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Fraser Brown Mackenna completes shared ownership homes in Bow
FBM Architects has completed its 2,722m2 Regent Place development in Bow, east London, providing 32 shared ownership homes for Gateway Housing Association
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Witherford Watson Mann completes sensitive addition to one of Cambridge’s oldest colleges
Witherford Watson Mann has performed an intelligent and farsighted human-scaled retrofit at Clare College, writes Ellie Duffy. Photography by Philip Vile and Philipp Ebeling
‘Hefty, maybe. But £85m for RIBA’s House of Architecture is a sound investment’
RIBA chair Jack Pringle defends the £85 million price tag for the institute’s proposed House of Architecture programme
TateHindle completes new Salvation Army HQ in south London
TateHindle has completed a new headquarters for The Salvation Army focused around a top-lit atrium that brings light into its heart
Whatever the project, the future must include the past
Marking the launch of a new ideas competition for M&S Oxford Street, zero-carbon expert Simon Sturgis calls for a more imaginative approach to changes to existing and even listed buildings
Sketchbook: Agustin Coll
The AJ’s Sketchbook series is a showcase of sketches and concept drawings by architects and designers. Today’s sketches are by Agustin Coll, an artist currently shortlisted for the World Illustration Award and long-listed for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
ACME completes Aldgate apartment building with stepped form
ACME has completed The Haydon, a high-rise residential block providing 87 apartments, all designed to benefit from panoramic views through the building’s projecting massing
The Swiss architect who brought Modernism to the New World
Having worked with Le Corbusier, Swiss architect Albert Frey moved to the US at a time when it was lacking in Modernist architecture and went on to design much of the desert city of Palm Springs, where a new exhibition celebrates his work, writes David Brady
AI round-up: who is using AI and how?
The AJ asked various built environment practitioners, ranging from architects to students, to provide examples of how they are using AI in practice
Manplan lost issue resurrected through generative AI
Newcastle University architectural historian Stephen Parnell asked his students to create one of the AR’s unpublished Manplan issues using ChatGPT and Midjourney. Images by Vincent Woehlbier and Arthur Belime