This week’s feedback is led by Rob Jackson reviewing a ‘previous life’ project designing an inner city school with a challenging brief.

Design Engine in conjunction with The English Cogger Partnership submitted an entry for the RIBA competition, The Listening Project.

The Listening Project is an ambitious oral history exercise undertaken by the BBC in conjunction with the British Library that aims to build a sound archive of our times for future generations to hear.

Our proposal for a mobile listening pod can be transported into a building via an office lift to extend the geographical reach of the project.

This week’s feedback by John Ridgett is an inside track on staying the course in architecture.

Anna Ross presents this week’s Feedback about her travels in Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina which includes studies of buildings such as Santa Catalina in Arequipa, Peru (pictured).

Richard Rose-Casemore has been asked to act as Chair of the South West and Wessex Region RIBA Awards. The RIBA Awards programme champions and celebrates the best of British architecture. No matter the shape, size, budget or location, all RIBA Award winning-schemes set the standard for for outstanding architecture across the country. The awards reflect changes in architectural tastes, technology and aspirations, but at their core is a commitment to the understanding and enjoyment of buildings and spaces. The Regional and RIBA National awards culminate in the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize presented every autumn.

Given by Matthew Vowels, this Friday’s feedback is a presentation of photos and drawings from Matthew’s recent visit to Caruso St John Architect’s Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery

Les Beaucamps High School is featured in April’s edition of Architecture today (AT237). Martin Pearce (Architect and lecturer at Portsmouth University) provides a critique of the project.

Director Rodney Graham visited the School of Architecture at Huddersfield University last week, having been invited to join a judging panel for the annual Huddersfield University 24 Hour Design Challenge, where students from a range of design disciplines form teams and create proposals to overcome a demanding brief.

This year’s challenge was set by Stefan Gabriel, President of 3M New Ventures, based in Munich, Germany. Stefan’s challenge to the students was to ‘create innovation in the field of Safety for Extremes’.

Students came together from many disciplines, including transport, graphics, architecture, textile design and mechanical engineering in order to create teams to answer the brief.

A range of highly sophisticated proposals came forward for judging, which made the task of selecting a winner and runners up a challenge in itself.

Rodney joined Stefan, Emma Hunt (Dean of Art, Design and Architecture at Huddersfield University) and Liz Towns-Andrews (Chief Executive of the Buckley Innovation Centre) as one of the judges for the challenge.

Rodney is a former student of Huddersfield School of Architecture.

Khalid Saleh is to deliver this week’s feedback on the story of the Kuwait National Assembly Building. This masterpiece of precast construction was designed in the 1970’s by Jorn Utzon, adopting his distinctive additive modular approach to architecture.

Led by Alex Keeler, this week’s feedback looks at the furniture selected for the John Henry Brookes Building at Oxford Brookes University, which is currently under construction. Focussing on the design process, the discussions will centre on how a cohesive experience between the interior spaces and architecture of the building will be achieved.