All Building Design articles in February 2022
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NewsChipperfield and Feix and Merlin win LSE Lincoln’s Inn Fields competition
Chipperfield and Feix and Merlin beat a field of six runners to win the commission
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NewsSimpson Haugh gets go-ahead for 51-storey Manchester towers
But viability concerns see city’s 20% affordable housing target ditched yet again
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NewsTonkin Liu on shortlist for Kew treehouse contest
Ten design teams in running for Royal Botanical Gardens’ main exhibition of 2023
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NewsRIBA reveals 68-strong London Awards 2022 shortlist
Contenders include Fosters’ Principal Tower, SOM’s Harrow Square and four AHMM projects
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NewsHollaway Studio designs ‘floating’ bike factory for Brompton
Kent wetlands HQ will be ‘a 21st-century Bournville’
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NewsGlenn Howells completes canal development for Urban Splash
Architect worked with Shedkm on central Birmingham island site
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NewsDijon gastronomy centre set to cut the mustard
Anthony Béchu-designed celebration of French food and wine targets May opening
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us using more innovative structural materials?
The ready availability of concrete and steel seems to have discouraged us from experimenting with new possibilities, says Anna Beckett
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NewsBRE manager did not tell minister that ACM had failed fire test 16 years before Grenfell
Debbie Smith denied reaching agreement with senior official to withhold key details about cladding from minister in meeting three days after fire, inquiry hears
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NewsBritish Pavilion team for Venice Biennale announced
Curators to create exhibition exploring sustainable materials
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NewsParliament restoration could take 76 years and cost nearly £50bn
Keeping MPs in Palace of Westminster during works would see costs and delivery time skyrocket, report finds
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NewsBRE staff may never have received impartiality training, Grenfell inquiry hears
Testing house’s former managing director admits lack of formal training regime was a ‘weakness’
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OpinionThe Medici effect is real in levelling up
The new white paper’s Florentine references provoked some hilarity, but many of its ideas are sound, says David Rudlin
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NewsDHaus delivers design cocktail for Highgate pub infill project
Practice draws inspiration from local mews houses and Tokyo courtyard homes
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NewsRBKC gears up for battle over police station redevelopment
Council wants Notting Hill nick for its own HOK-designed community plans but mayor of London seeks market rate
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NewsTim Ronalds gets go-ahead for £12m Clerkenwell illustration centre
New River Head project will repurpose 18th- and 19th-century industrial buildings to house Quentin Blake archive
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NewsGovernment’s ‘confusing’ fire safety guidance did not consider life safety
Document published in 2002 appeared to equate British standards with tougher European standards, Grenfell Inquiry told
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NewsMinister approves Tate Hindle’s Wembley flats following inquiry
Junior minister Eddie Hughes approves 454-home development