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Guli Francis-Dehqani, the Church of England’s new bishop for housing The Church of England has appointed a bishop for housing. Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani, the next Bishop of Chelmsford, will sit in the House of Lords and advocate on issues of housing justice. The church’s decision to appoint a bishop for housing comes ahead of next month’s expected publication of the report from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Housing, Church and Community. Her role will include leading the church’s efforts to implement its findings. The commission was set up two years ago by Justin Welby,...

‘This is for everyone who supported BLM’: Lesley Lokko wins RIBA Annie Spink Award Author and academic Lesley Lokko has paid tribute to ‘everyone who came out in support of Black Lives Matter protests’ after winning the 2020 RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architecture Education Lokko, 57, is currently setting up the African Futures Institute, an independent postgraduate school of architecture in Accra, Ghana – the city where she grew up until she was 17. Advertisement The Scottish-Ghanaian professor founded the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Johannesb...

2020-10-23T16:00:00+01:00 Levitt Bernstein architect honoured for her tenacious campaigning for better housing Julia Park, Levitt Bernstein’s head of housing research, has been named Architecture Leader of the Year at the AYAs. Park was honoured for her work campaigning for better housing and in particular against the unregulated conversion of offices into often deeply unsuitable homes. She has worked tirelessly to raise awareness of the issue, managing to secure coverage in the Times, Guardian and BBC radio, with headlines such as ‘Will these be the worst new rabbit hutch flats in Brit...

Mica Architects has been crowned Architect of the Year at Building Design’s prestigious annual awards. The practice was honoured with the Gold Award for overall winner at the ceremony which was streamed on Building Design’s website today and watched live by hundreds of architects, clients and their collaborators. As well as being named Architect of the Year, Mica – the practice born out of Rick Mather Architects in 2017 following Mather’s death – also scooped the award for Refurbishment Architect of the Year. Source: Hufton & Crow Mica Architects’ refurbishment of Fairfield Halls ...

Damage to towns and local democracy ‘unacceptable’ Architects have warned of the “disastrous unintended consequences” of a government proposal that would allow entire high streets and town centres to be converted into housing. The “half-baked ideas” could do irreversible harm to the commercial hearts of towns and cities up and down the country, they said, and render local authorities powerless to intervene in shaping their districts. Former RIBA president Ben Derbyshire said the loss of local democratic control was unacceptable at a philosophical level – and questioned ministers...