RIBA dedicates exhibition to circular economy
Jessica Mairs2022-11-15T14:28:11+00:00A new exhibition at the RIBA – Long Life, Low Energy: Designing for a Circular Economy – explores the shift away from a culture of demolish and rebuild, and towards retrofit and reuse in the quest for net zero.
2022 Brick Awards
AT Editor2022-11-08T13:27:57+00:00Purcell wins the Supreme Award with its striking yet sympathetic extension to Radley College Chapel in Oxfordshire.
Targeting Net Zero: Pathways to zero carbon practice
Jason Sayer2022-11-24T18:16:59+00:00Morris+Company, PLP Architecture, McGregor Coxall, Buckley Gray Yeoman and Bennetts Associates discussed what it means to practice for a Net-Zero future.
Learning from: Grange Pavilion in Cardiff
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-08T10:30:33+01:00Sarah Featherstone explains how a modest community building in Grangetown, Cardiff, challenges the way we define and measure value and shows how universities can partner with local residents to facilitate community-led projects.
Retrofit: Keyhole surgery
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-08-08T10:32:30+01:00Jonathan Spratt from Bennetts Associates argues that, for ‘young’ buildings from the 1990s and early 2000s architects should steer clients away from a comprehensive retrofit approach towards a strategy of ‘keyhole surgery’ – minimal interventions that have a transformative effect.
Hybridisation Works: The role of the 21st-century library
Jason Sayer2022-11-22T12:26:19+00:00Eddie Blake of Studio Weave looks at Lea Bridge Library, recently extended by the practice, and what it means to genuinely serve a community today.
Third-age housing
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-11-22T12:26:19+00:00Designers and investors are driving a step change in the provision of innovative high-quality projects in the third-age housing sector. Local authorities need to catch up, says Ballymore creative director Roger Black.
Succession planning
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-09-12T14:59:33+01:00Every practice needs a clear succession plan in order to flourish once its founders are no longer at the helm. Jonathan Morrison talks to RSHP, Henning Larsen, Arup, and Grimshaw about making the process effective and pain free.
Raising the game
Isolde Brampton-Greene2022-11-22T12:26:20+00:00Julian Robinson, Director of Estates at the London School of Economics, reflects on the costs, benefits and shifting priorities of the university’s ambitious building programme.
Neave Brown Award for Housing and Stephen Lawrence Prize 2022 winners announced
Jessica Mairs2022-10-14T11:38:13+01:00The winners of the 2022 Neave Brown Award for Housing and Stephen Lawrence Prize are Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road by Henley Halebrown and The Hackney School of Food by Surman Weston.
Níall McLaughlin’s New Library wins Stirling Prize 2022
Jessica Mairs2022-11-22T12:26:22+00:00The New Library at Magdalene College in Cambridge by Níall McLaughlin Architects has won the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize.