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This month’s AJ demonstrates why we all need a good home
Our final building studies of 2023 showcase designs that promote activities, hobbies and interaction with neighbours and the wider community while maintaining individuals’ freedom of choice
Tag: Mae
A little extra help: The Harriet Hardy Extra Care Centre by Mæ
Mæ has delivered an impressive multifunctional block with generous proportions and support facilities for older residents at Southwark Council’s contentious Aylesbury Estate redevelopment. Photography by Tim Crocker
Extent of housing work slump laid bare in new figures
Two new reports have highlighted the depth of the slowdown in housebuilding across the nation
Generative design vs generative AI: a guide to the basics
Architect and AI expert Keir Regan-Alexander explains how practices including Stirling Prize winner Mae Architects are beginning to transform their design processes through powerful new computing methods
Stirling Prize reaction to Mae victory: ‘Sensitive, unflashy and deeply humane’
The profession responds after the bookmaker's favourite – Mae’s John Morden Centre – comes home to win the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023
Stirling Prize interview: ‘This project should be the norm not the exception’
The AJ caught up with Mae Architects founder Alex Ely just moments after his practice's John Morden day care centre for the elderly won the 2023 Stirling Prize
Mae’s ‘hopeful’ day centre for the elderly wins RIBA Stirling Prize 2023
Mae Architects’ John Morden Centre – a ‘bold and hopeful’ retirement day centre in Blackheath, London – has been named the UK’s best new building
RIBA Stirling Prize: clear favourite emerges for 2023 victory
Bookmaker William Hill has named the John Morden Centre in Blackheath by Mæ Architects as its runaway favourite to win this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize
RIBA Stirling Prize 2023: bookies name early favourites in ‘wide-open’ race
Bookmaker William Hill has named two early favourites to scoop this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize, but said the race was ‘wide open’
Stirling Prize commentary: community benefit trumps big bling on forgettable shortlist
AJ architecture editor Rob Wilson gives his verdict on the glitz-free contenders for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize and wonders whether it is now time to ditch the idea of Britain’s best new building