Sadiq Khan has rejected Foster + Partners’ Tulip tower, saying 'the design is of insufficient quality for such a prominent location' (cartoon by Hellman)
‘It’s a sad day for anyone who cares about the character of the public realm, and sends out a depressing message that such genuinely innovative modern buildings can be simply swept away to make way for yet more contemporary blanditecture’
Fourth time lucky! The winner of the 2022 RIBA
#StirlingPrize
is Níall McLaughlin Architects for the New Library at Magdalene College in Cambridge. Read the full story and reaction here 👉
17 Stirling Prize-winning practices - including Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects - have united to declare a climate emergency
#architectsdeclare
Most of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will take place in existing buildings – some were even used in the 1964 games. How's that for an Olympic legacy?
#RetroFirst
💳 It costs over £100k to study architecture
👪 81% are reliant on the bank of mum and dad
😟 45% think they will never be debt-free
...so is architecture now only for the rich?
Zaha Hadid Architects has completed this 40,000-seater stadium in Qatar for the 2022 World Cup. The roof closes so the stadium can be used during the summer months
'While society faces a global environmental emergency and a chronic housing shortage, this win shows us what architecture can and should be doing' AJ editor
@emjbooth
on the
#StirlingPrize
In an appeal to Boris Johnson and Michael Gove,
@MrGeorgeClarke
wrote: ‘I’m begging you both … please sort out the cladding scandal once and for all’
#CladdingScandal
In an appeal to Boris Johnson and Michael Gove,
@MrGeorgeClarke
wrote: ‘I’m begging you both … please sort out the cladding scandal once and for all’
#CladdingScandal
‘It’s a sad day for anyone who cares about the character of the public realm, and sends out a depressing message that such genuinely innovative modern buildings can be simply swept away to make way for yet more contemporary blanditecture’
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An all-women team made up of architects, designers and engineers has won an international contest for ideas to boost sustainable development within the UK’s Cambridge-to-Oxford growth corridor
#womeninarchitecture
The company that sold the combustible insulation used on the Grenfell Tower deliberately manipulated fire safety tests, a former employee has told the Grenfell inquiry
The government should begin an immediate programme of mass housing construction designed by architects – and built by anyone except housebuilders, writes Paul Finch
‘His legacy is in the buildings and places he transformed, in his model of architectural practice, but perhaps most powerfully in the thousands of people he taught and inspired.' Ted Cullinan has died, aged 88
’Over the last 30 years the profession has become middle-class and well-to-do. And if we have only the affluent designing for the rest of us, then we have a problem.'
♻️♻️♻️ THE GREENEST BUILDING IS THE ONE THAT ALREADY EXISTS ♻️♻️♻️
💥 50,000 buildings demolished every year in the UK
💥 10% of UK carbon emissions come from construction
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An all-women team made up of architects, designers and engineers has won an international contest for ideas to boost sustainable development within the UK’s Cambridge-to-Oxford growth corridor
#womeninarchitecture
BREAKING ⚠️ A ‘shocking’ report into the Bartlett School of Architecture found bullying, sexual misconduct, racism and a 'toxic culture spanning decades'. Some staff have been removed from duties with immediate effect
While millions is set to be spent restoring the Glasgow School of Art, the city’s Scotland Street School is an original Mackintosh building screaming out for investment, writes
@michel_schranz