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Nov 22, 2024 · Shade Abdul A principal planner in the planning policy team at Luton Council, where she is helping to prepare the new local plan. Shade was previously a director at Deft.Space, an interdisciplinary practice covering architecture, research and participation.The practice collaborated on regeneration masterplans, including the Canning Town Estate Regeneration (Public Practice class of 2024)

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Jan 23, 2025 · Housing (or the lack of it) is one of the defining national issues of our time. The AJ is kicking off the new year with a focus on what architects can bring to help solve the housing crisis: design quality, sustainable approaches, an understanding of the importance of place, delivery expertise and drive, to name a few.

Dec 5, 2024 · Six Columns in Crystal Palace, designed by practice director Will Burges to be his own family home, was chosen ahead of five other finalists - including Surman Weston’s Peckham House, which won the AJ Manser Medal earlier this week.. Also shortlisted were houses by Studio Brassica Architects, TaylorHare Architects, Hugh Strange Architects, and Tom Dowdall Architects.

William Sutton Prize 2025 launches with larger £125,000 prize pot. Clarion Housing Group has relaunched its ideas contest for radical concepts to transform the lives of social housing residents with a prize fund enlarged to £125,000 to celebrate its 125th anniversary [Deadline: 8 April 2025]

Nov 13, 2024 · AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards 2025 categories. Adaptive reuse into mixed use The conversion and repurposing of an existing building to multiple uses other than that for which it was originally built.; Adaptive reuse into office The conversion and repurposing of an existing building to a new use that must include workspace.The new use …

Twelve Architects delivers FCBS’s ‘Hanging Gardens of Basingstoke’ retrofit. Together with planting by Studio Knight Stokoe, the completed scheme renews and revives the celebrated Grade II-listed Mountbatten House office building designed by Arup Associates in 1976

Oct 24, 2024 · The ECDC puts a high value on water. It is pioneering a comprehensive ‘water-neutral’ management strategy to maximise water capture and reuse, and minimising site runoff from heavier, stronger, shorter downpours to stop sewer and surface water flooding neighbouring residents’ basements (again).