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Climate change

News and resources for architects on how the built environment is impacted by the climate emergency

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Opinion

How Westminster City Council plans to put retrofit first

New policies in the pipeline will make it clear that retrofit is the best solution for the vast majority of buildings in the borough, says Westminster councillor Geoff Barraclough

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Opinion

Why is Keir Starmer ignoring the concrete and steel elephant in the room?

The Labour leader’s macho posturing on housebuilding ignores the 60 megatonnes of upfront carbon that building 1.5 million new homes would produce, writes Alice Moncaster

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News

Labour promises to overhaul UK’s ‘antiquated’ planning system
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Opinion

To green up British cities we need a ‘right to plant’
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Opinion

A call to arms: mass timber extensions can help pay for a retrofit revolution
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News

Greens slam progress of London Mayor’s ‘retrofit revolution’
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News

AJ Student Prize Sustainability Award 2023 – the shortlist
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News

Government has no real intention to lead on net zero, says RIBA
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News

Handling the Heat Part 3: Legislating for changes for a hotter climate
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News

Handling the Heat part 2: how masterplanners are designing for a hotter climate
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AJ Climate Champions podcast

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AJ Climate Champions podcast: Architects must re-educate themselves on timber sourcing
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AJ Climate Champions podcast: ‘Net Zero has almost lost its meaning’
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AJ Climate Champions podcast: ‘We apologise for designing buildings that exploit the planet’
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AJ Climate Champions podcast: Chinese architect Xu Tiantian on revitalising rural villages
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AJ Climate Champions podcast: Historic England’s Morwenna Slade on the limitations of ‘fabric first’
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AJ Climate Champions podcast: Upgrading conservation areas for a climate emergency
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News

Handling the Heat: how architects are designing for a hotter climate
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Opinion

Architecture needs a ‘rinse and repeat’ approach
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Opinion

What Anders Lendager can teach Michael Gove about the circular economy
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Opinion

Michael Gove has been bold over M&S Oxford Street. But it’s not enough
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Specification

‘Over 90% of concrete used in construction could be replaced with timber’
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Opinion

M&S Oxford St is about embodied memory as well as embodied carbon
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Opinion

Combining project emissions with a practice’s own emissions could dilute efforts to cut both
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Specification

Amin Taha: Switch to stone and timber to make construction planet-friendly
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Retrofit & sustainable buildings

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INCH and Sheppard Robson convert disused gas purifier shed to workspace

INCH Architecture + Design and Sheppard Robson have preserved and reworked a prominent disused Victorian industrial structure in Glasgow

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Hoskins’ Scottish National Gallery revamp finally opens

Hoskins’ long-awaited transformation of the Scottish Galleries at the National in Edinburgh opened to the public last Saturday (30 September 2023)

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