All sustainability articles – Page 3

  • Tomáš Jurdák 2020
    Opinion

    We should all be striving for sustainability

    2022-06-10T06:00:00Z

    MiddleCap’s Tomáš Jurdák explains why pushing the environmental performance of buildings is not simply a matter for the planning system

  • Venice 2023 Team 1 Landscape
    News

    British Pavilion team for Venice Biennale announced

    2022-02-25T09:12:00Z

    Curators to create exhibition exploring sustainable materials

  • RADICAL TECHNOLOGY
    Blogs

    Why bother?

    2012-04-24T08:19:00Z

    Architecture and green issues rarely truly mix

  • Blogs

    Bees for Cities

    2012-04-12T10:49:00Z

    “We need to remember the creepy crawlies things” was the message of the Architecture Foundation’s Inmidtown Habitats exhibition

  • Hubris
    Blogs

    Hubris

    2012-02-08T08:21:00Z

    Hubris and going back to the drawing board

  • Limit
    Blogs

    Limit yourself

    2012-02-03T08:30:00Z

    A little creativity with restricted design options can go a long way

  • Containing our global burden
    Blogs

    Containing our global burden

    2011-11-14T16:18:00Z

    How architects can make the building process more sustainable

  • Graveyard growing beds
    Blogs

    Live and let live

    2011-11-07T09:58:00Z

    Who gets the most of architecture schools’ live projects in the end?

  • Incredible Edible Todmorden - civil society action
    Blogs

    Live and learn

    2011-10-07T15:48:00Z

    The ‘live projects’ initiative at Sheffield University raises vital questions about the purpose and suitability of architectural education

  • The cruelty of competition
    Blogs

    The cruelty of competition

    2011-09-28T17:17:00Z

    Competitions are a cruel thing. Not winning a fee bid is tough but the burst of energy, commitment and optimism that comes with a design competition creates a high which means it’s a longer way to fall when you lose out.

  • Back. And Forth.
    Blogs

    Back. And Forth.

    2011-08-31T16:27:00Z

    Growing unrest in Israel’s Sinai border region had me reaching for the telephone and asking for an earlier flight

  • Still from Floda 31
    Blogs

    A study in positive ambiguity.

    2011-08-30T11:57:00Z

    Designers working in building like certainty and determinism.

  • Eco Avant-garde by Heini Van Niekerk
    Blogs

    Eco Avant-garde

    2011-08-19T10:04:00Z

    We should not forget that this planet is the only balance we have to maintain.

  • Why architecture students should pick up the trowel
    Blogs

    Why architecture students should pick up the trowel

    2011-08-16T08:47:00Z

    This summer I’m supervising the construction of a small extension to my house. I say supervising, rather helping to construct, as we don’t currently have a builder.

  • Working for free
    Blogs

    Social building

    2011-07-29T12:01:00Z

    This week we’ve been working for free.

  • Message in a bottle
    Blogs

    A message in a bottle

    2011-06-24T14:35:00Z

    Engineers like beer. They like designing things. Anything that combines the two in a single, professionally and legally allowable circumstance has got to be good.

  • Summer workshops for architecture students
    Blogs

    Summer workshops for curious students

    2011-05-20T15:19:00Z

    A ’Guide to the Summer’ for architecture students might look like this

  • The team at Hill Holt Wood
    Blogs

    Contemplating practice...

    2011-04-20T16:25:00Z

    Having recently returned to my part II studies, I have had the opportunity to reflect upon my year out.

  • plane house blog
    Blogs

    'Pre-fab' or 'Post-flap'

    2011-01-19T11:06:00Z

    Forget pre-fab, it seems the latest trend may be better off titled ‘post-flap’.

  • Russian architect Alexander Remizov's The Ark is designed to withstand floods, earthquakes and tornadoes.
    Blogs

    Noah and the Slinky

    2011-01-13T10:36:00Z

    Looking like an unholy alliance of slinky spring and a set design from Waterworld; Russian architect Alexander Remizov seeks to make a Kevin Coster out of us all with a prototype design he calls ‘The Ark’.