Page of consents: Sustainability and controversy
Four diverse schemes clear the planning officers’ desks this week, but not all have got past without a battle
1 June 2021
Public realm
Page of consents: community and cultural projects win planning
Refurbishment of a brutalist school hall, a co-working hub by IF_DO and a Passivhaus leisure centre in Staines
Page of Consents: Improvement and environment dominate planning decisions
For or against, all sides draw sustainability to their cause
Page of consents: Library extension by Purcell and castle folly win planning
A library extension, an arts centre extension, Wolverhampton housing scheme and … a Medieval Castle
Page of consents - from a Bristol tower to a Cambridge basement
A Passivhaus primary school, a hostel for the homeless, retrofitting of industrial buildings and 'a secret palace of relaxation'
Lessons from Syria: Make architecture a craft again and restore a sense of society
Homs-based Marwa al-Sabouni explores how the built environment can help mend society
Will Greenwich Peninsula’s eclectic avenue make a real Design District?
Archiecture 00 and David Kohn are among nine practices designing 'blind' – will it work?
Opportunities for design as coastal towns eye staycation revival
Opportunities for architects open up by the seaside
Keep out: Venice Biennale pavilion explores the decline of public space
The ‘creeping epidemic’ of privatised public space is the subject of installations at the biennale's British Pavilion
Page of consents: housing special
Four different approaches to the shortage of places to live
Rasmus Hjortshøj and life at the edge
Rasmus Hjortshøj, Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2018
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