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We're looking forward to some lively conversations and great debate at UKREiiF next week. Let us know if you are going to be in Leeds.

Luke Macnab, architect at @fcbstudios, says the potential of AI to transform design has to be balanced with ethical and environmental questions.

Dive deep into his insights here: https://architectsdatafile.co.uk/news/view-point-luke-macnab-of-feilden-clegg-bradley/

#Architecture #AIDesign #SustainableDesign #EthicalArchitecture

A proud moment on Monday attending the official handover of The Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus for University of Bristol

Aga Khan Academy, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in collaboration with SHATOTTO, is an educational campus located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The project organizes learning spaces through a climate-responsive masterplan.

The campus is structured around a series of courtyards that regulate airflow and daylight, creating shaded microclimates within a hot and humid environment. Brick construction defines the primary load bearing system, providing thermal mass and continuity with local building traditions. Covered walkways and গভীর overhangs mediate between interior and exterior spaces.

Spatial organization draws from historical learning complexes, where open courts and circulation corridors support both formal and informal education. The project operates through passive environmental strategies, material consistency, and a clear relationship between built form and climate.

© @fcbstudios ; @rafiq_azam.shatotto ; @salarchman ; @sarkerprotick

📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh

#ArchitectureLab #FCBStudios #SHATOTTO #AgaKhanAcademy #EducationalArchitecture #BrickArchitecture #ClimateResponsive

Aga Khan Academy, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in collaboration with SHATOTTO, is an educational campus located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The project organizes learning spaces through a climate-responsive masterplan.

The campus is structured around a series of courtyards that regulate airflow and daylight, creating shaded microclimates within a hot and humid environment. Brick construction defines the primary load bearing system, providing thermal mass and continuity with local building traditions. Covered walkways and গভীর overhangs mediate between interior and exterior spaces.

Spatial organization draws from historical learning complexes, where open courts and circulation corridors support both formal and informal education. The project operates through passive environmental strategies, material consistency, and a clear relationship between built form and climate.

© @fcbstudios ; @rafiq_azam.shatotto ; @salarchman ; @sarkerprotick

📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh

#ArchitectureLab #FCBStudios #SHATOTTO #AgaKhanAcademy #EducationalArchitecture #BrickArchitecture #ClimateResponsive

Aga Khan Academy, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in collaboration with SHATOTTO, is an educational campus located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The project organizes learning spaces through a climate-responsive masterplan.

The campus is structured around a series of courtyards that regulate airflow and daylight, creating shaded microclimates within a hot and humid environment. Brick construction defines the primary load bearing system, providing thermal mass and continuity with local building traditions. Covered walkways and গভীর overhangs mediate between interior and exterior spaces.

Spatial organization draws from historical learning complexes, where open courts and circulation corridors support both formal and informal education. The project operates through passive environmental strategies, material consistency, and a clear relationship between built form and climate.

© @fcbstudios ; @rafiq_azam.shatotto ; @salarchman ; @sarkerprotick

📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh

#ArchitectureLab #FCBStudios #SHATOTTO #AgaKhanAcademy #EducationalArchitecture #BrickArchitecture #ClimateResponsive

Aga Khan Academy, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in collaboration with SHATOTTO, is an educational campus located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The project organizes learning spaces through a climate-responsive masterplan.

The campus is structured around a series of courtyards that regulate airflow and daylight, creating shaded microclimates within a hot and humid environment. Brick construction defines the primary load bearing system, providing thermal mass and continuity with local building traditions. Covered walkways and গভীর overhangs mediate between interior and exterior spaces.

Spatial organization draws from historical learning complexes, where open courts and circulation corridors support both formal and informal education. The project operates through passive environmental strategies, material consistency, and a clear relationship between built form and climate.

© @fcbstudios ; @rafiq_azam.shatotto ; @salarchman ; @sarkerprotick

📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh

#ArchitectureLab #FCBStudios #SHATOTTO #AgaKhanAcademy #EducationalArchitecture #BrickArchitecture #ClimateResponsive

Aga Khan Academy, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in collaboration with SHATOTTO, is an educational campus located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The project organizes learning spaces through a climate-responsive masterplan.

The campus is structured around a series of courtyards that regulate airflow and daylight, creating shaded microclimates within a hot and humid environment. Brick construction defines the primary load bearing system, providing thermal mass and continuity with local building traditions. Covered walkways and গভীর overhangs mediate between interior and exterior spaces.

Spatial organization draws from historical learning complexes, where open courts and circulation corridors support both formal and informal education. The project operates through passive environmental strategies, material consistency, and a clear relationship between built form and climate.

