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Squire & Partners completes mixed-use building in Westminster
The 4,000m2 Art Deco-inspired red sandstone workspace building at 18-20 Greycoat Place also includes duplex apartments on its upper floors
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Housing development in London has a new weapon: AI
Data from an AI learning model that mapped the London Borough of Lewisham suggests the capital’s targets for ‘small site’ development could be radically increased, says Russell Curtis
Poor housing and Covid deaths: it’s the same damn map
Poor housing does not just reduce life expectancy, it kills people suddenly – as the Covid pandemic grimly demonstrated. The solution involves a whole-house retrofit approach to existing homes, says Tania Jennings
Delve transforms east London commercial unit into nursery
The Nest is the conversion of a vacant commercial unit into a nursery in Royal Wharf, east London
Mossessian completes rework of historic urban quarter in Morocco
The 7,400m2 project at the Fes Medina UNESCO World Heritage Site in Morocco is centred around the redevelopment of an urban square and riverbank
Alter completes series of homes on the Sussex Downs
The four two-storey homes aim to be a testbed for backland developments
Why we need help making architecture more inclusive
I still get people asking for help because they’re being treated badly in practice, writes Marsha Ramroop, who has published a free resource providing insight, guidance and support around inclusive behaviours
Case study: Spruce House and Studio by ao-ft
The new-build home and self-contained garden studio was constructed from cross-laminated timber (CLT) on an infill site in Walthamstow, east London. Photography by Rory Gardiner
Scapolan Burney completes Milton Keynes work-to-resi conversion
A 1980s city-centre Modernist building has been stripped back with the upper floors, previously offices, transformed into 200 flats
Poor housing is the logical outcome of the system you work in
In the context of environmental and social crisis, it is essential that architects view the built environment as pivotal to achieving political and economic change, argue Charlie Edmonds and Immy Kaur