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Amin Taha to sell Clerkenwell Close base to fund new stone scheme
Amin Taha is selling his award-winning Clerkenwell Close office and home to finance a potential new carbon-negative, stone-built development on another site
Amin Taha
News stories about and completed buildings by Amin Taha and his practice Groupwork
What kind of monster has the British planning system become?
Submitting a proposal to planning nowadays feels like slipping into a weird and dysfunctional dimension – it is a bankrupt system that the government should be deeply ashamed of, says John Pardey
Amin Taha: Switch to stone and timber to make construction planet-friendly
We Brits love bricks. Why not use stone alternatives? Combine natural stone with structural timber and you have a recipe for decarbonising construction, says Amin Taha. Photography of three Groupwork projects by Timothy Soar
Groupwork wins contest for Bristol Redcliffe Way housing
Groupwork has won the Bristol Housing Festival’s competition for a mixed-use housing development on a former car park site in Redcliffe Way
Stirling Prize 2021: winner of AJ readers’ poll revealed
Windermere Jetty Museum by Carmody Groarke has topped the AJ readers’ poll of which building should win this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize
RIBA Stirling Prize 2021 films: 15 Clerkenwell Close by Groupwork
The third of six films looking at the 2021 contenders for the RIBA Stirling Prize
RIBA Stirling Prize 2021 shortlist revealed
The RIBA has unveiled an eclectic collection of six buildings – all new-build projects – competing to be crowned the winner of the 2021 Stirling Prize
AJ Architecture Awards 2019 winner: Mixed-Use
168 Upper Street by Groupwork has been named best mixed-use project at the 2019 AJ Architecture Awards
Amin Taha and Islington Council lock horns over Clerkenwell Close decision
A war of words has broken out again between Amin Taha and Islington Council after a planning inspector saved the architect’s Clerkenwell Close scheme from demolition
Amin Taha wins appeal against Clerkenwell Close demolition order
Amin Taha’s award-winning Clerkenwell Close looks set to be saved after a planning inspector overturned Islington Council’s demolition order