News and resources for architects on how the built environment is impacted by the climate emergency
Dress for the Weather is a product of the 2008 recession, when it worked collaboratively on university projects looking at design in different contexts. The general uncertainty of the time presented the opportunity to develop this into an ethos for practice
‘It’s our No.1 priority to adapt the existing built environment instead of demolishing it and starting again,’ says BBM Sustainable Design
‘My practice is whatever I happen to be doing, wherever I happen to be doing it,’ says Baxendale founder Lee Ivett
Baca specialises in enabling, designing and building on, in, near and under water
Assemble is a non-hierarchical and collectively organised architecture and design practice interested in developing work collaboratively with others
ArchitectureDoingPlace describes itself as ‘an architecture and urban design practice which aims to produce beautiful buildings and spatial interventions informed by our immersion in the arts and contemporary architecture’
‘We care deeply about the energy and carbon performance of the buildings we design,’ says Arboreal
‘Reporting carbon as standard practice would draw attention to the worst offenders and force change,’ says the Architects’ Climate Action Network (ACAN)
The government’s £2 billion Green Homes Grant is potentially harmful, because it does not consider embodied carbon, according to John Robertson Architects’ sustainability chief
Hawkins\Brown has won the AJ100 Best Use of Technology 2020 for its HBERT embodied and whole-life carbon measurement tool
The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings