All Features articles – Page 31
-
FeaturesFurther education colleges have a vital role to play in rebuilding the economy after covid and Brexit
Alfonso Padro offers some advice for how best to use the funding announced with the Jobs for Skills white paper
-
FeaturesSunak has given us little cause to cheer
There are some dubious ideas and missed opportunities alongside the chancellor’s gifts, writes Brendan Kilpatrick
-
FeaturesRethinking Design: How can we prepare schools for another pandemic?
Jordan Marshall reports on how architects are trying to future-proof school buildings while making new-builds net zero
-
FeaturesCPD 02 2021: Ventilation requirements for roofing membranes
This CPD, sponsored by Glidevale Protect, explains how to take ventilation requirements into account when specifying roofing underlays. DEADLINE: 16 April
-
FeaturesThe future standards initiatives imply action – but fail to provide key detail
Despite a huge response to its consultations the government has yet to give industry the guidance it needs for a national response to the climate crisis, Seb Laan Lomas and Joe Giddings write
-
FeaturesThe age of ostentation is over
Scrapping the Centre for Music and tinkering with the National Gallery mark the start of a quieter era, says former director Charles Saumarez Smith
-
Features‘It’s about justice’ – meet England’s first bishop for housing
The Church of England publishes a report on the housing crisis this weekend. Refugee-turned-bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani tells Elizabeth Hopkirk she is serious about turning recommendations into actions
-
FeaturesGovernment’s Green Homes Grant fiasco is either bumbling incompetence or callous disregard
The failure to properly fund domestic retrofit puts a critical national programme further out of reach, writes Thomas Lane
-
FeaturesThe vision behind the welfare state is a model for how to rebuild after covid
Government planning reforms are doomed to fail because they pit opposing goals against each other for reasons of expediency, writes Roland Karthaus
-
FeaturesHere’s what a design code can’t do, minister
There are some fundamental issues the government must address before its new model design code can make any difference, writes Jas Bhalla
-
FeaturesBeauty is in the eyes of the beholders
What happens when a community have different ideas about what their local design code should say, ask Nisha Kurian and Holly Lewis
-
FeaturesCPD 01 2021: Specifying roofs to reduce fire risk
This CPD, sponsored by ROCKWOOL, explains how to apply fire-conscious design, construction and materials specification to a building’s fifth facade – its roof
-
FeaturesExplainer: How the proposed Future Buildings Standard will affect the way you design
Thomas Lane highlights the most important points in the government’s long-awaited proposals to make non-domestic buildings greener
-
FeaturesWA100 2021: Brighter light on the horizon
The world is a different place from this time last year
-
FeaturesOpening a new chapter in the history of the urban
As we reimagine our material and social infrastructure post-pandemic we could learn from cities that have been through worse, argues Clare Melhuish
-
FeaturesExplainer: Five things you need to know about the Future Homes Standard
The government has published the draft version of Part L which comes into force next year. We outline what it means for the industry
-
FeaturesWA100 2021: The big list
World Architecture 100: View a table of this year’s top 100 architects
-
FeaturesRunning on empty: Whatever happened to the Nightingales?
The Nightingale hospitals, built in record time, were a proud moment for the industry. But with patient numbers overwhelming the NHS, Elizabeth Hopkirk asks why they never fulfilled their original promise
-
FeaturesWhat the Brexit deal means for architects
RIBA’s Lucy Monks unpacks how the future-relationship agreement will change everything for the profession, from visiting clients to recognition of qualifications
-
FeaturesScrapping Erasmus is a tragedy for the next generation of architects
Britain’s exit from the exchange programme has needlessly destroyed something of enormous value, writes Oliver Bayliss