All Buildings, design and specification articles – Page 51
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OpinionWhat’s stopping us from carrying on exactly as we are?
The target for achieving net zero may still be decades away but, in order to hit it, we have to make changes to the way we design and build right now, says Anna Beckett
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NewsPaws for thought: Fosters and RSHP among star names scrapping to win dog kennel design contest
Other practices in the running for this weekend’s ‘Barkitecture’ competition include Hopkins and Stanton Williams
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OpinionNew Labour: remembering an era of optimism, enthusiasm and mixed results
It is 25 years since Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide victory and the architectural legacy is both good and bad, writes Ben Flatman
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NewsChipperfield and Moussavi named as design advocates for London
David Adjaye is reappointed on 42-strong advisory panel, set up to improve capital’s built environment
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FeaturesAdek clarifies the fire safety classification system for flooring products
Jessica Brown, digital marketing manager at Ecodek, explores the growing demand for flooring materials to meet new standards
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FeaturesWarmFloor Pro – The sustainable, insulated alternative to beam and block flooring
WarmFloor Pro is ideal for both residential and commercial structural floor construction
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NewsHeatherwick, LEAP and Alison Brooks among RIBA regional winners for 2022
Building of the year awards for projects including cancer support centre and modern reimagining of an Oxford quad
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NewsGreen light for first phase of ‘inside out’ estate regeneration
Masterplan drawn up by Levitt Bernstein, Proctor & Matthews Architects and Cullinan Studio aims to reduce antisocial behaviour on 1970s South London development
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FeaturesEQUITONE’s new texture, as timeless as the beauty of the moon
[Lunara]’s unique surface texture, covered with tiny, silken, irregular elevations and depressions, is reminiscent of the cratered landscape of the Moon. Its random-looking and non-repeating surface is due to a new production process and no two panels are exactly the same. Similar to the rest of the EQUITONE range, [lunara] ...
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FeaturesA temple to post-covid working culture: designing Google’s global headquarters
Google’s newly completed Bay View campus in Silicon Valley opened to staff last week. Tom Lowe spoke to Heatherwick group leader Eliot Postma about how the concept was developed
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FeaturesBarbican Centre at 40: how an international arts venue took shape
The pioneering scheme is celebrating its 40th birthday. Former managing director Nicholas Kenyon explains how the initial plans for a residential development evolved
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NewsNational Gallery unveils revised Selldorf upgrade designs
Latest images of £30m proposals come ahead of planning application submission this summer
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OpinionDesign better, specify better and consume more carefully – that’s my (not so) radical idea
While we should all be taking action in order to preserve our planet, direct action is actually rather less effective than well-placed words if we want to drive real and lasting change, writes Matthew Lloyd
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NewsGove steps in and puts Make’s £400m plan to turn ITV studios into office complex on ice
Communities secretary has issued notice preventing demolition work at 72 Upper Ground site ahead of possible call in
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NewsQueen’s Speech 2022: architects question feasibility of ‘street votes’ policy
Councils will need to have sufficient funding to make the government’s local design code plan work, architects warn
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ReviewReview | MoMA’s exhibition illustrates the rich legacy of South Asian modernism
New York museum seeks to put region’s architecture in a post-colonialist context, writes Ben Flatman
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OpinionHandle with care: retrofits are full of surprises and architects have lots to learn
A standard architectural education does not equip us well for working on historic building fabric. You need a clear understanding of how materials work, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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FeaturesWhy facade engineering excellence is important for contractors
Led by design. Backed by expertise. These two elements are fundamental to Schüco aluminium and steel facade, window and door systems
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NewsAHMM scoops three RIBA London Awards
Allies & Morrison, Sheppard Robson and Surman Weston score double victories on 42-strong winners’ list
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TechnicalDoes the key to cutting carbon lie beneath your feet?
A new system aims to reduce the embodied carbon of a floor slab by up to 75%. But are other solutions already to hand?