Designing Social Value | Building Design

The king of urban renaissance had politicians – if not princes – at his feet

2021-12-22T06:00:00+00:00By David Rudlin

Richard Rogers was hugely influential as an urbanist as well an architect, writes David Rudlin

Time to rethink the rulebook on building regulation

2021-12-16T06:00:00+00:00By Julia Park

The current system is not fit for purpose. The Grenfell tragedy, climate emergency and covid-19 are three compelling reasons why we must do better, says Julia Park

LSE launches £120m design contest for final set-piece building

2021-12-14T13:01:00+00:00By Jordan Marshall

Project will also be university’s first net-zero development

50 Wonders | Dav Bansal: Lakeshore Drive Apartments

2021-12-08T06:00:00+00:00

Dav Bansal recalls the thrill of visiting Mies’ influential Chicago towers for the first time

Mayor of London launches hunt for new design advocates

2021-12-01T06:00:00+00:00By Jim Dunton

City Hall offers £500 a day for architects keen to help shape capital’s future

What are we trying to say when we get our buildings photographed?

2021-11-30T06:02:00+00:00By Daniel Elsea

Fine art or photojournalism: architects have a choice that cuts to the heart of the profession when they commission photography, says Daniel Elsea

Ab Rogers Design wins £250,000 Wolfson Prize with modular hospital design

2021-11-26T10:13:00+00:00By Elizabeth Hopkirk

Practice beat ZHA, Perkins & Will and John Simpson Architects

We must make a better case for new housing

2021-11-22T09:27:00+00:00By David Rudlin

The prospect of new housing is almost always greeted with horror by local people. It is time that this changed, says David Rudlin

What’s stopping us from measuring embodied carbon?

2021-11-19T05:00:00+00:00By Anna Beckett

Why isn’t an embodied carbon assessment done as standard on every project, asks engineer Anna Beckett

Arup pledges lifecycle carbon assessments on all projects

2021-11-10T06:00:00+00:00By Tom Lowe

Firm also pledges to withdraw from energy schemes involving fossil fuels

AHMM drafts gender equality champion on to controversial Holloway project

2021-11-09T06:00:00+00:00By Joey Gardiner

Architect submits revised 980-home prison redevelopment to Islington council

Oxford Uni launches international design contest for £1bn northern expansion

2021-11-08T10:24:00+00:00By Elizabeth Hopkirk

Established architects encouraged to team up with small practices

What’s stopping us from reusing materials?

2021-11-04T06:00:00+00:00By Anna Beckett

In the first of a new series, engineer Anna Beckett shows how some fresh thinking could solve apparently intractable issues

Make net zero buildings the only ones worth building, architects tell COP

2021-11-03T06:00:00+00:00By Elizabeth Hopkirk

’Whole system stacked against doing the right thing’

Innovative energy-saving buildings carry a heavy carbon cost

2021-11-03T06:00:00+00:00By Anthony Thistleton

The failure to take embodied carbon seriously will have far-reaching consequences, writes Anthony Thistleton

Industry to world leaders: We stand ready – but your inaction is holding us back

2021-11-02T06:00:00+00:00By Elizabeth Hopkirk

Built environment unites to present urgent demands at COP summit

More than 95% of firms support mandatory carbon calculations

2021-11-02T06:00:00+00:00By Tom Lowe

Survey finds overwhelming majority of industry thinks whole life carbon calculations should determine whether projects get planning

Architects Declare publishes guide to making practices and projects net-zero

2021-11-01T06:00:00+00:00By Elizabeth Hopkirk

Climate movement wants to make sharing best practice easy

Allford endorses MPs’ call for net zero to be placed at heart of planning policy

2021-11-01T06:00:00+00:00By Carl Brown

Government will fail to hit 2050 net zero target unless it engages with councils, says select committee chair