Mary Douglas

2 weeks ago | architectsjournal.co.uk | Mary Douglas

Last week the AJ unveiled the 30 projects making up the shortlist, in recognition of the 30th anniversary of this much-loved award – and you can see them all here. The shortlist includes every typology of project from saunas and wellbeing spaces to new parks and outdoor classrooms – and all completed well within a tight budget of £399,000. Our AJ Small Projects reader poll will be closing shortly, and you can vote for your favourite here or complete the form below.

Jul 19, 2024 | architectsjournal.co.uk | Smith Mordak |Mary Douglas

If you’ve read any articles about sustainability in the built environment over the last few years (including ones written by me!), you probably took away a message something like this: Buildings are a huge emitter of greenhouse gases but weirdly neglected by government who aren’t giving us the policy landscape to decarbonise, so we architects, engineers, developers, builders are all supposed to somehow fix this among ourselves despite a volatile economic context.

Jun 23, 2024 | architectsjournal.co.uk | Kit Heren |Mary Douglas

Embracing volumetric projects is part of HTA’s push to embed sustainability in every aspect of its operations. Speaking from the practice’s east London office, managing partner Simon Bayliss and partner Simon Toplis point to a study they did with the universities of Cambridge and Napier that showed several of its volumetric projects cut embodied carbon by 40 per cent compared with traditional building methods.

Jun 3, 2024 | architectsjournal.co.uk | Mary Douglas

The Architects’ Journal has been a champion of the architectural profession in the UK since 1895. Our mission is to support architects in their day-to-day practice by bringing them up-to-the-minute news, industry insight and critical, highly technical building studies.

Jan 30, 2024 | architectsjournal.co.uk | Chris Williamson |Mary Douglas

David Green’s piece in the AJ yesterday, Architects’ firms are in financial danger. Where is the RIBA? is an important read. It highlights the financial struggles many architects are facing at the moment and the role that the RIBA can play – or at least has the potential to. Architects’ salaries have been low since deregulation and, for many, before that. We seem to be too easily parted from our ideas – many of the artists I have worked with over the years have seemed more aware of their worth.