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Grandorge: Plastic is not that fantastic
We should be a little more concerned about the use of plastics in construction, says David Grandorge
Tag: sustainable design
New practice Progress in Practice: ‘Many builders still can’t deliver our low-energy projects’
The latest in a series of practice profiles looking at architects who have recently decided to go it alone
M&S clears first hurdle in legal challenge to Gove’s Oxford St refusal
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has been given permission to proceed with a legal challenge against Michael Gove’s decision blocking the demolition of its flagship Oxford Street store
M&S launches High Court appeal against Gove’s Oxford Street refusal
Marks and Spencer has launched a legal bid to overturn Michael Gove’s rejection of its Pilbrow and Partners-designed plan to demolish and redevelop its Oxford Street store
BREAKING: Gove rejects M&S Oxford Street demolition
Michael Gove has rejected controversial plans by Pilbrow + Partners to demolish and redevelop Marks and Spencer’s flagship Oxford Street store, overruling a planning inspector’s verdict
Reporting Scope 3 can help your business as well as the planet
Seizing ownership of carbon literacy – and carbon reduction – is a glorious business opportunity for architects, says Hattie Hartman
From banks to bamboo: Pakistan’s first female architect Yasmeen Lari
How the RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner swapped rich corporate clients for community-driven architecture that helps the poorest on the frontline of climate change
David Grandorge: Poetic Pragmatism – solutions to an existential problem
Architects, artists, engineers, contractors and students gathered at a city farm in London’s Waterloo in March for a symposium on the impact of global warming on architecture
White Arkitekter gets go-ahead for timber Cardiff cancer centre
White Arkitekter has secured planning for a part-timber cancer centre in the Welsh capital which, it claims, is set to become the ‘most sustainable’ hospital in the UK
Review: Homegrown – Building a Post-Carbon Future
Derin Fadina visits an exhibition of photographs, films and innovative bio-materials exploring ways to help wean construction off its climate-damaging carbon dependency