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The Archiboo Awards 2021 is being held at The Lower Third at the Outernet, London. Designed by Orms, the ambitious mixed-use development opened this autumn.

Battersea Power Station is not simply one of London's most iconic landmarks. It's also one of the capital's greenest says Wolf Mangelsdorf, who joined Buro Happold in 2002 as the project's lead engineer.

Like many practices, SOM has struggled with gender equity for years. Twenty years ago there were more female leaders at the practice than there are today. But in order to encourage more women to stay in architecture, they have to be convinced it's a career where they can advance, says SOM's Julia Skeete.

Architects have joined the chorus of those who are saying that the platform is ‘dead’.

Architect chosen by UPP will “challenge the way it thinks” about student housing.

Seven architects have been shortlisted to pitch ideas for the next generation of student housing design that is inspiring with high sustainability credentials and reflects a new emphasis on student mental health and wellbeing.

Mark Shaw won the Architect Pitch in 2017 and was invited by developer HB Reavis to work on a new commercial building in Farringdon. It was later appointed to work on all the common areas in the building, including a gym, bar, café and auditorium.

Adam Tyson is Managing Director of Asset Management at student accommodation infrastructure provider UPP, leading the delivery of its construction projects and strategic asset management. Here he explains why purpose-built student accommodation is ready for a shakeup

Jennifer O’Donnell, director of Glasgow-based practice O'DonnellBrown, won the Architect Pitch in 2020 impressing the panel with a series of self-initiated projects. Here she explains what happened next.

This category was added to the awards in 2021 to recognise the increasing amount of action taking place in the built environment, addressing issues such as diversity, inequality, disability rights and the climate emergency

Rachel Sayers is an architect and partner in Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios where she heads their Equality and Diversity Group. She is a judge for the Archiboo Awards inaugural Activism Award What do understand by the term activism? Personally I think strongly held values is at the root of all activism....

Ewa Effiom is an architect currently working for Gort Scott. He is a judge for the Best Use of Video category...