W Awards

For almost a decade, the W Awards, in association with The Architectural Review and the Architects’ Journal, have shone a spotlight on the work of women and non-binary people in architectural practice and culture. In our March 2024 issue, we are proud to present the winners and architects shortlisted for this year’s W Awards. These include the recipients of the Ada Louise Huxtable Prize and Jane Drew Prize, and shortlisted practitioners for the MJ Long Prize and Moira Gemmill Prize. Now in its second year, the Prize for Research in Gender and Architecture goes to Swedish design and architecture group Mycket. Read the full editorial

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Repair

The February issue of the AR delves into the world of repair and restoration. Like the built-in obsolescence of electronics and household appliances, buildings too are designed with a use-by date. Reuse and restoration can break this cycle, as some of the buildings featured here illustrate – but the issue also examines the powerful economic imperatives working against repair, which can scupper the best efforts to rehabilitate existing buildings. Architectural repair has repercussions far beyond the built envelope, as seen in projects from Chicago’s South Side to the West Bank, while the most urgent repair work facing us – that of damaged ecologies – is invoked by landscaping projects in Australia and Colombia. Read the full editorial

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The artist’s house + AR House

This issue showcases the projects included in this year’s AR House shortlist, from modular furniture and semi-temporary housing to retrofits in Kyoto, São Paulo and Copenhagen. In the rest of the issue, we turn to the artist’s house – a type of home with a unique set of functions and associations. It can form a Gesamtkunstwerk – a large‑scale spatial representation of an entire creative world. It is also often fetishised and painstakingly preserved, and turned, eventually, into a tourist attraction after the inhabitant’s death. In the six revisits of artists’ homes featured in this issue, the myth of the artist – the aspirational figure of an autonomous and creatively fulfilled individual – lingers on long after they are gone.

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