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Public capital spending on education was less last year than at any time since Labour’s Building Schools for the Future programme got up to speed 17 years ago. As part of Building’s election focus, Joey Gardiner asks what can be done to stop our schools falling further into disrepair
Former RIBA president Sunand Prasad and Save Britain’s Heritage director Henrietta Billings among Industry experts which discussed how much weight should be given to retrofit schemes by the planners and regulators. Tom Lowe reports
South Staffordshire Council has ordered the owners of Britain’s wonkiest pub to recreate it as it was before its unlawful demolition. Donald Insall Associates and Purcell explain how they would approach what has become one of the country’s most unlikely - and high profile - restoration projects
Developers offered “welcome reset” on planning policy, but full clarity is some way off, writes Tom Lowe
Eleanor Jolliffe talks to Suzanne Hall about studying in Rome, and the lessons she learned there about the coalescence of social and spatial practices
From land banking to a probe into anti-competitive activity, we breakdown the critical points from the UK competition regulator’s report into the housebuilding market
LABC fears a shutdown of building control services in April due to a lack of certified inspectors. How worried should we be? asks Daniel Gayne
Stephen O’Malley has big plans for the expansion of the engineering firm he founded 10 years ago – just so long as it stays true to its sustainability-oriented principles. Daniel Gayne reports
From this month, all developments will have to show how they increase biodiversity by 10% in order to receive planning permission. Joey Gardiner looks at whether the policy is a win-win or too much too soon
The London-based practice has built its reputation on bridge design. But it has never before worked at this scale and level of scrutiny. Daniel Gayne found out how they tackled the job.
Glasgow City Council has quietly backed a vision to double its city centre population and hand the high street back to the people. Daniel Gayne finds out what it all means
Rome has a unique capacity to enrich, Simone Shu-Yeng Chung tells Eleanor Jolliffe
The British life sciences industry is attracting record levels of investment and now housing developers are looking to take advantage of the opportunities
Hannah Brewster on how ADP designed a futureproof hospital on a highly constrained site that helps ease the anxiety of families and young children undergoing surgical procedures
When a section 114 ‘bankruptcy’ notice is put in place, a council’s non-statutory services are restricted and housebuilding ’goes to the back of the queue’. Yet the growing number of councils in this situation are finding ways to carry on building.
Episode 4: Anna Mansfield on the loss of shared spaces after covid and the importance of designing for the needs of women and young people
With little prospect of a rapid reduction in interest rates to spur a recovery, many in the industry are now just looking to “survive until ’25”. Joey Gardiner looks at the prospects for residential developers doing so.
The past nine housing ministers have come and gone in the time it takes to get a large project to site, says Joey Gardiner. So what are the chances that the latest incumbent in the role can do what is required to pick the industry up off the floor?
Railway companies have been selling the space above stations for decades. Ben Flatman looks at some previous air rights developments
Rishi Sunak last month cancelled the Manchester leg of HS2. Here Ben Flatman talks to industry leaders about what the decision means for the city
In a London borough once beset by council housing controversy, a quiet revolution is underway
From running Greenpeace to creating the UK’s largest timber neighbourhood, Jonathan Smales is a developer who doesn’t follow the herd, writes Ben Flatman
The founder of the Stirling Prize-winning Mae Architects shares his influences and inspirations with Ben Flatman and concludes that his profession still has much to offer
How can we create thriving communities and places that people enjoy and want to live in? Ben Flatman spoke to four key industry figures to find out
Simon Henley and Gavin Hale-Brown met at the University of Liverpool in 1986 and have been friends ever since, forming their award-winning practice together in 1995. Here Ben Flatman discusses their early influences, design philosophy, and commitment to improving access to the profession
After 20 years in the Middle East, Daniel Hajjar moved to the UK, where, eight years on, he finds the political ‘flakiness’ of the country has made it an infuriating place to build. Thomas Lowe reports
In this interview Eleanor Jolliffe discovers how the opportunity to study in Rome changed the course of a renowned academic’s life
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Episode 3: David Rudlin talks about the importance of urban design and why planning needs to rediscover its capacity to create good quality places
Episode 2: Selina Mason talks about people-focused urbanism and the work she is doing on Birmingham’s Smithfield scheme
Episode 1: Jo Wright talks about the impact on her career of working in Berlin before the wall came down and designing for the long term
Eleanor Jolliffe talks to the influential masterplanner about her time in Rome and its lasting influence on her life and career
Eleanor Jolliffe discusses the influence that Rome had on the career of the leading contemporary classicist
In this exclusive interview, the Heatherwick Studio founder outlines the philosophy behind his new campaign to put the soul back into building design. Photography by Tom Campbell
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