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New RIBA president Muyiwa Oki to ‘put pressure’ on government on retrofit
Muyiwa Oki will ‘put pressure’ on government to deliver a national retrofit strategy as RIBA president, the institution’s new boss said today (1 September)
Tag: RetroFirst
M&S launches High Court appeal against Gove’s Oxford Street refusal
Marks and Spencer has launched a legal bid to overturn Michael Gove’s rejection of its Pilbrow and Partners-designed plan to demolish and redevelop its Oxford Street store
Is the M&S Oxford St demolition refusal a climate crisis turning point?
Will Michael Gove’s decision to block the demolition of Marks and Spencer’s Oxford Street store set a hard-and-fast precedent in favour of retention or simply lead to more confusion? Will Hurst, Anna Highfield, Richard Waite and Gino Spocchia investigate
Piercy & Company gets planning consent to demolish former AJ office
Piercy & Company has won planning permission for a revised proposal to flatten Telephone House in Shoreditch, the former home of the AJ
What Anders Lendager can teach Michael Gove about the circular economy
The government’s headline-grabbing rejection of Pilbrow & Partners’ M&S Oxford Street plan highlights how far off the UK is from producing circular economy projects like those of Danish architect Anders Lendager, argues Peter Murray
Michael Gove has been bold over M&S Oxford Street. But it’s not enough
The government urgently needs to join the dots between its landmark verdict on Marks & Spencer’s demolition proposal and the policy vacuum on limiting embodied carbon in construction, writes Will Hurst
BREAKING: Gove rejects M&S Oxford Street demolition
Michael Gove has rejected controversial plans by Pilbrow + Partners to demolish and redevelop Marks and Spencer’s flagship Oxford Street store, overruling a planning inspector’s verdict
M&S Oxford St is about embodied memory as well as embodied carbon
As Michael Gove prepares to announce his verdict on the proposed demolition of M&S Marble Arch, let’s hope he has considered our memories and understanding of the place we know as Oxford Street, writes Simon Henley
Combining project emissions with a practice’s own emissions could dilute efforts to cut both
AHMM head of sustainability Craig Robertson responds to a recent appeal from big-name developers for architects to include the carbon impact of their projects as part of their own Scope 3 emissions
Retrofit-first approach to be debated at Barbican summit
Retrofit and the AJ’s RetroFirst campaign will be discussed at the Ecocity World Summit, taking place at London’s Barbican next month