All articles by Mary Richardson
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NewsNew bio- and waste-based tiles could cut embodied carbon by 94 per cent
UK tile manufacturer Johnson Tiles is backing the commercialisation of a new type of tile with a carbon footprint 94 percent lower than conventional ceramic tiles
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NewsIn pictures: Neo-Georgian House transformed by Hamish Vincent Design and Architecture for London
For a client who yearned for a listed Georgian home but also wanted open-plan living spaces, a neo-Georgian house in Islington turned out to be the compromise that ticked all the boxes
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NewsPick of Clerkenwell Design Week
Here’s our pick of some of the best finds at this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week from award-winning steam-bent chairs to cork wallpaper made in Yorkshire
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NewsBlack Gold? DaeWha Kang’s new museum asks questions about our relationship with oil
DaeWha Kang has reworked a Zaha Hadid Architects’ research library in Riyadh – that he helped design a decade ago – into a museum about humanity’s most consequential material. He talks to us about returning to your own building, working with Hadid, and why adaptive reuse may be the defining ...
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NewsIn pictures: Neil Dusheiko Architects Church House – context and craft in Cambridgeshire family home reworking
Neil Dusheiko Architects reworks a historic Cambridgeshire family home in quiet dialogue with the Grade II* listed church opposite
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NewsForza Doors launches UK’s first double-action pivot door with fire and smoke certification
A pivot door with fully tested 60-minute fire and smoke performance has been brought to market for the first time in the UK, offering architects a certified solution to one of commercial interior design’s more persistent compliance headaches
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NewsReaching Tipping Point – building the infrastructure for construction’s circular economy
London’s first large-scale construction reuse hub is taking shape in Silvertown, east London, attempting something the built environment has so far struggled to achieve: turning reuse and the circular economy from paper-exercise “nice idea” into functioning supply-chain infrastructure. I went along to take a look
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NewsIn pictures: Pend’s stylish Canon Mews uses courtyards to maximise a constrained urban site
Edinburgh firm Pend’s first project as designer-developers – a clever pair of mews houses in the Scottish capital – demonstrates the value of the architect’s skils in unlocking the potential of constrained urban sites
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NewsBehind the scenes of Levitt Bernstein’s considered upgrade of LSO St Luke’s
As Levitt Bernstein completes the latest phase of works at St Luke’s – the London Symphony Orchestra’s home for performance, recording and education – we talk to Mark Lewis, the firm’s arts studio director, to hear more about the unique challenges of specifying the latest audio equipment in a Grade ...
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NewsNew tool launched to streamline installation of masonry support systems
The Griplock from Grayson promises to speed up the process, improve on-site safety and and turn a two-person job into a task that can be done solo
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FeaturesVelux’s Innovation House is full of the firm’s windows – but there’s so much more to this inspiring warehouse retrofit, as a new book about the project shows
Velux’s innovation centre has many lessons to teach about adaptive reuse and timber construction. To mark the publication of More Than a House: An Experiment in Transformation, which tells the story of the sustainable transformation, I went along to take a look
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NewsCertification scheme for audio-inclusive design launched
A new scheme will offer independent verification of buildings’ audio inclusivity post occupancy
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NewsIn pictures: Article 25’s Kao La Amani children’s village in Tanzania designed for dignity, community and climate resilience
In Boma Ng’ombe in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, architecture development charity Article 25 has completed Kao La Amani children’s village, an off-grid, climate-responsive settlement designed to provide long-term care, stability and dignity for 60 children
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NewsIn pictures: Blight Rayner and Snøhetta’s Glasshouse Theatre, Brisbane – wavy glass wonder wall
The new theatre at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre is all about its dramatic high-performance folded glass facade
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Information - BDIn pictures: Campfield – adaptive reuse of Victorian market halls as tech hub and workspaces
The Campfield project sees a pair of Manchester market halls retrofitted with contemporary insertions to give the iron and glass structures new life as a tech hub/workspace with a public market area. We talked to the designer to learn about some of the challenges of this type of heritage retrofit
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Information - BDWienerberger Denton set to become world’s first hydrogen brick-kiln plant
Wienerberger has secured government funding for what is thought to be the world’s first commercial-scale hydrogen kilns at its brickworks in Denton, Greater Manchester
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NewsHLM Architects brightens studio with mural by local artist
HLM Architects has unveiled a striking new mural in its Sheffield studio by Barnsley artist Adam Briscoe. Inspired by the city’s iconic landmarks, rich musical history and memorable cultural moments, the artwork offers a vibrant celebration of Sheffield’s past and present
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NewsIn pictures: John Puttick Associates’ Preston Vault Youth Zone – fun foil to the city’s famous bus station, with striking interiors by Ben Kelly
The newly completed Preston Vault Youth Zone marks the final chapter in more than a decade of civic renewal work in the city for John Puttick Associates, which was originally founded to refurbish the famous Brutalist bus station across the road from this striking new youth centre
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NewsDemonstrator homes from different eras to provide retrofit data for social housing
A research and demonstrator project at Liverpool John Moores University is set to offer practical data-driven insights on retrofitting homes of different ages
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NewsOpportunities and threats for wider UK hardwood use explored at V&A event
Ways to scale the use of UK hardwood in construction were unpacked at a V&A museum symposium that tackled the question: what if our built environment was shaped by local, climate-resilient, mixed-species forest? The audience heard about projects across the country that are facilitating the use of homegrown timber – ...