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Government asks for your views on retrofit versus demolition
The government is asking architects and others in the industry for their advice on whether it should change national planning rules regarding demolition and retrofit
Tag: Climate crisis
The quest for sexy architecture is harming architects
To improve the state of architecture we need to drop the obsession with good-looking buildings and get the basics right, says Toko Andrews
Want to make your office retrofit future-proof? Here’s how
The attitude of removing existing elements of commercial buildings and replacing them with ‘low-carbon’ new-build should be challenged, argues Kiru Balson
Want your practice to be greener? Our group can help
The Heads of Sustainability group (HoS), established in the same year that Architects Declare launched, now numbers over 100 participants and is promoting a culture of real collaboration, says Diana Dina
‘A new day brings a new government. Let’s seize the moment’
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
Natural service, not national service, is what Britain needs
A biomimicry conference in Spain gets Kunle Barker thinking about how a truly forward-thinking new UK government might transform our relationship with nature
Will someone join the dots between the skyscraper boom and flooding?
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
Architects Declare on the construction ‘blind spot’ in party manifestos
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
Westminster’s retrofit-first plan: ‘The architecture profession is on the bus’
The AJ quizzes Westminster City Council cabinet member Geoff Barraclough on the authority’s nascent retrofit-first policy
Whatever the project, the future must include the past
Marking the launch of a new ideas competition for M&S Oxford Street, zero-carbon expert Simon Sturgis calls for a more imaginative approach to changes to existing and even listed buildings