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23.02.2023 1 From the editor Architecture as activism runs Ways of practising through this issue of the AJ Emily Booth 11 4 In pictures 26 The Black & White Building Common Ground turns developer for a Waugh Thistleton Architects light industrial-to-home conversion Fran Williams AJ news team l 10 News feature A housing retrofit programme in Salta ire 44 Nest House and a learning centre for refugees in Studio Bark east London are linked by the backing Ewa Effiom of architect-l ed charity Footwork Richard Waite ..,..~ - al CJ 16 AJ Retrofit Awards 2023 shortlist 60 Three ways of practising All the contenders forth is year's awards IDK, NWDC, Leeds Beckett Project Office 0 celebrating design that prolongs and Rob Wilson, Fran Williams 0: improves the life of existing buildings Compiled by Fran Williams \"0' 18 Competitions i;l Shrewsbury is seeking a masterplanner and design team to bring forward its !\"\" Smithfield Riverside regeneration zone Merlin Fulcher ~ 20 Letters 0 Stop work ing for free; for and against a. 'Grade Ill' listing; how to fix planning w Edited by Alan Gordon I :\"; 22 Opinion 'The government has abandoned the provision of affordable housing' Kunle Barker 78 Review 'Homegrown: Building a Post-Carbon Future ' at the Building Centre Derin Fadina 82 Culture Meet the women behind the 1:100 Architecture Podcast Marianna Janowicz 84 Culture The smart phone isn't so smart after all David Grandorge 85 Opinion 'Save our swimming pools - the hea lth of the nation depends on it ' Dan Anderson 86 Sketchbook ' I identify whose point of view it is and develop the building around them' Katy Marks 88 Hellman ' No way are you bringing those into this station' On the cover Skate bow l at Bantham in south Devon by IDK. Photograph by Toby Coulson

I~ILmn '!l Building study Timber all the way When retrofitting a former Shored itch warehouse proved unviable, The Office Group hired Waugh Thistleton Architects to replace it with what is now central London's tallest mass timber office structure, the six-storey Black & White Building

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