All Building Design articles in July 2022
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News
In pictures: Invisible Studio showcases Westonbirt community shelter
Collaboration between architects, timber specialists and community groups produces woodland refuge
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Building Study
Building study: Cohen Quad, Exeter College by Alison Brooks Architects
Alison Brooks Architects channels Ruskin and Morris in a playful craft-inspired new building for Exeter College, writes Ben Flatman
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Features
Focus on acoustics: Elevated requirements at Knightsbridge Gate
The design solution for this London-based project involved a physical gap between the grade II listed facade and the new structure behind it
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News
MMC makes it harder to reuse materials, experts warn
National Federation of Demolition Contractors chief executive says modern materials are ‘nowhere near’ as reusable as those used in traditional construction
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News
Wilson Mason draws up vet school plans
Four storey block for University of Central Lancashire targets BREEAM “excellent” rating
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Opinion
The Elefante in the room
Adaptable buildings are often the most sustainable, so how do we ensure today’s architecture is fit for tomorrow, asks Robert Adam
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News
Bell Phillips unveils curved 93-home proposals for Swanley
Council-commissioned scheme would replace working men’s club and car park in Kent town
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News
Maccreanor Lavington lodges plans for 600 homes on Aylesbury Estate
Practice works with Haworth Tompkins, Sergison Bates, East and Architecture Doing Place on latest phase of 3,500-home regeneration scheme
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Opinion
Politics needs specialists from the built environment – and it needs you now!
The Conservatives are asleep at the wheel and lack the skills or desire to address the built environment’s multiple crises, writes Emma Dent Coad
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News
Fosters gets go-ahead for rejigged Mayfair plans
Westminster councillors approve taller version of 2019 mixed-use scheme for conservation-area site
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News
Knox Bhavan completes prefabricated, flood-resistent house on stilts
Architect worked with modular manufacturer BlokBuild and engineer Price & Myers on a prefabricated cassette system for Thames-side home
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Opinion
Open-plan living is dead - bring back the serving hatch!
Open plan spaces are both inflexible and boring, so why not make use of some time-honoured alternatives, writes Chloë Phelps
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News
In pictures: Jo Townshend Architects unveil new hub at Soane’s Pitzhanger Manor
New community space within ground of Soane’s historic manor house follows recent restoration of main building
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News
Feilden Fowles given go ahead for controversial National Railway Museum expansion
Scheme will require closure of key access road into central York
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News
Green light for HTA’s reworked Southwark plans
Major scheme approved four years after intitial plans were rejected over density and design concerns
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News
Berlin architects showcase start-up centre
United Architektur with Ludwig Heimbach create incubator for affordable-housing organisation
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News
US block confirmed as world’s tallest timber building
25-storey Korb & Associates scheme in Milwaukee rises above Norway and Austria towers
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News
Foster & Partners working up four-tower New York masterplan
Practice unveils early proposals for redevelopment of world’s busiest bus station
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Opinion
The net zero challenge: feeling is believing
Forget everything you thought you knew about building design if you want to achieve net zero, writes Susan Roaf
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News
DSDHA gets go-ahead for super-thin Fitzrovia scheme
Practice’s 11-storey mixed-use development is just five metres wide