All Buildings, design and specification articles – Page 25
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NewsPLP’s Savile Row rebuild plans set for refusal on heritage grounds
Planning officers recommend scheme for refusal despite supporting demolition of site’s existing 1940s building and overwhelming local backing
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NewsCamden council to ‘robustly defend’ its decision on DSDHA’s Bloomsbury tower amid High Court challenge
Decision to approve controversial 19-storey scheme was “sound”, council insists
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NewsSPPARC adds hive-like extension to Fitzrovia townhouse
Scheme provides office space for a homelessness charity and for client’s own use
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from looking beyond embodied carbon?
Measuring and reducing our embodied carbon is still the best tool that we have to limit our impact on the planet, but it shouldn’t be the only factor that we’re considering, writes Anna Beckett
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NewsFormer Voysey factory given new lease of life by dMFK
Building’s original occupant, Sanderson Design Group, will return following extensive retrofit
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OpinionLet’s avoid the green belt becoming a giant cul-de-sac
Labour says it wants to build housing on the ‘grey belt’, but how can architects help ensure this doesn’t end up as just more suburban sprawl, asks Chloë Phelps
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NewsIn Pictures: Eavesdrop by Tom Dowdall Architects
Paragraph 84 house in West Sussex is designed to integrate with the surrounding landscape
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NewsGreen light for Fosters’ £1bn Blackfriars towers scheme
Project finally gets nod after delays caused by Historic England intervention
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NewsGSS masterplan for £500m mixed-use campus in Newcastle gets thumbs up
Outline approval granted for 24 separate developments plots on former General Hospital site
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OpinionWhy is our heritage on fire… again?
The fire at Copenhagen’s historic stock exchange is a reminder that we need to value traditional building skills as much as the buildings themselves, writes Liz Smith
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NewsFirm behind rejected plans for ‘bonkers’ Birmingham tower to draw up new proposals
Marrons says it will work with council on new design for 80 Broad Street site
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NewsKnight Architects wins planning for new Oxford cycle and footbridge
Bridge forms part of wider transport and growth plan for the city
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OpinionLighting the way in architecture
Light is a foundational aspect of architectural design and practice - affecting how a building looks inside and out, and how that building influences its context and immediate environment. Light is a utility but it’s also an amenity for the people living in a building and those who live and ...
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NewsMake and Acme’s controversial Cambridge scheme gets green light from Gove
Latest phase of Cambridge North scheme includes 425 homes along with lab and office space
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NewsBIG unveils plans for new timber building at Kansas architectural school
The building will provide a new practice facility for students
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NewsBDP picked for Liverpool waterfront placemaking job
Firm to work with Dutch landscape practice West 8 to ensure planned development has a coherent strategy
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NewsKPF to submit planning application for revised 70 Gracechurch tower in June
But construction on 33-storey scheme not expected to start before 2028
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OpinionIs the lack of ornament in architecture a barrier to diversity?
Modernism’s stripped back aesthetic could be seen as inclusive, but is it actually an impediment to diversity, asks Ben Flatman
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FeaturesDesigning out the challenges in the most challenging environments
The impact that good design can have on our health and wellbeing cannot be overstated. The choice of materials used can dramatically affect our physical and mental wellbeing, improve feelings of support, the level of perceived safety and, perhaps most importantly, how valued people feel as individuals. For Philip Ross ...