AJ 20.06.24: AJ100

AJ 20.06.24: AJ100The AJ100 is back, and this year our award winners are pushing at the boundaries and encouraging a better way of doing things. As part of our drive to support and celebrate positive change, new this year is AJ100 Champions, a group of practices moving the dial either in their own projects and working practices, in the wider industry and beyond. The cohort forms our supercharged shortlist for the Practice of the Year award. In the issue we reveal all

John Puttick Associates‘ colourful Preston Youth Zone features a ‘striking palette’

Architects’ actions matter

and a 100% affordable community land trust housing scheme by Archio in south London

we provide the full shortlists for the AJ Retrofit & Reuse Awards 2024

Our three fascinating building studies of projects by Mole Architects

We also present two building studies: the London College of Fashion by Allies and Morrison

The humble brick takes centre stage at an exhibition mounted jointly by Tate Liverpool and RIBA North

At the end of 2021 – which AJ Editor Emily Booth writes 'hasn’t been an easy year

Stephen Lawrence Prize and inaugural Neave Brown Award for Housing

PLUS The boom in co-working and flexible office spaces

News features highlight stories from architects working at the forefront of retrofit practice

In our Culture pages