Materials – Page 5
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NewsPrepare for materials shortages to worsen, CLC warns
Number of products in high demand now includes host of materials including cement and steel
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News
Websites still selling combustible insulation used on Grenfell with inaccurate data
Two firms have corrected the mistake after being alerted
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Opinion
Could our year of crafting revive the craft of building?
The whole country has gone mad for making and even housebuilders are talking about beauty. This is our moment – seize it, says Eleanor Jolliffe
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Features
In pictures: Thirty years of Lacaton & Vassal
Gallery: Half a dozen of the Pritzker Prize-winners’ best projects
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Building Study
Building Study: 22 Handyside Street, King’s Cross, by Coffey Architects
The YAYA winner’s shimmering King’s Cross office more than justifies the developer’s decision to put its faith in emerging talent, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
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Building Study
Building Study: Barts Square, London, by Sheppard Robson
The architect worked with other practices to bring a richness to this new development which is surrounded by some of London’s oldest fabric
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News
Studio Woodroffe Papa completes ‘stealth’ development in Bloomsbury mews
In pics: Old Dairy home and offices slotted between listed terrace and former graveyard
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Features
Explainer: Five things you need to know about the Future Homes Standard
The government has published the draft version of Part L which comes into force next year. We outline what it means for the industry
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Technical
Technical Study: Old Admiralty Building, London by BDP
After a £60m refurb, the top-secret former haunt of Churchill and Ian Fleming is back in Her Majesty’s Service, writes Elizabeth Hopkirk
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Features
Offsite manufacturing will encourage more women into the industry
A fixed workplace close to home, flexible shift patterns and job security would all attract women to jobs in construction, Rosa Turner Wood writes
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Inspirations
Sam Jacob’s inspiration: Avebury stone circle
Wiltshire’s other mysterious Neolithic circle is architecture in its purest form and would give Mies a run for his money, says the FAT co-founder
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News
First homes go in for planning using RCKa’s pioneering MMC system
Architect says its modular system will slash time and cost of design process
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Opinion
Learning from lockdown: Now is the time to talk to volume housebuilders
Martyn Evans doesn’t buy the idea that nothing will ever change in the designer-less world of housing
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Features
Heatherwick salutes an inspirational craftsman and collaborator
Thomas Heatherwick pays tribute to his friend the fabricator Bill Tustin who was instrumental in some of his studio’s key projects
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Inspirations
Edmund Fowles’ inspiration: Roosenberg Abbey, Flanders
The Feilden Fowles director on a remote Belgian monastery designed by a monk who devised his own version of the golden ratio
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News
Architects tell government radical changes needed to combustibles ban
Stirling Prize nominees call for structural timber to be excluded, while RIBA argues for more buildings to be covered
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Features
MMC in school design should be treated with openness, not suspicion
Modern methods are nothing for architects to fear and could actually protect design quality, argues Sheppard Robson’s James Jones
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Building Study
Building Study: Plumstead Centre, London, by Hawkins Brown
The architect reckons it has found the solution to saving libraries from extinction. Ike Ijeh assesses the end result
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Technical
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
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Inspirations
Richard Griffiths’ first project: The Old Dispensary, Stratford
The architect recalls putting quality over cost, winning over hostile workmen and an electric shock
