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Manchester School of Architecture has once again been ranked 5th in the world for Architecture and the Built Environment in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

It’s the fourth year in a row we’ve held this position, reflecting sustained strength in teaching, research and our close relationship with practice.

Our performance recognises excellence in employability, academic reputation and research impact. It’s also a reflection of the work of our students, staff and alumni, and the practices who continue to engage with us.

Professor Kevin Singh, Head of Manchester School of Architecture, said: “We are once again delighted and proud to have been ranked 5th in the prestigious QS world rankings for Architecture. It is even more pleasing that this is now the fourth year in a row we have been ranked 5th, an achievement which demonstrates a high level of achievement across a sustained period of time.”

Congratulations to Manchester School of Architecture @themsarch colleagues @samuel.d.higgins and @ck_maloney and team for being shortlisted for the @manmetuni Student Union Teaching Awards for Teacher of the Year and Course of the Year ( @msamarch ) respectively. To be recognised by students is a great honour!

Congratulations to all those nominated and shortlisted, and especially to the winners!

Congratulations to Manchester School of Architecture @themsarch colleagues @samuel.d.higgins and @ck_maloney and team for being shortlisted for the @manmetuni Student Union Teaching Awards for Teacher of the Year and Course of the Year ( @msamarch ) respectively. To be recognised by students is a great honour!

Congratulations to all those nominated and shortlisted, and especially to the winners!

Congratulations to Manchester School of Architecture @themsarch colleagues @samuel.d.higgins and @ck_maloney and team for being shortlisted for the @manmetuni Student Union Teaching Awards for Teacher of the Year and Course of the Year ( @msamarch ) respectively. To be recognised by students is a great honour!

Congratulations to all those nominated and shortlisted, and especially to the winners!

Congratulations to Manchester School of Architecture @themsarch colleagues @samuel.d.higgins and @ck_maloney and team for being shortlisted for the @manmetuni Student Union Teaching Awards for Teacher of the Year and Course of the Year ( @msamarch ) respectively. To be recognised by students is a great honour!

Congratulations to all those nominated and shortlisted, and especially to the winners!

Congratulations to Manchester School of Architecture @themsarch colleagues @samuel.d.higgins and @ck_maloney and team for being shortlisted for the @manmetuni Student Union Teaching Awards for Teacher of the Year and Course of the Year ( @msamarch ) respectively. To be recognised by students is a great honour!

Congratulations to all those nominated and shortlisted, and especially to the winners!

Congratulations to Manchester School of Architecture @themsarch colleagues @samuel.d.higgins and @ck_maloney and team for being shortlisted for the @manmetuni Student Union Teaching Awards for Teacher of the Year and Course of the Year ( @msamarch ) respectively. To be recognised by students is a great honour!

Congratulations to all those nominated and shortlisted, and especially to the winners!

Congratulations to Manchester School of Architecture @themsarch colleagues @samuel.d.higgins and @ck_maloney and team for being shortlisted for the @manmetuni Student Union Teaching Awards for Teacher of the Year and Course of the Year ( @msamarch ) respectively. To be recognised by students is a great honour!

Congratulations to all those nominated and shortlisted, and especially to the winners!

Congratulations to Manchester School of Architecture @themsarch colleagues @samuel.d.higgins and @ck_maloney and team for being shortlisted for the @manmetuni Student Union Teaching Awards for Teacher of the Year and Course of the Year ( @msamarch ) respectively. To be recognised by students is a great honour!

Congratulations to all those nominated and shortlisted, and especially to the winners!

THE SPACE BETWEEN by Master of Architecture Toby Harris @tobyharris1 from Continuity atelier @msa_ateliercontinuity

🗣️”The Space Between explores reuse as a form of civic repair within Crewe. Responding to vacant buildings, fragmented streets and failed redevelopment, the project proposes an alternative model of regeneration rooted in repair, exchange and participation.

The proposal takes the form of a large-scale reuse workshop that operates as a civic machine for the town, collecting, repairing, fabricating and redistributing salvaged materials throughout Crewe. Workshops, galleries and teaching spaces expose the continuous movement of materials, labour and repair, connecting acts of making directly to everyday public life.

Rather than relying on demolition and replacement, the project frames repair as an ongoing collective process that reconnects people, materials and the town centre through visible acts of reuse and reconstruction.”

THE SPACE BETWEEN by Master of Architecture Toby Harris @tobyharris1 from Continuity atelier @msa_ateliercontinuity

🗣️”The Space Between explores reuse as a form of civic repair within Crewe. Responding to vacant buildings, fragmented streets and failed redevelopment, the project proposes an alternative model of regeneration rooted in repair, exchange and participation.

The proposal takes the form of a large-scale reuse workshop that operates as a civic machine for the town, collecting, repairing, fabricating and redistributing salvaged materials throughout Crewe. Workshops, galleries and teaching spaces expose the continuous movement of materials, labour and repair, connecting acts of making directly to everyday public life.

Rather than relying on demolition and replacement, the project frames repair as an ongoing collective process that reconnects people, materials and the town centre through visible acts of reuse and reconstruction.”

THE SPACE BETWEEN by Master of Architecture Toby Harris @tobyharris1 from Continuity atelier @msa_ateliercontinuity

🗣️”The Space Between explores reuse as a form of civic repair within Crewe. Responding to vacant buildings, fragmented streets and failed redevelopment, the project proposes an alternative model of regeneration rooted in repair, exchange and participation.

The proposal takes the form of a large-scale reuse workshop that operates as a civic machine for the town, collecting, repairing, fabricating and redistributing salvaged materials throughout Crewe. Workshops, galleries and teaching spaces expose the continuous movement of materials, labour and repair, connecting acts of making directly to everyday public life.

Rather than relying on demolition and replacement, the project frames repair as an ongoing collective process that reconnects people, materials and the town centre through visible acts of reuse and reconstruction.”

THE SPACE BETWEEN by Master of Architecture Toby Harris @tobyharris1 from Continuity atelier @msa_ateliercontinuity

🗣️”The Space Between explores reuse as a form of civic repair within Crewe. Responding to vacant buildings, fragmented streets and failed redevelopment, the project proposes an alternative model of regeneration rooted in repair, exchange and participation.

The proposal takes the form of a large-scale reuse workshop that operates as a civic machine for the town, collecting, repairing, fabricating and redistributing salvaged materials throughout Crewe. Workshops, galleries and teaching spaces expose the continuous movement of materials, labour and repair, connecting acts of making directly to everyday public life.

Rather than relying on demolition and replacement, the project frames repair as an ongoing collective process that reconnects people, materials and the town centre through visible acts of reuse and reconstruction.”

THE SPACE BETWEEN by Master of Architecture Toby Harris @tobyharris1 from Continuity atelier @msa_ateliercontinuity

🗣️”The Space Between explores reuse as a form of civic repair within Crewe. Responding to vacant buildings, fragmented streets and failed redevelopment, the project proposes an alternative model of regeneration rooted in repair, exchange and participation.

The proposal takes the form of a large-scale reuse workshop that operates as a civic machine for the town, collecting, repairing, fabricating and redistributing salvaged materials throughout Crewe. Workshops, galleries and teaching spaces expose the continuous movement of materials, labour and repair, connecting acts of making directly to everyday public life.

Rather than relying on demolition and replacement, the project frames repair as an ongoing collective process that reconnects people, materials and the town centre through visible acts of reuse and reconstruction.”

THE SPACE BETWEEN by Master of Architecture Toby Harris @tobyharris1 from Continuity atelier @msa_ateliercontinuity

🗣️”The Space Between explores reuse as a form of civic repair within Crewe. Responding to vacant buildings, fragmented streets and failed redevelopment, the project proposes an alternative model of regeneration rooted in repair, exchange and participation.

The proposal takes the form of a large-scale reuse workshop that operates as a civic machine for the town, collecting, repairing, fabricating and redistributing salvaged materials throughout Crewe. Workshops, galleries and teaching spaces expose the continuous movement of materials, labour and repair, connecting acts of making directly to everyday public life.

Rather than relying on demolition and replacement, the project frames repair as an ongoing collective process that reconnects people, materials and the town centre through visible acts of reuse and reconstruction.”

THE SPACE BETWEEN by Master of Architecture Toby Harris @tobyharris1 from Continuity atelier @msa_ateliercontinuity

🗣️”The Space Between explores reuse as a form of civic repair within Crewe. Responding to vacant buildings, fragmented streets and failed redevelopment, the project proposes an alternative model of regeneration rooted in repair, exchange and participation.

The proposal takes the form of a large-scale reuse workshop that operates as a civic machine for the town, collecting, repairing, fabricating and redistributing salvaged materials throughout Crewe. Workshops, galleries and teaching spaces expose the continuous movement of materials, labour and repair, connecting acts of making directly to everyday public life.

Rather than relying on demolition and replacement, the project frames repair as an ongoing collective process that reconnects people, materials and the town centre through visible acts of reuse and reconstruction.”

THE SPACE BETWEEN by Master of Architecture Toby Harris @tobyharris1 from Continuity atelier @msa_ateliercontinuity

🗣️”The Space Between explores reuse as a form of civic repair within Crewe. Responding to vacant buildings, fragmented streets and failed redevelopment, the project proposes an alternative model of regeneration rooted in repair, exchange and participation.

The proposal takes the form of a large-scale reuse workshop that operates as a civic machine for the town, collecting, repairing, fabricating and redistributing salvaged materials throughout Crewe. Workshops, galleries and teaching spaces expose the continuous movement of materials, labour and repair, connecting acts of making directly to everyday public life.

Rather than relying on demolition and replacement, the project frames repair as an ongoing collective process that reconnects people, materials and the town centre through visible acts of reuse and reconstruction.”

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

SCAFFOLDED REACTOR by Master of Architecture Caoimhe Sweeney @secondsurface_ @caoimhesimone from Flux atelier @flux_atelier_msa

🗣️“Scaffolded Reactor begins by viewing the city through the lens of Sigmund Freud’s theory of dream work, based on the idea that memory, identity, and imagination are reorganised during sleep. In an area undergoing rapid regeneration, the project proposes architecture as a choreographer of cognitive states, collecting memories from local communities and using them as cues within a sequence of spaces that guide users through conscious, semi-subconscious, and fully subconscious states. Through this dream-like process, memories of the site are reinterpreted and translated back into the city as a new spatial language, creating stronger forms of attachment, belonging, and collective understanding.”

