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AJ100 Sustainability Champion of the Year 2022 named
HawkinsBrown partner and sustainability lead Louisa Bowles has been named this year’s AJ100 Sustainability Champion
Climate change
News and resources for architects on how the built environment is impacted by the climate emergency
HLM wins AJ100 Sustainability Initiative of the Year 2022
HLM Architects’ Circular Twin Research and Development Project has won this year’s AJ100 Sustainability Initiative of the Year 2022 award
Gove sends Pilbrow’s M&S Oxford St scheme to public inquiry
Communities secretary Michael Gove has called in Pilbrow & Partners’ plans to bulldoze and rebuild Marks & Spencer’s famous store at Marble Arch
Greening the city needs to happen – why are the police standing in the way?
The police’s pseudo-scientific Secured by Design code mistakenly views trees and shrubbery as aiding crime, writes Jon Burke
Qatar World Cup stadiums’ carbon emissions ‘vastly understated’
The carbon footprint of the permanent stadiums built for this year’s Qatar World Cup could be eight times greater than official estimates, a climate change watchdog has warned
EAC chair Philip Dunne: ‘Government must act to get to net zero Britain’
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
MPs back RetroFirst approach and demand planning and tax reforms
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
Big names urge Gove to call in M&S Oxford Street demolition plan
Leading figures in the worlds of architecture, property, heritage and the arts have signed an open letter to the Communities Secretary, demanding a public inquiry into Pilbrow & Partners’ proposals to demolish the historic Marble Arch store
Carbon offsetting is becoming an excuse to build huge concrete buildings
Offsetting is not even close to being sustainable and is allowing lazy, ego-driven designs to be accepted, says Kunle Barker
Behind the story: Why are politicians flip-flopping over the M&S Oxford St demolition?
Pilbrow and Partners’ plan to demolish and rebuild the 1930s Marks and Spencer store at Marble Arch – paused this week by communities secretary Michael Gove – has become a cause célèbre for those challenging similar projects on climate grounds. Yet, until now, it has passed every planning hurdle in…