© @fcbstudios ; @rafiq_azam.shatotto ; @salarchman ; @sarkerprotick

📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh

#ArchitectureLab #FCBStudios #SHATOTTO #AgaKhanAcademy #EducationalArchitecture #BrickArchitecture #ClimateResponsive

Aga Khan Academy, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in collaboration with SHATOTTO, is an educational campus located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The project organizes learning spaces through a climate-responsive masterplan.

The campus is structured around a series of courtyards that regulate airflow and daylight, creating shaded microclimates within a hot and humid environment. Brick construction defines the primary load bearing system, providing thermal mass and continuity with local building traditions. Covered walkways and গভীর overhangs mediate between interior and exterior spaces.

Spatial organization draws from historical learning complexes, where open courts and circulation corridors support both formal and informal education. The project operates through passive environmental strategies, material consistency, and a clear relationship between built form and climate.

© @fcbstudios ; @rafiq_azam.shatotto ; @salarchman ; @sarkerprotick

📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh

#ArchitectureLab #FCBStudios #SHATOTTO #AgaKhanAcademy #EducationalArchitecture #BrickArchitecture #ClimateResponsive

Aga Khan Academy, designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in collaboration with SHATOTTO, is an educational campus located in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The project organizes learning spaces through a climate-responsive masterplan.

The campus is structured around a series of courtyards that regulate airflow and daylight, creating shaded microclimates within a hot and humid environment. Brick construction defines the primary load bearing system, providing thermal mass and continuity with local building traditions. Covered walkways and গভীর overhangs mediate between interior and exterior spaces.

Spatial organization draws from historical learning complexes, where open courts and circulation corridors support both formal and informal education. The project operates through passive environmental strategies, material consistency, and a clear relationship between built form and climate.

© @fcbstudios ; @rafiq_azam.shatotto ; @salarchman ; @sarkerprotick

📍 Dhaka, Bangladesh

#ArchitectureLab #FCBStudios #SHATOTTO #AgaKhanAcademy #EducationalArchitecture #BrickArchitecture #ClimateResponsive

Ever wondered why the high street looks the way it does?⁣
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Join @fcbstudios, the architects behind King Street, as they share the thinking behind the design of the new King Street. They’ll talk through the ideas, challenges, and intentions shaping the reimagined high street -from key design decisions to why the roof was lifted off the mall, and how it all nods to Stretford’s heritage ❤️⁣
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Come along, have a listen, and learn more.⁣
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Head to the link in our bio to secure your space ⁣
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📅Thursday 7th May⁣
⏰5pm - 7pm⁣
📍The Unofficial Stretford Museum (just opposite Greggs)

It's all hands on deck, and up in the air, as we head towards the finish line at Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus in Bristol. How ingenious is this planting scheme!

@wearemcalpine
@universityofbristol

For housing, now more than ever, we find ourselves at a convergence of challenges. But with these challenges come opportunities and the chance to create homes which are fit for both people and planet. Whether retrofitting existing stock, building new neighbourhoods or designing new typologies we use research, experience and a collaborative approach to find solutions to the problems we face. And underpinning all this is a deep understanding of the people who will call these places 'home'. Patterns of living, social cohesion, health and wellbeing. Communal spaces, co-living developments, student accomodation and apartments for later life. We respond to changing demands, societal shifts and regulatory and economic changes, to create homes which remain neighbourly and cohesive. We makes homes for people.

To learn more about the issues which underpin our design thinking and which inform our work, have a look at our Housing Primer via the link in bio

Not long left until voting closes on the People’s Choice Award for @thedavidsonprize . Follow the link in our bio and vote for “Play Your Part!” before April 28th.

Root And Erect’s collaborative submission alongside fellow Architects @fcbstudios and Play-Therapist Gemma Keaney titled “Play Your Part!” is a cross-generational card game which prompts players to reimagine how playfulness can shape daily life.

We are currently Longlisted for the prize and will hopefully find out the results of the Shortlist shortly, where we could be invited to expand and develop our submission.

Our second @thepineapplesuk Award win announcement for the day after a brilliant evening last night!

Porthcawl Waterfront Masterplan won in the Future Project Over 20ha category. 🎉

The vision for the Porthcawl Waterfront Masterplan for Welsh Government and Bridgend County Borough Council is a bold and ambitious reimagining of the seafront of Porthcawl, a historic coastal town on the south coast of Wales. The project draws on Porthcawl’s rich seaside heritage and natural assets to transform a brownfield waterfront site into a vibrant, sustainable and inclusive destination.

