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Put children at the centre of new housing design, AJ100 practices told
A renewed housing vision should put children and caregivers at the centre, ZCD Architects director Dinah Bornat told an AJ100 lunch club audience
AJ100
The AJ100 is the definitive list of the biggest UK architectural practices. Here you can find out about the AJ100 Awards and our exclusive AJ100 Club sessions. The AJ100 Index holds fee income & practice profiles for AJ100 practices going back to 2011
‘Design leadership should start from school,’ infrastructure chief tells AJ100 lunch
The chair of the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has said UK design leadership ‘should start from school’, with students being shown the difference between good and bad design from a young age
Localism is key to saving high streets, AJ100 lunch hears
A cookie-cutter approach to filling retail units is part of the reason high streets are failing, Preston Benson of community-focused developer Really Local Group told an AJ100 lunch audience
Design codes not a straitjacket, says government architect
Government architect Sarah Allan has said at an AJ100 event that new design codes now being drawn up will not necessarily hamper the profession
‘Be nice to planners,’ Public Practice chief urges architects
The chief executive of Public Practice has urged architects to show more empathy when dealing with over-stretched planners
Architects risk ‘reputational Russian roulette’ over demolition projects
Architectural historian and campaigner Barnabas Calder has warned architects at an AJ100 lunch against playing ‘reputational Russian roulette’ by working on carbon-heavy projects
Architects Declare co-founder: Foster’s Bloomberg HQ shows need for regenerative design
Architects Declare co-founder Michael Pawlyn has said that ‘conventional sustainability came to an end’ when Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg European Headquarters won the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2018
‘Architecture is undergoing a profound shift – but it needs to move faster’
Architecture is ‘at the beginning of a fundamental shift as profound as that at the first half of the 20th century’, according to zero carbon expert Simon Sturgis
Clare Wright: ‘We want to create buildings our descendants will thank us for’
Wright & Wright aims to create buildings ‘that our descendants will thank us for’ said co-founder Clare Wright as she set out her practice’s philosophy at an AJ100 Club event in London this week
Solving housing: why architects should team up with nimbys
A housing expert has said architects should be pragmatic and harness the power of ‘nimbys’ to persuade government to reuse buildings and regenerate town centres