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RIBA president Alan Jones capped off a year of poor media coverage with a fleeting performance on BBC 2’s Christmas University Challenge, answering just one question – incorrectly – for his team, Queens, Belfast. By contrast, on another day, former RIBA Journal editor Hugh Pearman buzzed in more than one…

With the current spate of lockdown-induced enthusiasm for both home improvements and puppy ownership (the average price of dogs has more than doubled to £1,900), architects could well be on to a winner

Pringle Richards Sharratt's award-winning extension to the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton is mysteriously absent from a new Adjaye Associates' render

Switcheroos are relatively common in architecture. One practice ousted by another due to cost, a design rethink or simply a spat. Double switches (the oustee being ousted themselves) are somewhat rarer

Grimshaw’s Mark Middleton was impressively noble after losing out on this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize to Mikhail Riches

AJ cartoonist Louis Hellman predicts new PM Boris Johnson’s next grands projets

Astonishingly to many, housing minister Kit Malthouse has joined the race to succeed Theresa May as Tory leader and prime minister

Alex de Rijke is beside himself after hearing that Hastings Borough Council has approved the introduction of slot machines on the town’s Stirling Prize-winning pier

Raise a glass to the memory of Bill Heine, the journalist and businessman who infuriated Oxford planners by installing a 25ft shark on his roof and fought a six-year battle to keep it there

A generation gap has opened up in the RIBA’s club scene