All Buildings, design and specification articles
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NewsNational Gallery unveils revised Selldorf upgrade designs
Latest images of £30m proposals come ahead of planning application submission this summer
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Opinion
Design better, specify better and consume more carefully – that’s my (not so) radical idea
While we should all be taking action in order to preserve our planet, direct action is actually rather less effective than well-placed words if we want to drive real and lasting change, writes Matthew Lloyd
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News
Gove steps in and puts Make’s £400m plan to turn ITV studios into office complex on ice
Communities secretary has issued notice preventing demolition work at 72 Upper Ground site ahead of possible call in
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News
Queen’s Speech 2022: architects question feasibility of ‘street votes’ policy
Councils will need to have sufficient funding to make the government’s local design code plan work, architects warn
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Opinion
MoMA’s exhibition illustrates the rich legacy of south Asian modernism
New York museum seeks to put region’s architecture in a post-colonialist context, writes Ben Flatman
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Opinion
Handle with care: retrofits are full of surprises and architects have lots to learn
A standard architectural education does not equip us well for working on historic building fabric. You need a clear understanding of how materials work, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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Features
Why facade engineering excellence is important for contractors
Led by design. Backed by expertise. These two elements are fundamental to Schüco aluminium and steel facade, window and door systems
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News
AHMM scoops three RIBA London Awards
Allies & Morrison, Sheppard Robson and Surman Weston score double victories on 42-strong winners’ list
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Technical
Does the key to cutting carbon lie beneath your feet?
A new system aims to reduce the embodied carbon of a floor slab by up to 75%. But are other solutions already to hand?
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Opinion
Scrapping the S106 agreement would mean better placemaking
The government’s plan to introduce a consolidated infrastructure levy allows placemakers to focus on what’s important – creating schemes of both spatial and social quality, says James Cons
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News
Arup and S&P Architects open UK’s first passivhaus leisure centre
Design accounts for predicted weather and temperature changes over the next 80 years
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Opinion
What’s stopping us taking more risks?
The Victorians built long-lasting structures with limited foundations yet our perception of acceptable risk has changed completely and we are now overdesigning. Anna Beckett wonders if there is a better balance to be struck
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News
Eric Parry and Acanthus Clews land RIBA West Midlands Awards
Family homes by Michael Kendrick, Scott Donald and Intervention Architecture also get gongs
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Opinion
‘There’s still work to be done to make space for the needs of women’
Barbara McFarlane and Jane Darke were contributors to a ground-breaking analysis of the way architecture and design were marginalising women in 1984. Here they look back at the book, its context and its legacy
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News
Green light for Acme’s Aldgate office block
Tweaked proposals add four levels, new terraces and target higher sustainability rating
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Features
CPD 5 2022: Sustainable steelwork specification
This Steel for Life sponsored CPD introduces the first edition of a new Sustainability Specification for structural steelwork and sets out requirements and practices for achieving environmentally sustainable steelwork building construction, including maximal efficiency and minimal waste. DEADLINE: 3 JUNE 2022
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News
Acme’s boosted Aldgate plans set for green light
Tweaked proposals add four levels, new terraces and target higher sustainability rating
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News
‘Too many unknowns’ to pay up for cladding remediation, products group tells Gove
Industry body queries firms’ ‘connectivity’ to at-risk buildings in wake of housing secretary’s anger at sector’s response to cladding pledge
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News
Kew Gardens lines up Matt+Fiona for treehouses project
Architecture educators will work with schoolchildren to design structure for 2023 event
