Damian Arnold
- Technical
‘L’ stands for leakage
Airtightness could be a much more effective solution to energy efficiency and reducing CO2 than insulation, according to overdue research on meeting Part L.
TechnicalSome light shopping
Light box meets video installation in the facade of a Seoul shopping centre.
NewsFriendly alien
Italy’s quirky Massimiliano Fuksas is taking on the UK. Damian Arnold meets the man behind the bubbles
- News
Ellipse axed in face of opposition
Grimshaw’s proposed £30 million extension of the Royal College of Art has been abandoned amid fears that defending the scheme against opposition will prove too expensive.
NewsCabe joins row on university funding
Cabe has demanded changes to how schools of architecture are funded because it fears that a spate of school closures could lead to a critical shortage of design skills needed to deliver ambitious government housing targets.
- News
Nightingale breaks into top three with buy-up
Nightingale Associates this week became the third-largest architectural firm in the UK after it swallowed up the 53-strong Liverpool-based Derek Hicks & Thew Architects and swelled its ranks to more than 250 staff.
- News
Bleak future for iconic office
Future office design will focus far less on creating iconic forms such as the Gherkin and more on transforming existing interior spaces to suit changing work patterns.
- News
Cash fears for culture buildings
The Victoria & Albert Museum will not commission an iconic piece of architecture to replace the dumped Daniel Libeskind “Spiral” extension.
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Backing for man-hour fee scales
The time taken to design a building rather than a percentage of construction costs could become the new way of measuring fees, under proposals for a new pan-European system.
- News
RIBA plans election manifesto
If you could sit down with the prime minister over coffee and tell him three things architects could do to improve life in Britain, what would they be?
- News
Southwark window outrage
Angry residents at a celebrated 1950s housing estate in south London are taking action against Southwark Council for ripping out original timber windows and replacing them with uPVC.
- Opinion
The silent treatment wont passify public
When things go wrong, the public’s perception of architects is defined by what they say or do not say. This week the architect Kathryn Gustafson told the world why she was not to blame for the series of glitches that closed the Diana Memorial Fountain. Unfortunately, the effect of her ...
NewsGLA’s ‘green’ dream in the shade as County Hall brings in the sun
RHWL’s plans to install solar panels on County Hall roofs could provide a quarter of the site’s energy needs