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We're seeing a wave of practices closing, including well regarded ones.
Partly it's simply demand has dropped - interest rates and soaring build costs have killed a lot of projects. But there's another part to it as well... architectsjournal.co.uk/news…
Building Safety Act competencies - a huge rigmarole with not effect other than to hide the fact that it fire safety crisis is entirely the fault of the government, for ignoring warnings that the regs were unsafe
A woman called up because the planning portal was angrily demanding a Biodiversity Net Gain assessment... for her application for a new window on her flat.
Nothing combines token gestures, self-righteousness and incompetence quite like the English planning system.
The planning system is absolute masters at making pointless extra work for themselves. Like Bromley not having a duty planning service so you've got to submit an application because it's a secret how they interpret national legislation
Always interesting when the actual residents of 60s council housing resist notion from bien pensant housing association bosses that modernist housing has failed and automatically needs replacing architectsjournal.co.uk/news…
A cursory glance at the plan would show converting London's City Hall to housing is preposterous but what AI does best is make bullshit look vaguely plausible to people who don't know any better
In a way this is no better than clients wanting loads of work up front for free deserve, but it's depressing that so many are talking about this enshitification as a good thing
It's one thing using AI for bid text, where they want plausible-sounding bullshit, but for project documentation? You're going to get sued.
As for using AI to design - just quit architecture entirely and do something more lucrative instead architectsjournal.co.uk/news…
The biodiverity crisis is really a rural problem. Built up area is 9% or land and new development a tiny fraction of that.
Making developments improve biodiversity won't hit the sides, especially with tokenistic and counterproductive gestures
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Amazing that firms are still bringing forward schemes with so much unshaded glazing when climate breakdown means UK summer temps can be almost 40C. architectsjournal.co.uk/news…
The interiors here look like the sort of interior one might see in a painting, if that makes any sense? architectsjournal.co.uk/buil…
Aping the vaults at the tops of the neighbouring Barbican blocks is a mistake IMO, like it's pretending to be part of the complex in a halfhearted way. It's neither fish nor fowl.
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Discussion here of why architects design such poorly-performing buildings.
I'd suggest that there's neither money nor prestige in real sustainability, since very few clients really care, and greenwash and token gestures will be celebrated however trivial they really are
New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Natural materials, healthier homes, and the culture of sustainable building, with Will Kirkman (Ecomerchant). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/87a089…
The whole Building Safety Act was an exercise in the government shifting the blame from its having ignored safety warnings pre-Grenfell.
But because UK state capacity is collapsing, it can't even implement a tick-box smokescreen effectively. architectsjournal.co.uk/news…
George at OnePointFiveArchitecture retweeted
Bonkers isn’t it? After one of those RIBA Stirling Prize talks realised we architects are brick addicted & clueless on the high embodied carbon
UK alone buys 2bn pa so 11 quarries wanted to get into the market. Cut various stones to brick dims & sell from 60p-£2 for the everyday
Moving toward sustainable design isn't just about architects' choices.
We need manufacturers, suppliers, engineers, clients, their funders, regulators, insurers, and also the media, to get to grips with it if it.
🤔🪨🤔Why aren't more architects using stone as a building material? dezeen.com/2024/02/15/struct… (via @dezeen)
Really proud that two of the housing schemes I was project architect on at my last practice are up for @RIBA_London Awards!
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