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Islands at the Design Museum embraces sustainable exhibition design
MSOMA Architects has designed the exhibition with sustainability and circularity in mind, creating a display that will naturally biodegrade after use
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AJ Architecture Awards 2023 shortlist: Civic, Community and Cultural
The AJ reveals the third batch of shortlists for this year’s AJ Architecture Awards. Today’s projects are in the Civic, Community and Faith, and Cultural categories
Central Somers Town: under siege by wealth on all sides
Adam Khan Architects and Hayhurst and Co have completed a community hub and a primary/nursery school, the two buildings in Phase 1 of Camden Council’s regeneration of Central Somers Town, masterplanned by DSDHA
David Leech reworks engineer’s house with playful Hi-Tech touches
This refurbishment makes tongue-in-cheek reference to ideas of structural efficiency and redundancy with elaborate, bright-yellow steel ceiling trusses inspired by Foster’s 1982 Renault Distribution Centre
Scotland’s Architecture Fringe
Aoife Nolan looks at the work of the Architecture Fringe, co-curators of this year’s Scotland + Venice partnership for the 18th Venice Biennale
FCBS completes makeover of world’s first iron-framed building
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios has adapted the Grade I-listed Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings into a £28 million social enterprise hub for Historic England after first being engaged on the project nearly 20 years ago
Summer calls for a reimagining of street life
Architects have a pivotal role to play in transforming streets into inclusive spaces suitable for children’s activities, interaction, and play, says Cristina Monteiro
Astrain Scheldt reworks and extends Hackney house
This renovation of a five-storey house within the Well Street Common Conservation Area includes a new Crittall-glazed extension
The Coach: Now I’m a team leader, how can I avoid conflict?
Self-awareness is the key to reacting better to situations or people that might set you off, says Matthew Turner
TODD Architects completes redbrick business school for Queen’s Belfast
Queen’s University’s £17.5 million business school sits within its south Belfast campus, in front of the Grade II-listed Riddel Hall and enclosed by woodland