Designing Social Value – Page 6
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News
LSE launches £120m design contest for final set-piece building
Project will also be university’s first net-zero development
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50 Wonders
50 Wonders | Dav Bansal: Lakeshore Drive Apartments
Dav Bansal recalls the thrill of visiting Mies’ influential Chicago towers for the first time
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News
Mayor of London launches hunt for new design advocates
City Hall offers £500 a day for architects keen to help shape capital’s future
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Features
What are we trying to say when we get our buildings photographed?
Fine art or photojournalism: architects have a choice that cuts to the heart of the profession when they commission photography, says Daniel Elsea
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News
Ab Rogers Design wins £250,000 Wolfson Prize with modular hospital design
Practice beat ZHA, Perkins & Will and John Simpson Architects
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Opinion
We must make a better case for new housing
The prospect of new housing is almost always greeted with horror by local people. It is time that this changed, says David Rudlin
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Opinion
What’s stopping us from measuring embodied carbon?
Why isn’t an embodied carbon assessment done as standard on every project, asks engineer Anna Beckett
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News
Arup pledges lifecycle carbon assessments on all projects
Firm also pledges to withdraw from energy schemes involving fossil fuels
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AHMM drafts gender equality champion on to controversial Holloway project
Architect submits revised 980-home prison redevelopment to Islington council
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News
Oxford Uni launches international design contest for £1bn northern expansion
Established architects encouraged to team up with small practices
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Opinion
What’s stopping us from reusing materials?
In the first of a new series, engineer Anna Beckett shows how some fresh thinking could solve apparently intractable issues
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News
Make net zero buildings the only ones worth building, architects tell COP
’Whole system stacked against doing the right thing’
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Features
Innovative energy-saving buildings carry a heavy carbon cost
The failure to take embodied carbon seriously will have far-reaching consequences, writes Anthony Thistleton
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News
Industry to world leaders: We stand ready – but your inaction is holding us back
Built environment unites to present urgent demands at COP summit
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More than 95% of firms support mandatory carbon calculations
Survey finds overwhelming majority of industry thinks whole life carbon calculations should determine whether projects get planning
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News
Architects Declare publishes guide to making practices and projects net-zero
Climate movement wants to make sharing best practice easy
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Allford endorses MPs’ call for net zero to be placed at heart of planning policy
Government will fail to hit 2050 net zero target unless it engages with councils, says select committee chair
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Multimedia
Watch: Michael Squire on designing social value
Squire & Partners founder discusses the process of designing the practice’s new office
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Features
Countdown to COP26: We need a wholesale transformation of almost every aspect of society
Building the necessary political pressure to change the world will not be done simply by pitching good ideas, says Tom Bennett
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News
Architects accuse chancellor of being ‘out of sync’ with climate crisis
Profession unconvinced by Sunak’s ‘higher wages, higher skills and rising productivity’ pledge