Breaking news: Peter Barber sweeps the board as RIBA London Award winners revealed | Glenn Howells’ English National Ballet named RIBA London Building of the Year 2021 (reporting by
@swix
)
@Glenn_Howells
@PpeterPeter
Breaking news: Four presidents and a rock star congratulate David Adjaye as he receives 2021 Royal Gold Medal | Virtual ceremony beamed around the world features Barack Obama and Bono (reporting by
@swix
)
The fire safety scandal will not go away | The government defeated the Lords’ amendment to protect leaseholders from cladding costs. Now it must come up with a credible plan. All eyes are on next week's Queen's Speech, writes Lord Best
We must act now to stop cars taking over our cities | The government’s £250m for redesigning our roads should be targeted at residential areas as well as town centres, says Giulio Ferrini
@sustrans
David Adjaye: One of the most important storytellers of our time |
@simonedegale
traces the architect’s significance from his early years to the present day
The highly regarded architectural historian and campaigner for the preservation of modernist architecture, Elain Harwood, has died at the age of 64.
@C20Society
@HistoricEngland
The highly regarded architectural historian and campaigner for the preservation of modernist architecture, Elain Harwood, has died.
@HistoricEngland
@C20Society
'Adjaye said it was moving and quite surreal to have his name added to those carved into the walls of
@RIBA
HQ. As a youngster it felt like a club he was not part of, he said. Adjaye is the first black recipient of the Gold Medal in its 173-year history.'
Campaign group the Twentieth Century Society has submitted an application to get grade II*-listed status for Will Alsop’s Stirling Prize-winning Peckham Library, prompted by proposals for alterations to the building.
@C20Society
Sir Michael Hopkins, one of the most respected and influential figures in British architecture, has died at the age of 88.
He is widely recognised as one of the most significant figures in British architecture over the past fifty years.
@Hopkins_Arch
BREAKING: Balkrishna Doshi has won
@RIBA
's 2021 Gold Medal.
RIBA president Simon Allford said Doshi had “influenced generations of architects through his delightfully purposeful architecture”.
Architects demand tougher carbon controls on new buildings | Proposed Future Buildings Standard contains ‘significant shortcomings’, government warned (reporting by
@swix
)
RIBA unearths archive recordings of lectures by pioneering women architects | Lectures have not been heard by the public for 35 years (reporting by
@TomLoweBuilding
)
#InternationalWomensDay
Richard Rogers dies aged 88 | Architect and peer was an influential figure in urban thinking for more than half a century (reporting by
@swix
)
@RSHParchitects
"There is a growing risk that less advantaged young people will be driven out of architecture because they cannot afford the cost of education and cannot survive on the low wages the profession pays." Naomi Fisher on low pay in architecture.
Our streets could be the most democratic spaces in the city | They are our public living rooms and should be designed accordingly, writes
@GiulioFerrini
of
@SustransLondon
Norman Foster on Rogers’ death: ‘I will miss you dearly’ | Richard Rogers’ earliest collaborator pays tribute to his friend in this moving obituary
@RSHParchitects
@FosterPartners
What every architect should know about loneliness, by
@SaraEVeale
| Social isolation is as deadly as smoking. How can design bring people together in meaningful ways?
Breaking news: Public Practice project skyrockets in scale | Council-placement scheme counts former Fosters partner and Marks Barfield director among 30-strong new cohort
Reader comment: 'Here I am struggling to get planners to accept a double-storey side extension that is well considered, contemporary and unusual, when this stupid thing flies through... planning is broken.'
Breaking news: All new buildings must emit a third less carbon, government announces | Building Regs to mandate 30% cut in carbon emissions from new homes and 27% from other buildings from this summer (reporting by
@swix
)
The belief that we must not reconstruct badly damaged buildings is based on outdated readings of Ruskin and William Morris, writes Andy Foster.
#architecture
#heritage
#conservation
Muyiwa Oki wants more routes into the profession and a bigger focus on ordinary salaried architects instead of the starchitects. Read Tom Lowe's brilliant interview in Building Design.
@RIBA
@ben_derbyshire
@BDonline
Architects urge government to kickstart a housing revolution | Support local authorities to solve housing crisis for good and create 250,000 jobs, says RIBA (reporting by
@swix
)
'Only 9% of our homes are designed by architects. Most of them are designed by people with no training in design and no history in it' - housing minister
A high profile group of architects and academics have expressed solidarity with staff at the scandal-hit
#Bartlett
, describing
@ucl
's investigation as "Kafkaesque" and accusing the university of setting off a "witch hunt" by students.
@BartlettArchUCL
RIBA president Alan Jones on Jenrick's planning reforms: “The government has missed a huge opportunity to make changes to the planning system for the better and we call for urgent reconsideration. Deregulation is not the way to bring about new homes.”
What architects should know about planners | RTPI chief executive
@VictoriaRTPI
hits back at Amin Taha’s remarks on planners' poor architectural knowledge
GPAD gets go-ahead for north London health-centre plans: Scheme will see redevelopment of 1970s building and creation of 11 new homes
#architecture
#news
James Grimley enjoys a new book on Peter Womersley and hopes that it acts as ‘a rallying call to action’ on preserving the architect’s work.
@C20Society
@LivUniPress
@HistoricEngland
Coronavirus: What next for architecture? The UK embraced an architectural vision of a better world after the shock of WWII. Ike Ijeh asks Sarah Featherstone,
@simonerridge
@justinpnicholls
@Judith_Sykes
and Henry Squire if covid might have the same effect
C20 Society puts South Norwood on the map: Campaign group produces walking tour of High Street Heritage Action Zone in south London
#architecture
#news
A sunken garden designed by Edwin Lutyens, a prefabricated iron church and an 18th Century watermill drawn by landscape artist John Constable are among the highlights of Historic England’s annual round-up of newly listed sites.
@HistoricEngland
Breaking news: Beautiful schemes should be fast-tracked, urges Scruton commission | Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission also calls for ’minister of place’ in cabinet
Arup pledges lifecycle carbon assessments on all projects | Firm also pledges to withdraw from energy schemes involving fossil fuels (reporting by
@TomLoweBuilding
)
@ArupGroup
Birmingham is the canary in the coal mine, showing us how financially stricken local authorities are increasingly sacrificing cultural assets in pursuit of investment, writes Simeon Shtebunaev.
#architecture
#planning
#culture
#birmingham