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Weston Williamson completes housing scheme on North Peckham Estate
Commercial Way is a new residential development in Peckham for Southwark Council, delivering 109 homes for social rent and shared ownership
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Case study: An Office and Two Houses by Loader Monteith
The burnt larch-clad buildings in the Scottish Highlands provide the office for a mountain biking tour operator as well as two low-energy private residences. Photography by Henry Woide
Generative design vs generative AI: a guide to the basics
Architect and AI expert Keir Regan-Alexander explains how practices including Stirling Prize winner Mae Architects are beginning to transform their design processes through powerful new computing methods
ArkleBoyce completes Young People’s Space for Leeds hospice
The purpose-built facility for St Gemma’s Hospice provides a main social space and a counselling room unified under a timber lattice roof structure
De Matos Ryan completes Wonderlab gallery at National Railway Museum
The 1,500m² interactive gallery for the National Railway Museum in York showcases different engineering and railway concepts and processes
Costs: Natural materials
The latest sample cost breakdowns for natural products
Sketchbook: Tanatswa Borerwe
The AJ’s Sketchbook series is a showcase of sketches and concept drawings by architects and designers. Today’s sketches are by Tanatswa Borerwe, an architect at HTA Design and an architectural illustrator @tanatswa.illustrates
Case study: 32° East Arts Centre, Uganda, by New Makers Bureau
The rammed-earth and earth-brick community arts space, designed in colloboration with Kampala-based Localworks, is the new home of 32° East | Ugandan Arts Trust. Photography by New Makers Bureau, Tim Latim, Will Boase
POoR Collective’s Watchlist
POoR highlights eight architects, designers and artists worth keeping an eye on, with interests that include disability justice, diasporic identities, and using AI in architectural drawing
Birmingham Screwdrivers: RESOLVE’s Tools for a Disorderly Practice
As part of POoR Collective’s takeover of the AJ, RESOLVE Collective offer an inventory of used – and misused – tools that they've encountered, in the form of books, artworks, sonic transmissions and events chosen by each member of the team