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
Jestico + Whiles wins AJ100 Communication Initiative of the Year
Jestico + Whiles is the winner of the AJ100 Communication Initiative of the Year 2024 Award for its work on the Greenwich Millennium Village
Obituary: The colourful and eventful career of Julyan Wickham (1942-2024)
Catherine Slessor remembers the exuberant Julyan Wickham, known for his much-imitated restaurants and colourful urbanism
In praise of cooling towers
Cooling towers such as those at Fiddler's Ferry power station in Cheshire are disappearing, leaving Britain on the brink of losing a unique part of its industrial heritage, argues Catherine Slessor
Heatherwick’s Humanise book: ‘A visual and textual bludgeoning’
This shouty book’s arguments against ‘boring’ buildings are too wafer-thin to obscure its true aim of self-promotion, argues Catherine Slessor. Photomontages by Maria Rodriguez
Obituary: Michael Hopkins gave contemporary expression to the establishment
Michael Hopkins, who has died at the age of 88, developed a very English type of High-Tech and was clasped to the bosom of the British Establishment, writes Catherine Slessor
Remembering the ‘profoundly influential’ BV Doshi (1927-2023)
Catherine Slessor looks back at the life of celebrated Indian architect, planner, and teacher Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi
Slessor on Stirling shortlist: Is it finally Níall McLaughlin’s year?
Architecture critic Catherine Slessor gives her verdict on this year's RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist and wonders whether the time has finally come for Níall McLaughlin to win the UK's biggest architectural award
Meet Neil Pinder, the school teacher on a mission to demystify and diversify architecture
The indefatigable and long-standing educator and activist Neil Pinder is the recipient of the 2022 AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award. Interview by Catherine Slessor. Photography by Holly-Marie Cato
Fife community building wins Public category in AJ Architecture Awards 2021
The Larick Centre by Collective Architecture has won the Public prize at the 2021 AJ Architecture Awards