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MICA completes Rambert Ballet School extension in Twickenham
The building, near the River Thames, provides additional dance studio space for teaching and practice to accommodate increased student numbers
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Our guest editors POoR Collective throw down a challenge to the profession
We were thrilled when POoR Collective accepted our invitation to guest-edit October’s special issue of the AJ, says Emily Booth
Astragal: Chipperfield gets down with the kids at the Design Museum
To the Design Museum, where David Chipperfield delivered a lively Conran Lecture on architect marginalisation and other subjects
INCH and Sheppard Robson convert disused gas purifier shed to workspace
INCH Architecture + Design and Sheppard Robson have preserved and reworked a prominent disused Victorian industrial structure in Glasgow
Architects must embrace AI and harness its power
We can’t stop technological advances, so it is best to embrace them and use them to improve the output of architectural pursuits, says Kunle Barker
The Secret Architect: I’ve been outed as Another. Bloody. Architect
The Secret Architect has taken on some freelance work for a trendy ‘digital experience’ group
Case study: Towner Gallery by Manalo & White Architects
The new foyer for Eastbourne’s Towner Gallery aims to stitch the other spaces together while providing a convivial space where visitors can pause. Photography by Marcus Quigley, Rachel Ferriman
How Westminster City Council plans to put retrofit first
New policies in the pipeline will make it clear that retrofit is the best solution for the vast majority of buildings in the borough, says Westminster councillor Geoff Barraclough
Haworth Tompkins completes multistorey industrial complex in Barking
Industria, in Barking, east London, is said to be the UK’s first ‘new-generation vertical’ multistorey light industrial building
Ström Architects completes mid-century modern-inspired house in Cheltenham
Case House is a simple white brick and render house, half-hidden behind an existing brick wall, in a designated character area of the Gloucestershire town’s conservation area