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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 16/06/2025

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the #AJ100. Don’t miss the opportunity to join leading architecture practices from across the UK as we unveil the AJ100 rankings and celebrate the winners of the AJ100 Awards. A limited number of tickets are still available: tinyurl.com/yzk2ubu8

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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 20/06/2025

Levitt Bernstein co-founder David Levitt has been named winner of the 2025 AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award in recognition of his outstanding commitment to housing and architecture #AJ100Awards @levittbernstein.bsky.social www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/david-l...

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David Levitt honoured with AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award

Levitt Bernstein co-founder David Levitt has been named winner of the 2025 AJ100 Contribution to the Profession award in recognition of his outstanding commitment to housing and architecture

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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 12/04/2025

What are the big moves that matter in domestic retrofit? Find out at our free webinar on 30 April

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AJ webinar: How to get domestic retrofit right

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Richard Waite @waitey.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Are you a budding news reporter? Do you want to work with me and the lovely AJ team? @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Then have a nosey at this: www.emap.com/job/reporter...

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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

you heard it here first

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Richard Waite @waitey.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

A scoop doesn't last very long in this digital day and age, but this was one a few hours ago - Lebanese-born, Paris-based rising star Lina Ghotmeh has won the competition to redesign the British Museum's Western range. @news.architectsjournal.co.uk www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/british...

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Rising star pips big names to win British Museum contest

Lebanese-born, Paris-based Lina Ghotmeh has been named winner of the high-profile competition to overhaul more than a third of the gallery spaces and behind-the-scenes areas at the British Museum

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Richard Waite @waitey.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Clementine Blakemore Architects and Poynton Bradbury Architects have won a contest to create a national centre for lowland peat restoration in Somerset (at Honeygar Farm). Could be a really sweet scheme @news.architectsjournal.co.uk www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/stephen...

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Stephen Lawrence Prize winner picked for new national peat centre

The two studios were chosen from more than 90 entrants who applied to transform the historic barns a...

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Anna Highfield @highf.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

C20 has submitted a listing bid to save Wolverhampton University’s School of Art from demolition. A Change.org petition rallying against the plans has racked up nearly 4,000 signatures since it was launched on 30 January. @c20society.bsky.social www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/listing...

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Listing bid to save Wolverhampton’s 1960s art school from demolition

The 1960s Brutalist building overlooking the city’s ring road faces redevelopment as part of the uni...

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Barbara McFarlane @barbaramcfarlane.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

@waitey.bsky.social & Will Hurst pick out architectural documentary gems, some of the very best from the archive, all of which still deserve a watch in a spare moment this Christmas. 😍

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Merlin Fulcher @merlinfulcher.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Amid Berlin's deepening housing crisis, a new -- and quite contentious -- contest is being held for peripheral development of housing on parts of the 400ha disused Tempelhof airport! Just ten years after similar development was vetoed by referendum 🌃 www.architectsjournal.co.uk/competitions...

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Tempelhof Field, Berlin

The contest – organised by Berlin’s Senate Department for Urban Development, Building, and Housing –...

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Jeremy Till @jeremytill.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My opinion piece on the proposed new Architects Registration Board is now up on the @news.architectsjournal.co.uk website. The opinion is quite tough.... www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

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ARB’s new draft Code of Conduct weakens its provisions

The consultation for the new Architects Registration Board (ARB) Code of Conduct is now open, with...

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Anna Highfield @highf.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Plagued by backlogs, delays and uncertainty, what can be done to mend the UK’s planning system? I asked industry experts how they would tackle the situation www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/four-id...

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Four ideas to fix the nation’s ‘broken’ planning system

Ask most architects if the planning system is in the worst state they can remember and the answer is...

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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 19/11/2024

Sharing the news exclusively on Bluesky 🗞️ to welcome all our new followers! Last night AJ Art Director Maria Rodriguez picked up the British Society of Magazine Editors' Cover of the Year award for our AI-themed issue 💫 And no, it's not supposed to be Stephen Fry (!)

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Richard Waite @waitey.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

An official survey of architects' workplace culture by the ARB has unmasked the widespread bullying, discrimination and sexual misconduct within practice. @news.architectsjournal.co.uk www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/archite...

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Architectural abuses exposed: ‘Underpaid, overworked and undervalued’

A new warts-and-all investigation into workplace culture by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) ...

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Gino Spocchia @ginospoc.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

What does £58.8 million get you? Benedetti shows off some more visuals for RIBA HQ this morning, ahead of an early 2025 planning application and 3 year closure of 66 Portland Place

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Benedetti unwraps detailed plans for RIBA House of Architecture

Visuals and consultation boards unveiled this morning (19 November) provide further details about th...

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Anna Highfield @highf.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The Office for Place, the government body set up in 2021 to champion good design and placemaking, is to be scrapped, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has announced www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/office-...

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Office for Place scrapped by government

In a statement made today (Tuesday, 12 November) in the Commons, Pennycook announced that the arms-l...

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Richard Waite @waitey.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

As first reported here 😁. Glad other titles are picking this up though... there should be a wider debate about the future and possibility of repurposing of this building - and indeed others of this age. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/exclusi...

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Exclusive: first Stirling Prize winner set to be demolished

The 29-year-old building, which has sat empty for nearly a decade, is due to be flattened as part of...

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Richard Waite @waitey.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The Centenary Building in Salford is barely 30 years old and in 1996 was crowned the best building in the UK. It is going to be demolished. Have the options to re-use or retrofit really been exhausted? www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/exclusi...

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Exclusive: first Stirling Prize winner set to be demolished

The 29-year-old building, which has sat empty for nearly a decade, is due to be flattened as part of...

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