All Buildings, design and specification articles – Page 62
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OpinionHandle 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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FeaturesWhy 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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NewsAHMM scoops three RIBA London Awards
Allies & Morrison, Sheppard Robson and Surman Weston score double victories on 42-strong winners’ list
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TechnicalDoes 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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OpinionScrapping 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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NewsArup 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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OpinionWhat’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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NewsEric 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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NewsGreen light for Acme’s Aldgate office block
Tweaked proposals add four levels, new terraces and target higher sustainability rating
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FeaturesCPD 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.
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NewsAcme’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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NewsKew Gardens lines up Matt+Fiona for treehouses project
Architecture educators will work with schoolchildren to design structure for 2023 event
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NewsAL_A picked to design Belgrade concert hall
Practice beat Diller Scofidio + Renfro to win Serbia’s largest cultural project
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OpinionFive things we have learnt about being a B Corp
Stride Treglown chairman Pierre Wassenaar explains why his firm went through the process and has some advice for others thinking of following their example
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NewsMayor finds ‘no grounds’ to reverse Oxford Street M&S demolition decision
Khan had agreed to revisit decision after carbon emission concerns
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OpinionArchitects have strangled themselves
We have an opportunity to re-stitch some of the professional fabric we have so determinedly unravelled and rise to the challenges of the 2020s, writes Eleanor Jolliffe