Author Archives: will hurst

A plan by the German government to spend £47 billion on making buildings energy efficient is a ‘wake up call’ to the UK, experts have said

Heritage charity SAVE Britain's Heritage has launched an appeal to raise £20,000 after announcing it will formally oppose Pilbrow + Partners' plan for Marble Arch store at a public inquiry this autumn

Jerome Mayhew MP has reintroduced a private member’s bill to the House of Commons, calling for embodied carbon in buildings to be regulated and reduced

Zaha Hadid Architects has won AJ100 Innovation of the Year for Striatus, a 3D-printed concrete bridge developed with Block Research Group at ETH Zürich 

A ticketed auction held to raise money for the charity British-Ukrainian Aid, featuring artwork donated by Thomas Heatherwick, Sam Jacob, Chris Dyson and Robert Adam, has raised £54,149

An event to raise money for the British-Ukrainian Aid charity will auction artworks from architects and designers including Thomas Heatherwick, Sam Jacob, Chris Dyson and Robert Adam

As the cross-party Commons committee publishes its landmark report on how to build in a climate crisis, Will Hurst catches up with chairman and Conservative MP for Ludlow, Shropshire, Philip Dunne

A report from the House of Commons’ Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) has sharply criticised government inaction on embodied carbon and has echoed all three strands of the AJ’s RetroFirst campaign

There was a glaring absence of policies on retrofit and reuse of buildings in yesterday’s (11 May) Queen’s Speech, according to leading built environment organisations

Norman Foster will take part in an evening fundraiser at 66 Portland Place this Wednesday following the screening of a film about Soviet architecture in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv