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An architect who creates just three typical buildings over their career will be responsible for carbon emissions equivalent to the lifetime emissions of 162 typical Americans, the COP26 summit in Glasgow has been told

As the proposed bulldozing of the AJ’s offices shows, nowhere is greenwash in architecture stronger than in plans for ‘sustainable’ architecture that begin with demolition, argues Will Hurst 

Regeneration plans for a key site in Dublin will incorporate bullet holes from the 1916 Easter Rising, it has emerged

Eric Parry’s planned Justice Quarter in the City of London has come under fire after analysis suggested its construction would pump tens of thousands more tonnes of Co2 into the atmosphere compared with retrofitting existing buildings

With the clock ticking on the climate crisis, green Tories are beginning to voice frustration at the lack of detailed policy, Will Hurst found in Manchester

RIBA president Simon Allford has called on practices to mobilise behind a major built environment report published by the institute and Architects Declare ahead of next month’s global climate summit

Housing secretary Michael Gove has linked ugly buildings to embodied carbon in a sign that future planning reforms may seek to limit the use of steel and concrete

HawkinsBrown has been selected as AJ100 Practice of the Year 2021 after impressing the judges with an exceptionally strong all-round performance

Homes England should be rebooted to focus on retrofitting homes and regenerating left-behind places, according to a major new report which echoes many of the arguments of the AJ RetroFirst campaign

The prime minister has sacked housing secretary Robert Jenrick, who regularly courted controversy during a headline-grabbing two year stint