It will deliver a mix of high-quality homes, leisure and community facilities, and generous public spaces, all carefully integrated with new promenades, green corridors and expansive coastal views. The ambition is to create a living waterfront that feels both rooted in local identity and open to future generations, a place where residents and visitors alike can live, relax, play and belong.

Judges citation: "The judges commended Porthcawl Waterfront’s approach to wellbeing and economy. Particularly noting the waterfront’s potential to create resilient communities, giving special recognition to its core principles of inclusive growth, which grew from the needs of the existing community. This culminates in a considered reimagining of the site as a destination and as a vibrant neighbourhood for locals."

Again, congratulations to the whole team!

@_theurbanists
@stantec
Blake Morgan
@grasshopper_uk

Our second @thepineapplesuk Award win announcement for the day after a brilliant evening last night!

Porthcawl Waterfront Masterplan won in the Future Project Over 20ha category. 🎉

The vision for the Porthcawl Waterfront Masterplan for Welsh Government and Bridgend County Borough Council is a bold and ambitious reimagining of the seafront of Porthcawl, a historic coastal town on the south coast of Wales. The project draws on Porthcawl’s rich seaside heritage and natural assets to transform a brownfield waterfront site into a vibrant, sustainable and inclusive destination.

It will deliver a mix of high-quality homes, leisure and community facilities, and generous public spaces, all carefully integrated with new promenades, green corridors and expansive coastal views. The ambition is to create a living waterfront that feels both rooted in local identity and open to future generations, a place where residents and visitors alike can live, relax, play and belong.

Judges citation: "The judges commended Porthcawl Waterfront’s approach to wellbeing and economy. Particularly noting the waterfront’s potential to create resilient communities, giving special recognition to its core principles of inclusive growth, which grew from the needs of the existing community. This culminates in a considered reimagining of the site as a destination and as a vibrant neighbourhood for locals."

Again, congratulations to the whole team!

@_theurbanists
@stantec
Blake Morgan
@grasshopper_uk

Our second @thepineapplesuk Award win announcement for the day after a brilliant evening last night!

Porthcawl Waterfront Masterplan won in the Future Project Over 20ha category. 🎉

The vision for the Porthcawl Waterfront Masterplan for Welsh Government and Bridgend County Borough Council is a bold and ambitious reimagining of the seafront of Porthcawl, a historic coastal town on the south coast of Wales. The project draws on Porthcawl’s rich seaside heritage and natural assets to transform a brownfield waterfront site into a vibrant, sustainable and inclusive destination.

It will deliver a mix of high-quality homes, leisure and community facilities, and generous public spaces, all carefully integrated with new promenades, green corridors and expansive coastal views. The ambition is to create a living waterfront that feels both rooted in local identity and open to future generations, a place where residents and visitors alike can live, relax, play and belong.

Judges citation: "The judges commended Porthcawl Waterfront’s approach to wellbeing and economy. Particularly noting the waterfront’s potential to create resilient communities, giving special recognition to its core principles of inclusive growth, which grew from the needs of the existing community. This culminates in a considered reimagining of the site as a destination and as a vibrant neighbourhood for locals."

Again, congratulations to the whole team!

@_theurbanists
@stantec
Blake Morgan
@grasshopper_uk

Our second @thepineapplesuk Award win announcement for the day after a brilliant evening last night!

Porthcawl Waterfront Masterplan won in the Future Project Over 20ha category. 🎉

The vision for the Porthcawl Waterfront Masterplan for Welsh Government and Bridgend County Borough Council is a bold and ambitious reimagining of the seafront of Porthcawl, a historic coastal town on the south coast of Wales. The project draws on Porthcawl’s rich seaside heritage and natural assets to transform a brownfield waterfront site into a vibrant, sustainable and inclusive destination.

It will deliver a mix of high-quality homes, leisure and community facilities, and generous public spaces, all carefully integrated with new promenades, green corridors and expansive coastal views. The ambition is to create a living waterfront that feels both rooted in local identity and open to future generations, a place where residents and visitors alike can live, relax, play and belong.

Judges citation: "The judges commended Porthcawl Waterfront’s approach to wellbeing and economy. Particularly noting the waterfront’s potential to create resilient communities, giving special recognition to its core principles of inclusive growth, which grew from the needs of the existing community. This culminates in a considered reimagining of the site as a destination and as a vibrant neighbourhood for locals."

Again, congratulations to the whole team!

