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Holland Harvey designs new Tate café following circular economy principles
The all-day café and bar at Tate Modern includes benches made from ash die-back timber and tabletops using coffee grounds
Tag: Circular economy
What Anders Lendager can teach Michael Gove about the circular economy
The government’s headline-grabbing rejection of Pilbrow & Partners’ M&S Oxford Street plan highlights how far off the UK is from producing circular economy projects like those of Danish architect Anders Lendager, argues Peter Murray
What forward-thinking architects are looking forward to is a circular future
We need to find the joy in using reclaimed materials, writes Emily Booth
Lasnamäe mikrorayon, Tallinn
The Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) is holding a contest for ideas to radically rethink the city’s Soviet-era Lasnamäe housing estate [Deadline: 28 February 2022]
Unpicking the London Plan
Four years after its first draft, the final version of the London Plan has been published. Teresa Borsuk, Andrew Beharrell and Patrick Devlin of Pollard Thomas Edwards examine what it says about housing, the circular economy, and tall buildings
When it comes to office fit-outs, the circular economy is a no-brainer
Paul Jaffe of British Land explains how, working with Nex Architecture at 338 Euston Road, it was able to slash carbon emissions by re-using existing equipment and furniture
Exclusive: Glyndebourne circular-economy pavilion to be built from champagne corks and oyster shells
Architect BakerBrown Studio has designed a low-carbon pavilion at the world-famous Glyndebourne Opera made of the site’s discarded lobster and oyster shells and champagne corks
Free AJ event: Arup to discuss its circular economy strategy
Arup architects will reveal how ambitious goals for the circular economy and carbon reduction were achieved at the landmark 1 Triton Square scheme at this month’s AJ100 breakfast tomorrow (Friday 26 February)
BBM Sustainable Design: ‘We are all responsible for managing Earth’s resources’
‘It’s our No.1 priority to adapt the existing built environment instead of demolishing it and starting again,’ says BBM Sustainable Design
Influences: Shankari Raj and Helena Norberg Hodge’s ‘Ancient Futures’
Shankari Raj on learning the importance of ecological wellbeing through strengthening communities