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Fosters and ZHA should return to Architects Declare and debate the uncomfortable questions
The defection of Foster + Partners and ZHA from Architects Declare risks undermining AD’s global momentum and many positive initiatives, says Hattie Hartman
Climate change
News and resources for architects on how the built environment is impacted by the climate emergency
PM’s new carbon target leaves Fosters and ZHA out on a limb, critics say
Boris Johnson’s announcement that the UK will seek to cut emissions by 68 per cent by 2030 has left Foster + Partners and Zaha Hadid Architects looking ‘more neoliberal than the PM’, critics say
Zaha Hadid Architects quits Architects Declare and blasts its leadership
Zaha Hadid Architects has withdrawn from Architects Declare and accused its leaders of sabotaging the movement by deciding on a ‘precise and absolute’ interpretation of its aims
Architects Declare ‘disappointed’ as Fosters quits in rift over airport work
Architects Declare has said it is ‘disappointed’ that Foster + Partners has left the coalition of companies pledging to fight climate change and biodiversity loss
Foster + Partners withdraws from Architects Declare
Foster + Partners has withdrawn from Architects Declare less than two years after co-founding the coalition of practices pledging to fight the climate and biodiversity crises
‘ZHA should live up to its climate promises or withdraw them’
When Architects Declare (AD) signatories make statements that contradict the fundamentals of the declaration, we have no option but to call them out, says the AD steering group
Architects Declare sends ultimatum to Zaha Hadid Architects
Architects Declare leaders have warned Zaha Hadid Architects to commit to its 11 principles ‘or withdraw’ as a founding signatory of the declaration after condemning recent comments by practice principal Patrik Schumacher
Patrik Schumacher warns against too ‘radical’ solutions to climate change
Zaha Hadid Architects' principal Patrik Schumacher has warned that some approaches to fighting climate change would lead to ‘massive regressions and political upheavals’
Boris Johnson unveils plan for ‘green industrial revolution’
The prime minister has pledged to retrofit buildings, install heat pumps and promote cycling as part of his 10-point plan for a ‘green industrial revolution’
We must save Derby Assembly Rooms
Derby Council is set to demolish a late-70s Modernist landmark. Robert Evans of Derbyshire-based Evans Vettori urges it to reconsider