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Tim Groom unwraps mill-inspired housing in Manchester
The first residents have moved into this £24 million build-to-rent scheme on the edge of Manchester’s Northern Quarter designed by local practice Tim Groom Architects
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Meridian lines: Urban Projects Bureau housing at Meridian Water
With Brambling House, Urban Projects Bureau has created a hybrid terrace/mansion block form to stitch the wider Meridian Water development into its neighbourhood
Greenhouse effect: Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture’s Bordeaux housing
At the Bastide Niel eco-district in Bordeaux, Duncan Lewis Scape Architecture has created Ekko, an innovative apartment block that takes the winter garden to extremes
If Keir Starmer wants to fix Britain, he should start with procurement
Labour Party plans to improve the built environment won’t work without a healthy procurement process, so here are seven suggestions for Keir Starmer, says Dennis Austin
Seemingly insurmountable problems can have solutions if the ambition is there
And there’s a lot of ambition in evidence of architects addressing key challenges in the January issue of the AJ, writes Emily Booth
Sheppard Robson completes £32m Edinburgh Uni flexible teaching building
Sheppard Robson has created a new heart at the centre of the University of Edinburgh’s King’s Buildings campus
Sketchbook: Fraser Morrison
The AJ’s Sketchbook series is a showcase of sketches and concept drawings by architects and designers. Today’s sketches are by Fraser Morrison, an architect at Farshid Moussavi Architecture
Child Graddon Lewis and the suddenly affordable homes
Child Graddon Lewis’s consented scheme at Harrow Road changed from 50 per cent private sale to 100 per cent affordable rent following a change of administration at Westminster City Council
We need architects’ help to toughen up the Future Homes Standard
The ideological retreat on net zero is visible in the government’s weak proposals for the forthcoming Future Homes Standard, writes Sue Riddlestone
Proctor & Shaw completes wraparound extension in Dulwich
The heavy overhang of the new roof takes its cues from Frank Lloyd Wright and is crisply detailed with a gutterless, serrated eave design