Today Building Design is launching a new campaign, “Proud to Help: Designing the road to recovery”, to highlight the work architects and their colleagues across the built environment are doing to support the country both in this time of crisis and as we seek to build a better and more equitable future.

Under this campaign banner, and in partnership with our sister magazines Building and Housing Today, we want to champion the profession’s innovations and highlight positive stories involving individuals, practices and communities. We know that times are extremely tough, that all of us are under intense pressure and that some will be coping with devastating personal and professional losses. But we also know that when everything appears bleak, stories of hope can help us to carry on.

This profession is at its best when challenged to find solutions to difficult problems – and that is what is needed most of all right now

This profession is at its best when challenged to find solutions to difficult problems – and that is what is needed most of all right now. So Building Design wants to stand up and say we are proud of your achievements, just as you should be proud to be helping the UK get back on its feet, whether it is designing emergency hospitals and 3D-printing PPE for NHS staff or thinking imaginatively about what our built environment might look like in the future.

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