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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
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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Newcastle University architectural historian Stephen Parnell asked his students to create one of the AR’s unpublished Manplan issues using ChatGPT and Midjourney.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
Artificial intelligence and crafts: what would William Morris do?
A mixture of fear and doubt about the consequences of an AI-saturated profession leads Cristina Monteiro to consider the pioneering craftsman, designer and socialist William Morris and what he might have made of artificial intelligence
Tinted love: Tooting Works by Alma-nac
A vibrant paint job of orange and yellow hues helps this community and co-working space stand out
Real estate AI, not software, is the real threat to architects
There’s an emerging world of real estate AI that replaces human interactions, warns Martha Dillon