AJ 13.04.17: Built to rent

AJ 13.04.17: Built to rentThe latest AJ focuses on the build to rent sector, with architecture editor Rob Wilson looking at its potential to transform UK housing supply, as well as building studies of Grid Architects Vantage Point at Archway, north London; Hodder + Partners Cambridge Street development in Manchester; and Newgrounds redevelopment of former BBC rehearsal studios in west London. PLUS The AJs Life in Practice survey reveals a stressed and overworked profession

and the AJ’s coach advises an architect who fears a junior they manage is being led astray

There are related building studies on HKR’s modular homes for Pocket Housing

we talk to four developers about a retrofit project each has been behind

and we launch our new Sketchbook feature with drawings by Alan Dunlop

Marwa El Mubark and Josh Fenton

the implications of Theresa May’s pledge to end the cap on council borrowing to fund housing

Now in its 25th year

PLUS We meet the cofounders of the Black Females in Architecture network

Architect of the Year and Editor’s Choice prizes

we meet the four women shortlisted for the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice

PLUS Data from an AJ survey reveals architects are facing an insurance timebomb

As we near the close of another year