Piccinelli, associate director at Chipperfield’s and project lead on the LSE’s Firoz Lalji Global Hub, describes circularity as ‘a mind shift’ – it’s no longer the architect giving top-down direction
Architects Declare has called on the candidates in this month’s RIBA presidential election to maximise the institute’s action on the climate emergency
To achieve replication at scale, Nicolas Coeckelberghs of Brussels-based BC Materials favours compressed earth blocks over rammed earth
‘The idea is to propagate. I want to do airports, I want to build cities,’ says the founder of award-winning practice Wallmakers
Carmody Groarke sustainability lead Sian Ricketts explains how architecture can adapt to the reality of finite resources and an abundance of waste
Structural engineer David Watson describes the enduring appeal of brick and its underexploited superpower: reuse
Architects need to show more humility when dealing with the climate emergency, a leading academic has said in the first of a new series of RIBA essays
Structural engineer Eva MacNamara of Expedition Engineering explains how we can radically reduce our use of concrete and the biodiversity impacts of construction materials
Launching a new six-part series on materials, Henning Larsen’s head of materials argues that a baseline of health and environmental impacts should inform specification
Regenerative design is the future of the industry, say Becky Gordon from Interface and Rachael Owens from Buckley Gray Yeoman
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