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Why they won: A closer look at all the Architect of the Year Awards 2024 winning entries

The winners of the Architect of the Year Awards were announced at a ceremony last night. Here is more detail about all the winning entries

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BDP unveils plans for £700m Warwick University campus overhaul

Programme of upgrades to include several new teaching and research buildings

  • What made this project… Westminster Coroner’s Court by Lynch Architects

  • Bio-based buildings: ‘Changes in materials are important, but so too is the milieu in which they emerge'

  • CPD 16 2024: Embedding excellence in carbon management

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A crisis hiding in plain sight: how the UK’s built environment is failing children and young people

While housing supply and affordability dominate public debate, the lack of safe, accessible spaces for children and adolescents is a critical yet overlooked issue. Nora Redmond takes a closer look at why the built environment has left young people so underserved

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  • On-demand case study: Alex Smith, Partner, Sheppard Robson on Pall Mall Court

  • On-demand case study: Stuart Fraser, partner, Make Architects on the New Bailey masterplan

  • On-demand case study: Michael Riley, architect director, BDP on Warwick University

Architect of the Year Awards 2024

  • Big names among winners of 2024 Architect of the Year Awards

  • What made this project… Westminster Coroner’s Court by Lynch Architects

  • What made this project… Monex HQ by Arquid

  • What made this project… Triangle House by Artefact Studio

  • What made this project… the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering by HLM Architects

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: Refurbishment and Reinvention Architect of the Year

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: Private Housing Architect of the Year

  • What made this project… Brighton Dome by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: One Off Small Project of the Year

  • AYA 2024 shortlists: Public and Social Housing Architect of the Year

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Boomers to Zoomers

  • A crisis hiding in plain sight: how the UK’s built environment is failing children and young people

  • A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross

  • Teenagers collaborate on King’s Cross timber pavilion

  • Co-living: Where does it go from here?

  • LDA and Matt+Fiona collaborate with youth group on HS2 ‘meanwhile use’ community garden

  • From the ground up: Ackroyd Lowrie on a mission to turn school leavers into architects with real work experience

  • Creating communities for all: Jenny Buterchi on PRP’s vision for age-inclusive living

  • Building communities, not just homes: The case for intergenerational living

  • How Essex teenagers are shaping their community with a little help from MATT+FIONA

  • Housing providers and charities urge government to adopt accessibility standards for new-build homes

In Pictures

  • McAslan’s £200m Belfast Grand Central station opens for passenger services

  • David Miller Architects unveils new laboratory building close to King’s Cross

  • In Pictures: Bennetts Associates’ University of Edinburgh learning centre

  • RSHP completes redevelopment for two Knightsbridge hotels

  • Adrian James Architects completes boarding house at Shrewsbury School

  • Project Orange unveils vernacular-inspired housing scheme in Suffolk

  • Fosters completes ‘groundbreaking’ NYC headquarters with OXMAN

  • Canary Wharf showcases ‘green spine’ after teaming up with Eden Project

  • Haworth Tompkins unveils £14.5m transformation of London’s Warburg Institute

  • Fathom reimagines user experience at 2 Pancras Square

Reviews

  • ‘A fantastic, informative, and in-depth resource’: new guide helps illuminate the architecture apprenticeship pathway

  • Playing the Game: Work-Life Balance in Architecture

  • How to make good cities

  • The Mexican connection: How Sordo Madaleno built a global practice across the generations

  • BD Film Club: Empire of Light revisited

  • Modern Buildings in Blackheath and Greenwich: London 1950-2000

  • Dhaka Architectural Guide: ‘A city changing at a dizzying speed’

  • Londoners Making London: ‘There is a gap in physical space that creative, determined people fill’

  • Inclusion Emergency: ‘An emergency that we can no longer afford to ignore’

  • Carlos Moreno’s 15-Minute City: Visionary urbanism or just recycled ideas?

WA100 2024

  • WA100 2024: Architects expect patchy international growth

  • WA100 2024: The big list

  • WA100 2024: Digital edition

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This Stirling Prize is a riposte to the chorus of British declinism

2024-10-17T01:05:00+01:00By

The Elizabeth Line’s Stirling Prize triumph exemplifies Britain’s capacity to deliver transformative, forward-looking infrastructure through exceptional design and collaboration

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What’s stopping us from thinking differently about retrofit?

2024-10-16T05:00:00+01:00By

If we are going to build less, does that mean we need to maintain more, asks Anna Beckett

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Making Richmount Gardens garden-less: What a post-war Blackheath scheme can tell us about our infill addiction

2024-10-14T05:00:00+01:00By 2 comments

As infill developments surge in response to London’s housing crisis, the case of Richmount Gardens highlights the costs to community spaces and social infrastructure, writes Trevor Morriss

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How AI can help us to create a more inclusive and equitable world

2024-10-10T05:00:00+01:00By

In this examination of the role artificial intelligence can play in our future, Diego Padilla-Philipps envisions a world in which human creativity and individualism, passions and emotions will always have a place

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The Coach: Feelings and when it’s right to express them

2024-10-09T05:00:00+01:00By

Louise Rodgers reflects on a personal experience to discuss the challenges of knowing when to express emotions and the impact they can have on our relationships

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From dingy to desirable: Changing the perception of student accommodation

2024-10-08T05:00:00+01:00By 3 comments

Debbie McCreath on how student accommodation has evolved from basic lodgings to vibrant communities

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  • A triangular community: how Author brings generations together at King’s Cross

  • A decade in the making: Norton Folgate’s controversial redevelopment unveiled

  • ‘A glimpse of new horizons’: Cooke Fawcett’s reworking of Cockpit’s craft incubator

  • A harmonious blend of context and concept: Mass Studies reimagines the Serpentine Pavilion

  • Under The Big Roof… Charity unites generations and nurtures skills that last a lifetime

  • London College of Fashion strikes a pose with new campus by Allies & Morrison

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  • Jankes Barn by Lynch Architects: ‘We like to call it a barn non-conversion’

  • How Corstorphine & Wright are reimagining Bloomsbury's Victoria House as a life sciences hub

  • ‘A nightclub on a massive scale’: touring Populous’ £365m Co-op Live arena