Briefing – Page 17
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FeaturesSocial infrastructure must be designed into new communities right from the start
In a divided world, we need architects’ innovative thinking to create places that bridge social divides, says Darryl Chen
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FeaturesWhat happens when an anthropologist spends six months in an architect’s office?
Durham academic Thomas Yarrow turns the spotlight on a profession more accustomed to doing the listening
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FeaturesElection watch: Housing must be about quality as well as quantity
RIBA president Alan Jones looks at the parties’ pledges on housing, in the last of a series scrutinising the manifestos
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FeaturesElection watch: The next government needs to get an urgent grip on fire safety
Former RIBA president Jane Duncan looks at how the Grenfell tragedy is addressed in the manifestos
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FeaturesElection watch: Parties commit to climate action, but words are not enough
The RIBA’s Adrian Dobson compares the three main parties’ policies on climate
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FeaturesHow to design well for people with dementia
Architects need to include safe outdoor spaces when they design senior living schemes, writes Robin Callister
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FeaturesWhat architects should know about planners
Victoria Hills hits back at Amin Taha’s remarks on the poor architectural knowledge of planners
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FeaturesWhat every architect should know about loneliness
Social isolation is as deadly as smoking. How can design bring people together in meaningful ways?
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FeaturesGood placemaking is more about economics than design
Graham Haworth argues that social value is one of the ways to create real communities
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FeaturesA beginner’s guide to the Social Value Act
It’s the act you’ve been waiting for if you want to do good, says Guy Battle
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FeaturesTed Cullinan: Architect, builder, educator, storyteller
Peter Clegg pays tribute to the visionary architect who eschewed labels and did things his own way
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FeaturesCan architects help children want to go to school in the morning?
The first step is to listen to them, says Murray Hudson, co-editor of a new book on school design
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FeaturesArchitects should embrace a modular future
The profession ought to be cheering the government’s support for modern methods of construction, not knocking it, argues HTA’s Simon Bayliss
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FeaturesHow to use video to communicate more effectively with clients
Peter Dye advises architects on how to make films with impact. It’s simpler than you think
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FeaturesIn a flap about fake Morley’s chicken shops
Three architects are exhibiting their photographs of a south London phenomenon. Jens Kongstad, Nick Blomstrand and William Molho explain why
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FeaturesDon’t call me a ‘conservation architect’!
Vitruvius’ principles are no less relevant when working with old buildings. Richard Griffiths calls for an end to a false distinction
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FeaturesMaking sense of façade retention: How we rebuilt Spitalfields’ Fruit & Wool Exchange
As a new book is published attacking the 'creeping plague of facadism’, architect Rab Bennetts responds by recounting the story behind one scheme
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FeaturesTime is running out to save this Aalto-influenced masterpiece
It will be a tragedy if Bob Giles’ West London College is demolished next year, writes Tom Cordell
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FeaturesThe verdict: Ike Ijeh on the 2019 Stirling Prize winner
BD’s architecture critic suggests the judges allowed populism to influence their decision more than architecture
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FeaturesIt takes more than a design guide to produce quality council housing
Governance, procurement and culture are the real hurdles, says Claire Bennie