All Building Design articles in February 2024
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Features
High-rise living with Pyroguard
Building Design takes a look at the Deanston Wharf Development and speaks to Andy Lake regarding considerations needed when specifying glass for winter gardens on high-rise residential buildings
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News
Mayfair rebuild scheme set for refusal as Westminster targets net zero plan
But Foster & Partners’ proposed retrofit of nearby department store site handed recommendation for approval ahead of next week’s planning meeting
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News
Davidson Prize reveals longlist for upcycled housing competition
This year’s £10,000 award will be handed to team with best proposal for building homes in existing non-residential structures
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Features
Building archives: Planning the postwar New Towns, 1945-46
The Builder reports on the development of a vast new wave of housing to replace the homes destroyed by wartime bombing
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Opinion
Why the British neighbourhood pub must be saved: A Canadian perspective
With British pubs in decline, Dorian Moore asks whether their role as ‘third spaces’ could help save them
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Building Study
Jankes Barn by Lynch Architects: ‘We like to call it a barn non-conversion’
An Essex barn is given a remarkable new lease of life, by reinforcing its relationship with craft and landscape, writes Ben Flatman
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Opinion
We need to find new ways to engage the public with architecture
The V&A’s Tropical Modernism exhibition highlights the challenges around communicating ideas on architecture to a non-architectural audience, writes Eleanor Jolliffe
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Opinion
8 March: The big ‘women-washing’ day is upon us
Rather than just ‘celebrating’ women through social media posts, leaders in architecture need to implement real change, writes Siri Zanelli
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Features
‘Like a Zaha Hadid building with traditional materials’ … How do you rebuild the Crooked House pub?
South Staffordshire Council has ordered the owners of Britain’s wonkiest pub to recreate it as it was before its unlawful demolition. Donald Insall Associates and Purcell explain how they would approach what has become one of the country’s most unlikely - and high profile - restoration projects
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Opinion
Another irreplaceable slice of Birmingham’s architecture and history is at risk
The city’s disregard for its own heritage threatens one of the country’s oldest cinemas, a theatre once graced by Olivier, and the pub that hosted the first Black Sabbath gig, writes Joe Holyoak
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News
Plans in for Corstorphine & Wright’s 600-bed north London student housing scheme
Four-block scheme would rise to nine storeys
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Features
Extended Q+A: Combining fabric with low and zero carbon technologies in new homes
After an unprecedented number of questions, we joined David Adams, Jamie Bursnell and Steven Heath for an extended question-and-answer session
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Opinion
To retain or rebuild? M&S case shows the industry needs rules
The High Court ruling overturning Michael Gove’s decision to deny M&S permission to redevelop its Oxford Street store shows that a framework setting out the conditions for redevelopment is urgently needed
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News
NVB Architects completes major expansion for Haberdashers’ Boys’ School
Project provides 46 classrooms, new drama facilities and offices
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News
RIBA renews vow to aid sustainable global development
Institute and built-environment counterparts pledge to continue collaborating to tackle global instability
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Opinion
What’s stopping us from rebuilding?
The sorry story of the Crooked House pub tells us that sometimes maybe we have to let a building go, writes Anna Beckett
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News
LDA Design floats £40m transformation plans for Holborn
Camden Council project aims to deliver “safer, traffic-free environment” with a range of projects
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News
AHMM submits fresh plan for 27-storey City fringe tower
Proposals replace existing consent for 30-storey mixed-use scheme designed by Gensler
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News
Entries open for Architect of the Year Awards 2024
Awards launch with three new categories and an entry deadline of 17 May
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Building Study
How Corstorphine & Wright are reimagining Bloomsbury's Victoria House as a life sciences hub
The grand former headquarters of the Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society is being converted into a state of the art life sciences laboratory. Thomas Lane reports on an unlikely reinvention