Briefing – Page 35
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AnalysisWill the Hammersmith 'flyunder' take off?
The latest tunnel project for west London will need to overcome enormous economic and infrastructural obstacles before it is delivered, says Ike Ijeh
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Analysis‘It’s not just a breathing space, it’s a social space’
Landscape architect James Corner has created a promenade of public play spaces dotted around the main venues of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Ike Ijeh speaks to the designer as the park re-opens to the public
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AnalysisCustom build: Give us the tools
Once trumpeted as a way of raising housing output by as many as 50,000 homes a year, custom build was responsible for barely a fifth of that figure last year. So what’s the hold-up and can anything be done to reinvigorate the market?
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AnalysisPeter Rees: 'I'm a one-off'
Peter Rees’ 29 years as head of planning in the Square Mile have been nothing if not controversial. In his first interview since announcing his departure, he talks about his legacy of transforming the City
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AnalysisOn the waterfront: Royal Docks green design competition
Ecobuild and the Landscape Institute launched a competition for ideas on how to turn the Royal Docks into a green infrastructure space for east London. Thomas Lane reports on some of the top proposals
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AnalysisWhere are architecture’s Bravehearts?
Talk of independence omits Scotland’s built environment
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FeaturesWA100 2014: When global meets local
As Aecom’s 2016 Rio Olympics masterplan becomes a reality, the firm explains the benefits it has gained from partnering with a local Brazilian architect
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Analysis2014 preview: a slow start for the new landmarks
The legacy of the recession means the new year will be about architectural beginnings rather than completions
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AnalysisCan your practice get a kick out of Qatar?
Here’s how British architects can share in the Doha boom
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AnalysisDoha shoots for World Cup goal
Qatar’s hotel-building boom is good news for architects, but how long can it last?
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AnalysisDesigner hotels find room for local character
Universal Design Studio’s Ace Hotel London in Shoreditch typifies an alternative approach to the blank, homogenised feel of many international chains
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AnalysisWhatever happened to student housing?
With university accommodation now defined by the developers’ desire to cram students in as densely as possible, high-quality design may be too much to ask, says Owen Hatherley
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AnalysisWhy is it so hard to keep non-EU architecture students in the UK?
Are the Home Office’s migration policies affecting the education of foreign students?
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AnalysisAecom: don’t be scared of the giant
Aecom may be a huge company but it likes smaller partners, reports David Rogers
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AnalysisKeep it cool: designing for the TMT market
Architects must get inside the heads of their design-conscious media and technology clients
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AnalysisPower to the architects
Sarah Wigglesworth calls on the profession to stop kowtowing to clients and start setting the political agenda
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AnalysisStephen Hodder: 'I want to focus on a few small things and deliver them well'
New RIBA president is not promising fireworks, just carefully judged reform.
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FeaturesPractices have a story to tell
Architects are waking up to the role of narrative in the placemaking process
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AnalysisWould you pay $90,000 for this chair?
Rare items of furniture by living architects are fetching small fortunes at auction