All Building Design articles in The Williams Report
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OpinionA new recipe for social housing
Tim Williams, chair of the Housing Corporation’s commission into social housing at the Thames Gateway, tells BD how he hopes his report can bring about a revolution in the quality of UK housing design
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OpinionQuality is the missing ingredient in the housing mix
David Levitt says the housing sector’s tick-boxing culture needs to change before architects can make a difference
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NewsToo many mediocre schemes in Gateway, says report
The Williams report on the design of affordable housing says the Housing Corporation must change its method of procurement to improve the quality of design
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OpinionHigh-quality design must be at the heart of social housing if it is to be truly successful
Our homes affect every aspect of our lives: our health, our wealth, our happiness.
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OpinionSocial housing requires elevated standards of design
Excellent design is more critical to social housing than most other building types. Almost 50% of social tenants are not in formal employment, and some 40% of lettings each year go to households with some sort of support need.
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OpinionA Century of housing
Much of the failure of multistorey housing is blamed on architects as well as the technical systems that allowed these new estates to be built cheaply and fast.
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OpinionSmall firms are the best innovators
The bread and butter work of up-and-coming architects is now ripe for scaling up, says young practice AOC
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OpinionSocial housing’s ambivalent legacy
The canon of supposedly great social housing includes many schemes that people put forward as their most hated buildings