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Sustainable architecture

Squire & Partners’ mixed-use building in central London uses different window treatments to denote uses, while reflecting the art deco context of its neighbour

Procurement details revealed for this mixed-use building

Glass can be reused or recycled, greatly reducing emissions, but designs need to allow for greater durability and easier dismantling at end of life

Glazing designs should better exploit glass’s ability to be reused or recycled

Sustainable scheme by Brighton University undergraduate Jesse Mugambi features repurposed shipping containers and renewable materials

Jessie Mugambi’s scheme usesrepurposed shipping containers and renewable materials

Can 3D printed concrete become a viable option for construction? A lighter, more sophisticated, more sustainable version of Holcim’s Striatus Bridge suggests it could

Can 3D printed concrete become a viable option for construction?

University of Bath team joins 15 other partners in European project ‘Inbuilt’ to develop 10 natural and bio-based building materials

University of Bath joins ‘Inbuilt’ project creating natural and bio-based building materials

Health, safety & wellbeing

While there is now a BSI standard relating to neurodiversity in the built environment, it remains largely overlooked by the profession. Three experts with lived and design experience look at how architects can better respond to the issue

While there is now a BSI standard relating to neurodiversity in the built environment, it remains largely overlooked by architects

Responding to changes in the Building Regulations, here’s how architects bring design certainty to the front of the process by engaging suppliers and clients early

Rebalanced programmes and early supplier involvement are key to new regime

With the number of people living with dementia in the UK set to exceed a million, WGP is hoping to help tackle the dearth of high-quality care homes with a recently completed development in Southwark and two more in planning in Northamptonshire and Suffolk

WGP has completed a dementia care home in Southwark and has two more in planning

As wellbeing takes an increasingly important place on the education agenda, a new book shows how low-cost, low key initiatives can have an unexpectedly strong effect

Low-cost, low key initiatives can have an unexpectedly strong effect

The new Building Safety Regulator requires cultural shift at the heart of construction, says the author of the post-Grenfell report into safety; not understanding that will carry the highest cost

Cultural shift is fundamental requirement for safety

Building conservation and heritage

Expert in structural timber first inspired by ancient buildings, who loved to unite modern design with that deep knowledge and taught and learnt in equal measure through enriching collaborations

Expert in structural timber who taught and learnt in equal measure through rich collaborations

Ian Nairn praised this example of the post war rebuilding of Birmingham but James A Roberts’ 1970 Smallbrook Ringway is set to be demolished

Ian Nairn’s praise for Smallbrook Ringway hasn’t saved it from demolition

Formative years in a developing Milton Keynes gave Simon Phipps an awareness of forms in space and time, summed up in his photograph of Trawsfynydd nuclear power station

Simon Phipps preserves Wales’ disappearing modernism through photography

Strengthening the 18th century, timber-framed Corn Exchange and connecting it to an upgraded 1930s Studio Theatre were key to opening the arts centre to modern audiences

How FCBStudios and Max Fordham refurbished the listed Corn Exchange and Studio Theatre

Levitt Bernstein’s thorough refurbishment of Bristol’s Victorian concert hall plays to all audiences with flexible spaces and material warmth

Levitt Bernstein’s refurbishment plays to all audiences

Architecture for social purpose

Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine make films about architecture – not fawning promotion but warm, frank investigations of the human experience

Warm, frank investigations of the human experience

Two practices explain how they think about, and create, a positive impact for their clients and communities, and how to make it viable

How to create a positive impact for your clients and communities

Social architecture is a driving force for Jan Kattein, whose schemes to revive and regenerate bring a burst of human colour to some lost and gloomy sites. His practice is commended in the MacEwen Awards 2024 for a lifetime of architecture for the common good

Social architecture specialist ‘leaves room to let stuff happen’

‘Architecture that is healing people’: Hope Street in Southampton is a generous and visionary scheme by Snug Architects that almost had one of the judges in tears

Snug Architects’ project encapsulates the notion of architecture for the common good

Organic development over time with invested landowners and continuing conversation with communities can improve placemaking, study finds

Organic development over time can improve placemaking, study finds

Business, clients and services

From early engagement to tips on presenting information, learn more about this important process

From early engagement to tips on presenting information, learn more about this important process

Apprenticeships have many advantages for both practices and students, but setting up a scheme can be daunting. Experience reveals some tips and the pitfalls to look out for, finds Eleanor Young

If you want to influence the shape of the profession, this is the way to do it

‘Wise, energetic’ former BDP chairman heavily involved in the expansion and diversification of the practice during a career lasting over 30 years

Oversaw BDP's expansion and diversification during a 30-year career

London calling: why Mexican Fernando Sordo Madaleno de Haro, partner at Sordo Madaleno, crossed the pond to set up a UK office

How and why Mexico’s Sordo Madaleno is setting up up an office in the UK capital

Learn more about engaging with client finance departments and how to maintain healthy cashflow

Learn more about engaging with client finance departments and how to maintain healthy cashflow

