Briefing – Page 23
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FeaturesHow to design a good school dining room
Tom Waddicor looks at pitfalls and solutions in designing spaces for learners who lunch
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FeaturesDesigning for God: Eric Mendelsohn’s US synagogues
After the trauma of the Holocaust, the task of defining what it meant to be Jewish and American fell to an architect who felt it was his destiny
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FeaturesAlan Jones: We need to talk
The profession is facing huge challenges. The new president of the RIBA tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how he plans to tackle them
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FeaturesHow to build a circular economy
Petra Marko asks whether we can get to a place of ‘good growth’
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FeaturesWe were so frustrated by gender equality events we decided to hold our own
Jennifer de Vere-Hopkins and Emily Lawrence of Jestico Whiles explain why they put design at the heart of the equality debate
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Features‘It’s just the same whether you are designing a building or a bike’
The architect who broke the men’s world cycling speed record at 174mph tells BD how he did it - and admits he was ‘absolutely terrified’
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FeaturesWe should embrace AI to help us solve humanity’s existential crisis
With a fuller understanding of issues such as climate change and migration we have a better chance of developing solutions, writes Anna Liu
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FeaturesConfessions of an architectural modelmaker
Faulkner Browns modelmaker Andrew Parkin explains why he has no need to fear the march of technology
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FeaturesHow a UK architect won the job of designing all eight venues for one of the world’s biggest sporting events
Pattern Design had less than 18 months to deliver the Pan American Games in Lima. Director Lindsay Johnston explains how they did it
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OpinionIt’s time to start rebuilding the country
What’s done is done. Pragmatism and optimism are what we need now to get Britain back on the front foot, argues Chris Dyson
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FeaturesArchitects and urban designers must help plug water shortages before it’s too late
Even the UK is heading for a terrifyingly dry future and we need to change the way we design now, says Asif Din of Perkins Will
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FeaturesStop undermining executive architects
Executive architects are often dismissed as lacking the talent to design great buildings. But without them those projects would be a lot less great
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2019: The winners
This year’s completed scheme winners and the Housing Design Awards 2019 overall winner
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FeaturesIke Ijeh on the 2019 Stirling Prize shortlist
BD’s architecture critic on this year’s six contenders
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2019: Uncompleted scheme winners
This year’s winners take a smart approach to densification that shows how to provide quality living space in constrained sites
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OpinionPlanning reform is not just about money
There are other ways to ease the pressures on planning capacity, says Nicholas Boys Smith of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission
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FeaturesWhat if Google built your house?
Flavio Tejada predicts a future in which emerging technologies transform the built environment – and construction
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FeaturesWhy American universities are in thrall to the Oxbridge quad
Some questionable motivations lie behind the design staple, says the author of a new book on the subject
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FeaturesA new age of council housebuilding is dawning
Mark Swenarton on what we need to learn from the Homes Fit for Heroes programme a century ago
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FeaturesWe need a spatial strategy to heal the pain behind Brexit
Britain’s failure to take regional planning seriously is a dereliction of duty that has led to our polarised economy, argues Tom Brooksbank