Stay tuned to see more amazing work from this year’s cohort, and join us at the end-of-year degree show to explore each project in more detail.

"CREDIT LANDSCAPES: Manipulating the Choreography between Biotic and Abiotic Boundaries" by Master of Architecture Jacob Hodgsonn @jacobhodgsonn from Infrastructure Space Atelier @infra_structure.space

🗣"The Infrastructure Space Atelier at MSA challenged students to use data-driven and speculative design to regenerate architectural infrastructure and land-use planning across St Cuthbert's Garden Village and the River Eden Catchment, Carlisle, critically addressing community wellbeing, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. Credit Landscapes, by Jacob Hodgson, is a speculative pilot housing-wetland cooperative embedded within a Cumbrian floodplain that uses architecture as a forensic tool to expose the immaturity of the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain and Nutrient Neutrality ecological credit market. Inverting conventional development logic, wetland creation precedes built infrastructure, embedding credit generation, stewardship, and verification directly into a modular, bio-based architectural program that offers a spatialised response to an abstract and manipulable legislative framework."

Come by our end-of-year show and check out more incredible work from this year’s cohort. (6th-19th June MTC)

"CREDIT LANDSCAPES: Manipulating the Choreography between Biotic and Abiotic Boundaries" by Master of Architecture Jacob Hodgsonn @jacobhodgsonn from Infrastructure Space Atelier @infra_structure.space

🗣"The Infrastructure Space Atelier at MSA challenged students to use data-driven and speculative design to regenerate architectural infrastructure and land-use planning across St Cuthbert's Garden Village and the River Eden Catchment, Carlisle, critically addressing community wellbeing, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. Credit Landscapes, by Jacob Hodgson, is a speculative pilot housing-wetland cooperative embedded within a Cumbrian floodplain that uses architecture as a forensic tool to expose the immaturity of the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain and Nutrient Neutrality ecological credit market. Inverting conventional development logic, wetland creation precedes built infrastructure, embedding credit generation, stewardship, and verification directly into a modular, bio-based architectural program that offers a spatialised response to an abstract and manipulable legislative framework."

Come by our end-of-year show and check out more incredible work from this year’s cohort. (6th-19th June MTC)

"CREDIT LANDSCAPES: Manipulating the Choreography between Biotic and Abiotic Boundaries" by Master of Architecture Jacob Hodgsonn @jacobhodgsonn from Infrastructure Space Atelier @infra_structure.space

🗣"The Infrastructure Space Atelier at MSA challenged students to use data-driven and speculative design to regenerate architectural infrastructure and land-use planning across St Cuthbert's Garden Village and the River Eden Catchment, Carlisle, critically addressing community wellbeing, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. Credit Landscapes, by Jacob Hodgson, is a speculative pilot housing-wetland cooperative embedded within a Cumbrian floodplain that uses architecture as a forensic tool to expose the immaturity of the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain and Nutrient Neutrality ecological credit market. Inverting conventional development logic, wetland creation precedes built infrastructure, embedding credit generation, stewardship, and verification directly into a modular, bio-based architectural program that offers a spatialised response to an abstract and manipulable legislative framework."

Come by our end-of-year show and check out more incredible work from this year’s cohort. (6th-19th June MTC)

"CREDIT LANDSCAPES: Manipulating the Choreography between Biotic and Abiotic Boundaries" by Master of Architecture Jacob Hodgsonn @jacobhodgsonn from Infrastructure Space Atelier @infra_structure.space

🗣"The Infrastructure Space Atelier at MSA challenged students to use data-driven and speculative design to regenerate architectural infrastructure and land-use planning across St Cuthbert's Garden Village and the River Eden Catchment, Carlisle, critically addressing community wellbeing, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. Credit Landscapes, by Jacob Hodgson, is a speculative pilot housing-wetland cooperative embedded within a Cumbrian floodplain that uses architecture as a forensic tool to expose the immaturity of the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain and Nutrient Neutrality ecological credit market. Inverting conventional development logic, wetland creation precedes built infrastructure, embedding credit generation, stewardship, and verification directly into a modular, bio-based architectural program that offers a spatialised response to an abstract and manipulable legislative framework."

Come by our end-of-year show and check out more incredible work from this year’s cohort. (6th-19th June MTC)

"CREDIT LANDSCAPES: Manipulating the Choreography between Biotic and Abiotic Boundaries" by Master of Architecture Jacob Hodgsonn @jacobhodgsonn from Infrastructure Space Atelier @infra_structure.space

🗣"The Infrastructure Space Atelier at MSA challenged students to use data-driven and speculative design to regenerate architectural infrastructure and land-use planning across St Cuthbert's Garden Village and the River Eden Catchment, Carlisle, critically addressing community wellbeing, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. Credit Landscapes, by Jacob Hodgson, is a speculative pilot housing-wetland cooperative embedded within a Cumbrian floodplain that uses architecture as a forensic tool to expose the immaturity of the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain and Nutrient Neutrality ecological credit market. Inverting conventional development logic, wetland creation precedes built infrastructure, embedding credit generation, stewardship, and verification directly into a modular, bio-based architectural program that offers a spatialised response to an abstract and manipulable legislative framework."

