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Opinion: Let’s do away with sustainability categories in architecture awards
Architecture which fully answers the challenge of the climate crisis is starting to become a duty, not an achievement worthy of applause, argues Kunle Barker
Tag: Sustainability
Think GGBS will fix concrete’s carbon problem? Think again
Concrete’s environmental credentials are pretty terrible but there are far more effective ways of reducing a building’s embodied carbon emissions than using ground granulated blast-furnace slag, argues Anna Beckett
Localism is key to saving high streets, AJ100 lunch hears
A cookie-cutter approach to filling retail units is part of the reason high streets are failing, Preston Benson of community-focused developer Really Local Group told an AJ100 lunch audience
AJ Student Prize Sustainability Award 2023 – the shortlist
The 10 students shortlisted for the AJ Student Prize Sustainability Award 2023
Govt’s ‘haphazard’ approach fails both housing and environment, says Lords report
House-building targets should be put on an equal footing to environmental goals, a House of Lords committee has urged in the week the prime minister diluted green targets
Architecture needs a ‘rinse and repeat’ approach
We should move away from the idea of architecture as a finite product and instead embrace ongoing maintenance for our creations, argues Toko Andrews
Zaha Hadid Architects reveals plans for curving skyscraper in China
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has runveiled designs for a 210m-tall office tower in Xi’an, the capital of China's central Shaanxi Province
DLG Architects gets the go-ahead for two Leeds masterplans
DLG Architects has won planning permission for two major masterplans in Leeds
‘Over 90% of concrete used in construction could be replaced with timber’
Timber Development UK, working with Waugh Thistleton Architects, has released Timber Typologies, a free downloadable ‘beginner’s guide’ for various timber solutions. Fran Williams speaks to Waugh Thistleton associate Alastair Ogle to find out what it’s all about
AJ100 survey reveals UK’s top practices employ more architects than ever
We crunch the numbers to provide a revealing snapshot of a post-pandemic architecture profession