All Features articles – Page 30
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FeaturesDavid Adjaye: One of the most important storytellers of our time
In this essay written to coincide with his Gold Medal, Simone de Gale traces the architect’s significance from his early years to the present day
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FeaturesWellbeing in healthcare: Ceilings and healing
Ceilings are one of the quickest and most cost-effective ways to promote recovery, as Graham Taylor, sales and marketing director at Zentia
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FeaturesLegal: How to avoid becoming liable for errors you were not responsible for
A recent court ruling over a £12m loss is good news for architects as it confirms a duty of care is not owed by a third-party design consultant to a main contractor on a multi-party project
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FeaturesFor the planning reforms to work architects will need to be involved from the start
Design tensions go to the heart of the new Planning Bill, says Hilary Satchwell
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FeaturesIt is time to talk again about protecting the function of architects
Making the golden thread a legal part of an architect’s role would have so many benefits. It’s about protection not protectionism, argues Jerry Tate
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FeaturesThe fire safety scandal will not go away
The government defeated the Lords’ amendment to protect leaseholders from cladding costs. Now it must come up with a credible plan, writes Lord Best
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FeaturesInterview: Designing Britain’s biggest infrastructure project
By any standards and on any scale, it’s a huge job – and one with plenty of critics. HS2’s design director Kay Hughes tells Elizabeth Hopkirk she is relishing the unprecedented challenge
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FeaturesBrian Frost, 1939-2021: This was his tomorrow
The architect who worked with some of the profession’s legendary names died this month. Christian Frost looks back at his father’s career
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FeaturesWe need to talk about greenwash
Designing an airport that looks like a tree does not make it green. The profession needs to watch its language, says Rob Fiehn in a piece to mark Earth Day
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FeaturesCPD 03 2021: Identifying suitability of concrete blocks
This Lignacite sponsored CPD examines the performance of various types of concrete blocks in key areas such as fire, thermal and sound insulation, with suitable compliant constructions. DEADLINE TO COMPLETE: 28 May 2021
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FeaturesMaterial shortages are beginning to look like a long-term issue
Short-term supply disruption could be an early warning of a longer-term problem for the UK’s construction sector, warns Simon Rawlinson
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FeaturesReview: Slogans and Battlecries by Paul Shepheard
Nicholas de Klerk enjoys a book that offers another way into architecture
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FeaturesRethinking Design: How to make leisure and hospitality safe – and fun
Analysis: How will the leisure sector adapt to post-covid restrictions while satisfying our craving for excitement and social interaction? Debika Ray reports
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FeaturesOur suburbs are a messy, quirky patchwork. This makes radical thinking all the more important
Turn Nimbys into Yimbys by giving them a stake in the development process, argues Ben Derbyshire
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FeaturesIs this what you mean by transparency on viability, RBKC?
There is a desperate shortage of affordable housing in Kensington and the council is planning to build some beside Trellick Tower. But Emma Dent Coad has some unanswered questions
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FeaturesDesigning out stigma from mental health facilities should start with demolishing walls
The time has come to integrate mental health facilities into the centre of our communities, writes Christopher Shaw
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FeaturesIn pictures: Thirty years of Lacaton & Vassal
Gallery: Half a dozen of the Pritzker Prize-winners’ best projects
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FeaturesAnalysis: How the church can use its land to ease the nation’s housing crisis
What can one of the UK’s biggest landowners do to put its resources where its mouth is? Elizabeth Hopkirk reports
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FeaturesSalary survey: Will covid widen the architectural skills gap?
Under-pressure practices should hang on to staff and invest in a new generation, writes Jordan Marshall
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FeaturesInternational Women’s Day: Q&As
To mark International Women’s Day, we meet three female directors from three very different practices and pose some quick-fire questions