will hurst

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

New London Architecture co-founder Peter Murray has said the incoming Labour government should look at reintroducing city architects, and hailed Richard Rogers’ big-picture-thinking in the 1990s

Powered by the songs of Richard Hawley, a musical about the post-war architecture of Sheffield’s Park Hill estate packs a real emotional punch. Catch it before it’s too late, says Will Hurst

Bennetts Associates has been crowned AJ100 Practice of the Year, commended by the judges for its ambitious and detailed sustainability approach and its industry-shifting willingness to share knowledge and demand positive change

Eric Parry Architects associate Emily Posey is the winner of the inaugural AJ100 Mentor of the Year award 

Anna Woodeson, Julia Barfield, and Zoe Watson of Architects Declare (AD) talk to Will Hurst about the lack of climate debate in the General Election campaign and AD’s increasingly political direction

Judges for the AJ and SAVE Britain’s Heritage architecture competition have selected the final six teams who will work up their ideas for the Marks & Spencer building on London’s Oxford Street

The AJ quizzes Westminster City Council cabinet member Geoff Barraclough on the authority’s nascent retrofit-first policy

Michael Gove’s decision to block the controversial demolition of M&S’s flagship Oxford Street store has been quashed by a High Court judge

The AJ is launching a new platform called Blueprints for Change. Through it we want to highlight what today’s architects are proposing to tackle the most pressing social and environmental challenges