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Carmody Groarke picked to redevelop Brixton office block
Carmody Groarke has been appointed to redevelop a major office building in Brixton, south London, by developer Derwent London
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National curriculum an obstacle to diversity in architecture, says celebrated teacher
Architecture would be more diverse if the national curriculum placed more emphasis on creative subjects and celebrated design and technology, tutor Neil Pinder has told an AJ100 breakfast event
Patricia Brown: ‘Architects should think in terms of software, not hardware’
Architects ought to spend more time ‘thinking in terms of software, not hardware’ and represent communities which they are designing for, according to Patricia Brown, director of consultancy Central
Historic England boss slams ‘crazy’ retrofit VAT discrepancy
The difference between the VAT rate for retrofit and new build is ‘crazy’, according to the chief executive of Historic England
People who dislike the Barbican ‘cannot be trusted’, says LionHeart
Architecture poet LionHeart delivers a highly-individual and humorous address at the AJ100 breakfast event in London
Deputy London mayor slams architecture’s complacency on diversity
London’s deputy mayor, Jules Pipe, has criticised architecture’s lack of improvement on diversity, telling an AJ100 audience ‘progress isn’t inevitable’
Community-led housing held back by lack of land, says TOWN co-founder
The UK’s community-led housing movement is being held back by a lack of land, according to the co-founder of emerging developer TOWN
Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman: ‘This is what it takes to confront fake news’
Watch extracts of Eyal Weizman’s speech at an AJ100 breakfast in July 2018, discussing how architectural techniques help his Turner Prize-nominated research agency challenge injustice and speak truth to power around the world
Sadie Morgan warns architects not to ‘sleepwalk’ into irrelevance
dRMM director Sadie Morgan tells AJ100 audience to seize ‘infrastructure initiative’ and get more involved in UK infrastructure schemes
Rogers: ‘I didn’t want to design the Pompidou Centre’
Richard Rogers has spoken about initially not wanting to design the Pompidou Centre, the 40-year-old Paris landmark that first made his name