Ahead of a RetroFirst-themed panel debate at the Ecocity World Summit this week, Grosvenor's director of climate positive solutions Andy Haigh discusses his work and the role of architecture
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Get up to speed on embodied carbon now, say leading developers
Grosvenor, Lendlease, Stanhope, L&G, Mace, British Land, SEGRO, Berkeley and Igloo are demanding architects get to grips with construction’s carbon emissions
From banks to bamboo: Pakistan’s first female architect Yasmeen Lari
How the RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner swapped rich corporate clients for community-driven architecture that helps the poorest on the frontline of climate change
Gove delays M&S Oxford Street demolition ruling until July
Michael Gove has postponed his much-anticipated decision on Pilbrow + Partners’ plans to demolish and rebuild Marks & Spencer Oxford Street until July
Mayor to investigate London’s housing demolition ‘loophole’
London mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged to investigate a claim that around 1,000 homes in the capital have been wrongly labelled ‘obsolete’ and earmarked for demolition
‘Architects need a Hippocratic oath to stop them trashing the planet’
The profession needs to sign up to an Hippocratic oath to pledge to do no harm to the environment, architect Simon Sturgis has said at the SAVE Britain’s Heritage annual lecture
Arrest warrants for architects over collapsed buildings in Turkey earthquake
Turkish government officials have issued 113 arrest warrants for people involved with the construction of buildings that collapsed in last week's earthquake – including architects, contractors and engineers – reports claim
‘Bad buildings’ caused Turkish earthquake deaths, experts say
Observers have blamed poor construction methods and government failures for the deaths of thousands of people in the Turkish earthquake
London’s social housing depleted by demolition, study claims
London has lost 23,000 social-rented homes through demolition in the past 10 years, according to research by a tenants’ group
Architects Declare savages government’s ‘woefully inadequate’ climate action
Architects Declare founder Michael Pawlyn has slammed ‘woefully inadequate’ plans to decarbonise construction after the government shot down a bill to regulate embodied carbon