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Should you sell or merge your practice?

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With economic conditions increasingly difficult for smaller firms, mergers and takeovers are often the best way for a practice to thrive. Nick Schumann examines the options

The silly season is alive and well at the Olympic Park

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A call by The Times for London’s mayor to reject the Olympicopolis design fails to recognise architecture of a high standard, says Paul Finch

The coach: ‘I enjoy being a project architect but I'm being pushed into management’

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AJ careers expert Matthew Turner advises an architect who wants to keep designing rather than pushing paper and dealing with colleagues’ gripes

Old London died 50 years ago

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Paul Finch looks back on 50 years of ‘Greater London’

Ian Martin: Brexitioning to a new built enpopment

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Ian Martin considers ‘public space’ and redesigns the public instead

A quarter of a century on, Canary Wharf is still shaping London

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Bad timing meant the Docklands project proved the undoing of its developer, but its move to shift London’s centre of gravity eastwards was prescient, says Ellis Woodman

RCA shortlist betrays a lack of faith in homegrown architecture

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The RCA has an impressive list of architectural alumni, yet none will be involved in designing its new campus, says Paul Finch

Ian Martin: Brexitioning to a new built enpopment

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Ian Martin considers ‘public space’ and redesigns the public instead

A quarter of a century on, Canary Wharf is still shaping London

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Bad timing meant the Docklands project proved the undoing of its developer, but its move to shift London’s centre of gravity eastwards was prescient, says Ellis Woodman

RCA shortlist betrays a lack of faith in homegrown architecture

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The RCA has an impressive list of architectural alumni, yet none will be involved in designing its new campus, says Paul Finch

The coach: ‘How do I persuade my practice to let me work part time?’

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An architect wants to go part time so they can spend more time with their partner, but fears this flies in the face of the practice’s culture. AJ careers expert Matthew Turner advises how best to persuade their employer

It’s time to put the Carbuncle Cup out of its misery

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This wretched ‘trophy’ is the product of mental idleness rather than genuine thought about how architecture absorbs and reflects culture, says Paul Finch

‘PBJ’s premature passing robs architecture of a compellingly humane intellect’

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Catherine Slessor remembers Peter Blundell Jones, who died of cancer on Friday

Rio’s Olympic architecture was a let-down

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The games were good – but where were the venues to match Rio’s spectacular scenery? asks Nick Schumann

Ian Martin: Commedia dell’architettura

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Ian Martin goes on a circular voyage of discovery

The two faces of public discourse

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Public opinion, much like Transport for London, often resembles Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, says Paul Finch

‘This is architecture designed to endure’

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Cathy Slessor gives her view on the 2016 RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize shortlist 

‘FCBS’s modest scheme will make youngsters think: “I could do this”’

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Jay Merrick on this year’s Stephen Lawrence Prize shortlist

Mental combat

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Ian Martin redesigns his headspace

Masterplans are about building communities, not just homes

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South Kilburn and North West Cambridge demonstrate a commitment to the architects employed to create them and to the people who will live there, says Christine Murray
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