Briefing
-
FeaturesIt is time to talk again about protecting the function of architects
Making the golden thread a legal part of an architect’s role would have so many benefits. It’s about protection not protectionism, argues Jerry Tate
-
Features
The fire safety scandal will not go away
The government defeated the Lords’ amendment to protect leaseholders from cladding costs. Now it must come up with a credible plan, writes Lord Best
-
Features
Interview: Designing Britain’s biggest infrastructure project
By any standards and on any scale, it’s a huge job – and one with plenty of critics. HS2’s design director Kay Hughes tells Elizabeth Hopkirk she is relishing the unprecedented challenge
-
Features
Brian Frost, 1939-2021: This was his tomorrow
The architect who worked with some of the profession’s legendary names died this month. Christian Frost looks back at his father’s career
-
Features
We need to talk about greenwash
Designing an airport that looks like a tree does not make it green. The profession needs to watch its language, says Rob Fiehn in a piece to mark Earth Day
-
Features
Material shortages are beginning to look like a long-term issue
Short-term supply disruption could be an early warning of a longer-term problem for the UK’s construction sector, warns Simon Rawlinson
-
Features
Review: Slogans and Battlecries by Paul Shepheard
Nicholas de Klerk enjoys a book that offers another way into architecture
-
Features
Rethinking Design: How to make leisure and hospitality safe – and fun
Analysis: How will the leisure sector adapt to post-covid restrictions while satisfying our craving for excitement and social interaction? Debika Ray reports
-
Features
Our suburbs are a messy, quirky patchwork. This makes radical thinking all the more important
Turn Nimbys into Yimbys by giving them a stake in the development process, argues Ben Derbyshire
-
Features
Is this what you mean by transparency on viability, RBKC?
There is a desperate shortage of affordable housing in Kensington and the council is planning to build some beside Trellick Tower. But Emma Dent Coad has some unanswered questions
-
Features
Designing out stigma from mental health facilities should start with demolishing walls
The time has come to integrate mental health facilities into the centre of our communities, writes Christopher Shaw
-
Features
In pictures: Thirty years of Lacaton & Vassal
Gallery: Half a dozen of the Pritzker Prize-winners’ best projects
-
Features
Analysis: How the church can use its land to ease the nation’s housing crisis
What can one of the UK’s biggest landowners do to put its resources where its mouth is? Elizabeth Hopkirk reports
-
Features
Salary survey: Will covid widen the architectural skills gap?
Under-pressure practices should hang on to staff and invest in a new generation, writes Jordan Marshall
-
Features
International Women’s Day: Q&As
To mark International Women’s Day, we meet three female directors from three very different practices and pose some quick-fire questions
-
Features
Further education colleges have a vital role to play in rebuilding the economy after covid and Brexit
Alfonso Padro offers some advice for how best to use the funding announced with the Jobs for Skills white paper
-
Features
Sunak has given us little cause to cheer
There are some dubious ideas and missed opportunities alongside the chancellor’s gifts, writes Brendan Kilpatrick
-
Features
Rethinking Design: How can we prepare schools for another pandemic?
Jordan Marshall reports on how architects are trying to future-proof school buildings while making new-builds net zero
-
Features
The future standards initiatives imply action – but fail to provide key detail
Despite a huge response to its consultations the government has yet to give industry the guidance it needs for a national response to the climate crisis, Seb Laan Lomas and Joe Giddings write
-
Features
The age of ostentation is over
Scrapping the Centre for Music and tinkering with the National Gallery mark the start of a quieter era, says former director Charles Saumarez Smith
