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Features
Interview | Chris Dyson: ‘Listen to what the site and place have to say’
From James Stirling to Spitalfields, Chris Dyson opens up to Ben Flatman about the importance of place and how he grew his practice organically
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Building Study
Building study: Learning from Denise Scott Brown
As Selldorf Architects unveils £30m proposals to reconfigure the National Gallery and Venturi Scott Brown’s landmark Sainsbury Wing, Elizabeth Hopkirk meets the women leading the project
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Multimedia
Jargon buster: Greenhouse Gas Protocol and understanding emissions
Simon Wyatt explains why to understand your carbon footprint you need to look at all green house gases
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Features
Interview: We’ve never found a practice who are our pin-ups
They used to look up to YAYA winners – then they joined those ranks. This year they took the AYA crown. So what’s next for Fergus Feilden and Ed Fowles, asks Elizabeth Hopkirk
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Multimedia
Listen: Tees Valley mayor on scaling up hydrogen production
Podcast: Also hear from Maria Smith on policies to get us to net zero
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Multimedia
Listen: Simon Allford talks about net zero
In the first episode of the new Building Talks… Net Zero podcast, hear from RIBA president Simon Allford | Heat and Building Strategy analysed | Net zero jargon-buster with Cundall’s Simon Wyatt
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Features
Interview | Simon Allford: ‘Architecture will emerge stronger’
The new president of the RIBA talks to Elizabeth Hopkirk about knocking the institute into shape, the pressure architects are facing – and boxing. Photography by Jean Goldsmith
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Features
It’s all about finding the words: opening doors for deaf architects
The absence of agreed signs for architectural terms is a major barrier for deaf people seeking to enter the profession. Chris Laing tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how he plans to change that
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Features
Interview: Nicholas Boys Smith on design, deregulation and the Office for Place
There are few topics more controversial than planning reform and placemaking and few people more passionate about them than the chair of the new Office for Place. He talks to Joey Gardiner
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Technical
Antarctica: Designing for the planet’s most hostile continent
A £100m Antarctic infrastructure programme presents some unique design challenges – like deflecting snow and elephant seals. Elizabeth Hopkirk hears about the hardships and rewards of building at the bottom of the world
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Features
Interview: Designing Britain’s biggest infrastructure project
By any standards and on any scale, it’s a huge job – and one with plenty of critics. HS2’s design director Kay Hughes tells Elizabeth Hopkirk she is relishing the unprecedented challenge
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Multimedia
Video: Dixon Jones talk projects, influences and unconventional clients
Hear Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones reflect on 60 years in practice and how they’re relaxed about other architects having a crack at their projects
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Technical
‘You don’t get involved in a project like this for the glory or the money’
Keppie was working on an extension at Glasgow’s SEC events centre when the brief changed dramatically. Elizabeth Hopkirk hears from the architects
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Technical
NHS Nightingale: How we built a hospital in 10 days
As the first patients arrive at London’s coronavirus surge hospital, BDP’s James Hepburn tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how they designed it
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Features
‘Architects are rarely at the table when crucial decisions are being made’
Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell of Grafton Architects discuss hope and fear with Elizabeth Hopkirk
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Features
Alan Jones: We need to talk
The profession is facing huge challenges. The new president of the RIBA tells Elizabeth Hopkirk how he plans to tackle them
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Features
‘It’s just the same whether you are designing a building or a bike’
The architect who broke the men’s world cycling speed record at 174mph tells BD how he did it - and admits he was ‘absolutely terrified’
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Technical
Interview: Marie-José Van Hee
Hugh Strange talks to Marie-José Van Hee about her approach to architecture and the importance of the domestic in projects of all scales
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Technical
'Inside this strict format, anything can happen'
Hugh Strange talks to Barcelona practice MAIO about the challenges of practising architecture in Spain
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Technical
'Surrealism sounds very far away, but it’s not at all'
Hugh Strange talks to Jan de Vylder of architecten de vylder vinck taillieu about playing with building elements, the beauty of raw finishes and why Belgian architects have to deal with strange realities