All Buildings, design and specification articles – Page 91
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NewsDesign competition launched to expand Harry Potter actor’s school
Architects eye next phase of City of London revamp
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NewsCristiano Ronaldo’s FCBS hotel clears planning
Scheme adds 11-storey tower to repurposed listed building
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NewsFoster & Partners wins competition to design futuristic China transport hub
Scheme will feature fleets of autonomous vehicles on ‘skybridges’
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NewsGreen light for Wright & Wright – a decade after firm was beaten into second place
Runner-up appointed by Oxford college after winning scheme foundered
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NewsFeilden Clegg Bradley wins Paradise office contest
Architect beat shortlist of four to land Birmingham job
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News‘Not quite the green industrial revolution’: Architects react to PM’s net zero plan
Government’s 10-point plan is not enough, says profession
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Information - BDOn demand | A net zero conversation with Jerry Tate
On demand | Building Design’s Elizabeth Hopkirk speaks to Tate Harmer partner Jerry Tate
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NewsFoster & Partners submits plans for zero-carbon office at London Bridge
22-storey scheme opposite Shard will be lifted above landscaped public realm
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NewsTate Harmer shortlisted for recycling centre… with proposal to recycle buildings
British architects among finalists for German competition
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OpinionA green homes revolution or total mayhem?
In theory the government is about to start retrofitting 2,700 homes every day. Really, asks Julia Park
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NewsPenoyre & Prasad submits design for £250m Moorfields Eye Hospital job
Decision on proposal for relocated facility due to be made early next year
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NewsGrenfell insulation panels failed fire test, inquiry told
Manager at manufacturer Celotex admits marketing of product used in tower’s refurbishment was misleading
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NewsAHMM wins planning for £200m Berkeley Square redevelopment
Lansdowne House is stone’s throw from £600m Piccadilly project which saw AHMM replace Adjaye Associates
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NewsCouncils divided over Bishopsgate Goodsyard development
Hackney says it objects to design despite ‘support in principle’ while Tower Hamlets says project should be approved
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FeaturesGrenfell Inquiry digest | Module one: How experts blamed key players for ‘shambles’
As the first part of the phase two hearings concludes, Jim Dunton examines the evidence so far and finds a litany of major failures, incompetence and buck-passing
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NewsTests for external wall fires based on how flames behave indoors, Grenfell Inquiry hears
Expert witness Barbara Lane queries decades-old testing regime
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NewsPandemic ‘turbocharging’ domestic emissions crisis, RIBA warns government
Architects call for National Retrofit Strategy to counter carbon generated by growth in home working
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FeaturesCPD 10 2020: Daylight design for commercial buildings using structural glazing
This CPD, sponsored by VELUX Commercial, explains how the maximising of daylight through bespoke structural glazing can improve wellbeing and productivity of a building’s occupants as well as cutting energy costs, and sets out the specification considerations