@_theurbanists
@stantec
Blake Morgan
@grasshopper_uk

The UK’s #housing challenge isn’t just about building more homes – it’s about building better ones.

For decades, volume delivery has been dominated by low-density, standardised suburban models that prioritise short-term profit over efficient land use and lasting places. That approach is no longer viable.

Architect-led housing offers a proven alternative. Far from being a luxury, good design is a practical tool that enables higher density without sacrificing quality. It enables higher density, better land use and creates places people actually want to live in.

Today the @architectsjournal In partnership with Architects' Action for Affordable Housing has launched Good Homes for All 2.0, featuring 15 examples, including our @brabazonbristol Housing scheme for @ytlgroupuk

The guide explores healthier living environments, lower long-term public costs, reduced energy bills and carbon emissions and more durable, adaptable homes.

The takeaway? Intelligent density can deliver better streets, stronger communities and more sustainable outcomes.

The real question is no longer whether we can afford to prioritise design – but whether we can afford not to.

Click link in bio to read more.

The UK’s #housing challenge isn’t just about building more homes – it’s about building better ones.

For decades, volume delivery has been dominated by low-density, standardised suburban models that prioritise short-term profit over efficient land use and lasting places. That approach is no longer viable.

Architect-led housing offers a proven alternative. Far from being a luxury, good design is a practical tool that enables higher density without sacrificing quality. It enables higher density, better land use and creates places people actually want to live in.

Today the @architectsjournal In partnership with Architects' Action for Affordable Housing has launched Good Homes for All 2.0, featuring 15 examples, including our @brabazonbristol Housing scheme for @ytlgroupuk

The guide explores healthier living environments, lower long-term public costs, reduced energy bills and carbon emissions and more durable, adaptable homes.

The takeaway? Intelligent density can deliver better streets, stronger communities and more sustainable outcomes.

The real question is no longer whether we can afford to prioritise design – but whether we can afford not to.

Click link in bio to read more.

Winner - Place Of The Year! 🎉

Fantastic news last night at the Pineapple Awards for our Heart Of The City project in Sheffield for Sheffield City Council and Queensberry.

This scheme brings together three interwoven uses: Elshaw House - a flagship office building, The Cambridge Street Collective - a large, industrial-style food hall, and Leah’s Yard - studios in the historic metalworkers workshops. Each has a distinct style – and a distinct story to tell. A celebration of heritage that looks to the future, stitching together the old and the new to create spaces for people to come together, to work, to socialise, play, eat, drink, make.

Judges Citation: "This place is authentic and original, and it is a destination. There’s a richness to the spaces delivered through architecture and public realm. The judges praised the variety of experience achieved through programming and the inclusion of maker spaces.

The choreography between distinctive buildings across scales and ages works incredibly well. A lot of thought has been given to the level access to navigate around the site and encourage enjoyment of both outdoor and indoor spaces."

Huge congratulations to the whole team!

@sheffieldcitycouncil
@queensberryrealestate
@lathams.uk
@leonard_design
@planitie
@ourturnerandtownsend
@counter.context

@thepineapplesuk

♣️ ♥️ ♠️ ♦️ Play Your Part by @root_and_erect, @fcbstudios (@Anna.Rank, @lukepaulgilbert_art), Gemma Keaney

The proposal is a card game which prompts players to reevaluate how high-density housing could be more joyful and playful, as well as give residents of all ages more creative agency.

Vote for your favourite entry to win #TheDavidsonPrize People's Choice Prize via our link in bio!

Referencing the 16 child-focused play types developed by playwork theorist Bob Hughes in the 1990s, the project team has incorporated behaviours such as micro-play (everyday playful moments), observational play (people-watching), and meta-play (creative rulemaking) to create a new way to classify play across the generations.

The game itself consists of three card types: Play, Person, and Place. Each participant, randomly dealt one of each card, asks how this play type could combine with a set of diverse user groups, from toddlers learning cause and effect to teenagers exploring identity to people living with disabilities seeking connection.

There are also threshold spaces such as doorsteps, stairwells, courtyards, and balconies to consider. The name of the game is to encourage designers, developers and residents to look beyond minimum design standards and other rules and codes of behaviours which might limit thinking.

In this way, the idea of playfulness, activity and agency in daily life is reimagined. The prototype version consistently generated unexpected, joyful solutions which reinterpreted everyday spaces to foster creativity, connection, and experimentation.

#PlayYourPart #InteractivePlay #CommunityEngagement #InclusiveDesign #UrbanInnovation