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For the planning reforms to work architects will need to be involved from the start
Design tensions go to the heart of the new Planning Bill, says Hilary Satchwell
It is time to talk again about protecting the function of architects
Making the golden thread a legal part of an architect’s role would have so many benefits. It’s about protection not protectionism, argues Jerry Tate
The fire safety scandal will not go away
The government defeated the Lords’ amendment to protect leaseholders from cladding costs. Now it must come up with a credible plan, writes Lord Best
Interview: Designing Britain’s biggest infrastructure project
By any standards and on any scale, it’s a huge job – and one with plenty of critics. HS2’s design director Kay Hughes tells Elizabeth Hopkirk she is relishing the unprecedented challenge
Brian Frost, 1939-2021: This was his tomorrow
The architect who worked with some of the profession’s legendary names died this month. Christian Frost looks back at his father’s career
We need to talk about greenwash
Designing an airport that looks like a tree does not make it green. The profession needs to watch its language, says Rob Fiehn in a piece to mark Earth Day
Material shortages are beginning to look like a long-term issue
Short-term supply disruption could be an early warning of a longer-term problem for the UK’s construction sector, warns Simon Rawlinson
Review: Slogans and Battlecries by Paul Shepheard
Nicholas de Klerk enjoys a book that offers another way into architecture
Rethinking Design: How to make leisure and hospitality safe – and fun
Analysis: How will the leisure sector adapt to post-covid restrictions while satisfying our craving for excitement and social interaction? Debika Ray reports
Our suburbs are a messy, quirky patchwork. This makes radical thinking all the more important
Turn Nimbys into Yimbys by giving them a stake in the development process, argues Ben Derbyshire
Is this what you mean by transparency on viability, RBKC?
There is a desperate shortage of affordable housing in Kensington and the council is planning to build some beside Trellick Tower. But Emma Dent Coad has some unanswered questions
Designing out stigma from mental health facilities should start with demolishing walls
The time has come to integrate mental health facilities into the centre of our communities, writes Christopher Shaw
In pictures: Thirty years of Lacaton & Vassal
Gallery: Half a dozen of the Pritzker Prize-winners’ best projects
Analysis: How the church can use its land to ease the nation’s housing crisis
What can one of the UK’s biggest landowners do to put its resources where its mouth is? Elizabeth Hopkirk reports
Salary survey: Will covid widen the architectural skills gap?
Under-pressure practices should hang on to staff and invest in a new generation, writes Jordan Marshall
International Women’s Day: Q&As
To mark International Women’s Day, we meet three female directors from three very different practices and pose some quick-fire questions
Further education colleges have a vital role to play in rebuilding the economy after covid and Brexit
Alfonso Padro offers some advice for how best to use the funding announced with the Jobs for Skills white paper
Sunak has given us little cause to cheer
There are some dubious ideas and missed opportunities alongside the chancellor’s gifts, writes Brendan Kilpatrick
Rethinking 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
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
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
‘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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Interviews
Interview: Designing Britain’s biggest infrastructure project
By any standards and on any scale, it’s a huge job – and one with plenty of critics. HS2’s design director Kay Hughes tells Elizabeth Hopkirk she is relishing the unprecedented challenge
Video: Dixon Jones talk projects, influences and unconventional clients
Hear Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones reflect on 60 years in practice and how they’re relaxed about other architects having a crack at their projects
‘You don’t get involved in a project like this for the glory or the money’
Keppie was working on an extension at Glasgow’s SEC events centre when the brief changed dramatically. Elizabeth Hopkirk hears from the architects
NHS 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
‘Architects are rarely at the table when crucial decisions are being made’
Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects discuss hope and fear with Elizabeth Hopkirk
Alan Jones: We need to talk
The profession is facing huge challenges. The new president of the RIBA tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how he plans to tackle them
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More interviews
‘It’s just the same whether you are designing a building or a bike’
The architect who broke the men’s world cycling speed record at 174mph tells BD how he did it - and admits he was ‘absolutely terrified’
Interview: Lee Polisano on towers and ten years of PLP
As the 10th anniversary of PLP and the looming storm of Brexit approach, Lee Polisano looks into the future
Interview: Marie-José Van Hee
Hugh Strange talks to Marie-José Van Hee about her approach to architecture and the importance of the domestic in projects of all scales
Interview: Roger Zogolovitch and Simon Allford
What happens when two of the biggest names in architecture collaborate?
'Inside this strict format, anything can happen'
Hugh Strange talks to Barcelona practice MAIO about the challenges of practising architecture in Spain
'Surrealism sounds very far away, but it’s not at all'
Hugh Strange talks to Jan de Vylder of architecten de vylder vinck taillieu about playing with building elements, the beauty of raw finishes and why Belgian architects have to deal with strange realities
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