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  • Retrofit or Rebuild: Getting the most area for the least embodied carbon
2024
  • Winner of The Architecture Drawing Prize 2023: an interview with Eldry John Infante
  • Developing in the City: New Build vs Retrofit
  • Transforming Cityscapes with the Power of Nature
  • Making luxury circular: rethinking re-use in retail fit-outs
  • Is it mean to cut down trees?
  • “Drawing as a method of dialogical design” – an interview with Eugene Tan
  • “I’m interested in intricate and intimate architecture that directly affects people.” – Samira
  • Refresh, repurpose, reimagine: Our approach to retrofit
  • Developing in the City: New Build vs Retrofit Part 2
  • Make models: Carlisle Health and Wellbeing Centre
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2023
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2022
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2021
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2020
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  • The Madison model by Theodore Polwarth
  • Q&A with our student modelmakers: Theodore Polwarth
  • The Teaching and Learning Building model by James Picot
  • Q&A with our student modelmakers: James Picot
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2019
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  • Make models: 20 Ropemaker Street, part 2
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2018
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  • Mary, queen of hotels
  • Make models: Portsoken Pavilion
  • The Make Charter
  • Why Brexit will see a glass half-full emptied
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  • Disappearing Here – On perspective and other kinds of space
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  • Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 1)
  • Make models: Grosvenor Waterside
  • Drawing architecture
  • The Hollow Man: poetry of drawing
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  • Making shops exciting again: Lessons from the Nordics (part 2)
  • Plein air in the digital age
  • A “Plan in Impossible Perspective”
  • Art Editor’s picks
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  • Make models: The Luna
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2017
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  • The human office
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  • Advocating sustainable facade design
  • Make models: FC Barcelona’s Nou Palau Blaugrana
  • Drawing as an architect’s tool
  • Are you VReady?
  • Cycle design for the workplace
  • The Architecture Drawing Prize
  • Make models: an urban rail station
  • Reporting from Berlin
  • City-making and Sadiq
  • Hand-drawing, the digital (and the archive)
  • Ken Shuttleworth on drawing
  • The green tiger
  • Stefan Davidovici – green Mars architect
  • When drawing becomes architecture
  • Make models: Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
  • The role of the concept sketch
  • Make calls for a cultural shift in industry’s approach to fire safety
  • 2036: A floor space odyssey
  • Harold on tour
  • London refocused
  • Hotels by Make
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2016
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2015
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  • The future of architecture – Alejandro Nieto
  • The future of architecture – Gavin Mullan
  • Unique cities – questions of identity
  • Letter from Hong Kong
  • The future of architecture – Andrew Taylor
  • BIM
  • Completing the architecture
  • Long life, loose fit
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2014
  • The future of architecture – Matthew Bugg
  • The future of architecture – Jet Chu
  • The future of architecture – Robert Lunn
  • The future of architecture – David Patterson
  • The future of architecture – Rebecca Woffenden
  • The future of architecture – Katy Ghahremani
  • Safer streets for all
  • The importance of post-occupancy evaluation for our future built environment
  • Put a lid on it
  • Designing for a liveable city
  • The future of architecture – Bill Webb
  • Bricks – not just for house builders
2013
  • Designing in the City of Westminster
  • Rolled gold
  • How to make a fine suit
  • Responsible sourcing starts with design
  • Is off-site manufacture the answer?
  • Developing a design for the facade of 7-10 Hanover Square
  • Curious Sir Christopher Wren
  • Responsible resourcing should be an integral part of every project
  • The socio-economic value of people-focused cities
2012
  • Judo’s big fight
  • Make models: electricity pylon competition
  • Just a game?
  • Hand-to-hand combat
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Posted 04.06.2025
Designing for circularity: championing materials re-use at 30 Duke Street St James’s
By Christopher Jelley
  • 30 Duke Street St James's
  • Circular economy
  • Facades Sustainability
  • Sustainability
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Posted 12.05.2025
“Discovering magic in the mundane” – Q&A with Ian Hunter, Materials Council
By Ian Hunter
  • Materials
  • Sustainability
  • Sustainable futures
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Posted 10.03.2025
Exploring Thermal Labyrinth Ventilation Systems at the Big Data Institute, University of Oxford
By Soorin Hajihaji
  • Sustainability
  • Sustainable futures
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Posted 17.02.2025
Retrofit or Rebuild: Getting the most area for the least embodied carbon
By Oliver Hall
  • Embodied Carbon
  • Make Neutral Day
  • Office design
  • refurbishment
  • Retrofit
  • Sustainability
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Posted 07.01.2025
For What it’s Worth
By Meela Thurloway
  • Arts and Culture
  • Social impact
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Posted 19.12.2024
Reflections on Make Neutral Day 2024: Part 2
By Jason Parker
  • Make Neutral Day
  • Social sustainability
  • Sustainability
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Posted 12.12.2024
Developing in the City: New Build vs Retrofit Part 2
By Oliver Hall
  • refurbishment
  • Retrofit
  • Sustainability
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Posted 30.10.2024
Reflections on Make Neutral Day 2024: Part 1
By Jason Parker
  • Make Neutral Day
  • Social sustainability
  • Sustainability
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Posted 21.10.2024
Make models: Station Row section model
By Make modelshop
  • Model
  • Model Monday
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Posted 03.10.2024
Developing in the City: New Build vs Retrofit
By Oliver Hall
  • refurbishment
  • Retrofit
  • Sustainability
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Posted 19.09.2024
Tall buildings photo essay
By Andrew Taylor
  • Residential
  • Retrofit
  • Tall buildings
  • Workplace
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Posted 10.09.2024
Refresh, repurpose, reimagine: Our approach to retrofit
By Oliver Hall
  • refurbishment
  • Retrofit
  • Sustainability
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Posted 29.07.2024
Make models: Milton Avenue/Station Row
By Make modelshop
  • Model
  • Model Monday
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Posted 17.07.2024
Optimising the value of build-to-rent
By Frank Filskow
  • Residential
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Posted 06.06.2024
Making luxury circular: rethinking re-use in retail fit-outs
By Oliver Hall and Kate Fleming
  • Circular economy
  • Retail
  • Sustainability
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Posted 15.05.2024
AI integration at Make: shaping the future of architecture
By Mariangela Iodice
  • AI
  • Architecture
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Technology
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Posted 13.05.2024
Make models: Carlisle Health and Wellbeing Centre
By Make modelshop
  • Model
  • Model Monday
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Posted 09.04.2024
“Drawing as a method of dialogical design” – an interview with Eugene Tan
By Eugene Tan
  • Architecture Drawing Prize
  • Drawing
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Posted 08.04.2024
Is it mean to cut down trees?
By Ben Gardner
  • Materials
  • Sustainability
  • Sustainable futures
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Posted 03.04.2024
Winner of The Architecture Drawing Prize 2023: an interview with Eldry John Infante
By Eldry John Infante
  • Architecture Drawing Prize
  • Drawing
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