Briefing – Page 26
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With skills like yours, you shouldn’t be working for an architect
Businesses that stitch design into their DNA are the most successful, but they need help. Isn’t it time you applied?
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Liverpool One ten years on: Has it cracked the retail problem?
Ike Ijeh returns to the city to examine the landmark shopping centre designed by 22 different architects
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Can we design some Danish ‘hygge’ into our housing?
The housing crisis is not just about numbers. Petra Marko finds inspiration as she cycles round Copenhagen
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Why more architects should be planners
The RIBA needs to do much more to support people who make the move, argues Michael Tsoukaris
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Analysis: When will we see wooden skyscrapers?
Timber frames have begun to break into commercial and higher-rise uses thanks to technological breakthroughs. Ike Ijeh speaks to the pioneers
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Young people are more pro-development - but you won't find them at a public consultation
To engage a pre-retirement demographic you need to understand how young people communicate
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We are re-entering an age of necessity and must design accordingly
Harriet Wennberg welcomes a timely resurgence in the use of natural materials and traditional forms
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People ignore the design that ignores them
Architects leave communities out of the design process at their peril, says Lesley Malone
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The developer whose work is now 54% heaven-sent
Thornsett has gradually become a specialist at helping urban churches unlock their sites, explains Bernadette Cunningham
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Architects need to return to the classroom. The primary school classroom
Engineer Nick Ford has some advice for architects - and some great stories of small children’s lightbulb moments
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The unsettling architecture of industry
Images in new book reveal hidden life of infrastructure and industrial buildings
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What happens when architects design homes for animals
10 of the quirkiest homes for pets showcased in a new book
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The work to improve gender equality needs to start at primary school
Girls need strong role models to show them that construction isn’t just for boys, says a director at the world’s biggest architect
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The world needs more social designers
With the world in turmoil, social design has never been more important, says the author of a new book
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This is not a ban on CLT – but it is still incredibly shortsighted
CLT can help deliver homes faster and tackle climate change
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BD Live crit: Reimagining Canada Water
British Land invited Coffey Architects, Reiach and Hall, Soda Studio and Mikhail Riches to float ideas for £4bn town centre
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How can we design for young people when we don't consult them?
When she volunteered to be an architecture ambassador in a school, Stephanie Edwards learnt as much as the pupils
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Housing crisis. What housing crisis?
Roger Madelin on the politics behind one of the nation’s most intractable problems
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Reappraising Hassan Fathy, the forgotten modernist
Hassan Fathy was decades ahead of his time – but finally the Egyptian architect’s ideas as well as his techniques are attracting attention