The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
Kissing gates to sex toys: this year’s Sculpture in the City
New pieces, including works by Julian Opie and Daniel Silver, have been unveiled as part of this year’s Sculpture in the City in time for London Sculpture Week (21-29 September)
Culture
Exhibitions, events and books investigating architecture and culture, including the Venice Biennale and the London Festival of Architecture
Exhibition review: Brickworks at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North
The humble brick takes centre stage at an exhibition mounted jointly by Tate Liverpool and RIBA North
Grandorge: Living on an island
A photograph of the Suffolk coast has David Grandorge thinking about nearby Orford Ness, once a site of military experiments, now owned and carefully managed by the National Trust
Book review: A Time A Place
A project by architect John Piercy Holroyd and photographer Daniel Hopkinson, which brings together cars and buildings from the same year, throws up interesting comparisons, writes Rob Wilson
Kate Macintosh: a radical champion of public housing
This year’s AJ100 award for an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to architecture goes to Kate Macintosh, a determined and radical architect who has championed quality public housing
A vital vertical teaching model: Ulster Student Show 2024
Ulster University’s vertical teaching model, extending across the full five years of architectural education, is vital for injecting academic energy back into our cities and practice
Review: Standing at the Sky’s Edge, Sheffield’s Park Hill – the musical
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
‘Generosity and care’: UWE Student Show review 2024
The University of the West of England’s architecture students are continuing to push environmental and social aspects of architectural practice
Palestinian practice AAU Anastas: stone, architectural activism and Gaza
A highly charged talk by Paris and Bethlehem-based practice AAU Anastas covered the architects’ support for the Palestinian cause as well as their use of local stone, writes Bobby Jewell
Review: Assemble’s architecture rooms at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Assemble’s distinctive curation is low on models of buildings, instead presenting itself as an industrial warehouse space, but risks being more gnomic than ever as a result, says Rob Wilson