All Building Design articles in March 2021 – Page 2
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Agrawal quits Homes England after less than a year to run Public Practice
Move follows Finn Williams’ appointment as Malmo city architect
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New building safety regulator to hire 700 staff
Body set up following 2018 Hackitt report into Grenfell fire
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RIBA launches consultation on mandatory safety, ethical and green competences
Architects have until June to give feedback
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Retrofit could cut CO2 emissions from old buildings by 80%, says Historic England
More than a fifth of buildings in England are over a century old
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Kingspan boss denies private dinner with MPs was bid to ‘access political power’ to stop combustible insulation ban
Senior staff attended Westminster dinner months after fire, Grenfell Inquiry hears
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Consented RSHP hotel being redesigned as student flats because of covid
Pandemic has hit viability of tourism businesses, admits developer
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Architecture Initiative wins planning for cinema at old Beatles record plant
Gramophone building is ‘last piece in puzzle’ of regeneration project
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Government to take control of Liverpool planning and regeneration departments amid fraud probe
Damning reports finds ‘deeply concerning picture of mismanagement’
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Features
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
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Kingspan director denies misleading Grenfell Inquiry by ‘forgetting’ to mention rigged fire test
Adrian Pargeter admits ‘powers of recollection… deserted me’ when giving evidence last December
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Features
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
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Haworth Tompkins flats ‘would block view of Trellick Tower’, say opponents
Goldfinger estate would be damaged for sake of 20 social rented homes, claims local councillor and historian
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Government’s £562m housing retrofit programme ‘simply not enough’, RIBA warns
Policy to improve 50,000 homes branded ’not enough’ to tackle problem
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MPs vote down proposal to protect residents from fire safety bills
House of Commons rejected ‘unworkable’ Lords amendment to the Fire Safety Bill
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BBA procedures not designed to counter ‘deliberate misrepresentation’, Grenfell Inquiry hears
‘Maybe we were naive,’ admits chief scientific officer as inquiry hears Arconic ignored 11 requests for information
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British Pavilion at Venice Biennale relaunched
First image of the Garden of Privatised Delights is revealed
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Developer pulls £1bn Simpson Haugh hotel rather than face inquiry
Controversial hotel and resi scheme would have replaced Seifert’s Kensington Forum hotel in west London
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Scrapping Green Homes Grant had ‘devastating consequences’, MPs say
Environmental audit committee and RIBA call on government to launch national retrofit strategy
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Opinion
The Coach: Turning off the mute button
After so long living a life of restrictions, emerging from this latest lockdown poses a new set of challenges. So take it slowly, writes Louise Rodgers
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Road project seen as central to Ox-Cam arc is axed
£3.5bn Expressway project seen as vital to building of one million homes in the Oxford-Cambridge arc