Ben Flatman
Ben Flatman is the architectural editor at Building Design
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- News
UN Studio masterplan approved for new stadium and 3,500 homes in Kent
The scheme covers a 60 acre site in Northfleet adjacent to the Thames
- Features
‘It’s high time for Africa to set its own agendas’ – An interview with Royal Gold Medal winner Lesley Lokko
On the day she receives the Royal Gold Medal, Ben Flatman talks to Lesley Lokko about her varied career and her hopes for the future of African architecture
- News
Robert Adam's plans for 'most sustainable country house' win planning on appeal
The scheme was approved under paragraph 84 of the National Planning Policy Framework
- News
Policy Exchange report says ‘mania’ for high rise development has damaged UK cities
Report claims tall buildings do not deliver high densities as claimed, and that boom in high rises has not helped address housing crisis
- News
In Pictures: Eavesdrop by Tom Dowdall Architects
Paragraph 84 house in West Sussex is designed to integrate with the surrounding landscape
- News
Knight Architects wins planning for new Oxford cycle and footbridge
Bridge forms part of wider transport and growth plan for the city
- News
Fosters unveils designs for Changfeng mixed-use development in Shanghai
Scheme seeks to promote sustainability and wellbeing through access to green spaces
- News
Bursary offers support for architecture students from low-income backgrounds
The Bursary Beyond Price provides help with buying materials and covering the growing costs of architectural education
- Opinion
Is the lack of ornament in architecture a barrier to diversity?
Modernism’s stripped back aesthetic could be seen as inclusive, but is it actually an impediment to diversity, asks Ben Flatman
- News
Alma-nac unveils redesign of Tooting community incubator for Business Launchpad
Scheme delivers updated facilities and strong visual presence on the high street
- Opinion
Was Angela Rayner right to buy?
The shadow levelling-up secretary has taken flak for exercising her right to buy, but Labour has a long history of dalliance with the concept of selling council homes, writes Ben Flatman
- News
Fraser Brown Mackenna unveils Bow housing scheme
Residential development centres on new courtyard space while deferring to context
- News
Unknown Works unveils Science Museum gallery space
Design seeks to utilise circular economy principles and act as exemplar for sustainability in large-scale cultural production
- News
Public Practice reveals latest cohort of aspiring public sector professionals
Built environment organisation continues push to bring private-sector experience into local authorities
- News
British School at Rome seeks applicants to its architecture faculty
Successful applicants will serve on selection panels and be expected to visit Rome to lecture or lead a site visit
- News
BDP retrofits two Coventry University buildings to create new centre for arts
New facility seeks to provide collaborative spaces that facilitate outeach to the wider community
- News
LOM seeks applicants for student travel bursary in memory of Karla Roman
Scholarship honours memory of young architect by providing opportunities for travel and study
- Building Study
River Wing by Witherford Watson Mann: 'This is the closest we've come to the structure being the architecture'
A Cambridge college seeks to revitalise its historic buildings while respecting tradition and heritage, writes Ben Flatman
- News
FAME collective highlights barriers to career progression with RIBA exhibition
Exhibits seek to investigate systems of discrimination and disadvantage experienced due to race, class, and gender
- News
Jonathan Tuckey Design marks 25th anniversary with rebrand and new Swiss office
Practice changes name to Tuckey Design Studio, while looking to strengthen European ties