Come by our end-of-year show and check out more incredible work from this year’s cohort. (6th-19th June MTC)

"CREDIT LANDSCAPES: Manipulating the Choreography between Biotic and Abiotic Boundaries" by Master of Architecture Jacob Hodgsonn @jacobhodgsonn from Infrastructure Space Atelier @infra_structure.space

🗣"The Infrastructure Space Atelier at MSA challenged students to use data-driven and speculative design to regenerate architectural infrastructure and land-use planning across St Cuthbert's Garden Village and the River Eden Catchment, Carlisle, critically addressing community wellbeing, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. Credit Landscapes, by Jacob Hodgson, is a speculative pilot housing-wetland cooperative embedded within a Cumbrian floodplain that uses architecture as a forensic tool to expose the immaturity of the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain and Nutrient Neutrality ecological credit market. Inverting conventional development logic, wetland creation precedes built infrastructure, embedding credit generation, stewardship, and verification directly into a modular, bio-based architectural program that offers a spatialised response to an abstract and manipulable legislative framework."

Come by our end-of-year show and check out more incredible work from this year’s cohort. (6th-19th June MTC)

"CREDIT LANDSCAPES: Manipulating the Choreography between Biotic and Abiotic Boundaries" by Master of Architecture Jacob Hodgsonn @jacobhodgsonn from Infrastructure Space Atelier @infra_structure.space

🗣"The Infrastructure Space Atelier at MSA challenged students to use data-driven and speculative design to regenerate architectural infrastructure and land-use planning across St Cuthbert's Garden Village and the River Eden Catchment, Carlisle, critically addressing community wellbeing, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. Credit Landscapes, by Jacob Hodgson, is a speculative pilot housing-wetland cooperative embedded within a Cumbrian floodplain that uses architecture as a forensic tool to expose the immaturity of the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain and Nutrient Neutrality ecological credit market. Inverting conventional development logic, wetland creation precedes built infrastructure, embedding credit generation, stewardship, and verification directly into a modular, bio-based architectural program that offers a spatialised response to an abstract and manipulable legislative framework."

Come by our end-of-year show and check out more incredible work from this year’s cohort. (6th-19th June MTC)

"CREDIT LANDSCAPES: Manipulating the Choreography between Biotic and Abiotic Boundaries" by Master of Architecture Jacob Hodgsonn @jacobhodgsonn from Infrastructure Space Atelier @infra_structure.space

🗣"The Infrastructure Space Atelier at MSA challenged students to use data-driven and speculative design to regenerate architectural infrastructure and land-use planning across St Cuthbert's Garden Village and the River Eden Catchment, Carlisle, critically addressing community wellbeing, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. Credit Landscapes, by Jacob Hodgson, is a speculative pilot housing-wetland cooperative embedded within a Cumbrian floodplain that uses architecture as a forensic tool to expose the immaturity of the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain and Nutrient Neutrality ecological credit market. Inverting conventional development logic, wetland creation precedes built infrastructure, embedding credit generation, stewardship, and verification directly into a modular, bio-based architectural program that offers a spatialised response to an abstract and manipulable legislative framework."

Come by our end-of-year show and check out more incredible work from this year’s cohort. (6th-19th June MTC)

"CREDIT LANDSCAPES: Manipulating the Choreography between Biotic and Abiotic Boundaries" by Master of Architecture Jacob Hodgsonn @jacobhodgsonn from Infrastructure Space Atelier @infra_structure.space

🗣"The Infrastructure Space Atelier at MSA challenged students to use data-driven and speculative design to regenerate architectural infrastructure and land-use planning across St Cuthbert's Garden Village and the River Eden Catchment, Carlisle, critically addressing community wellbeing, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. Credit Landscapes, by Jacob Hodgson, is a speculative pilot housing-wetland cooperative embedded within a Cumbrian floodplain that uses architecture as a forensic tool to expose the immaturity of the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain and Nutrient Neutrality ecological credit market. Inverting conventional development logic, wetland creation precedes built infrastructure, embedding credit generation, stewardship, and verification directly into a modular, bio-based architectural program that offers a spatialised response to an abstract and manipulable legislative framework."

Come by our end-of-year show and check out more incredible work from this year’s cohort. (6th-19th June MTC)

"CREDIT LANDSCAPES: Manipulating the Choreography between Biotic and Abiotic Boundaries" by Master of Architecture Jacob Hodgsonn @jacobhodgsonn from Infrastructure Space Atelier @infra_structure.space

🗣"The Infrastructure Space Atelier at MSA challenged students to use data-driven and speculative design to regenerate architectural infrastructure and land-use planning across St Cuthbert's Garden Village and the River Eden Catchment, Carlisle, critically addressing community wellbeing, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. Credit Landscapes, by Jacob Hodgson, is a speculative pilot housing-wetland cooperative embedded within a Cumbrian floodplain that uses architecture as a forensic tool to expose the immaturity of the UK's Biodiversity Net Gain and Nutrient Neutrality ecological credit market. Inverting conventional development logic, wetland creation precedes built infrastructure, embedding credit generation, stewardship, and verification directly into a modular, bio-based architectural program that offers a spatialised response to an abstract and manipulable legislative framework."

Come by our end-of-year show and check out more incredible work from this year’s cohort. (6th-19th June MTC)

After months of hard work, we’re excited to invite you to the End of Year Architecture Degree Show; showcasing the final projects, research, and design work developed across the year.

