Tom Holbrook

The East of England is facing a critical water shortage. 5th Studio director Tom Holbrook proposes a bold response: the Arc, a 100-mile public landscape with water at its heart

Architype and Feilden + Mawson’s retrofit of a 1930s telephone exchange into the Entopia Building for the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership has exemplary environmental credentials. But are they at the expense of its character and delight? asks Tom Holbrook. Photography by JackHobhouse/SOLK Photography

A tiny, characterful extension to a derelict, listed building in flood-prone Cambridgeshire by 5th Studio

The AJ presents a rebuke to the market-led urbanism of the Wolfson Prize: 5th Studio’s five-step guide to creating a publicly funded new garden city