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To mark POOR Collective winning London's Emerging Design Medal, co-founder Shawn Adams rounds up eight must-know projects by the social enterprise.

Designer Giles Nartey has presented a communal bench at the London Design Festival, with an intricately carved surface that doubles as a game board.

AKT II's Hanif Kara has been awarded the 2023 London Design Medal, with Magdalene Odundo, Pooja Agrawal and Poor Collective also recognised for their work.

Katy Ghahremani, Shawn Adams and Sumele Adelana explore the link between sustainability and inclusivity in our Climate Salon podcast series with SketchUp.

Dan Whelan Arup, Shedkm and Asif Khan Architects are among designers heading up six teams selected by National Museums Liverpool for the next stage of a competition to revamp part of the Unesco World Heritage Site. Scroll down for a gallery of design submissions Spanning the area between the Royal Albert Dock and Mann Island, the transformation project will aim to improve the public realm and visitor experience at Canning Dock, revitalising the waterfront site.  NML wants to create “a co...

Show Fullscreen Nimtim Architects’ winning proposal for Becontree Estate Nimtim Architects has won an RIBA competition to reimagine neglected areas of the Becontree Estate in east London. The agenda-setting project was built 100 years ago as part of the garden city movement and became the largest municipal housing estate in the world with 26,000 homes and, at one point, 100,000 people on four square miles of land in Barking & Dagenham. The public realm contest is part of a series of centenary...