The exhibition will be open to the public from 6 June – 19 June.

• 3 June — Meet the Practice event and first private opening for architecture practices
• 5 June — Private View for friends and family
• 6–19 June — Public exhibition open to all

Come explore speculative futures, material experiments, spatial investigations, and architectural proposals developed by this year’s cohort.

This year, the Manchester School of Architecture has hosted a series of MSA Collective events, bringing together voices from practice and academia to engage in critical discussions on political ecology, alternative spatial practices, and the evolving role of architecture today.

We extend our sincere thanks to all our invited guests for their generous contributions, as well as to everyone who participated and helped shape these conversations. We look forward to welcoming you back to Manchester in the near future. @msa_collective

This year, the Manchester School of Architecture has hosted a series of MSA Collective events, bringing together voices from practice and academia to engage in critical discussions on political ecology, alternative spatial practices, and the evolving role of architecture today.

We extend our sincere thanks to all our invited guests for their generous contributions, as well as to everyone who participated and helped shape these conversations. We look forward to welcoming you back to Manchester in the near future. @msa_collective

This year, the Manchester School of Architecture has hosted a series of MSA Collective events, bringing together voices from practice and academia to engage in critical discussions on political ecology, alternative spatial practices, and the evolving role of architecture today.

We extend our sincere thanks to all our invited guests for their generous contributions, as well as to everyone who participated and helped shape these conversations. We look forward to welcoming you back to Manchester in the near future. @msa_collective

This year, the Manchester School of Architecture has hosted a series of MSA Collective events, bringing together voices from practice and academia to engage in critical discussions on political ecology, alternative spatial practices, and the evolving role of architecture today.

We extend our sincere thanks to all our invited guests for their generous contributions, as well as to everyone who participated and helped shape these conversations. We look forward to welcoming you back to Manchester in the near future. @msa_collective

This year, the Manchester School of Architecture has hosted a series of MSA Collective events, bringing together voices from practice and academia to engage in critical discussions on political ecology, alternative spatial practices, and the evolving role of architecture today.

We extend our sincere thanks to all our invited guests for their generous contributions, as well as to everyone who participated and helped shape these conversations. We look forward to welcoming you back to Manchester in the near future. @msa_collective

Welcome back to another exciting MSA LIVE project — Didsbury in Unity!

Join us as we reimagine the United Didsbury Methodist Church to strengthen its community presence and create a more open, welcoming, and socially connected space for everyone.

By transforming Room 3, the office, and part of the main church into a flexible community hub with direct street access, the project will support workshops, performances, meetings, and shared events throughout the week. Through greater transparency, improved accessibility, and sustainable design interventions, we aim to blur the boundary between church and street; encouraging connection, participation, and long-term community engagement.

Stay tuned as we bring this vision to life and follow along to discover the many inspiring community projects our students will be involved in this year!

Welcome back to another exciting MSA LIVE project — Didsbury in Unity!

Join us as we reimagine the United Didsbury Methodist Church to strengthen its community presence and create a more open, welcoming, and socially connected space for everyone.

By transforming Room 3, the office, and part of the main church into a flexible community hub with direct street access, the project will support workshops, performances, meetings, and shared events throughout the week. Through greater transparency, improved accessibility, and sustainable design interventions, we aim to blur the boundary between church and street; encouraging connection, participation, and long-term community engagement.

Stay tuned as we bring this vision to life and follow along to discover the many inspiring community projects our students will be involved in this year!

Welcome back to another exciting MSA LIVE project — Didsbury in Unity!

Join us as we reimagine the United Didsbury Methodist Church to strengthen its community presence and create a more open, welcoming, and socially connected space for everyone.

By transforming Room 3, the office, and part of the main church into a flexible community hub with direct street access, the project will support workshops, performances, meetings, and shared events throughout the week. Through greater transparency, improved accessibility, and sustainable design interventions, we aim to blur the boundary between church and street; encouraging connection, participation, and long-term community engagement.

Stay tuned as we bring this vision to life and follow along to discover the many inspiring community projects our students will be involved in this year!

Welcome back to another exciting MSA LIVE project — Didsbury in Unity!

Join us as we reimagine the United Didsbury Methodist Church to strengthen its community presence and create a more open, welcoming, and socially connected space for everyone.

By transforming Room 3, the office, and part of the main church into a flexible community hub with direct street access, the project will support workshops, performances, meetings, and shared events throughout the week. Through greater transparency, improved accessibility, and sustainable design interventions, we aim to blur the boundary between church and street; encouraging connection, participation, and long-term community engagement.

Stay tuned as we bring this vision to life and follow along to discover the many inspiring community projects our students will be involved in this year!

There's still time to feature your Degree Show project 🎉

In the lead up to Degree Show 2026 we'll be profiling students from across @mcrschart @mcrfashioninstitute @themsarch & @schoolofdigitalarts as well as offering students the chance to interview one another to encourage a sharing of creative ideas and allow the chance for you to play an active role in the promoting your own show.

If you'd like to find out more & apply to get involved follow the link in our bio and fill out the 'Feature My Project' form 🔗

There's still time to feature your Degree Show project 🎉

In the lead up to Degree Show 2026 we'll be profiling students from across @mcrschart @mcrfashioninstitute @themsarch & @schoolofdigitalarts as well as offering students the chance to interview one another to encourage a sharing of creative ideas and allow the chance for you to play an active role in the promoting your own show.

