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There will be fewer people working in our major cities, although potentially a lot more older people in new ‘permitted development’ housing. Homes are the new workplaces for the time being, and refurbishment to provide for this may be the order of the day, also driven by a dropping housing market. Many more architects might have to turn their hands to humbler, retrofit-oriented domestic schemes to make things stack up. The recent PMI figures showing the construction sector riding out the pandemic somewhat, propped up by the housebuilding sector, is another sign that architects may need to find new ways to penetrate this occasionally designer-free area.


Hospitals and offices and other sectors on the other hand may start to see major shifts to quickly deliver infection- proof spaces. Not just moving partitions around, but rethinking circulation, toilets, the way staff and visitors use future new-build facilities. This is all work for architects, but will that be enough to sustain the great industry we currently have, when practices are currently under threat?


Talking about sustainability, the big question is when we will finally be able to get back to tackling it with vigour – the really big issue for coming decades.


James Parker Editor


01.21


ON THE COVER... Maggie’s Yorkshire, designed by Heatherwick Studio, is a healing environment which brings nature in as well as maximising landscape externally, avoiding the constraints of ‘medicalised’ facilities.


MAGGIE’S YORKSHIRE, LEEDS Heatherwick Studio’s first healthcare project is a natural wonder of timber ribs and green roofs, restoring landscape inside and out for cancer patients


THE MILL, LOUGHBOROUGH Exploiting the historic lines of a former hosiery factory for luxury housing


Cover Image © Hufton + Crow For the full report on this project, go to page 37


FROM THE EDITOR


T


he desire to wish everyone a happy new year has to be tempered with the fact that this year looks just as tricky as 2020, to say the least. It’s hard to know where to start.


The welcome rollout of the vaccines will not be the rapid silver bullet solution we were hoping for. Some say that widespread protection could only really start to show signs of returning life to normal by the summer. Even then, there’s a good chance that further lockdowns will be needed next winter, if people can’t take the (seemingly impossible for many) practical steps to prioritise safety over the freedoms they feel entitled to.


Cases are soaring in the UK, and the vaccines have arrived just in time to prevent disaster. However in a final gloomy twist, the new variant found recently in South Africa may even make vaccines less effective.


If you are, like me, currently working from home and experiencing occasional cabin fever, one thing that might make you feel less alone is this. That punchdrunk sensation from a seemingly endless tide of mildly panic-inducing news, whose numbing effect makes it impossible to react in an appropriately panicked fashion? I fully understand what you’re going through!


2020 has so effectively raised the bar on the challenges we expect from daily life, that it takes something like the hair-raising goings-on in Washington DC to really spur your attention. Who knows what the next few months will bring – somehow even Brexit seems to be a low-level risk at the moment, by comparison (although its effects have, it seems, been delayed by Covid).


What does all this have to do with architecture? Well, in the broadest sense, architecture is life, it’s about how people live and work day to day, and how to design for that, and now that life is changing beyond all recognition. There is a likelihood that Covid will be around for years, so unless it is suppressed to stop it being a deadly risk to millions, we will be moving to a different way of living for the foreseeable future.


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