With the new government set to build significantly more social housing, what lessons can we learn from the past? Rory Olcayto speaks to Jane Darke, whose 1976 examination of six London council estates highlighted a gulf between architects’ preconceptions and tenants’ reality
The Child in the City by Colin Ward – published in 1978 – advocates for children’s rights in how we design and plan our towns and cities
This year’s AJ100 award for an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to architecture goes to Kate Macintosh, a determined and radical architect who has championed quality public housing
The renowned designer and tireless advocate of decent and dignified architecture for all is the recipient of the 2024 AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award
Scottish architects Kate Macintosh, Malcolm Fraser and Alan Dunlop have welcomed a review of demolition plans for four 26-storey towers in Glasgow
Four Modernist towers in north-west Glasgow may have had their fate sealed after the city council signed off demolition plans for the Wyndford estate
An action group is calling for suggestions to create a map of London that marks women’s ‘significant and groundbreaking’ contributions to the built environment
Residents at a Kate Macintosh-designed housing block in Streatham have won a settlement from Lambeth Council after botched repair works left them living in leaking flats
Historic England has turned down a second bid to list an at-risk 1960s low-rise estate designed by Rosemary Stjernstedt for Ted Hollamby’s Lambeth Council architects’ department
Architect Kate Macintosh has joined a residents’ bid to stop Lambeth Council from bulldozing a 1960s low-rise estate designed by Rosemary Stjernstedt and built into a hill in south London
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