Briefing – Page 39
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AnalysisDesigner hotels find room for local character
Universal Design Studio’s Ace Hotel London in Shoreditch typifies an alternative approach to the blank, homogenised feel of many international chains
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AnalysisWhatever happened to student housing?
With university accommodation now defined by the developers’ desire to cram students in as densely as possible, high-quality design may be too much to ask, says Owen Hatherley
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AnalysisWhy is it so hard to keep non-EU architecture students in the UK?
Are the Home Office’s migration policies affecting the education of foreign students?
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AnalysisAecom: don’t be scared of the giant
Aecom may be a huge company but it likes smaller partners, reports David Rogers
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AnalysisKeep it cool: designing for the TMT market
Architects must get inside the heads of their design-conscious media and technology clients
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AnalysisPower to the architects
Sarah Wigglesworth calls on the profession to stop kowtowing to clients and start setting the political agenda
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AnalysisStephen Hodder: 'I want to focus on a few small things and deliver them well'
New RIBA president is not promising fireworks, just carefully judged reform.
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FeaturesPractices have a story to tell
Architects are waking up to the role of narrative in the placemaking process
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AnalysisWould you pay $90,000 for this chair?
Rare items of furniture by living architects are fetching small fortunes at auction
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AnalysisWill councils find their way home?
Mark Wilding reports on signs that architects are set to be key players in the nascent public housing boom
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AnalysisElderly demand better homes
Britain’s demographic may be ageing, but the market for housing to suit older people is far from mature
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AnalysisSquaring the circle
With its ‘garden cities’ plan gone to seed, Andrea Klettner asks what is the coalition’s latest idea to stimulate housebuilding
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AnalysisWhat score do you give Breeam?
Architects are growing frustrated with the system for certifying green buildings — but big changes are on the way
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AnalysisAndrés Duany and the new enlightenment
Andrés Duany is trying to import his radical view of urbanism from Miami to the Moray Firth. Ellis Woodman met him
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AnalysisAre libraries living on borrowed time?
Britain’s public libraries grew out of an age of civic pride and self-improvement. Now, adrift in a privatised digital world, their architectural presence needs celebrating more than ever
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AnalysisArchitects count cost of asbestos
Legal claims from workers exposed to dangerous materials can come decades after the event. BD investigates a worrying trend
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AnalysisPeabody gobbles up rival Gallions
Housing association in need of architects as framework grows
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AnalysisHow to start a practice: J - R
More of BD’s A to Z guide of how to start an architecture practice