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Unknown Worksâs Chengdu chippie. Photograph: Unknown Works
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The latest survey of the UKâs top emerging practices reveals plenty of style and wit alongside a desire to prioritise diversity, the climate crisis and housing shortages over wealthy clientsâ¦
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âI am a poster child,â says David Ogunmuyiwa, âfor what you get if you invest in peopleâs education, healthcare and homes.â The son of immigrants, he grew up on the Aylesbury estate in south London, the often-vilified place that Tony Blair visited on the morning after his first election as prime minister, as the exemplar of the kind of blighted Britain that he was going to fix. But Ogunmuyiwa, inspired by seeing Richard Rogersâs Lloydâs building across the river from his school, knew that he wanted to be an architect. Which, as the founder of the practice Architecture Doing Place, he now is.