Designing Social Value – Page 11
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FeaturesResilient high streets need space for surprises
Leave a little room for the unplanned and experimental, writes Sarah Featherstone in this piece for our Stratford Design Challenge series
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NewsO’Donnell Brown submits plans for UK’s first Passivhaus Plus hamlet
Six homes in Norfolk aim to breathe new life into community requisitioned for military use
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OpinionWhy Manchester is not a World Heritage Site
Unesco can keep its pickling jars, writes David Rudlin
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NewsManchester launches international design competition for Piccadilly Gardens
Council says it wants to create a ‘uniquely Mancunian’ space in the neglected square
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NewsMaccreanor Lavington and Erect cleared to boost estate's social housing
Community centre and 91 affordable homes will be added to York Way Estate
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OpinionGod is in the detail
Small things can matter greatly. Yet too often it’s no one’s job to care about them, writes Martyn Evans
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NewsCullinan Studio appointed to revamp community sports facility
Every element at Marlborough Sports Garden will have multiple functions including a climbable cafe
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FeaturesShifting that stubborn needle on inclusion and prejudice
Architecture needs a sea change to improve diversity, writes Sarah Akigbogun
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NewsMPs call for urgent review of new permitted development right
Select committee says roll-out of wide-ranging new resi conversion right should be paused
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OpinionHousing secretary’s beautiful words need to be backed by long-term investment
Liverpool’s humiliation at the hands of Unesco shows how much we need highly skilled planning departments, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
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News75% of planning authorities have no access to architectural advice
Figures cast doubt on councils’ ability to implement Jenrick’s beauty agenda
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TechnicalTechnical Study: Kingston Cycle Hub, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects
Kingston council has spent £32m upgrading the borough’s cycle facilities, including a storage hub beside the station that is no ordinary bike shed, finds Thomas Lane
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NewsGovernment planning reforms ‘missed opportunity’ to tackle climate crisis
Nation’s net zero target should be enshrined in new NPPF, says Green Building Council
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FeaturesBeautiful places and whopping great elephants
The new Office for Place has the potential to surpass Cabe, says Matthew Carmona – but there remain some unanswered questions
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NewsMinister tells developers they have moral duty to work with communities and new design codes
Housing secretary confirms package of reforms in beautiful homes drive
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OpinionFor many architects the cladding crisis is personal
Eleanor Jolliffe describes what it is like to design high-rises by day and navigate costly problems with your own home by night
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NewsFCBS picked to design new home for Bristol Zoo
World-famous zoo to sell historic Clifton base for housing
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NewsGrenfell Inquiry to be brought to the stage
Team that dramatised Stephen Lawrence inquiry is behind Grenfell: Value Engineering
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FeaturesTime to put cars in their place – underground
The economy needs some big infrastructure projects. How about burying a few roads, asks Steve Webb
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NewsProportion of black architects remains woefully low, Arb figures show
Women make up less than a third of architects