All Building Design articles in August 2021 – Page 2
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NewsMP’s custom-build report warns of political unrest without urgent reform
Housing secretary welcomes Richard Bacon’s report which urges creation of Custom and Self-Build Housing Delivery Unit at Homes England
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NewsFosters completes first project in Israel
Practice commissioned to design brain sciences study centre 10 years ago
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FeaturesLiving with Beauty promised much but its delivery is falling dangerously short
The government’s planning reforms are inherently contradictory and risk confusing beauty with popularity, writes Ben Derbyshire
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NewsPenoyre & Prasad’s angular addition to Birkbeck campus completes
Cantilevered copper roof extension contains lecture theatre and classroom
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FeaturesSwitch ‘working from home’ to ‘working near home’
We don’t have to make a binary choice between the old commute and working in isolation. There is a third way, says Matt Driscoll
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NewsArup designs James Bond-inspired underground car showroom for Aston Martins
Concrete cave built beneath a lawn in Warsaw
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NewsApt’s huge Canary Wharf tower scheme approved
Three-block development could become Europe’s largest Passivhaus scheme
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NewsFirst of Adjaye’s 101 hospitals for Ghana breaks ground
Prefabrication will allow design to adapt to rural and urban locations
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NewsBuckley Gray Yeoman designs 100 build-to-rent homes in Cambridge
First Base and RPMI Railpen seek permission for mixed-use scheme
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FeaturesSocial value is not just for PQQs but should infuse your whole culture
Michael Squire explains how moving to Brixton from King’s Cross triggered a new approach to community engagement for his practice
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NewsArb asks architects to help shape new professional development system
Future of CPD ‘cannot be designed in an ivory tower’
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NewsDonald Insall’s restoration of Bart’s Hospital approved
Grade I-listed north wing and gatehouse to be opened up to more visitors
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NewsMorris & Co wins approval for hanging gardens in Paddington
Planted balconies will be added to one of the earliest offices to complete in canalside development
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NewsOffice for Place chief criticised for supporting permitted development
Beauty advocate Nicholas Boys Smith accused of being ’Trojan horse’ for planning deregulation
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FeaturesInterview: Nicholas Boys Smith on design, deregulation and the Office for Place
There are few topics more controversial than planning reform and placemaking and few people more passionate about them than the chair of the new Office for Place. He talks to Joey Gardiner
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NewsSOM unveils 55-storey Canary Wharf tower
More than 600 homes for rent planned in district’s latest shift towards residential
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NewsHydrogen could play key role in heating buildings, says government
But much research remains to be done, long-awaited strategy admits
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FeaturesWestminster’s heartbreaking work of staggering folly
The Marble Arch Mound is no laughing matter, writes Will Jennings