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2013
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Context

Analysis

Intelligence

Leader

Being outside London no longer means losing out to those in the capital, quite the opposite

Viewfinder

Thirty years after she was dredged out of Portsmouth harbour, the Mary Rose has docked

The Month

Brooks in Bath, Blavatnik’s go-ahead, light in Leeds, South Bank debate, another new roof

Obituary

Rick Mather, whose work shows how his greatest interest was in urbanism and context

Perspective

Meier’s Gold Medal, Carnarvon Castle restoration, and who needs competitions?

Out There

A campfire dream is becoming a real eco community for a group of self-builders in Wales

President's column

All hands on deck for HomeWise as ministers face up to the housing crisis

Book review

This reissue of Louis Kahn’s 1967 lecture includes a fascinating CD of his speech

Review

Eileen Gray’s work is so desirable that this show is the nearest you’re likely to get to it

Eye Line competition

It’s your last chance to enter the RIBAJ drawings competition ,which closes on 10 June

Listings

What’s on and when, at the RIBA and in the wider world

Love Architecture

Highlights of this month’s annual festival that draws in the public

Exchange

Readers' views and reactions

Profile

Following the success of its central London home/office/commercial lets development, Theis and Khan have forsaken the urban landscape for rural Kent. But it’s made no difference to its clients

Critique

The leafy site at Pangbourne College is beautiful but the buildings were fading. Two modern new blocks by Mitchell Taylor have reinvigorated both the premises and the pupils

Process

When the wealthy country set want a new home they turn to John Pardey Architects, whose latest project, buried in the sweeping Surrey hills, is a low-slung, modern classic

Parting Shot

Samuel Bourne’s photographs introduced British society to the glories of India

Technical | Editorial

Jan-Carlos Kucharek introduces this month’s intelligence offerings

Technical | Sustainability

Straw bales are making a sustainable London community centre

Practice| Climate change

Sustainablility means designing for the climate of the future

Practice | Plan of Work

This vital document will prove its flexibility when you work with it online

Practice | Heritage reform

Planning changes should give heritage projects more freedom

Practice | Legal

Your net contribution clause can only help you if it is utterly unambiguous

Practice | Real lives

How a group of architects are involving the public in Cambridge’s local plan

Regional focus | East Midlands

Leicester’s improvement plans got a huge boost from Richard III

Products in Practice

Our third fact-packed Products in Practice technical supplement is out. Digital version here