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This month’s culture-focused issue contains a review of The Brutalist, which is also the title of Hellman’s cartoon of Donald Trump that appears on this month's cover. As Emily Booth, AJ editor writes, ‘Megalomaniac? Genius? The former property mogul’s cultural impact is already profound.’

In this issue we present three cultural projects, including ‘a powerhouse for dance’: O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Sadler’s Wells East, as well as Gianni Botsford’s retreat for creatives on the Isle of Wight and Reiach and Hall’s museum expansion in western Scotland. For our feature Exhibitionists, we asked a range of practices to tell us how they approach museum and gallery fit-outs, and how they prioritise sustainability in their work.

In News, there is a profile of government architects and a feature on infill development – the issues that are holding it back, and potential solutions. We also share a first look at Niall McLaughlin’s designs for a Maggie’s Centre in Cambridge.

You can read a book review of Protest Architecture by Nick Newman, and there are columns by Hana Loftus (‘a hideous new footbridge underlines the poor state of design standards in the UK’), and Toko Andrews, who argues that architecture shouldn’t be an ‘old man’s game’ anymore.

In Competitions find out about the William Sutton Prize, while this month’s sketches are courtesy of Jack Oaten.

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