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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
Climate change
News and resources for architects on how the built environment is impacted by the climate emergency
Blog from The Big One: architects join Extinction Rebellion mega-protest
Follow all the action from today’s climate change protests as architects joined the thousands taking part in Extinction Rebellion’s (XR) The Big One rally in London
Why the built environment B Corp movement is buzzing
As B Corp month draws to a close, Hattie Hartman reflects on why, despite the doubters, architects and developers are getting accredited
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
Industry welcomes £1.8bn cash pot for energy efficiency upgrades
Industry figures have welcomed a government £1.8 billion fund to improve the energy efficiency of existing homes and public buildings in England
Retrofit is key to avoiding climate disaster, says latest IPCC report
The UK government must act now to decarbonise the built environment and avoid climate disaster, an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has said
The 15-minute city is something worth fighting for
In the face of bizarre conspiracy theories, those of us who argue for walkable neighbourhoods will have to up our game and explain ourselves better, argues Jonny Anstead
‘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
Architects welcome new NHS rules on net zero buildings
Industry figures and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have welcomed new NHS guidance on reaching net zero emissions from its buildings
Architects are waking up to the value of urban trees
London may be the largest urban forest in the world but that doesn’t mean we should rest on our laurels, argues Cristina Monteiro