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FeaturesRethinking Design: How can we prepare schools for another pandemic?
Jordan Marshall reports on how architects are trying to future-proof school buildings while making new-builds net zero
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CPD 02 2021: Ventilation requirements for roofing membranes
This CPD, sponsored by Glidevale Protect, explains how to take ventilation requirements into account when specifying roofing underlays.
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The future standards initiatives imply action – but fail to provide key detail
Despite a huge response to its consultations the government has yet to give industry the guidance it needs for a national response to the climate crisis, Seb Laan Lomas and Joe Giddings write
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The age of ostentation is over
Scrapping the Centre for Music and tinkering with the National Gallery mark the start of a quieter era, says former director Charles Saumarez Smith
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‘It’s about justice’ – meet England’s first bishop for housing
The Church of England publishes a report on the housing crisis this weekend. Refugee-turned-bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani tells Elizabeth Hopkirk she is serious about turning recommendations into actions
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Government’s Green Homes Grant fiasco is either bumbling incompetence or callous disregard
The failure to properly fund domestic retrofit puts a critical national programme further out of reach, writes Thomas Lane
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The vision behind the welfare state is a model for how to rebuild after covid
Government planning reforms are doomed to fail because they pit opposing goals against each other for reasons of expediency, writes Roland Karthaus
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Here’s what a design code can’t do, minister
There are some fundamental issues the government must address before its new model design code can make any difference, writes Jas Bhalla
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Beauty is in the eyes of the beholders
What happens when a community have different ideas about what their local design code should say, ask Nisha Kurian and Holly Lewis
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CPD 01 2021: Specifying roofs to reduce fire risk
This CPD, sponsored by ROCKWOOL, explains how to apply fire-conscious design, construction and materials specification to a building’s fifth facade – its roof
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Explainer: How the proposed Future Buildings Standard will affect the way you design
Thomas Lane highlights the most important points in the government’s long-awaited proposals to make non-domestic buildings greener
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WA100 2021: Brighter light on the horizon
The world is a different place from this time last year
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Opening a new chapter in the history of the urban
As we reimagine our material and social infrastructure post-pandemic we could learn from cities that have been through worse, argues Clare Melhuish
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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
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WA100 2021: The big list
World Architecture 100: View a table of this year’s top 100 architects
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Running on empty: Whatever happened to the Nightingales?
The Nightingale hospitals, built in record time, were a proud moment for the industry. But with patient numbers overwhelming the NHS, Elizabeth Hopkirk asks why they never fulfilled their original promise
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What the Brexit deal means for architects
RIBA’s Lucy Monks unpacks how the future-relationship agreement will change everything for the profession, from visiting clients to recognition of qualifications
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Scrapping Erasmus is a tragedy for the next generation of architects
Britain’s exit from the exchange programme has needlessly destroyed something of enormous value, writes Oliver Bayliss
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Projects of 2020: Triumph and tragedy
2020 had its fair share of controversial projects but it also offered up some gems. We look back over quite a year…
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Mutant algorithm? Call in the superheroes
Development has all gone a bit Marvel, says Danny Crump
