All Building Design articles in July 2024 – Page 4
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News
JAM Architects submits plans for arts hub in East London
Building will provide affordable workspace, flexible event spaces, a working yard, and versatile maker spaces
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Opinion
The Building Safety Act provides a once in a generation opportunity for architects to deliver meaningful change
The new act challenges the profession to up its game and rediscover its repututation for leadership and professionalism, writes Giuseppe Messina
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Kate Barker and Michael Lyons to lead government’s new towns taskforce
Expert group will make recommendations within a year
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Elizabeth Line and National Portrait Gallery amongst schemes on Stirling shortlist
Shortlist foregrounds major infrastructure and urbanism projects with winner to be announced in October
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RIBA calls for ‘decrepit’ planning system to put more emphasis on design quality as Labour sets out changes
Industry welcomes reforms to NPPF announced by Angela Rayner
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Opinion
The experts our cities need most
As expertise is welcomed back into government, it’s time our cities got the placemaking leadership they desperately need, writes Sophie Thompson
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Rayner sets new 370,000 annual homes target alongside plan for NPPF changes
Figure is result of new method for calculating housing need, housing secretary tells MPs
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French designer behind innovative Olympic cauldron that ‘burns’ without a flame
The cauldron features a 7-meter diameter illuminated ring, with 40 LED spotlights and 200 high-pressure misting nozzles
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Decision to ditch Grimshaw’s Euston station adds to £2bn cost of cancelling HS2 Manchester leg, latest accounts say
New railway finishing up at west London instead
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Features
Will Labour’s ‘grey belt’ plans boost housebuilding or turn out to be an ill-defined gimmick?
Labour hopes its rebrand of ‘ugly’ green belt land will help. But will it work?
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Housing providers and charities urge government to adopt accessibility standards for new-build homes
The Centre for Ageing Better says 250,000 more accessible homes could have been built if the previous government had adopted the regulations
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Trio of architects completes latest phase of King’s Cross redevelopment
David Morley Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, and Haptic Architects deliver new housing, retail and community spaces
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Opinion
How the planning system can be improved under Labour
Ministers must be wary of unintended consequences when pushing ahead with planning reforms, writes Ben Derbyshire
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News
Government to review New Hospital Programme in full as Reeves hunts for savings
Chancellor claims budget overspends ‘covered up’ by Tories and says ‘difficult decisions’ to come in autumn budget
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Assael gets approval for 353 homes in Bromley Waitrose site redevelopment
Scheme will deliver 10% affordable housing
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Rayner set to make affordable housing delivery ‘No 1’ priority as Reeves mulls infrastructure cuts
Housing secretary could raise housebuilding targets in reformed NPPF due tomorrow
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Feilden Fowles’ Lake District hotel scheme goes in for planning
Scheme seeks to reimagine historic lakeside hotel and gardens for new era
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Performing arts centre opens in Africa’s largest refugee settlement
Hassell’s innovative arts centre opens in Uganda, offering training and community space for displaced youth
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Reeves set to cut funding for hospitals and road projects to balance budget
Announcement to MPs expected later this afternoon
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Features
5 minutes with … Rachel Basha at Basha-Franklin
The founder and owner of the architecture and interior design practice on the commercialisation of sustainability, the need to support rising talent and her favourite north London restaurant