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Exclusive: AJ Small Projects winners announced
An almost invisible live/work scheme on the site of a former carpenter’s workshop has won this year’s AJ Small Projects Awards
Trio of Heygate Estate housing relocation schemes complete
The latest wave of Southwark’s innovative Heygate Estate housing relocation schemes completed last month
New Practices #99: Stone Opera
The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone either through choice or redundancy
Ambitious plans for new London footbridge revealed
Recently founded One-World Design has unveiled plans for a new £20 million footbridge next to the Chelsea Railway Bridge in London
Mackintosh students to help with extension build
Steven Holl’s £50 million extension to the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is to become an ‘operating theatre’ for its students
UK's £131bn PFI bill 'four times the value of assets'
PFI had left the UK with £131 billion of future debt by 2009/10 – four times the value of the assets secured through the deals
Video: Mobile Sauna, Åland by Denizen Works + Friends
See a video of the story behind the AJ Small Projects Award shortlisted mobile sauna in Finland
Buildings
New Court, Rothschild Bank headquarters, London, by OMA
Visible?/?invisible, public?/?private, iconic?/?bland: OMA’s Rothschild Bank is simultaneously contradictory, but pulls it off, writes Rory Olcayto
Greengate residential development, Salford, by White Arkitekter
Social housing When Salford wanted healthy lifestyle housing, Swedish practice White Arkitekter was well equipped for the challenge, writes Felix Mara
AJ Specification 01.12 – Roofing and Drainage
Case studies of 23 Blackheath Park by Charles Barclay Architects, Holy Trinity Primary School by Architype Architects and Studio Lofts by Pott Architects
Rave against the machine
Molly Macindoe’s photography reveals the gritty former life of familiar city sites during the free party heyday of the late 90s, writes Merlin Fulcher
Nigel Green's Reconstruction
A new study of post-war reconstruction in Picardy, France offers both a historical narrative and regional perspective on Modernism, writes Robin Wilson
The Modernist Magazine: Issue Three
[THIS WEEK] The third issue of The Modernist sees it cast its eye far beyond its Manchester home, writes James Pallister
Arts in Brief
Dunlop: 'Hand drawing represents the stain of the true architect’s soul on paper'
[ARTS IN BRIEF] Bookings are now open for a drawing masterclass with Glasgow architect Alan Dunlop and artist Patricia Cain
Marches, marathons and demos: Oona Hassim at the Woolff Gallery
[ARTS IN BRIEF] The movement of crowds of people through urban spaces is the inspiration for a new exhibition of paintings by Oona Hassim, writes Rakesh Ramchurn
Women in Architecture Awards
AJ Women in Architecture awards
[CALL FOR ENTRIES] The AJ is seeking entrants to three new honours in support of women in architecture, including the prestigious Jane Drew Prize
International news
Construction market dips Down Under
Hopes of a revival in the Australian built environment sector have been dealt twin blows this week.

Contest launched for nature-inspired architecture
[Registration is to be completed by 1 July] Competition organisers D3 have launched an international ideas contest seeking architectural designs inspired by nature
AJ Small Projects 2012
Images, drawings and data for all 150 projects entered in the AJ Small Projects 2012 Awards in the AJ Buildings Library

Downloads
AJ supplements downloads: Exclusive to subscribers
AJ subscribers can now download supplements including Small Projects 2011, AJ100 2010, Stirling Prize 2009, Greening Your Office and Designing for Healthcare
Ian Martin
An outsider’s view of the royal re-boot, and a tentative proposal for an atheist cathedral
Ian Martin texts the royals
Comment
Comment: Small will always lose out to big
Michael Casey of emerging practice CaseyFierro talks about the disappointment of losing out to the big boys on a huge east London scheme, and why small practices will always struggle to win large-scale projects
What now for Battersea Power Station?
Paul Finch’s letter from London: We need a big idea for Battersea Power Station – time to call in Professor Alsop
‘What’s next for women in architecture?’
We’ll get you started, but the rest is up to you, writes Christine Murray
Astragal gossip column
BBC picks 1960s high-rise for Olympics news broadcasts
BBC News will deliver its Olympic Games coverage from the roof and the top floors of a condemned Newham council estate
Brazilians plan to resurrect Christ in London
An enormous 9m-tall statue of Jesus – similar to Rio De Janeiro’s famous Christ The Redeemer statue – is planned for Primrose Hill in London








