Phil Clark
NewsDan Cruickshank attacks Tower Hamlets and English Heritage over Robin Hood Gardens
Architectural historian and TV personality Dan Cruickshank has given the east London council and heritage body a drubbing over the Smithson’s estate.
- Technical
The green winners and losers in 2008
Phil Clark looks back at the year’s best in sustainabiliity
TechnicalArchitects see red over BRE’s latest Green Guide
Phil Clark examines the criticisms levelled by architects at the latest edition of BRE’s Green Guide now online
TechnicalWill the future be Dubai or Masdar?
Foster’s Masdar design team rocked up at the Cityscape conference last week in Dubai — and was really impressive
NewsMasdar set to hold two architectural competitions
Sustainable city planned for Abu Dhabi on the look out for green practices to produce designs for zero carbon hotel
NewsMayne warns Dubai set for ‘ecological disaster’
Pritzker Prize winner blames a lack of control by city’s political class
NewsDubai plans 1km-high tower
Developer Nakheel this weekend revealed plans for a 1km-high tower in the centre of Dubai, set to eclipse the world’s current tallest tower, the Burj Dubai.
- Features
Is it possible to be green in a downturn?
Phil Clark on why sustainable solutions will become more valuable in a straitened economic environment
NewsSainsbury call on Stride Treglown for eco-store
Architect strives for bold energy and water reduction targets for newly-opened Dartmouth scheme
- Technical
Offsetting must form part of our carbon-cutting diet
Phil Clark argues the merit of using carbon offset schemes in the quest to reduce global CO2 emissions
FeaturesDon’t let green roofs be victims of the crunch
Why green roofs add real value to a building, not just ‘eco-bling’
TechnicalTackling the sustainability of our existing building stock is the next step
Reducing carbon emissions of the existing homes will make a real difference, and architects need to be in on the act
TechnicalThink event explores the engineer as architect debate
Is the architectural profession under attack in our supposedly new shiny sustainable world? This debate has been highlighted in the pages of BD, and came to life at a great session at last week’s Think event, chaired by BD editor Amanda Baillieu, on whether engineers are the new architects.
NewsHOK chief says architects favour celebrity over sustainability
The chairman of one of the world’s biggest practices has attacked the profession for favouring celebrity over sustainability in their approach to design.
TechnicalWhere Bill goes, the rest are sure to follow
Phil Clark looks at the key eco-tenets of BedZed progenitor and sustainable housing pioneer Bill Dunster
TechnicalHas ‘zero carbon’ become meaningless?
The term zero carbon risks becoming a way of hiding a multitude of sins.
News2020 deadline set for zero carbon non-domestic buildings
UK Green Building Council report sets challenging timeframe for new code and claims cost premium could be from 3-30%
OpinionNobody knows anything
Zero-champion Phil Clark is alarmed by how unclear we all are about carbon emissions and how to reduce them
