Briefing – Page 26
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FeaturesInterview: Lee Polisano on towers and ten years of PLP
As the 10th anniversary of PLP and the looming storm of Brexit approach, Lee Polisano looks into the future
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FeaturesThe country needs architects to get us out of the housing crisis - just as it did a century ago
100 years on, it’s time for a new Tudor Walters Report, says Mark Swenarton
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FeaturesThe making of Eric Parry's modern Livery Hall
The most recent of the City of London’s livery halls continues a grand tradition, finds Peter Murray
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FeaturesBarbican at 50: Brutalism for the consumer age
From the Smithsons to the Garchey waste disposal systems, Charles Holland walks us through the estate’s history
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FeaturesWhy we need a RIBA student and graduate network
Architects are alone in not having a formal support structure for the profession’s younger members
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Features'The biggest single project since the pharaohs'
As the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day nears, Glyn Prysor tells the story of the architects who commemorated death on an unprecedented scale
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FeaturesIf the prime minister is serious about building sustainable communities, here's how
Everyone agrees we should be producing better housing. What we need now are some more built success stories
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FeaturesFred Scott: The double ecstasy of altering architecture
A decade after the designer’s seminal book, Peter Youthed argues he paved the way for the likes of David Chipperfield and Caruso St John
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FeaturesWill driverless cars change our cities for better or worse?
Do electric private-hire driverless cars represent a huge opportunity to redesign our urban environment?
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FeaturesArchitects are problem solvers. We should be able to solve an issue like education
We must work harder to tackle the ‘architecture time-bomb’
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FeaturesArchitects have forgotten how to design for people
Step down from your ivory tower and design with your users’ wellbeing in mind, urges Ben Channon
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FeaturesAnni Albers, the Bauhaus and the pliable plane
Pushed into weaving because she was a woman, Albers became fascinated by the medium’s architectural uses says the curator of the Tate’s retrospective
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FeaturesHow to get housing through planning: collaborate with the locals
Community-led schemes are getting quality designs built, says Tom Chance
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FeaturesRA show rightly casts Renzo Piano as pragmatist and dreamer
The first big architecture exhibition since David Chipperfield united the two halves of the Royal Academy is a hit
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FeaturesOld buildings bite back - but it's exactly those twists that make refurbs so rewarding
The thrill of repurposing a historic building is worth the inevitable headaches, argues Nicola Rutt
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FeaturesClassicism is in our DNA. Just look at any terraced street
Classicism has been accused of responsibility for the Holocaust and the Grenfell fire but a new generation of architects can see past the baggage
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FeaturesWho do we want to immortalise?
The memorials we erect say more about us than they do about the past, writes Duncan Wilson, as Historic England tries to start a national debate
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Features'Florian’s legacy is assured'
Florian Beigel has inspired generations of architects with his ability to communicate through words, drawings and buildings, says Julian Lewis
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FeaturesWorld Heritage status - a blessing or curse?
After 30 years as a World Heritage Site, the Tower of London faces being delisted. Does it matter?
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FeaturesWhy it's in all our interests to reinvent the almshouse after 1,000 years
While the last decade has seen significant progress in the quality and variety of housing for older people, there is still some way to go