All Features articles – Page 40
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FeaturesWe should embrace AI to help us solve humanity’s existential crisis
With a fuller understanding of issues such as climate change and migration we have a better chance of developing solutions, writes Anna Liu
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FeaturesCPD 11 2019: Lighting, wellbeing and productivity
This CPD, sponsored by Helvar, will look at the issues around the effectiveness of good lighting systems
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FeaturesFacing the Future – the Big Construction Survey
Have your say and you could win an iPad Air
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FeaturesConfessions of an architectural modelmaker
Faulkner Browns modelmaker Andrew Parkin explains why he has no need to fear the march of technology
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FeaturesHow a UK architect won the job of designing all eight venues for one of the world’s biggest sporting events
Pattern Design had less than 18 months to deliver the Pan American Games in Lima. Director Lindsay Johnston explains how they did it
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FeaturesArchitects and urban designers must help plug water shortages before it’s too late
Even the UK is heading for a terrifyingly dry future and we need to change the way we design now, says Asif Din of Perkins Will
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FeaturesStop undermining executive architects
Executive architects are often dismissed as lacking the talent to design great buildings. But without them those projects would be a lot less great
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2019: The winners
This year’s completed scheme winners and the Housing Design Awards 2019 overall winner
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FeaturesIke Ijeh on the 2019 Stirling Prize shortlist
BD’s architecture critic on this year’s six contenders
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Featuresseele realises different façade types and a retractable membrane roof for the No.1 Court at The Championships, Wimbledon
Façade specialist seele has provided 13 different façade types and a 6,000sqm retractable membrane roof over the whole stadium.
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FeaturesHousing Design Awards 2019: Uncompleted scheme winners
This year’s winners take a smart approach to densification that shows how to provide quality living space in constrained sites
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FeaturesWhat if Google built your house?
Flavio Tejada predicts a future in which emerging technologies transform the built environment – and construction
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FeaturesWhy American universities are in thrall to the Oxbridge quad
Some questionable motivations lie behind the design staple, says the author of a new book on the subject
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FeaturesA new age of council housebuilding is dawning
Mark Swenarton on what we need to learn from the Homes Fit for Heroes programme a century ago
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FeaturesWe need a spatial strategy to heal the pain behind Brexit
Britain’s failure to take regional planning seriously is a dereliction of duty that has led to our polarised economy, argues Tom Brooksbank
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FeaturesWhere is architecture’s Stephen Fry?
We need a high-profile architect to speak out about their mental health struggles, says Virginia Newman
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FeaturesHow to stop stack effect whistling through your buildings
Cold drafts, howling winds and banging doors can be avoided with careful planning
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FeaturesHow to run the perfect design competition
Architectural contests are a minefield to get right. Alan Berman has been on both sides of the fence, as architect and advisor
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FeaturesReview: Architecture room at the RA Summer Exhibition 2019
Michael Collins on the exhibition which opens to the public next week
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FeaturesOffice architects need to add anthropology and data science to their skillset
Our workplaces have never been more high-tech - and yet in some ways office design is turning full circle, says Aecom’s Nicola Gillen