Briefing – Page 29
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FeaturesRedundant city centre car parks: repurpose or demolish?
The city centre multi-storey car park is rapidly becoming redundant. Can they be repurposed?
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FeaturesHow do you design an embassy in a country like Yemen?
In a land with more guns that people, can you design an embassy that says, ‘Come in for tea’?
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FeaturesUrban design must shake off the shackles of the tabula rasa
The majority of land in our towns is already built on. If we limit urban design to big empty sites we are all the losers
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FeaturesBritain should lighten up and allow some fun into its public spaces
Give architects a really big site and stand back
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FeaturesBetween our two hands: Creating space for the analogue in architectural education
How can architects draw and specify materials they have never worked with?
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FeaturesWhy Frederick Gibberd deserves a place in our narrative of modern architecture
Christine Hui Lan Manley argues for the modernist’s place in the canon
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AnalysisThe new London Plan has got it wrong on density
Scrapping London’s density matrix could actually worsen the housing crisis, argues Duncan Bowie
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NewsBrexit deal ‘not enough’ to calm staff jitters
RIBA says architects need more reassurance about their ability to work after the UK leaves the EU
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FeaturesGoodbye brutalism… Hello post-modernism…
Stop writing that book on brutalism: it’s so last year. Time to get ready to love all those po-mo buildings you used to hate, says Tom Ravenscroft
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AnalysisCould the return of the clerk of works improve build quality?
Concerns about building quality and safety, especially in the wake of Grenfell, have led to calls for a more co-ordinated approach to accountability. Could the clerk of works help?
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FeaturesThe complicated truth behind a regeneration success story
Dalston’s Gillett Square is a well-used and vibrant public space. But that’s only half the picture, David Rudlin finds
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FeaturesWhat Britain could learn from Europe about public spaces and urbanism
If we are serious about creating good places we must stop building gated communities - whether horizontal or vertical, argues the author of a new book
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FeaturesA hundred years of housing design
An Englishman’s home might be his castle but it can also be a futuristic statement or a cutting-edge experiment
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FeaturesWhat makes post-modernism?
Appropriately enough, post-modernism means different things in different places. Elain Harwood explains how she charted its history for a new book
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FeaturesPlanners can't protect our high streets - so architects and their clients must
The death of the high street has been widely predicted but after interviewing hundreds of people, We Made That founder Holly Lewis is convinced they are an essential part of the city’s ecology
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AnalysisWhat will Stirk and Harbour do without Rogers?
It’s 10 years since Richard Rogers shared naming rights to his practice with two very different characters. Elizabeth Hopkirk asks the questions everyone’s thinking
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FeaturesGallery: The 6 most interesting RSHP projects
The Richard Rogers Partnership became Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners a decade ago this month. Ike Ijeh assesses the back catalogue
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FeaturesHow China transformed its cities from environmental disasters – and what the west can learn
As the Chinese Communist Party Congress opens in Beijing, Austin Williams assesses the remarkable rise of the nation’s ‘eco-cities’