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UK cities could soon be sprouting upwards with new ‘timber canopies’ following the launch of ‘Optoppen’ – a viability tool intended to spread the practice of extending existing buildings vertically

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

Architect Eva Jiřičná has been awarded the highest honour bestowed by the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion

Almshouse project Appleby Blue has won the ‘winner of winners’ accolade at the 76th Housing Design Awards

This year's rain-soaked Labour party conference was ‘a housing conference with politics on the side’, according to one panellist. So what did the AJ team learn from its three days mixing with the new party in power in Liverpool?

The government is asking architects and others in the industry for their advice on whether it should change national planning rules regarding demolition and retrofit

The Child in the City by Colin Ward – published in 1978 – advocates for children’s rights in how we design and plan our towns and cities

New London Architecture co-founder Peter Murray has said the incoming Labour government should look at reintroducing city architects, and hailed Richard Rogers’ big-picture-thinking in the 1990s

Powered by the songs of Richard Hawley, a musical about the post-war architecture of Sheffield’s Park Hill estate packs a real emotional punch. Catch it before it’s too late, says Will Hurst

Bennetts Associates has been crowned AJ100 Practice of the Year, commended by the judges for its ambitious and detailed sustainability approach and its industry-shifting willingness to share knowledge and demand positive change