If you'd like to find out more & apply to get involved follow the link in our bio and fill out the 'Feature My Project' form 🔗

We’re pleased to announce a new collaboration with Omar Gandhi Architects @og_architect for the 2026 B.15 Modelmaking Awards!

Modelmaking is an essential part of learning and design development. As such these awards are not only about the completed models but on the journey as a whole. We encourage anyone who has used models in their project to get involved.

Looking forward to seeing your work!

Open to all year groups on all MSA courses.
Full submission details can be found on the B.15 blog - link in bio.

Submission deadline Monday June 1st at 12 noon with final judging and winners presentation on Friday June 5th.

Good luck!

#manchesterschoolofarchitecture #b15modelmakingawards #architecturalmodels #architecturestudents #omargandhiarchitect

THE CITY PLAYHOUSE by Master of Architecture Syamin Amira Muriddan @mstudio.my from Flux Atelier. @flux_atelier_msa

🗣"The City Playhouse envisions play as a civic instrument—an architecture of care, connection, and collective imagination. Developed through a collaboration between the university, myself as the student, and LandSec U+I under the brief The Future of the Future, the project explores how play can serve as a temporal and spatial agent for urban transformation.

More than a building, the City Playhouse is a prototype for participatory regeneration. Comprising a gallery, storehouses, a makerspace, a design studio, and a sorting facility—interwoven by a raised logistical corridor—it forms an infrastructural network for creativity, care, and exchange. Designed with a modular kit-of-parts approach, the architecture draws from recycled steel and circular material strategies to support adaptability and long-term resilience.

From Placemaking to Playmaking, the thesis proposes a framework where incremental, playful interventions seed deeper systemic change. Beginning with speculative exercises in Flux:Labs and evolving through public co-design initiatives, the project culminates in a trail of site-responsive installations—inviting communities to imagine, construct, and reshape their urban futures.

Grounded in the industrial legacy of its context yet open to the unknown, the City Playhouse challenges conventional notions of permanence. It positions architecture not as a fixed object, but as a living scaffold—capable of evolving alongside the city and its citizens.

Through joy, reuse, and imagination, it poses a provocation: could play constitute a new architectural paradigm for the future?"

THE CITY PLAYHOUSE by Master of Architecture Syamin Amira Muriddan @mstudio.my from Flux Atelier. @flux_atelier_msa

🗣"The City Playhouse envisions play as a civic instrument—an architecture of care, connection, and collective imagination. Developed through a collaboration between the university, myself as the student, and LandSec U+I under the brief The Future of the Future, the project explores how play can serve as a temporal and spatial agent for urban transformation.

More than a building, the City Playhouse is a prototype for participatory regeneration. Comprising a gallery, storehouses, a makerspace, a design studio, and a sorting facility—interwoven by a raised logistical corridor—it forms an infrastructural network for creativity, care, and exchange. Designed with a modular kit-of-parts approach, the architecture draws from recycled steel and circular material strategies to support adaptability and long-term resilience.

From Placemaking to Playmaking, the thesis proposes a framework where incremental, playful interventions seed deeper systemic change. Beginning with speculative exercises in Flux:Labs and evolving through public co-design initiatives, the project culminates in a trail of site-responsive installations—inviting communities to imagine, construct, and reshape their urban futures.

Grounded in the industrial legacy of its context yet open to the unknown, the City Playhouse challenges conventional notions of permanence. It positions architecture not as a fixed object, but as a living scaffold—capable of evolving alongside the city and its citizens.

Through joy, reuse, and imagination, it poses a provocation: could play constitute a new architectural paradigm for the future?"

THE CITY PLAYHOUSE by Master of Architecture Syamin Amira Muriddan @mstudio.my from Flux Atelier. @flux_atelier_msa

🗣"The City Playhouse envisions play as a civic instrument—an architecture of care, connection, and collective imagination. Developed through a collaboration between the university, myself as the student, and LandSec U+I under the brief The Future of the Future, the project explores how play can serve as a temporal and spatial agent for urban transformation.

More than a building, the City Playhouse is a prototype for participatory regeneration. Comprising a gallery, storehouses, a makerspace, a design studio, and a sorting facility—interwoven by a raised logistical corridor—it forms an infrastructural network for creativity, care, and exchange. Designed with a modular kit-of-parts approach, the architecture draws from recycled steel and circular material strategies to support adaptability and long-term resilience.

From Placemaking to Playmaking, the thesis proposes a framework where incremental, playful interventions seed deeper systemic change. Beginning with speculative exercises in Flux:Labs and evolving through public co-design initiatives, the project culminates in a trail of site-responsive installations—inviting communities to imagine, construct, and reshape their urban futures.

Grounded in the industrial legacy of its context yet open to the unknown, the City Playhouse challenges conventional notions of permanence. It positions architecture not as a fixed object, but as a living scaffold—capable of evolving alongside the city and its citizens.

Through joy, reuse, and imagination, it poses a provocation: could play constitute a new architectural paradigm for the future?"

