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Home. It’s become even more critical, and interrogated, since the lockdowns of the Covid-19 pandemic confined many of us to domestic interiors. Issues of culture, lifestyle, inequality and health all weave into the consideration and exploration of what a home is and can be, across history and around the world. It is this stark relevance and importance that underpins the revival of London’s Geffrye Museum as the Museum of the Home, opening on Saturday 12 June, now with 80% more exhibition space so it can interrogate these issues more thoroughly – and immersively.
An £18.1m renovation project led by Wright & Wright Architects has seen not only the expansion of exhibition space in the museum – which is housed predominantly in Grade I-listed, 18
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MJ Long Prize 2021 judges announced
Pooja Agrawal, Takero Shimazaki and Christina Gaiger join Sal Wilson on the judging panel for this year’s MJ Long Prize, part of the AJ/AR’s W Awards 2021
The MJ Long prize nominees are Hannah Anderson of Walters & Cohen, Alice Brownfield of Peter Barber Architects, Ingrid Petit of Feilden Fowles and Naila Yousuf of Wright & Wright. The award is named in memory of inspirational architect, lecturer and writer Mary Jane (MJ) Long.
Clockwise from top left: Ingrid Petit, Naila Yousuf, Hannah Anderson, Alice Brownfield
Anderson was nominated for her role in an extension to St Paul’s School in west London; Brownfield for her work on the Kiln Place housing scheme; Petit for the design and delivery of the widely publicised The Fratry for Carlisle Cathedral; and Yousuf in respect of the soon-to-be-completed Museum of the Home, London.