Must contemporary architecture, by definition, reject the past and prioritise technical innovation over history and tradition? For a growing generation of architects, such binary choices no longer exist.

British architecture is in an interesting place right now. After the fraught style wars of the 1980s and the overbearing “iconic” starchitecture that dominated around the turn of the millennium, it feels like things have truly mellowed out.

Architectural debates are perhaps less polarised and explosively contentious than they once were, but the actual architecture is probably better for it. There’s a diversity and pluralism now that allows for a more nuanced approach to the past.

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