All Building Design articles in February 2023 – Page 15
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Opinion
A disaster foretold: how a decade of high-rise architecture has blighted London’s skyline
Nine years on from NLA’s ‘London’s Growing Up’ exhibition, Barbara Weiss assesses the impact tall buildings have had on the capital
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News
Housing minister to step down after promotion to culture secretary
Frazer’s promotion to culture secretary means industry in line for sixth housing minister in 12 months
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News
Sunak creates standalone energy and net zero department in Whitehall shake-up
Promotion of Lucy Frazer to cabinet job creates housing minister vacancy
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News
Fosters profit tumbles by 42% despite rise in revenue
Accounts also reveal £22.1m payout to employees following deal with Canadian investment firm
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News
In pictures: Moxon Architects opens Thames Path footbridge
The low-carbon footbridge at London’s Dukes Meadows is positioned beneath the existing Grade II listed Barnes Bridge
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Building Study
Flaxmill Maltings: FCBStudios' restoration of the world's first iron-framed building
When Historic England took on restoration of an 18th-century flax mill, the plan was to preserve a piece of history and give a unique industrial building a new sense of purpose
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News
Stitch gets OK for student tower at appeal
Southwark scheme is “high-quality but not exemplary”, planning inspector says
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News
Construction activity falls at fastest rate since 2020 as housebuilding drops off
House building orders declined sharply in January, purchasing managers index shows
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Opinion
Architectural graduates can earn more at McDonald’s. That’s bad for diversity and the profession
Ludicrously expensive education, low-pay and structural barriers to career progression are hindering efforts to diversify the profession, writes Naomi Fisher
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News
BDP’s Great Ormond Street Hospital entrance building set for green light
Plans for eight-storey facility backed by Camden council despite outcry from locals over daylight and heritage concerns
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News
Trio wins Scotland cultural centre competition
O’DonnelBrown Architects with White Arkitecter and ZM Architecture beats shortlist including Caruso St John to win £15m Crichton Project
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News
Former Greenpeace directors lodge plans for ‘Europe’s most regenerative development’
Mae Architects and Ash Sakula working on 700-home scheme in the South Downs National Park in East Sussex
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News
Plans approved for 4,000 new homes around Old Trafford
Trafford’s adoption of the ‘Civic Quarter Area Action plan’ means it can now be used to determine planning applications
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Opinion
This motley crew of place-makers will only succeed when they share the same vision
Consultants and clients lack a shared vision of what constitutes a good place, writes Robert Adam
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50 Wonders
50 Wonders | Simon Henley: Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism University of São Paulo
Simon Henley shares his thoughts on João Vilanova Artigas’ university building in Brazil
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News
Offsite solutions secures £1.7m project for UWE Bristol
Manufacturer set to produce 757 bathroom pods for the university’s Frenchay Campus in Bristol
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News
MPs launch inquiry into government U-turn on housing targets
Levelling Up committee to look at consultation on national planning policy which followed Gove’s backroom housing targets deal
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Features
This could run and run: HS2 angst and its budget of billions
‘Nothing to see here,’ was the gist of the chancellor’s comments last week as he denied Euston would be axed to save cash. But is it really that simple for a job like HS2?
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Features
Building archives: The demolition of Northumberland House, 1874
An architecture-loving letter writer mourns the imminent loss of one of London’s last surviving Jacobean mansions
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News
Campaign group reformed to battle Sellar’s plans for Liverpool Street station
Comic-turned-conservationist Griff Rhys Jones to head collection of heritage groups fighting proposals