Working as a landscape architect within the context of a global climate crisis can often feel frustrating, writes ADP's Head of Landscape Claire Hunt, reflecting on her time at COP26. The buzzwords flying around at COP26 all link to responses which are fundamental to a landscape architect’s role.
Glasgow School of Art has teamed up with Grimshaw and the Eden Project to launch a suite of biomimetic design courses exploring how nature can feed into architecture, design and fine art.
Consumer demand for sustainable materials and building techniques is key to driving change, say industry experts at a roundtable hosted by Architecture Today and Medite Smartply at the COP26 House.
UKGBC Chief Executive Julie Hirigoyen drops into Architecture Today's temporary HQ at the COP26 House in Glasgow to talk to Editor Isabel Allen about Build Better Now, a digital showcase of built environment projects offering solutions to the climate and ecological crises.
Built by Nature, a new body promoting mass-timber construction in Europe, has launched alongside a fund offering grants of up to €250,000 for projects tackling barriers to building with timber.
Editor Isabel Allen discusses the importance of building a transparent and credible supply chain with Roly Ward of Medite Smartply, the manufacturer of the sustainable timber panels used in the zero-carbon COP26 House in Glasgow.
Architects Climate Action Network is hosting a series of fringe events at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow. Editor Isabel Allen speaks to ACAN's Bobby Jewell about the importance of giving the built environment a seat at the table.
Peter Smith of Roderick James Architects takes us on a virtual guided tour of the COP26 House, a modular timber house where Architecture Today is hosting a series of roundtable events with Medite Smartply during the UN climate change conference.
OMA has completed the first phase of its overhaul of Berlin department store KaDeWe, which sees wood-clad escalators criss-cross through concentric circular voids to connect shop floors.
The Water Tower by Tonkin Liu has been awarded the 2021 RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize for best new UK project with a construction cost of under £1 million.
McGrath Road by Peter Barber Architects has been named the winner of the 2021 Neave Brown Award for Housing, a prize given by RIBA to the best new high-quality and affordable housing project in the UK.
Bennetts Associates has transformed a group of five Grade II and Grade II*-listed buildings at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich into a new cultural hub for music, theatre, dance and art.
