AJ 22.02.24: Schools

AJ 22.02.24: SchoolsThis months issue of the AJ explores a sector in need of drastic, visionary and financial intervention: schools. As editor Emily Booth points out in her introduction, while bold budgetary changes are made with the sweep of a pen at the macro level, each crumbling classroom is a local, micro tragedy. In News Anna Highfield delves deeper into this topic, asking whether the Tories new rescue package goes far enough to address deteriorating conditions in

there is our competitions round-up (which includes an extension to the National Gallery)

and this month’s news feature details how regeneration is stitching the city together

including building of the year

As the AJ submits its RetroFirst campaign to government

The project includes a welcoming garden kitchen and nature activity centre

high-impact way

which won the AJ Architecture Awards Editor’s Choice prize

and we look at the winner and finalists in Enfield’s intergenerational housing ideas contest

and we ask industry experts about the future of office design

since it was collected

Including case studies of: The Observatory at Graveney School by Urban Projects Bureau

and the government’s newly launched ‘beauty’ watchdog sparks alarm