All Envelope articles – Page 3
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News
Government’s guide to external wall assessments replaced
BSI publishes new fire safety guide as Gove withdraws flawed advice note
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News
Government must do more to fix flawed building safety regime, says Allford
RIBA president questions effectiveness of Gove’s announcements
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News
Government to pursue developers for £4bn cladding bill
Gove threatens legal action and funding removal if industry doesn’t meet cost of remediating blocks 11 to 18 metres tall
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News
City green-lights AHMM’s ‘biophilic’ office tower
24-storey block is seventh high-rise approved in Square Mile this year
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Features
Lay off the plasterboard and cladding
Cutting out the layers can make buildings more sustainable, argues Steve Webb
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News
Bishops ramp up pressure on government and industry over cladding scandal
Groups take ‘polluter pays’ message to Tory conference, as a leaseholder’s suicide is reported
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Young designers ‘vital’ to tackling climate crisis, says Herzog partner
‘We are depending on the next generation’
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Technical
Technical Study: Restoring Birmingham Selfridges’ cladding
Future Systems’ Selfridges has donned temporary garb of greater gaudiness while faults are fixed in the glittering blue chainmail below. Thomas Lane explains the technical challenges. Photography by Oliver Lane
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Piercy & Co lands green light for ‘micro room’ hotel
Approval is practice’s third in recent weeks
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AHMM submits plans for 24-storey ‘biophilic’ City office
Scheme will replace 1980s buildings near Shoreditch and Whitechapel fringe
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Fate of Populous’ MSG Sphere set to be decided next month
21,500-capacity venue would be UK’s largest concert arena
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Technical
Technical: Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, restored by David Chipperfield Architects
‘Surgical’ €100m, decade-long project had to tackle flaws in Mies’ original design
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Technical
Technical Study: Park Crescent, Regent’s Park, by PDP London
Amanda Birch talks to the architects who demolished and rebuilt a grade I-listed Nash crescent – for a second time
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News
Stiff & Trevillion’s 197m tower beside Gherkin slated for approval
Skinny blue office block set to go ahead despite opposition from heritage and Jewish bodies
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Government’s £562m housing retrofit programme ‘simply not enough’, RIBA warns
Policy to improve 50,000 homes branded ’not enough’ to tackle problem
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Features
In pictures: Thirty years of Lacaton & Vassal
Gallery: Half a dozen of the Pritzker Prize-winners’ best projects
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News
Grenfell Inquiry: Arconic ’did not withdraw combustible cladding because of cost implications’
Sales manager made admission in secretly recorded phone call in the days after the 2017 fire
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Grenfell Inquiry: Arconic sales manager ‘knew cladding would burn’
Internal email in 2014 warned of dangers of ACM after Middle East fires
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Jenrick warned of unintended consequences of cladding safety measures
Former RIBA president accuses government of offering ‘second-rate loans’ to people in dangerous buildings
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Features
Explainer: Five things you need to know about the Future Homes Standard
The government has published the draft version of Part L which comes into force next year. We outline what it means for the industry