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The Activism Award rewards a practice, individual or organisation whose work is making a differnce on critical issues. Here’s eight notable architect activists past and present.

A competition that highlights the critical role played by engineers in retrofit and low carbon development, has been won by Simple Works.

Developer HUB has selected seven structural engineering practices to pitch ideas for repurposing commercial buildings to provide homes using low-carbon solutions.

Judges praised the winning pitch that explored the idea of sourcing building materials from within a 50-mile radius to reduce the embodied carbon of a neighbourhood.

Seven architects have been shortlisted to pitch ideas for the UK's first net zero neighbourhood promoted by the environmental engineering firm, Max Fordham. Here, the selected architects tell us why they want to pitch

Winning the Architect Pitch in 2021 was an opportunity for Office S&M to work for a client who shares its aspirations for the workplace that has culminated in a wellbeing fit out guide for a new office campus in Manchester

Like most architects, Marco believed the best way of bringing about change is through building which is what we were going to thrash out over lunch. Marco sadly died this summer but I think he would have been surprised (and pleased) to see more practices taking an activist stance and using their knowledge to help solve some of society’s big knotty problem such as homelessness.

Just as we launched this year’s Archiboo Awards Instagram changed its algorithm prioritising entertaining short-form videos over photos. For practices, as for many other creatives who were winning work via the platform, this posed a question. ‍

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’.