News and resources for architects on how the built environment is impacted by the climate emergency
Urgent action on tackling climate change has faltered in recent years. The new Labour government brings a real opportunity for specific and well-considered policy change, argues Smith Mordak
A biomimicry conference in Spain gets Kunle Barker thinking about how a truly forward-thinking new UK government might transform our relationship with nature
Rachael Owens, of Buckley Gray Yeoman (BGY) and the National Retrofit Hub (NRH), has been named this year’s AJ100 Sustainability Champion
A Hawkins\Brown-designed primary school in Derby has been named AJ100 Sustainability Initiative of the Year 2024 – the practice also won the prize in 2023
Clara Bagenal George, the founder of the Low Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI), has been made an MBE in the King’s 2024 birthday honours
Major cities like London will be hit by widespread flooding if the planet’s temperature rises by 2°C. And tall buildings are making things worse, says Chris Wise
Anna Woodeson, Julia Barfield, and Zoe Watson of Architects Declare (AD) talk to Will Hurst about the lack of climate debate in the General Election campaign and AD’s increasingly political direction
Architects Declare has called on the candidates in this month’s RIBA presidential election to maximise the institute’s action on the climate emergency
Cambridge researchers have found a way of recycling cement to produce ultra-low-emission concrete while also cutting the carbon footprint of steel-making
ATAMA has retrofitted a listed fire station in the Belgian city of Kortrijk to create Deelfabriek, a community space and home for social enterprises that promote sharing over ownership
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