Legal, regulatory and statutory compliance

Whole life carbon assessment is a key tool in the drive towards net zero. Simon Sturgis explains its principal themes: what it does, how it works and the best way to use it

Understanding whole life carbon assessment

The building regulations amendments demand honest, confident discussion with clients on fees and resources. Here one practice explains how and why it is revising its fees

Honest discussion with clients is key to the new regime

The first ever net zero planning policy by a local authority shows long-term carbon savings and a focus on heat pumps, but issues with compliance, costs and air permeability targets

Bath & North East Somerset initiative shows strong CO2 savings despite cost and compliance problems

As expectations mount for architects to shoulder the new role of Principal Designer, Paul Jolly analyses the differences with the old regime and considers the pros and cons of taking on this newly introduced responsibility

What's different with the new role, what are the pros and cons of taking it on?

New national standard PAS 2035/2030:2023 require a medium-term improvement strategy for home undergoing retrofit, an airtightness strategy and site visits by Retrofit Co-ordinators

Retrofit Co-ordinators, and improvement and airtightness strategies lead changes

Procurement and contracts

Associate Rob Leechmere on insulating a Cornish cottage without compromising its character, curtains’ ‘intimate embrace’ as partitions, and the gravitas of stone

Associate Rob Leechmere reveals three of the firm’s favourite products

Fifth edition of The William Sutton Prize invites 'disruptors and innovators' from architecture and beyond to submit breakthrough ideas that accelerate the social housing sector’s transition to net zero

Prize invites 'disruptors and innovators' to submit radical and sustainable social housing ideas

Contract administrators could be putting their clients and themselves at risk if interim certificates are not issued, says RIBA Specialist Practice Adviser Robert Stevenson

Contract administrators could be putting their clients and themselves at risk if interim certificates are not issued

The latest digital tool is more than a pretty add-on for impressing clients. Its efficiencies mean streamlined bid pricing, better control of staffing costs and a proposal that’s clearer all round, reducing later confusion and repeat iterations

The latest digital tool is giving architects a competitive edge

Subscription-based system simplifies the drafting, checking and sharing of construction industry agreements, enabling collaboration across all parties

Subscription-based system simplifies drafting of construction industry agreements

Inclusive environments

An inspiring 13-strong collection of success stories built on community engagement, sustainable builds and an ability to make the most of limited budgets make up this year’s MacEwen Award shortlist

Thirteen impressive and varied schemes make up the contenders for the top award

The longlisted schemes, ranging from urban renewal and social enterprise to education and affordable housing, provide prime examples of architects and clients showing they care

The longlisted schemes range from urban renewal and social enterprise to education and affordable housing

The authors of 100 Women: Architects in Practice pick out three of the book’s world-leading female architects that exemplify this neglected section of the profession

100 world-leading practitioners exemplify a neglected strand of the profession

How Kay Elliott Architects and Buro Happold reworked the Royal National Institute of Blind People’s Grimaldi Building in King's Cross for inclusive access

How the Grimaldi building was turned into an exemplar of inclusive access

Diverse workplaces can help improve both design and practice culture

Diverse workplaces can help improve both design and practice culture

Places planning & community

Populous’s high-tech music and entertainment venue fits beautifully into Vegas’s postmodern cityscape – but the scrapping of an east London version highlights the planning process’s inherently political nature, says Jan-Carlos Kucharek

The high-tech music and entertainment venue fits beautifully into Vegas’s postmodern cityscape

The pandemic merely accelerated the decline of physical stores amid the rise of online shopping. Brian Green examines how the broader picture nevertheless contains sectors that are thriving while a rising tide of unused retail space presents new possibilities

While physical stores are declining, a rising tide of unused retail space presents new possibilities

What is ‘architecture for the common good’? Again this year your entries have expanded the definition – and the reach – of the MacEwen Award with inventive and varied projects

Diverse exemplars of architecture for the common good

Archio’s much-needed affordable homes in south London prioritise robust details and community input to squeeze the most from a tight budget

Archio’s robust details squeeze the most from a tight budget

HAT Projects’ holistic approach to Sunspot business centre has brought new livelihoods and liveliness to an isolated and deprived community

Holistic approach revives life and belief at neglected Jaywick Sands

Design, construction and technology

A retail-to-residential conversion by Brisco Loran and Duncan Blackmore offers hope for our high streets

Retail-to-resi conversion lies behind a high street shopfront

Designing to perpetuate society’s problems just doesn’t cut it for Edit. Fundamental social and economic change is needed, hears Jan-Carlos Kucharek

Why gender equality needs fundamental social and economic change

The sunshine state illuminates Birmingham as Intervention Architecture channels John Lautner’s Schaffer House for its domestic extension and fitout

How John Ford’s A Single Man influenced Intervention Architects’ project

Huge, anonymised Cloud-based datasets could transform not just architecture but the role of architects: Jan-Carlos Kucharek reports from the the Autodesk University annual conference

Technology will liberate architects, asserts Autodesk University conference

Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine make films about architecture – not fawning promotion but warm, frank investigations of the human experience

Warm, frank investigations of the human experience

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