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AnalysisOne year after Brexit, are there actually any signs of the predicted construction crash?
The shadow of Brexit has loomed over commercial development in the City for a year now. So were the doom mongers right to say that leaving the EU would darken prospects for some of the biggest schemes? Ike Ijeh looks at five key projects
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Opinion
Grenfell Tower: Should this cladding be allowed?
The rapid and devastating spread of the fire at the west London tower has raised questions whether ACM cladding should be permitted on high-rise residential towers, says Thomas Lane
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AnalysisWhat actually happens in a hung parliament?
A guide to what a hung parliament means and what the impact could be for construction
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OpinionWill England’s new metro mayors make a difference?
Their powers are limited and the government’s motive might have been to off-load responsibility, but this exercise in devolution could still be a good thing. Julia Park takes a look
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FeaturesLearning from Chicago: Travels with Frank Lloyd Wright
Despite barely building outside the US, Frank Lloyd Wright’s influence – and influences – are felt all over the world, writes Gwyn Lloyd Jones
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OpinionHere’s the detail that's missing from all the manifestos
Politicians must think about design codes if they’re to deliver quality housing in the numbers they promise, says Hank Dittmar
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FeaturesDear British politicians: A letter from the Netherlands
Kay Hughes led a group of women architects and planners on a cycle tour of Holland to see what they could learn before the UK severs its ties with Europe
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OpinionGentrification may be brutalism’s best hope
What’s happening at the Balfron has infuriated many but don’t be too quick to criticise, cautions Owen Hopkins. The alternative for many brutalist gems is oblivion
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OpinionWhen is overcrowding not overcrowding?
When you could sleep in the kitchen. Julia Park provides an illuminating history of the many ways landlords and the authorities have dodged their responsibility to provide decent housing rights up to the present day
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AnalysisOne million homes by 2020: Can it be done?
The government wants to see one million homes built in England by 2020, but while some housing experts think a little tinkering will get us there, others countenance a far more radical plan
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AnalysisA Tale of Two Parliaments
The renovation of Canada’s parliament, where both architecture and legislature has been based on our own, could provide some pertinent lessons for Westminster’s imminent refurbishment, says Ike Ijeh
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AnalysisTokyo 2020, venue by venue
As the thrills of Rio slowly subside, attention turns to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where a virtue is being made of necessity by re-using some of the venues built for the 1964 games
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AnalysisLiverpool’s regeneration: Fate of the Futurist ignites row over city’s past
The demolition of Lime Street’s neo-baroque Futurist cinema highlights the misguided attitude to heritage and economic growth that prevails in Liverpool’s corridors of power, writes Ike Ijeh. The irony is that few cities offer better examples of what can be done when conservation-led regeneration is harnessed to high-quality contemporary architecture ...
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AnalysisAssessing the legacy of London's Olympics
The architecture of the 2012 Olympics had to do more than provide an awe-inspiring home for the Games: it was meant to provide a foundation for the regeneration of a blighted area of the capital. Four years on, Ike Ijeh reports on whether it has succeeded
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AnalysisMeet the key players at the communities department
What are priorities of the new secretary of state and housing minister likely to be?
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AnalysisWhat Brexit means for architects: A client's view
BD columnist and developer Martyn Evans surveys the scene as clients, investors and contractors try to make sense of the referendum fallout
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AnalysisCould the pedestrianisation of London's busiest street work?
The idea to pedestrianise Oxford Street, Europe’s busiest shopping street, has been kicked about for decades without any action ever taking solid form. With signs new London mayor Sadiq Khan has made this his pet project, Ike Ijeh looks at how feasible the transformation would be
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AnalysisBishopsgate: Khan's first test
The Goodsyard was put on hold when departing mayor Boris Johnson deferred the decision. It now falls at the feet of Sadiq Khan, in what could set a precedent for the new mayor’s planning policy.
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AnalysisCan Khan deliver?
London’s new mayor Sadiq Khan has the mother of all in-trays to contend with - everything from housing to Heathrow, Crossrail 2 to controversial planning decisions
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AnalysisAfter Zaha: What does history suggest will happen?
What happens to an architectural practice when an inspirational founder dies? Ike Ijeh looks at the precedents