THE CITY PLAYHOUSE by Master of Architecture Syamin Amira Muriddan @mstudio.my from Flux Atelier. @flux_atelier_msa

🗣"The City Playhouse envisions play as a civic instrument—an architecture of care, connection, and collective imagination. Developed through a collaboration between the university, myself as the student, and LandSec U+I under the brief The Future of the Future, the project explores how play can serve as a temporal and spatial agent for urban transformation.

More than a building, the City Playhouse is a prototype for participatory regeneration. Comprising a gallery, storehouses, a makerspace, a design studio, and a sorting facility—interwoven by a raised logistical corridor—it forms an infrastructural network for creativity, care, and exchange. Designed with a modular kit-of-parts approach, the architecture draws from recycled steel and circular material strategies to support adaptability and long-term resilience.

From Placemaking to Playmaking, the thesis proposes a framework where incremental, playful interventions seed deeper systemic change. Beginning with speculative exercises in Flux:Labs and evolving through public co-design initiatives, the project culminates in a trail of site-responsive installations—inviting communities to imagine, construct, and reshape their urban futures.

Grounded in the industrial legacy of its context yet open to the unknown, the City Playhouse challenges conventional notions of permanence. It positions architecture not as a fixed object, but as a living scaffold—capable of evolving alongside the city and its citizens.

Through joy, reuse, and imagination, it poses a provocation: could play constitute a new architectural paradigm for the future?"

THE CITY PLAYHOUSE by Master of Architecture Syamin Amira Muriddan @mstudio.my from Flux Atelier. @flux_atelier_msa

🗣"The City Playhouse envisions play as a civic instrument—an architecture of care, connection, and collective imagination. Developed through a collaboration between the university, myself as the student, and LandSec U+I under the brief The Future of the Future, the project explores how play can serve as a temporal and spatial agent for urban transformation.

More than a building, the City Playhouse is a prototype for participatory regeneration. Comprising a gallery, storehouses, a makerspace, a design studio, and a sorting facility—interwoven by a raised logistical corridor—it forms an infrastructural network for creativity, care, and exchange. Designed with a modular kit-of-parts approach, the architecture draws from recycled steel and circular material strategies to support adaptability and long-term resilience.

From Placemaking to Playmaking, the thesis proposes a framework where incremental, playful interventions seed deeper systemic change. Beginning with speculative exercises in Flux:Labs and evolving through public co-design initiatives, the project culminates in a trail of site-responsive installations—inviting communities to imagine, construct, and reshape their urban futures.

Grounded in the industrial legacy of its context yet open to the unknown, the City Playhouse challenges conventional notions of permanence. It positions architecture not as a fixed object, but as a living scaffold—capable of evolving alongside the city and its citizens.

Through joy, reuse, and imagination, it poses a provocation: could play constitute a new architectural paradigm for the future?"

THE CITY PLAYHOUSE by Master of Architecture Syamin Amira Muriddan @mstudio.my from Flux Atelier. @flux_atelier_msa

🗣"The City Playhouse envisions play as a civic instrument—an architecture of care, connection, and collective imagination. Developed through a collaboration between the university, myself as the student, and LandSec U+I under the brief The Future of the Future, the project explores how play can serve as a temporal and spatial agent for urban transformation.

More than a building, the City Playhouse is a prototype for participatory regeneration. Comprising a gallery, storehouses, a makerspace, a design studio, and a sorting facility—interwoven by a raised logistical corridor—it forms an infrastructural network for creativity, care, and exchange. Designed with a modular kit-of-parts approach, the architecture draws from recycled steel and circular material strategies to support adaptability and long-term resilience.

From Placemaking to Playmaking, the thesis proposes a framework where incremental, playful interventions seed deeper systemic change. Beginning with speculative exercises in Flux:Labs and evolving through public co-design initiatives, the project culminates in a trail of site-responsive installations—inviting communities to imagine, construct, and reshape their urban futures.

Grounded in the industrial legacy of its context yet open to the unknown, the City Playhouse challenges conventional notions of permanence. It positions architecture not as a fixed object, but as a living scaffold—capable of evolving alongside the city and its citizens.

Through joy, reuse, and imagination, it poses a provocation: could play constitute a new architectural paradigm for the future?"

THE CITY PLAYHOUSE by Master of Architecture Syamin Amira Muriddan @mstudio.my from Flux Atelier. @flux_atelier_msa

🗣"The City Playhouse envisions play as a civic instrument—an architecture of care, connection, and collective imagination. Developed through a collaboration between the university, myself as the student, and LandSec U+I under the brief The Future of the Future, the project explores how play can serve as a temporal and spatial agent for urban transformation.

More than a building, the City Playhouse is a prototype for participatory regeneration. Comprising a gallery, storehouses, a makerspace, a design studio, and a sorting facility—interwoven by a raised logistical corridor—it forms an infrastructural network for creativity, care, and exchange. Designed with a modular kit-of-parts approach, the architecture draws from recycled steel and circular material strategies to support adaptability and long-term resilience.

From Placemaking to Playmaking, the thesis proposes a framework where incremental, playful interventions seed deeper systemic change. Beginning with speculative exercises in Flux:Labs and evolving through public co-design initiatives, the project culminates in a trail of site-responsive installations—inviting communities to imagine, construct, and reshape their urban futures.

