AJ Contributor

Gbolade Design Studio’s Tara Gbolade shares insights from her new book, Changing the Game: How to be a sustainable and regenerative small practice

This single-storey courtyard house for a cattle farm manager in the West Country has an L-shaped plan that shelters a garden. Photography by Jason Orton

The new building explores unconventional materials to deliver a flexible building that provides spaces for yoga, workshops and celebrations. Photography by David Churchill

How can architecture practices adapt to attract and retain the staff they need? This was the topic of an AJ roundtable discussion in partnership with global architecture and design recruiter Bespoke Careers. Photography by Theo Wood

Thom Brisco of Brisco Loran talks about Costa’s Barbers, a live-work shopfront which triumphed in the Project under £500,000 category at the AJ Architecture Awards last week

This multi-arts hub in Hertford extends and remodels an existing theatre and arts centre, with new extensions providing a three-screen cinema and multiple hireable spaces. Photography by Hufton + Crow

IF_DO founder Sarah Castle explains that community engagement is not just asking people what they want but also what they can do

Piccinelli, associate director at Chipperfield’s and project lead on the LSE’s Firoz Lalji Global Hub, describes circularity as ‘a mind shift’ – it’s no longer the architect giving top-down direction

The project adds a two-storey extension to a Grade II-listed house in Somerset, built in the 1860s as a local school. Photography by Francesca Ióvene

Archmongers has remodelled a 1970s split-level house in Hackney, making each space more generous while enhancing energy efficiency. Photography by French+Tye and Jim Stephenson