Will Hurst
Will Hurst is an award-winning journalist who has spent most of his career writing about architecture and construction. A news specialist with an expertise in investigative and campaigning journalism.
Hurst has written for national titles such as the Guardian, Times and Financial Times as well as for the trade press and has been interviewed about architecture on radio and TV. He was named both news reporter and feature writer of the year at the 2013 IBP awards for his work in exposing construction industry blacklisting.
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Stories
Climate campaigners challenge Foster + Partners on airports Subscription
Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) has said is is gearing up to press all British architecture practices to cease airport expansion work
Government acknowledges AJ RetroFirst campaign Subscription
The government has given its initial response to the AJ’s RetroFirst campaign for re-use of existing buildings amid growing calls for a green recovery from Covid-19
Legal & General sets new zero carbon housing targetSubscription
Major housebuilder and investor Legal & General will make all its new housing stock operational net zero carbon by 2030, it has announced.
Boris’s ‘Build, Build, Build’ business boost comes under fireSubscription
Architects Declare, the UKGBC and the RIBA have all responded with alarm to the Prime Minister’s ‘Build, Build, Build’ speech about the UK’s economic recovery today
RetroFirst campaign goes to governmentSubscription
With 250 individuals and organisations across the industry now backing RetroFirst, the AJ has written to government ministers calling for reforms in three key areas of construction: tax, policy and procurement
What has Architects Declare achieved?
A new survey of AJ readers suggests most of the 900-plus practices which have signed up believe it has changed their business. But is this really the ‘paradigm shift’ the movement calls for?
CABE founding director named first female chief planner Subscription
Joanna Averley, a founding director of CABE and head of urban design at High Speed 2, has been named as the government’s first female chief planner
RIBA president Alan Jones returns after ‘sincere and unqualified apology’Subscription
Alan Jones, who stood down in March over allegations linked to an extramarital affair, has returned to his post after giving a ‘sincere and unqualified apology’ to members
Hopes for structural timber boosted by Construction Industry CouncilSubscription
A prominent umbrella group for the built environment professions, chaired by former RIBA president Stephen Hodder, has cautioned the government against taking action which would prohibit the use of timber as a structural material in buildings
Architects Declare organisers: ‘We want to influence, not name and shame’Subscription
Three of the instigators of Architects Declare – Steve Tompkins of Haworth Tompkins, Michael Pawlyn of Exploration Architecture, and Julia Barfield of Marks Barfield – discuss the movement’s progress and its plans to become far more vocal in a Q&A with Will Hurst