Grounded in the industrial legacy of its context yet open to the unknown, the City Playhouse challenges conventional notions of permanence. It positions architecture not as a fixed object, but as a living scaffold—capable of evolving alongside the city and its citizens.

Through joy, reuse, and imagination, it poses a provocation: could play constitute a new architectural paradigm for the future?"

THE CITY PLAYHOUSE by Master of Architecture Syamin Amira Muriddan @mstudio.my from Flux Atelier. @flux_atelier_msa

🗣"The City Playhouse envisions play as a civic instrument—an architecture of care, connection, and collective imagination. Developed through a collaboration between the university, myself as the student, and LandSec U+I under the brief The Future of the Future, the project explores how play can serve as a temporal and spatial agent for urban transformation.

More than a building, the City Playhouse is a prototype for participatory regeneration. Comprising a gallery, storehouses, a makerspace, a design studio, and a sorting facility—interwoven by a raised logistical corridor—it forms an infrastructural network for creativity, care, and exchange. Designed with a modular kit-of-parts approach, the architecture draws from recycled steel and circular material strategies to support adaptability and long-term resilience.

From Placemaking to Playmaking, the thesis proposes a framework where incremental, playful interventions seed deeper systemic change. Beginning with speculative exercises in Flux:Labs and evolving through public co-design initiatives, the project culminates in a trail of site-responsive installations—inviting communities to imagine, construct, and reshape their urban futures.

Grounded in the industrial legacy of its context yet open to the unknown, the City Playhouse challenges conventional notions of permanence. It positions architecture not as a fixed object, but as a living scaffold—capable of evolving alongside the city and its citizens.

Through joy, reuse, and imagination, it poses a provocation: could play constitute a new architectural paradigm for the future?"

THE CITY PLAYHOUSE by Master of Architecture Syamin Amira Muriddan @mstudio.my from Flux Atelier. @flux_atelier_msa

🗣"The City Playhouse envisions play as a civic instrument—an architecture of care, connection, and collective imagination. Developed through a collaboration between the university, myself as the student, and LandSec U+I under the brief The Future of the Future, the project explores how play can serve as a temporal and spatial agent for urban transformation.

More than a building, the City Playhouse is a prototype for participatory regeneration. Comprising a gallery, storehouses, a makerspace, a design studio, and a sorting facility—interwoven by a raised logistical corridor—it forms an infrastructural network for creativity, care, and exchange. Designed with a modular kit-of-parts approach, the architecture draws from recycled steel and circular material strategies to support adaptability and long-term resilience.

From Placemaking to Playmaking, the thesis proposes a framework where incremental, playful interventions seed deeper systemic change. Beginning with speculative exercises in Flux:Labs and evolving through public co-design initiatives, the project culminates in a trail of site-responsive installations—inviting communities to imagine, construct, and reshape their urban futures.

Grounded in the industrial legacy of its context yet open to the unknown, the City Playhouse challenges conventional notions of permanence. It positions architecture not as a fixed object, but as a living scaffold—capable of evolving alongside the city and its citizens.

Through joy, reuse, and imagination, it poses a provocation: could play constitute a new architectural paradigm for the future?"

THE CITY PLAYHOUSE by Master of Architecture Syamin Amira Muriddan @mstudio.my from Flux Atelier. @flux_atelier_msa

🗣"The City Playhouse envisions play as a civic instrument—an architecture of care, connection, and collective imagination. Developed through a collaboration between the university, myself as the student, and LandSec U+I under the brief The Future of the Future, the project explores how play can serve as a temporal and spatial agent for urban transformation.

More than a building, the City Playhouse is a prototype for participatory regeneration. Comprising a gallery, storehouses, a makerspace, a design studio, and a sorting facility—interwoven by a raised logistical corridor—it forms an infrastructural network for creativity, care, and exchange. Designed with a modular kit-of-parts approach, the architecture draws from recycled steel and circular material strategies to support adaptability and long-term resilience.

From Placemaking to Playmaking, the thesis proposes a framework where incremental, playful interventions seed deeper systemic change. Beginning with speculative exercises in Flux:Labs and evolving through public co-design initiatives, the project culminates in a trail of site-responsive installations—inviting communities to imagine, construct, and reshape their urban futures.

Grounded in the industrial legacy of its context yet open to the unknown, the City Playhouse challenges conventional notions of permanence. It positions architecture not as a fixed object, but as a living scaffold—capable of evolving alongside the city and its citizens.

Through joy, reuse, and imagination, it poses a provocation: could play constitute a new architectural paradigm for the future?"

MSA LIVE 2026 is back—bringing together students, communities, and collaborators across Manchester to co-create real, impactful projects. It’s all about hands-on design, social engagement, and exploring how architecture can respond to real-world needs.

We’re excited to see the ideas unfold and for the projects to kick off soon

Built to Belong is a live refurbishment proposal for Brookfield Unitarian Church, a Victorian Grade II* listed place of worship in Gorton, Manchester. Commissioned by industrialist Richard Peacock, the church holds strong historical and regional significance and is currently listed on the Heritage at Risk Register. The project focuses on the sensitive refurbishment of the kitchen and toilet facilities to support wider community use while respecting listed-building constraints. The proposals aim to enable inclusive access, improve functionality, and support grant applications, ensuring the long-term sustainability of the church as both a place of worship and a community resource.