated by the anonymous ‘Third Man’ → Read More
Cooking Sections: the Turner Prize-nominated studio that combines architecture with food
Turner Prize-nominated duo Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe use installation, performance, mapping and video to explore the systems that organise the world through food. They talk to Rupert Bickersteth → Read More
Five highlights from WAF 2021
The World Architecture Festival returns in digital form for the second year. Book your passes today to gain access to hundreds of talks, events and panels with industry leaders → Read More
AJ 26.08.21: Greenwich Design District – The Architects’ Journal
Featuring 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 and a profile of Pulitzer-Prize winning architect Alison Killing → Read More
Q&A: Moxon Architects on Esperance Bridge in King’s Cross
Esperance Bridge by Moxon Architects and Arup, which opened in July, takes its form and colour from the lost railway bridges of the Regent’s Canal. Rupert Bickersteth speaks to Moxon’s Ben Addy and Ezra Groskin about the project → Read More
AJ 22.07.21: Student Prize – The Architects’ Journal
Featuring the 2021 Student Prize winners, the results of the AJ Student Survey, an investigation into the toxic culture of bullying at the Bartlett and five end-of-year student show reviews from some of the most recently validated courses → Read More
Walthamstow underpass celebrates the outdoor life
The competition-winning Wood Street Altarpiece, created by artist and designer Eleanor Hill, is the first in a series of installations for the east London borough of Waltham Forest → Read More
On this day: 22 May 1974
The AJ editor’s use of the word ‘prison’ (AJ 01.05.74) to describe James Stirling’s drawings of his Olivetti building in Surrey (left) prompted a reader → Read More