All Buildings, design and specification articles – Page 96
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OpinionLearning from lockdown: We need to talk about the design of care homes
With care homes in the news for tragic reasons it is time to imagine a different future, says Julia Park
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OpinionLearning from lockdown: Getting a (door) handle on the spread of disease
Eleanor Jolliffe looks at how the pandemic might change the way we specify
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FeaturesCPD 4 2020: Designing commercial buildings for improved health and productivity
This VELUX Commercial sponsored CPD examines how greater daylighting can improve outcomes in commercial environments
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NewsNearly 95% of architects have no coronavirus recovery plan in place
Results of latest reader survey find 40% haven’t even started planning
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Plumstead Centre, London, by Hawkins Brown
The architect reckons it has found the solution to saving libraries from extinction. Ike Ijeh assesses the end result
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OpinionLearning from lockdown: What needs to change in housing?
Julia Park considers what architects and policymakers should learn from the coronavirus crisis about housing design
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NewsProfession rallies round national effort to 3D print PPE for NHS
Meanwhile Fosters advocates faster laser-cutting technique and open-sources prototype
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FeaturesCPD 3 2020: Designing daylight solutions for commercial buildings
This CPD, sponsored by VELUX Commercial, looks at how lighting affects health and wellbeing for those working in offices, hotels, transport and industrial buildings
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TechnicalNHS Nightingale: How we built a hospital in 10 days
As the first patients arrive at London’s coronavirus surge hospital, BDP’s James Hepburn tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how they designed it
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OpinionCovid-19 may force us to rethink how we design cities
Julia Park on coronavirus, zero carbon and the implications for density
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NewsCost pressures drove ACM panel plans, says Grenfell witness
Former Studio E staffer says practice originally wanted zinc rainscreen for tower refurb
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry: Studio E lead condemns mix-and-match regs system
Neil Crawford accuses government of ignoring warning signs over not-fit-for-purpose compliance routes
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OpinionWhat architects and politicians have in common
The two professions need to learn to communicate if we are to build a better future, says Eleanor Jolliffe as she starts a new series of columns
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NewsNot architect’s role to sign off specialist designers’ work, says Studio E associate
Main contractor ’didn’t use their architects as much as they might’
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry told cladding ‘not most complex part of project’
Studio E design lead says repurposing tower-block’s podium was biggest challenge
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FeaturesHow to save historic buildings in the real world
As Historic England calls for more of our heritage to be repurposed, Richard Griffiths on the social value and economics of reusing old buildings
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Building StudyMaggie’s Centre at the Royal Marsden, Sutton, by Ab Rogers Design
For his first building the designer has gone head-to-head with his father – but he was more intimidated by Rem Koolhaas, he tells Elizabeth Hopkirk
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OpinionWhat is it like to live in a 13sq m former office?
Julia Park meets a young woman whose childhood in temporary accommodation has left her determined to end permitted development
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NewsArchitect ‘signed off non-compliant drawings’, Grenfell Inquiry told
Studio E accused of leaving inexperienced architect ‘to sink’
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Building StudyBuilding Study: Town House, Kingston University, by Grafton Architects
Grafton’s first UK building is a thrilling reinterpretation of the university library, writes Ike Ijeh