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Climate change

News and resources for architects on how the built environment is impacted by the climate emergency

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News

Handling the Heat: how architects are designing for a hotter climate

With scientists predicting a 30 per cent hike in ‘uncomfortably hot’ days in the UK, Anna Highfield looks at how architects are adapting their design approach

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Opinion

Architecture needs a ‘rinse and repeat’ approach

We should move away from the idea of architecture as a finite product and instead embrace ongoing maintenance for our creations, argues Toko Andrews 

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Opinion

What Anders Lendager can teach Michael Gove about the circular economy
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Opinion

Michael Gove has been bold over M&S Oxford Street. But it’s not enough
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Specification

‘Over 90% of concrete used in construction could be replaced with timber’
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Opinion

M&S Oxford St is about embodied memory as well as embodied carbon
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Opinion

Combining project emissions with a practice’s own emissions could dilute efforts to cut both
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Specification

Amin Taha: Switch to stone and timber to make construction planet-friendly
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News

UK is missing multiple climate change targets, says government’s top adviser
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News

AJ100 Sustainability Champion of the Year 2023 named
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AJ Climate Champions podcast

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AJ Climate Champions podcast: ‘We apologise for designing buildings that exploit the planet’
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AJ Climate Champions podcast: Chinese architect Xu Tiantian on revitalising rural villages
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AJ Climate Champions podcast: Historic England’s Morwenna Slade on the limitations of ‘fabric first’
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AJ Climate Champions podcast: Upgrading conservation areas for a climate emergency
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AJ Climate Champions podcast: Balancing heritage and climate urgency in listed buildings
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AJ Climate Champions podcast: Teaching climate-literate design
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News

AJ100 Sustainability Initiative of the Year winner named
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Opinion

The EPC system is no longer fit for heritage buildings
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News

Activists take government to court for ‘watering down’ net-zero garden village
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Grosvenor’s Andy Haigh: ‘There’s very little carbon literacy in early design decisions’
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Tempe resilience hub, Phoenix  
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Opinion

What forward-thinking architects are looking forward to is a circular future
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News

Architects are protesting, but is anyone listening?
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News

Retrofit-first approach to be debated at Barbican summit
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Retrofit & sustainable buildings

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Barr Gazetas completes ‘net zero’ office in Chelsea, reusing 24 tonnes of steel

The architect has transformed Holbein Gardens, a 1980s office building near Sloane Square, for client Grosvenor, reusing steel from nearby demolition sites

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dMFK with Norm complete retrofit of Chancery House for The Office Group

The transformed Chancery House above London Silver Vaults is the largest workspace for developer The Office Group, following on from its flagship project the Black & White Building

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